If youre looking for the Quordle answer for Sunday, May 25, 2025, read onIll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. Beware, there are spoilers below for May 25, Quordle #1217! Keep scrolling if you want some hints (and then the answer) to todays Quordle game. (If you play Wordle, Connections, and Strands, check out our hints for those games, too.)

How to play QuordleQuordle lives here on the Merriam-Webster website. A new puzzle goes live every day.

If youve never played, its a twist on 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 (or 12 if you play on Chill mode, and 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.

Ready for the hints? Lets go!

Can you give me a hint for todays Quordle?Upper left: A vast expanse of water

Upper right: What preserved a mosquito in Jurassic Park

Lower left: A word that often follows pied

Lower right: To read between the lines for a solution

Does todays Quordle have any double or repeated letters?Upper left: No.

Upper right: No.

Lower left: Yes, it has one repeated consonant, but not side-by-side.

Lower right: No.

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

Upper right: A

Lower left: P

Lower right: G

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

Upper right: R

Lower left: R

Lower right: N

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

Upper right: AMBER

Lower left: PIPER

Lower right: GLEAN

How I solved todays QuordleI start with SLATE and MOUND, my two favorites, and it gets me some good info.

The upper right looks solvableI just need everything in the right order. Maybe CANOE? Wow, I have all the letters now, but theyre still in the wrong order. Ah, OCEAN.

Ive got four out of five letters in the bottom right now. GLEAN? Yep.

The upper right either starts or ends with A. AMBER? Sweet.

What do you think so far? That leaves the bottom right, which I now know ends in ER. Maybe PIPER? Nailed it.

Daily Quordle 1217 46 75 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.