Given that Quordle is like Wordle but a lot harder, there’s no shame if you’re searching for the daily Quordle answers for game #265. Or rather ‘answers’ plural, as Quordle has four solutions to find each day.
If you’ve not played it yet, you should — it offers four times the fun of the original viral word game. But it’s arguably more than four times as difficult, as you only have nine guesses to find the quartet of words. (Sometimes, today’s Wordle answer is harder.)
Like Wordle, it also resets each day, so if you miss one game you’ll have no way of knowing what the previous daily Quordle answers were. Well, unless you bookmark this page, in which case you’ll be able to check today’s Quordle answers at your leisure, as I’ll be updating it each morning.
But be warned: spoilers lie ahead for game #265, so only read on if you want to know today’s Quordle answers! And please don’t use this page to cheat and pretend to others that you got it right when you didn’t really. That would be a misuse of our hard work.
Today’s Quordle hints, game #265, Sunday, October 16
Before we get on to today’s Quordle answers, we’ll give you a few hints to guide you in the right direction. We’ll give you three starter clues, then one big hint at the end. And after that we’ll tell you the answers, promise.
So, here are your starter clues:
- Two of the five vowels are used.*
- One answer has two of the same letters, but they are not together.
- One answer starts with a vowel.
* By vowel, we mean A, E, I, O, U. There are other letters that are sometimes considered to be vowels, depending on how they are used.
The daily Quordle answers for game #265 are quite tricky, but here’s another clue to give you an advantage with one of them: One Quordle answer will make things crystal clear.
Still stuck? Then let’s move on to the answers.
Today’s Quordle answers, game #265, Sunday, October 16
So, what are today’s Quordle answers for game #265?
I won’t make you wait any longer — here you go:
The daily Quordle answers for game #265 were tough and I scraped through with my score of 8-6-9-4.
Having a good strategy helps, since Quordle can be difficult on a good day.
I started with my regular start word: CRANE. This didn’t give me much except for some vowels. Since I had two vowels in place in the bottom right box, I started with that. I could think of many words that would fit here and end with the letter ‘E’. I tried the word ‘PLATE’ and got the letter ‘T’ in yellow. I then tried ‘STAGE’. Still not the right answer! I chose a difficult box to start with and I was already three tries down. Luckily, my next guess ‘TEASE’ was the correct answer.
I moved to the top right box after that, where I had two letters in yellow and one in green. Since I knew the word had ‘E’ in the second place and an ‘L’ somewhere, I tried ‘LEECH’. Unfortunately it was wrong. Wow, I was not having it easy today. I got two more letters in green thanks to the guess. I then put in ‘BELCH’, which was right.
I then turned to the top left box. I had one letter in green thanks to my previous guess and two in yellow. My next guess was ‘RILED’ which was incorrect, but it gave me all the letters I needed. A simple rearrangement led me to the correct answer: IDLER.
The last box to tackle was the bottom left one. I had two letters in green and nothing else to go by. I also had only one try remaining. A quick glance at the board told me that there were not too many options left. I tried ‘VIVID’ as my last try. Phew! I was lucky that was right.
With that, I had all four answers. Hopefully, you all solved it too.
Previous Quordle answers
If you’re looking for a list of older Quordle answers, we can also help. Here’s a list going back 20 games.
- Quordle #264: PAUSE, POUND, GLOAT, EXALT
- Quordle #263: OWING, ARRAY, SINGE, DEBIT
- Quordle #262: WOVEN, OLIVE, PLANK, OUTGO
- Quordle #261: CIVIC, SLAIN, CLING, SNUCK
- Quordle #260: PAGAN, FAITH, TIBIA, ROACH
- Quordle #259: PHASE, GRAND, WHIFF, DONUT
- Quordle #258: BEVEL, BEGAT, BRAIN, EARTH
- Quordle #257: AGENT, SNAKY, FRILL, BLEAT
- Quordle #256: SLUNK, GOLEM, PAPER, DIZZY
- Quordle #255: LARGE, STUNK, SLANT, NINNY
- Quordle #254: BILGE, GLEAM, EXACT, TODAY
- Quordle #253: LLAMA, OTTER, MUCKY, EMBED
- Quordle #252: AMEND, GRAVY, CHAMP, BOAST
- Quordle #251: HEDGE, BEGIN, STUNG, SPINY
- Quordle #250: BASIS, WAIVE, VAPOR, IRONY
- Quordle #249: PUBIC, ENNUI, UNDUE, EXCEL
- Quordle #248: FLINT, FLAIL, HAZEL, RUMBA
- Quordle #247: UNCLE, BEGUN, GROWN, SAFER
- Quordle #246: LARGE, LEECH, MUDDY, SHIRK
- Quordle #245: ENDOW, TWEET, COVER, AUDIT
What else should I know about Quordle?
Quordle is one of the many Wordle clones to have arrived in the wake of Wordle’s huge success. It’s essentially the same game, but you play four versions of it simultaneously and have nine attempts to guess all the answers.
The letters behave as they do in Wordle, turning green if they’re in the right place, yellow if they’re in the word but in the wrong location, and gray if they’re not included in the answer at all.
A nice extra is that though there’s only set puzzle per day, a practice mode is also included. And you might well need it, because it’s pretty difficult.
If Quordle is too tough for you, you might prefer something in our list of the best Wordle alternatives, but if you want an even more stressful test then we’d recommend either Squabble or Octordle.
We also like the new Heardle, which is like Wordle for pop music, plus the geography-based Wordle clone Worldle, the Star Wars-themed SWordle and the math-based Mathler, among others.
But the original is still the best, so don’t forget to also check our the best Wordle start words and to look at today’s Wordle answer if you won’t get a chance to play.