Given that Quordle is like Wordle but a lot harder, we do not judge anyone searching for the daily Quordle answers for game #286. 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 #286, 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 #286, Sunday, November 6
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:
- Three of the five vowels are used.*
- One answer has a repeated letter, but the letters are not placed together.
- One letter is present in all the answers.
* 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 #286 are quite tricky, but here’s another clue to give you an advantage with one of them: One of the Quordle answers will leave you easily irritated and impatient.
Still stuck? Then let’s move on to the answers.
Today’s Quordle answers, game #286, Sunday, November 6
So, what are today’s Quordle answers for game #286?
I won’t make you wait any longer — here you go:
The daily Quordle answers for game #286 were pretty difficult today. I barely scraped through with my 4-9-8-6 score.
Having a good strategy helps, since Quordle can be difficult on a good day.
I began with my usual start word: CRANE. This gave me a few scattered vowels across the board but didn’t give me a firm footing to begin. So I entered TOUGH as my next start word. This didn’t give me plenty but I started solving one box at a time after this.
I decided to start with the top left box since I had two letters in green and one in yellow. There were tons of possibilities at this point — which is exactly the word I guessed next: POINT. I was close! I had 4 letters in green and only the first letter was wrong. The only other option that would fit here with the letters on the board was JOINT — which I then tried and it was correct.
Next, I jumped down to the bottom right box. Here I had 4 letters in yellow. This should have been simple but I just couldn’t think of any word that would fit in. I decided to try SENTI since I knew the letter ‘T’ had to come somewhere in the middle. This was wrong but I was close again! Now I had the start letter — ‘S’ in green and all the other letters in yellow. A quick rearrangement led me to the right answer: STEIN.
I realized I had only three turns left and two more puzzles to get through! This was getting tricky. I moved to the top right box where I had three letters in green. MERIT seemed to be the perfect fit here so I went with that next. I was wrong! But I know knew the word started with ‘R’ and I had only one alphabet to fill in, in the middle. This was still tricky because there were multiple options that could be right.
At this point, I decided to turn my attention to the last box so I didn’t waste any more turns. Here, thanks to my previous guesses I knew the word had two ‘T’s. I also had one more letter in green. I thought of going with TESTY next and luckily, this was correct! That left me with one last turn to finish the top right box. I didn’t get anything much for this puzzle from my previous guess — TESTY. I went with REFIT next and crossed my fingers! Phew — this was right!
With that, I had all four Quordle 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 #285: SHIRT, AWOKE, VAUNT, ULTRA
- Quordle #284: CHECK, ACORN, NERDY, ROUND
- Quordle #283: CRICK, PENNE, MANLY, GLADE
- Quordle #282: CRICK, PENNE, MANLY, GLADE
- Quordle #281: CHAIR, MAUVE, ABBOT, STILT
- Quordle #280: IDLER, BERTH, ORBIT, FETCH
- Quordle #279: SOAPY, BROOM, MISSY, OVINE
- Quordle #278: CRUEL, TRUNK, SUITE, ALLOT
- Quordle #277: IDEAL, CHESS, SHADY, SHAWL
- Quordle #276: STAIN, PALER, DRIER, BOBBY
- Quordle #275: RADIO, BURST, TOUCH, CREAK
- Quordle #274: SPORE, DEITY, MANGA, SNOOP
- Quordle #273: SLIMY, TUNIC, TUMOR, STRAW
- Quordle #272: KNOLL, STEEL, GLOOM, FELON
- Quordle #271: OCTAL, SAINT, HEFTY, BISON
- Quordle #270: DEBIT, SPORT, QUOTA, USING
- Quordle #269: CRICK, SHIED, VENOM, VENUE
- Quordle #268: NIGHT, EVERY, COLON, MANOR
- Quordle #267: STINT, WEDGE, BUGLE, RIGOR
- Quordle #266: DEMON, SOOTY, SCARF, EMCEE
- Quordle #265: IDLER, BELCH, VIVID, TEASE
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.