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Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, August 30 (game #949)

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August 30, 2024

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now nearly 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.

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.

Your Quordle expert

Marc McLaren

Quordle today (game #949) – hint #1 – Vowels

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How many different vowels are in Quordle today?

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 5*.

* 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 #949) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?

• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.

Quordle today (game #949) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?

• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.

Quordle today (game #949) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)

Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?

• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.

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 #949) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)

What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?

• A

• O

• I

• E

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

Quordle today (game #949) – the answers

Quordle answers for game 949 on a yellow background

(Image credit: Merriam-Webster)

The answers to today’s Quordle, game #949, are…

Today’s Quordle is one of the easiest I’ve played recently, but that owes a lot to my three start words, which here gave me all five letters for three of the answers, and four for the other one. I don’t think it would be massively more difficult however you played it, as the words and letters are all common and there is only one repeat, the S in ISSUE.

That said, I contrived to need eight guesses still, rather than the seven I could have solved it in, by guessing RAISE rather than ARISE. That was a perfectly acceptable error – there was no way for me to know which of the two it was – but if I’d have solved ERUPT first I wouldn’t have had that problem, as the R would have been confirmed in position #2 in both words. Still, it didn’t ultimately matter.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.