If You’re Too Good at Wordle, Try Quordle.

Even in 2025, some of us still can’t put Wordle down. Seconds after finishing his first game of Wordle, my 12-year-old son opened a new tab and Googled “infinite Wordle.” (He found Wheeldle , which remains one of my favorite games after all these years.) But even better is playing multiple Wordle-style puzzle games at once . That’s where Quordle and others come in, and I’ll tell you how they differ from the original.

As we all know by now, in Wordle you have six tries to guess a five-letter word. Green squares mean the letter you guessed is correct; yellow ones mean the letter is in the word, but not in that position. That’s it. The original Wordle game is part of the New York Times Games collection, and we provide daily Wordle puzzle clues here .

But why play just one game of guessing a single five-letter word when you can solve multiple puzzles at the same time? Not long after Wordle came Dordle , where each answer you give applies to two different Wordle-style puzzles at once. (You get seven answers instead of six.) Then, of course, there’s Quordle with four puzzles (you get nine answers), and so on: Octordle with eight puzzles (13 answers), Sedecordle with 16 answers (21 answers), and Duotrigordle with 32 answers (37 answers).

Of all of them, I think Quordle is the best choice: enough puzzles to keep the game interesting, but not so many that it becomes overwhelming. The Lifehacker team shares this opinion, as it is the only wordy Quordle for which we publish daily clues .

How to win at games like Quordle?

Luckily, if you’re new, Quordle and similar games have a practice mode that you can play as many times as you like, as well as a daily puzzle that you can only solve once a day. (The solution to the daily puzzle is the same for everyone.) So go ahead and hit the practice button and start learning the ropes as you gain experience.

But I can give you some strategy tips. No matter how many puzzles you’re solving at once, I like to think of guesses as answers to one (or more) of three questions:

1. What letters are in the solution?

2. I know some yellow shades. Where are they in the solution?

3. Is the word I thought of the solution?

Playing the game using only strategy #3 is a mistake. You’ll quickly learn that exploratory guesses are important, and you’ll choose prompts that effectively answer question #1. (My mnemonic phrase: ETAOIN SHRDLU, pronounced “Edwin Shirdlu” as a name, is a list of perhaps the most common letters in the English language. My prompts always use letters from this list.)

Simultaneous trials with the letters “Wordless” require multiple trials with the letters “1” and “2”. Constantly ask yourself: what information can I get from this trial? The same trial can do double duty for different puzzles at the same time: for example, you can combine the yellow color from one word (#2) with completely new letters (#1) and the yellow color from another word (#2 again).

It’s definitely not a good idea to make guess #3 until you’re fairly confident in the answer, since your attempt at solving one puzzle is a guess that will likely be useless for the other(s).

How to Solve Four Wordle Puzzles at Once

Okay, let’s see this in action. The puzzle I’m currently solving (shown in the image above) is a “practice” puzzle, so don’t worry about spoilers.

We start with the word “TRUB” and get matches in three puzzles. Next, to start the puzzle in the upper right corner, I choose a word that uses common letters but doesn’t repeat any of the ones we just looked at: “RING.”

The top right puzzle still only has one yellow, but with the bottom two puzzles we are now in very good positions: four letters confirmed in each of them, some of which are even green. Three in the top left puzzle are also not bad. As we collect future guesses (#2 and #3 for puzzles where we are close to the answer), let’s continue adding new letters (#1) to help with the top right puzzle.

We can probably solve one already: there should be a CHAS_ in the bottom left corner, which gives us either CHASE or CHASM. I take the liberty of choosing CHASE, which is wrong, but at least it introduces the letter E into play. So I solve the problem using CHASM and see what I learned by entering that letter E.

In the bottom right corner is _ _ A_E, somewhere in there is an S, T and K, so it’s either STAKE or SKATE. Instead of choosing one of them, I want to consider a couple of options. I still don’t know where to put that L in the top right corner, and I’d like to add one or two more unknown letters. It would also be nice to put an A somewhere in the top left to make things easier, since we know there’s an A, but we don’t know where.

I settle on the word ATOLL, which provides valuable clues for all three. We now know that there is an O in the top right corner of the puzzle, and we know several places where there cannot be an L. We know that the top left must be either _AIS_ or _ _ISA, and my intuition tells me DAISY. We have also confirmed that the bottom right corner must be SKATE, not STAKE.

So, I’m guessing it’s SKATE and then DAISY, which opens up the Y at the end of the puzzle in the top right. We don’t have that many letters, but the fact that we got so many right with so few matches suggests there might be at least one doubled letter. It can’t be a doubled L, since there’s no L in the second or fourth places, so I’m thinking of doubling a letter I haven’t guessed yet. What could fit in LO_ _Y? All I can think of is LOBBY – yes, that’s it. Four puzzles solved in eight tries, with one to go. The little squares won’t necessarily fit in a tweet, so you’ll also get a little graphic to share, like this:

No matter how many puzzles you solve, this strategy always applies. On large grids, be sure to scroll the page so you don’t forget any at the bottom. I find Quordle even easier than Wordle in some ways, because each attempt is four times more likely to yield useful information. Give it a try and see how you do!

Not the day you want? Here’s today’s Wordle solution.

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