Quordle today – hints and answers for Monday, July 8 (game #896)

Here’s your first Quordle of the week, guaranteed to get your brain going in the morning. Today’s is a fairly tricky one, so you may find my hints useful.

Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

Quordle today (game #896) – hint #1 – Vowels

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Quordle today (game #896) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Quordle today (game #896) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #896) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you’re not ready yet then here’s one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #896) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #896) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle, game #896, are…

• DATUM
• SLUMP
• CHUMP
• KNOLL

M doesn’t feature among my three start words, but it would have been very helpful today if it did, because it appears in DATUM, SLUMP and CHUMP. Fortunately that didn’t matter, because U and P are both among the 15 letters I play at the start – and working out that M would go between them for UMP was enough to get my game going.

KNOLL is the odd one out here; it doesn’t have an M, but it does contain a repeated L and a silent K, and is arguably the toughest answer here as a result. Both M and K also featured in the Daily Sequence, so you’ll have wanted to play them early on there for the best chance to win that variant too.

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Daily Sequence today (game #896) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #896, are…

• SLUNG
• DAUNT
• STINK
• MIDST

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #895, Sunday 7 July: STEAM, STAID, SCOUR, WHERE
• Quordle #894, Saturday 6 July: GRAIN, VIDEO, OLDER, FROCK
• Quordle #893, Friday 5 July: SOGGY, SCRUM, TENOR, WIGHT
• Quordle #892, Thursday 4 July: MIRTH, BLISS, SWUNG, MAUVE
• Quordle #891, Wednesday 3 July: QUOTE, PLUMP, SINGE, SCOWL
• Quordle #890, Tuesday 2 July: YACHT, LODGE, BELLY, COVET
• Quordle #889, Monday 1 July: INCUR, MINTY, LIMIT, SYNOD
• Quordle #888, Sunday 30 June: ALIBI, HYENA, NERVE, KNOWN
• Quordle #887, Saturday 29 June: BASIL, PLAID, REMIT, SHEIK
• Quordle #886, Friday 28 June: SCENE, PRIMO, MOGUL, OPIUM
• Quordle #885, Thursday 27 June: MAXIM, DOWNY, ROUSE, ATOLL
• Quordle #884, Wednesday 26 June: NORTH, LEVER, SERUM, SLATE
• Quordle #883, Tuesday 25 June: APPLY, FUNKY, SWORE, TWEAK
• Quordle #882, Monday 24 June: ANGER, SILKY, HURRY, ANODE
• Quordle #881, Sunday 23 June: SPIED, DIZZY, ABUSE, POPPY
• Quordle #880, Saturday 22 June: GROIN, STOVE, SHRUB, HARSH
• Quordle #879, Friday 21 June: INDEX, CLUED, ORBIT, LOSER
• Quordle #878, Thursday 20 June: DELVE, BEZEL, MAMMA, AZURE
• Quordle #877, Wednesday 19 June: CELLO, PRIVY, HUMOR, PAPER
• Quordle #876, Tuesday 18 June: ABYSS, OCTET, BEEFY, PUPAL

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).