Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, June 27 (game #885)

Today’s Quordle is a rather more difficult one than some – so be on your guard. If you need some hints to get you started, you’ll find some below.

Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles.

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

Your Quordle expert

Marc McLaren

Quordle today (game #885) – hint #1 – Vowels

How many different vowels are in Quordle today?

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 5*.

* 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 #885) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?

• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 2.

Quordle today (game #885) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?

• Yes. One of Q, Z, X or J appears among today’s Quordle answers.

Quordle today (game #885) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)

Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?

• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.

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 #885) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)

What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?

• M

• D

• R

• A

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

Quordle today (game #885) – the answers

Quordle answers for game 885 on a yellow background

(Image credit: Merriam-Webster)

The answers to today’s Quordle, game #885, are…

There are some rather uncommon words in today’s Quordle. ROUSE and DOWNY are certainly not used that often, and ATOLL is both uncommon and a bit of a nightmare to solve, with repeated L at the end. MAXIM is worse still: M at the start and end of the solution, uncommon letter X in the middle.

All of which adds up to a difficult Quordle, and one that I suspect will beat some people. Fortunately for me, my start-word strategy gave me a good opening to the game, and I only ‘lost’ one guess (to MAXIM; I played MAFIA first), meaning I finished in eight guesses. The Daily Sequence was just as tough, with the obscure word VERSO (a left-hand page) being the final answer.

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