Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, November 7 (game #1018)

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.

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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.

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Quordle today (game #1018) – 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 #1018) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Quordle today (game #1018) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #1018) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)

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Quordle today (game #1018) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)

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Quordle today (game #1018) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle, game #1018, are…

• REPAY
• SYNOD
• LOATH
• PITHY

I’ve been using the same Quordle strategy since I began playing a couple of years ago, with only a few unsuccessful experiments at trying an alternative. It generally works fairly well, in that my streak often extends well into double figures – but it’s rarely as helpful as it was today.

I began with STARE, DOILY and PUNCH as always, and today that gave me all 20 letters that I needed to complete the four quadrants. Yes, all 20 of them. That meant my challenge was simply to solve four anagrams, a task which didn’t tax me too much despite the presence of a couple of tricky words.

If you don’t employ a similar strategy – or have a better one – you may have struggled with SYNOD, which is a relatively uncommon word, and one that features a Y in an uncommon position. The other three weren’t too bad, though, so this doesn’t rank anywhere near the hardest Quordles ever.

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Daily Sequence today (game #1018) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1018, are…

• FINCH
• CACAO
• LURCH
• GRAIL

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #1017, Wednesday 6 November: SASSY, DRUID, THREW, SLOSH
• Quordle #1016, Tuesday 5 November: BEGET, AMUSE, STONY, LOUSY
• Quordle #1015, Monday 4 November: CHILL, TACKY, GRAPH, PLAZA
• Quordle #1014, Sunday 3 November: QUIRK, HEART, ELBOW, KNOWN
• Quordle #1013, Saturday 2 November: SWUNG, FLOOR, PARER, CRUST
• Quordle #1012, Friday 1 November: FIFTY, GULCH, RECUT, TWEET
• Quordle #1011, Thursday 31 October: TWINE, RIGID, BELCH, AMEND
• Quordle #1010, Wednesday 30 October: SLOOP, BRINE, BROOD, FLUID
• Quordle #1009, Tuesday 29 October: CLIFF, BURNT, SNAKY, POLYP
• Quordle #1008, Monday 28 October: MACAW, LIEGE, GOUGE, CARGO
• Quordle #1007, Sunday 27 October: STUNG, CLOUT, SOWER, BASIS
• Quordle #1006, Saturday 26 October: DUCHY, CANNY, BLOCK, SMART
• Quordle #1005, Friday 25 October: PRANK, EXIST, RUDDY, PICKY
• Quordle #1004, Thursday 24 October: DAIRY, RALLY, CURLY, LABEL
• Quordle #1003, Wednesday 23 October: DROSS, ANNEX, GRAVE, BROKE
• Quordle #1002, Tuesday 22 October: ADORE, SMITH, AFOOT, LUCID
• Quordle #1001, Monday 21 October: TREAD, NINTH, GRIEF, UNSET
• Quordle #1000, Sunday 20 October: CORAL, WHOSE, HEIST, SOAPY
• Quordle #999, Saturday 19 October: GUSTY, BROKE, ENJOY, HAZEL
• Quordle #998, Friday 18 October: PUPIL, MOCHA, EGRET, NATAL

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).