Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, June 27 (game #885)

Today’s Quordle is a rather more difficult one than some – so be on your guard. If you need some hints to get you started, you’ll find some below.

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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 #885) – 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 #885) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Quordle today (game #885) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #885) – 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 #885) – 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 #885) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle, game #885, are…

• MAXIM
• DOWNY
• ROUSE
• ATOLL

There are some rather uncommon words in today’s Quordle. ROUSE and DOWNY are certainly not used that often, and ATOLL is both uncommon and a bit of a nightmare to solve, with repeated L at the end. MAXIM is worse still: M at the start and end of the solution, uncommon letter X in the middle.

All of which adds up to a difficult Quordle, and one that I suspect will beat some people. Fortunately for me, my start-word strategy gave me a good opening to the game, and I only ‘lost’ one guess (to MAXIM; I played MAFIA first), meaning I finished in eight guesses. The Daily Sequence was just as tough, with the obscure word VERSO (a left-hand page) being the final answer. 

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Daily Sequence today (game #885) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #885, are…

• LAYER
• SHORE
• FAINT
• VERSO

Quordle answers: The past 20

• 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
• Quordle #875, Monday 17 June: AWAIT, SHADY, SWEET, DRAPE
• Quordle #874, Sunday 16 June: URBAN, MOIST, SPOOL, BELIE
• Quordle #873, Saturday 15 June: LOGIC, SOOTY, WAGON, BRIDE
• Quordle #872, Friday 14 June: MERIT, RASPY, THOSE, WATER
• Quordle #871, Thursday 13 June: NORTH, MOUND, PEACE, RETRY
• Quordle #870, Wednesday 12 June: QUILT, PARTY, SPARK, SINCE
• Quordle #869, Tuesday 11 June: CLANK, GONER, LIEGE, TIARA
• Quordle #868, Monday 10 June: ANGST, SUAVE, MAYBE, PLUMP
• Quordle #867, Sunday 9 June: ABIDE, TERRA, THUMP, CLUNG
• Quordle #866, Saturday 8 June: STOIC, LURCH, FLESH, FURRY
• Quordle #865, Friday 7 June: CRAVE, CRATE, ADULT, NYLON

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).