Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday, May 5 (game #832)

Hello and welcome to Sunday's edition of Quordle – the puzzle game that challenges you to solve four Wordles simultaneously, or consecutively in the case of the Daily Sequence variant. It's great fun, but potentially tough – so read on for some hints if you need help.

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 #832) - 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 #832) - hint #2 - repeated letters

Quordle today (game #832) - hint #3 - uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #832) - 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 #832) - 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 #832) - the answers

The answers to today's Quordle, game #832, are…

• GAZER
• TWEET
• FERRY
• THUMB

This must have been one of the worst starts I've ever had to a Quordle. Usually, my three set start words – STARE, DOILY and PUNCH – give me the majority of the letters I need. But today, I only had three yellows for the first quadrant, two for the second, one yellow and two greens for the third, and three yellows for the fourth.

Thankfully, the options in that fourth one, in the bottom right, were T, H and U – so I put them together with my unplayed M and B and uncovered THUMB. In the bottom left, I wanted to establish where the yellow E went, so played EVERY so as to give myself two shots at solving it. This didn't work as such, but it did confirm that the answer was -E-RY. FERRY was the only word I could think of, and that was correct.

In the top left I had three yellows still. Two were E and R, so I went with WAGER to cover off the common ER format, while playing two more unplayed letters. Again, it was wrong – but the A, E and R turned green, and the G yellow, so I knew it had to be GAZER. That just left one more, and the W I'd played before now made it clear that it had to be TWEET. 

So, here we had a Z plus a couple of repeated letters, and one of the more difficult recent Quordles. What a rollercoaster!

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Daily Sequence today (game #832) - the answers

The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #832, are…

• GOLLY
• MOIST
• ABBOT
• FIBRE

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #831, Saturday 4 May: WAGON, QUICK, MURAL, LIEGE
• Quordle #830, Friday 3 May: NUDGE, CLASH, KNAVE, AGENT
• Quordle #829, Thursday 2 May: TULIP, PLAZA, DAILY, SINGE
• Quordle #828, Wednesday 1 May: ROUGH, SYNOD, POSSE, PARRY
• Quordle #827, Tuesday 30 April: STASH, FUSSY, REEDY, WALTZ
• Quordle #826, Monday 29 April: STAKE, PURGE, PECAN, PLANT
• Quordle #825, Sunday 28 April: LLAMA, CUMIN, CAULK, RABID
• Quordle #824, Saturday 27 April: QUACK, BERET, SKULL, LATHE
• Quordle #823, Friday 26 April: AMONG, FLING, SOUND, AGILE
• Quordle #822, Thursday 25 April: WHILE, DODGY, MACHO, LOATH
• Quordle #821, Wednesday 24 April: STEAD, CANAL, SHEEN, UNITE
• Quordle #820, Tuesday 23 April: PLANK, SPOIL, GAVEL, STOOP
• Quordle #819, Monday 22 April: PLAID, ADAGE, DIODE, ELBOW
• Quordle #818, Sunday 21 April: CASTE, FUNKY, CAVIL, MANGA
• Quordle #817, Saturday 20 April: STAMP, FORTH, DULLY, OUNCE
• Quordle #816, Friday 19 April: WOMAN, WAXEN, FLIRT, FLOAT
• Quordle #815, Thursday 18 April: MATCH, APTLY, BISON, CLINK
• Quordle #814, Wednesday 17 April: COLON, EQUIP, SUITE, BLURB
• Quordle #813, Tuesday 16 April: METAL, MATEY, AGREE, DRIVE
• Quordle #812, Monday 15 April: STINT, RAPID, BRING, BUILD