Quordle Method
Quordle is not four Wordles. You get nine guesses shared across four boards, so the winning skill is allocation, not raw solving. Open with a fixed two-word pair, then always feed the board with the fewest confirmed letters. Here is the full method.
The ignored-board trap
Most Quordle losses share one shape: you solve three boards by guess five, feel comfortable, then watch the fourth board swallow your last four guesses because you stopped feeding it after round two.
The fix is mechanical. After every guess, find the board with the fewest confirmed letters and make sure your next guess gives it information. Not a solve, just data.
A fixed opener pair
By spending the first two guesses on coverage across all four grids, you usually enter guess three with real footholds on every board instead of one solved board and three blanks.
Two words, ten letters
- Guess 1: SLATE (S, L, A, T, E)
- Guess 2: CORNI or MOUND (adds O, R, N, C or M, U, D)
- Together they test ten high-frequency letters before you react to any board.
- Reuse the same pair daily so you read all four boards at a glance after guess two.
When to commit a board
The Quordle solver on this site tracks all four boards at once and ranks guesses by combined information, which is the fastest way to see which board is starving.
Solve the surest, feed the weakest
Commit a full guess to finishing a board only when it is down to one or two candidates. Otherwise your guess should serve the weakest board while nudging the others.
Why four boards change how you open
A Wordle guess tests five letters against one answer. A Quordle guess tests the same five letters against four answers simultaneously, so every elimination is worth up to four times as much. That single fact is what separates a good Quordle strategy from a Wordle strategy played four times over.
The opening should therefore be built for breadth rather than for any one board. Two openers that share no letters give you ten distinct letters of feedback across all four boards before you have to make a single board-specific decision.
The steps below are the order of operations. They are written to keep all four boards moving at the same time, because a Quordle run is lost by finishing one board early and then running out of guesses on the other three.
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Open broad, not deep
First guess: one fixed word with five distinct letters. Second guess: a word that shares none of those letters. Ten letters of feedback across four boards.
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Read all four boards before choosing the third guess
Write down which letters each board has confirmed and which it has excluded. A letter excluded on a board is excluded permanently on that board.
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Keep buying shared information while three boards are open
A guess that tests four fresh letters across the open boards is worth more than a guess that tries to finish one board. Keep spending until at least two boards are near-solved.
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Solve the closest board first, but only when it is close
Once a board is down to two candidates, commit. Finishing it removes a board from your working memory and frees the remaining guesses for the rest.
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Finish in order of certainty, not in order of position
Work from the most constrained board to the least. The last board is often solved by elimination rather than by a fresh guess.
One row, four answers
The board below shows what makes Quordle feel different: a single guess produces four independent colour readings. The same word is simultaneously wrong on one board and nearly right on another.
Reading those four results efficiently is the skill. The useful output of a row is a short list — letters confirmed per board, letters excluded per board — and a letter only needs one board to still be viable for you to keep using it.
Notice how much of the value is in the exclusions. On the illustrative row below, three of the ten letters tested are ruled out across boards, and each exclusion narrows four candidate lists at once.
- L and E are live here.
- S is locked in slot one; L, A, T and E are out.
- L, A and T are present; none is in the right slot.
- Five letters removed from this board in one row.
- Correct spot
- Wrong spot
- Not in word
Illustrative readings of a single guess against four boards. Note how different the four results are for the same word.
The arithmetic behind nine guesses
Quordle hands you four boards and nine guesses, which is thirty-six tiles of feedback — seven times the tiles a single Wordle round gives you. The trap is that it is also four times the problem, and the ratio only works in your favour if the early guesses serve every board.
Counting this way makes the strategy obvious. If your first two guesses share no letters, you have tested ten letters on all four boards. If instead you spend guesses two and three on board one, you have tested ten letters on one board and five on the others.
The numbers below are the ones to keep in view when a single board looks tempting. Nine guesses is generous only while the boards are being solved together.
- Boards per puzzle
- 4
- Each with its own answer.
- Guesses per puzzle
- 9
- Shared across all four boards.
- Tiles of feedback
- 36
- Nine guesses times four boards.
- Letters covered by two openers
- 10
- Two five-letter openers sharing no letters.
Quordle questions
How many guesses do you get in Quordle?
Nine guesses shared across all four boards. Every guess appears on all four, so allocation between boards is the core skill.
What is the best Quordle strategy?
Use a fixed two-word opener to cover ten letters, then always feed the board with the fewest confirmed letters. Only commit a full guess to finishing a board when it is down to one or two candidates.
Can I use the same opener in Quordle as in Wordle?
Yes, and you generally should. A fixed opener with five distinct letters is the right first move on four boards for the same reason it is right on one, and keeping the same word makes its feedback pattern familiar.
What if one board is solved early?
That is the good case. A solved board is information you no longer need to hold, and the remaining guesses should be split between the boards with the fewest live candidates rather than rotated evenly.