Quordle today – hints and answers for Wednesday, June 5 (game #863)

Another day, another set of Quordle puzzles to test your mettle. And if one word game isn’t enough for you, there’s also the Daily Sequence variant, which challenges you to solve four Wordle-style grids consecutively, rather than concurrently as in the standard game – but while using the same letters. It’s all rather complicated to explain, but easy to pick up.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those games. 

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 #863) – 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 #863) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Quordle today (game #863) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #863) – 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 #863) – 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 #863) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle, game #863, are…

• QUITE
• LAPSE
• LYMPH
• SIGMA

This is a potentially difficult Quordle, depending on your strategy. There are no repeated letters, but there is an uncommon Q in QUITE, plus LYMPH and SIGMA have uncommon spellings. 

What do I mean by that? Well, Y is generally found at the end of a word rather than in the middle, and LYMPH is also a very rare word in that it contains no vowels – or at least that’s the case if you don’t consider Y to be one. Opinion is split on that; clearly Y acts as a vowel here, but some sources state that only A, E, I, O and U are really vowels. Y sometimes makes a vowel sound, but it’s really a consonant. 

Anyway, a word without any of the five standard vowels is uncommon. As far as SIGMA goes, A at the end is also uncommon. So, a complicated Quordle that you’ll have done well to solve today.

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Daily Sequence today (game #863) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #863, are…

• FORCE
• MEDIC
• LIVER
• DITCH

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #862, Tuesday 4 June: SCORN, REIGN, EPOCH, FIGHT
• Quordle #861, Monday 3 June: BUILT, FRIED, LEERY, JAZZY
• Quordle #860, Sunday 2 June: WHISK, PUSHY, PINKY, AMITY
• Quordle #859, Saturday 1 June: DODGY, LIBEL, LANCE, GROIN
• Quordle #858, Friday 31 May: BRAWN, CINCH, WHOSE, GUESS
• Quordle #857, Thursday 30 May: DEBIT, HATER, PHOTO, SPIKE
• Quordle #856, Wednesday 29 May: CRUMB, MACRO, WHEEL, COMMA
• Quordle #855, Tuesday 28 May: MARRY, DUTCH, BRINE, TACIT
• Quordle #854, Monday 27 May: PHOTO, LURID, PURGE, EMCEE
• Quordle #853, Sunday 26 May: BRINK, ALLEY, FENCE, GUILT
• Quordle #852, Saturday 25 May: CREST, SLICK, RATTY, SPURT
• Quordle #851, Friday 24 May: COPSE, STINT, SPIRE, IONIC
• Quordle #850, Thursday 23 May: MOLDY, REBEL, SPORT, MECCA
• Quordle #849, Wednesday 22 May: BLAST, USAGE, AUDIO, DETOX
• Quordle #848, Tuesday 21 May: NUDGE, OVINE, STRIP, TABOO
• Quordle #847, Monday 20 May: FORCE, SPREE, CACHE, RADII
• Quordle #846, Sunday 19 May: ALIKE, USHER, FLAKE, SUAVE 
• Quordle #845, Saturday 18 May: HUMPH, SHARD, LABOR, CROWD
• Quordle #844, Friday 17 May: DREAD, USUAL, LOVER, SPEAK
• Quordle #843, Thursday 16 May: COVEY, TWEAK, DITTO, DECAY

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).