Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, June 7 (game #865)

The final Quordle of the week is another fairly mundane one. You might find it hard if you don't get some luck, you might find it easy(ish) if you do. Give it a try and see what happens.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those games. 

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

Quordle today (game #865) - hint #1 - Vowels

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Quordle today (game #865) - hint #2 - repeated letters

Quordle today (game #865) - hint #3 - uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #865) - hint #4 - starting letters (1)

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you're not ready yet then here's one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #865) - hint #5 - starting letters (2)

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #865) - the answers

The answers to today's Quordle, game #865, are…

• CRAVE
• CRATE
• ADULT
• NYLON

Sometimes my starter words work incredibly well. This is a strategy I've employed pretty much since I began playing Quordle more than two years ago: I open with STARE, DOILY and PUNCH, which between them use 15 of the most common letters in the game, including all five vowels, and with most of them in their most common positions. It's a cautious approach, because it will never allow me to score better than a 7/9, but equally it make a loss fairly unlikely. 

Here, those three words gave me four letters for two quadrants and all five for the other two – so I only needed to add two more letters in total. In fact, one of those with the repeated N in NYLON, so really I just needed to add the V into CRAVE. Otherwise it was a simple case of solving a couple of anagrams, which proved a simple task.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

Daily Sequence today (game #865) - the answers

The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #865, are…

• SPARK
• SPASM
• WORRY
• HOUND

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #864, Thursday 6 June: BROOD, PENAL, SANDY, RELAY
• Quordle #863, Wednesday 5 June: QUITE, LAPSE, LYMPH, SIGMA
• Quordle #862, Tuesday 4 June: SCORN, REIGN, EPOCH, FIGHT
• Quordle #861, Monday 3 June: BUILT, FRIED, LEERY, JAZZY
• Quordle #860, Sunday 2 June: WHISK, PUSHY, PINKY, AMITY
• Quordle #859, Saturday 1 June: DODGY, LIBEL, LANCE, GROIN
• Quordle #858, Friday 31 May: BRAWN, CINCH, WHOSE, GUESS
• Quordle #857, Thursday 30 May: DEBIT, HATER, PHOTO, SPIKE
• Quordle #856, Wednesday 29 May: CRUMB, MACRO, WHEEL, COMMA
• Quordle #855, Tuesday 28 May: MARRY, DUTCH, BRINE, TACIT
• Quordle #854, Monday 27 May: PHOTO, LURID, PURGE, EMCEE
• Quordle #853, Sunday 26 May: BRINK, ALLEY, FENCE, GUILT
• Quordle #852, Saturday 25 May: CREST, SLICK, RATTY, SPURT
• Quordle #851, Friday 24 May: COPSE, STINT, SPIRE, IONIC
• Quordle #850, Thursday 23 May: MOLDY, REBEL, SPORT, MECCA
• Quordle #849, Wednesday 22 May: BLAST, USAGE, AUDIO, DETOX
• Quordle #848, Tuesday 21 May: NUDGE, OVINE, STRIP, TABOO
• Quordle #847, Monday 20 May: FORCE, SPREE, CACHE, RADII
• Quordle #846, Sunday 19 May: ALIKE, USHER, FLAKE, SUAVE 
• Quordle #845, Saturday 18 May: HUMPH, SHARD, LABOR, CROWD