# Quordle, for people who find Wordle to be too easy!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** board-card-word-game\
**Created:** [March 9, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931 "2023-03-09T13:12:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/61 "2023-03-22T15:49:02Z")

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Didn’t have my shit together today.

Daily Quordle 422  
8️⃣9️⃣  
4️⃣7️⃣

> **[Quordle](https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/)**
>
> Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜  
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩  
🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/62 "2023-03-22T19:44:19Z")

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This one was stressful.

Daily Quordle 422  
3️⃣9️⃣  
5️⃣6️⃣

> **[Quordle](https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/)**
>
> Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩  
🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/63 "2023-03-22T21:05:09Z")

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**Daily Quordle 422**

Start Words: STORE and LAUGH

6️⃣7️⃣  
4️⃣3️⃣

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩  
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜  
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨  
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/64 "2023-03-23T08:44:53Z")

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Started with: COUNT RAISE

Daily Quordle 423  
4️⃣5️⃣  
3️⃣7️⃣

> **[Quordle](https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/)**
>
> Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜  
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩  
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟨  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/65 "2023-03-23T10:45:19Z")

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It’s all about to start word

Daily Quordle 423  
5️⃣3️⃣  
7️⃣4️⃣

> **[Quordle](https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/)**
>
> Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜  
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩  
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/66 "2023-03-23T12:43:30Z")

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Starters- ABIDE and SOUTH

Daily Quordle 423  
5️⃣3️⃣  
4️⃣6️⃣

> **[Quordle](https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/)**
>
> Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩  
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜  
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/67 "2023-03-23T21:52:09Z")

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**Daily Quordle 423**

Start Words: STARE + CLOUD

3️⃣5️⃣  
7️⃣4️⃣

🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩  
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜  
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/68 "2023-03-24T03:46:12Z")

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By the hair of my chinny chin chin.

Started with WAIST and COUGH.

Daily Quordle 423  
4️⃣5️⃣  
8️⃣9️⃣

> **[Quordle](https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/)**
>
> Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜  
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜  
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜  
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜  
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/69 "2023-03-24T04:33:32Z")

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Daily Quordle 424  
5️⃣3️⃣  
8️⃣9️⃣

Starting words: plant score

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜  
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩  
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Not sure I’m fully understanding how this is supposed to work. It seems like the best strategy is to spend three guesses checking 15 different letters, and then solving all four with a couple guesses to spare.

How do you judge what’s “good” in terms of how you did? The average number of guesses of your four words? How quickly you get your first word? How long it takes to get all four?

Clearly there is no hard mode concept here, which makes it feel like it’s all about your openers. Which letters you choose and how many words you choose to have in your opening. Much moreso than traditional Wordle, at least, where a good chunk of my strategy is based on avoiding traps.

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/70 "2023-03-24T06:55:12Z")

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> [@EllisDee](#):
>
> Not sure I’m fully understanding how this is supposed to work. It seems like the best strategy is to spend three guesses checking 15 different letters, and then solving all four with a couple guesses to spare.

Yeah, after struggling out of the gate, this certainly seems to be the case. I made the initial mistake of picking a starting word and trying to solve the first word based on that and then moving on. This is a bad tactic.

Seems like picking two words with 5 different letters to start is the best balance between process of elimination and keeping enough turns in your back pocket to complete the puzzle.

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/71 "2023-03-24T11:35:16Z")

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Skimming through the thread to get a feel for this, I think it’s clear that a “perfect” game would be 3456. In any order, obviously.

Also, I’m not sure why the convention here isn’t to list out all your guesses. It would only be slightly more work than in the standard Wordle thread. It’s not like you use different words in the different puzzles; instead of listing up to six words in the wordle thread, here you’d be listing up to nine words. Doesn’t seem onerous to me.

Anyway, I think I’m going to start playing this on the regular with three openers, aiming for a 4567. Not sure how long it will hold my interest, but I’m interested now.

Turns out I need to slightly modify the program I wrote to generate openers because the 15 letters I want to use ends up spitting out more options than the textbox can hold. (Surprisingly.) I’ll just dump it to a text file instead.

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/72 "2023-03-24T12:30:53Z")

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Starting with NOISE and LAUGH

Daily Quordle 424  
4️⃣7️⃣  
5️⃣6️⃣

> **[Quordle](https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/)**
>
> Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩  
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quordle-for-people-who-find-wordle-to-be-too-easy/980931/73 "2023-03-24T17:24:40Z")

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> [@EllisDee](#):
>
> Clearly there is no hard mode concept here, which makes it feel like it’s all about your openers. Which letters you choose and how many words you choose to have in your opening. Much moreso than traditional Wordle, at least, where a good chunk of my strategy is based on avoiding traps.

I play in hard mode, though with four words it’s not quite the same, as the word I pick to solve one section will likely duplicate in another….

Daily Quordle 424  
7️⃣8️⃣  
5️⃣4️⃣  
[m-w.com/games/quordle](http://m-w.com/games/quordle)  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩  
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩  
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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> [@Maserschmidt](#):
>
> I play in hard mode, though with four words it’s not quite the same, as the word I pick to solve one section will likely duplicate in another….

Looking at your current puzzle, it appears that you did hard mode in the bottom right until solved, then bottom left until solved, but then after the bottom two were solved you broke hard mode rules with both top puzzles, top left with guess 6, top right with guess 7.

(Quite the impressive run-on sentence if I do say so myself.)

How do you choose which puzzle to apply hard mode rules to? I’m genuinely curious because I try to abide by hard mode rules in regular Wordle despite not playing in actual hard mode. I’m open to doing something similar here, but I honestly don’t understand how.

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No, looking at the puzzle, the sequence was that I tried the upper right on turn 6 and missed on three new letters (but got one), and then switched to the upper left to finish, and then back to the upper right.

Here are words five and six:

BROTH  
VAPOR

As for process, I’m looking each turn at which of the four puzzles presents me with the fewest optional words to plug in, which means that I do move around the page.

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Daily Quordle 424  
6️⃣3️⃣  
7️⃣9️⃣

> **[Quordle](https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/)**
>
> Put your skills to the test and solve four words at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩  
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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> [@EllisDee](#):
>
> How do you choose which puzzle to apply hard mode rules to?

I play in “hard mode” with whatever word I’m working on at the time. I’m guessing it would be impossible to play the entire puzzle in hard mode overall since it most often contains many of the same letters but in different arrangements.

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> [@Maserschmidt](#):
>
> As for process, I’m looking each turn at which of the four puzzles presents me with the fewest optional words to plug in, which means that I do move around the page.

Ah, that’s the piece of the puzzle I wasn’t getting.

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**Saturday, March 25th**

Daily Quordle 425  
7️⃣4️⃣  
5️⃣8️⃣

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨  
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

CHAMP  
TENDS  
GLORY  
THESE (top right)  
LEASE (bottom left)  
ABOVE  
AWOKE (top left)  
DITTO (bottom right)

That stupid above/awoke trap cost me my 7. I want to say the three-word opener made the 8 easy, and technically it did, but boy was ditto tough to see. Overall not a bad first go using this method.

I actually ended up with 61 different “common word” openers covering my 15 chosen letters, so I have plenty of options to rotate through:

A E O Y C D G H L M N P R S T

I’ve grown very comfortable leaving I and U unchecked; they fill in by inference easily enough once the other vowels are eliminated.

EDIT: On reflection, I was getting an 8 no matter what. If I had correctly guessed awoke without first trying above, I would have 100% guessed doubt before ditto.

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**Daily Quordle 424**

Today was not my day. And I made a stupid error on the 4th word by not putting a letter where I knew it was supposed to be. At least I didn’t fail!

**Start Words:** STARE + CLOUD

4️⃣7️⃣  
5️⃣9️⃣

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜  
🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟨  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩  
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

**Guesses in Solve Order:**

Cough  
**Couch**  
**Broth**  
Manor  
**Apron**  
Thief  
**Tithe**

Putting in my guess words now…thanks to the suggestion by @EllisDee.

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