If youre looking for the Quordle answer for Saturday, August 9, 2025, read onIll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. Beware, there are spoilers below for August 9, Quordle #1293! Keep scrolling if you want some hints (and then the answer) to todays Quordle game. (If you play Wordle, Connections, or Strands, check out our hints for those games, too.)

How to play QuordleQuordle lives on the Merriam-Webster website. A new puzzle goes live every day. If youve never played, its a twist on The New York Times daily Wordle game, in which you have a limited number of attempts to guess a five-letter mystery word. In Quordle, though, youre simultaneously solving four Wordle-style puzzles, and each of your guesses gets applied to the four puzzles simultaneously. Due to the increased difficulty, Quordle grants you nine guesses (12 if you play on Chill mode, or eight if you play on Extreme), rather than Wordles six.

To start, guess a five-letter word. The letters of the word in each of the four quadrants will turn green if theyre correct, yellow if you have the right letter in the wrong place, or gray if the letter isnt in that secret word at all.

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Upper right: A calmer section of water.

Lower left: Recited at a funeral.

Lower right: Illness cause.

Does todays Quordle have any double or repeated letters?Upper left: Yes, a double vowel.

Upper right: No.

Lower left: Yes, a repeated vowel.

Lower right: No.

What letters do todays Quordle words start with?Upper left: N

Upper right: I

Lower left: E

Lower right: V

What letters do todays Quordle words end with?Upper left: E

Upper right: T

Lower left: Y

Lower right: S

What is the solution to todays Quordle?Upper left: NOOSE

Upper right: INLET

Lower left: ELEGY

Lower right: VIRUS

How I solved todays QuordleIll start with SLATE and MOUND, as always.

The upper left could be NOOSE, but that feels dark. Lets try anyway. Well, there it is.

The upper right looks like INTEL. Almost! INLET.

Ill try FLECK for the bottom left. Nope, but I got the E in the right spot. Oh, maybe it starts with an E, to make ELEGY. Yes!

What do you think so far? Ill try PIOUS for the bottom right. Close! VIRUS? There it is.

Daily Quordle 1293 35 79 m-w.com/games/quordle/ The best starter words for QuordleWhat should you play for that first guess? We can look to Wordle for some general guidelines.

The best starters tend to contain common letters, to increase the chances of getting yellow and green squares to guide your guessing. (And if you get all grays when guessing common letters, thats still excellent information to help you rule out possibilities.) There isnt a single best starting word, but The New York Timess Wordle analysis bot has suggested starting with one of these:

CRANE

TRACE

SLANT

CRATE

CARTE

Meanwhile, an MIT analysis found that youll eliminate the most possibilities in the first round by starting with one of these:

SALET

REAST

TRACE

CRATE

SLATE

Other good picks might be ARISE or ROUND. Words like ADIEU and AUDIO get more vowels in play, but you could argue that its better to start with an emphasis on consonants, using a starter like RENTS or CLAMP. Choose your strategy, and see how it plays out.

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Quordle.