Past Quordle Answers: Every Daily Quordle Since #1

About This Archive of Past Quordle Answers

This is a day-by-day list of past Quordle answers: the four words of every Daily Quordle from #1 (January 25, 2022) to yesterday, with the puzzle number the game itself uses and the date. A new row is added every day, and the search box tells you whether any word has been a Quordle answer.

The ticket at the top holds yesterday's Quordle answers, hidden until you tap. Below it are the seven puzzles before that, then every month back to January 2022. From August 2026 on, each date opens that puzzle's own page with a hint for every board. For the current puzzle, see today's Quordle hints.

Quordle doesn't show a public list of its old answers, and the lists we found elsewhere disagree with each other on the numbering, sometimes by hundreds. So we rebuilt the archive from the game's own daily word selection and checked it against answers published on the day. How that works, and the few puzzles we left out, is explained below.

How Quordle Picks Its Four Words

Quordle doesn't choose each day's words by hand: the game works them out from the date. It counts the days since January 24, 2022, uses that number to seed a random number generator, and draws four words from a fixed answer list of 2,315 common five-letter words, the same size as Wordle's original answer list.

If two of the four draws are the same word, or a draw lands on a word from a short list the game refuses to use, it simply draws again. That list holds about 110 words, mostly ones that could offend or upset a player. Everything else about a day's Quordle answers follows from the date.

This is also how the game's own archive mode works: when you replay an old day, the game repeats the same calculation. It is why we can list every past Quordle answer with confidence, and why we never publish a future one. The words for tomorrow exist already, but showing them would spoil the game.

How Quordle Puzzles Are Numbered

Daily Quordle #1 was January 25, 2022, and the number goes up by one every day. November 12, 2026, for example, was Daily Quordle #1753. That is the number the game prints when you share a result ("Daily Quordle 1753"), and it is the number TechRadar and most daily answer columns use.

To work out a date from a number, count that many days on from January 24, 2022. Going the other way, the number is the count of days from January 24, 2022 to the date you want.

If a site shows a number one lower than ours, it is counting from zero. If it is off by hundreds, it numbered its own posts rather than the puzzles; we found two well-known Quordle answer lists that give the same days different numbers.

How Every Entry Is Checked

Because the words follow from the date, we can compute any day's Quordle answers. To make sure the computation matches what people actually played, we compared it with answers published on the day by TechRadar and TryHardGuides:

• Every day the skip list changed the draw since April 26, 2023 (#457): 230 puzzles, all matching.
• About 50 days picked at random from mid-2022 to November 2026: all matching, including the puzzle numbers.

Before April 26, 2023, the skip list was still growing, and at least one word in the answer list was swapped (CAPUT became KAPUT). For those early puzzles, a day whose words the current skip list would change is only included when a published answer confirms it. That kept 88 such days and left out 17: #3, #5, #6, #8, #17, #18, #29, #34, #136, #227, #242, #243, #283, #333, #336, #353 and #456. If you have a screenshot of one of them, we'd love to fill the gap.

Old Quordles That Play Differently Today

For 41 puzzles from 2022 and early 2023, the game's archive mode now shows different words from the ones played on the day. In each case, one of the original words was later added to the skip list, so replaying the day with today's rules lands on a new set of four.

Take Daily Quordle #27 (February 20, 2022). On the day it was ACRID, QUITE, GOING and SEPIA. SEPIA has since joined the skip list, so the archive now serves SWEAR, WATER, TOPIC and SAUCE instead.

This page lists the original Quordle answers, the ones in published answer columns from the time, and marks those rows with an asterisk. Hover over it, or open the yesterday ticket on a marked day, to see what the archive plays now.

What 1,700+ Daily Quordles Have in Common

Counted over every listed puzzle up to November 11, 2026 (1,735 puzzles and 6,940 answers):

DRIER is the outlier: with four draws a day from about 2,200 playable words, the average word turns up about three times in this span. Its 14 appearances run from #116 in May 2022 to #1566 in May 2026, and we checked three of them (#561, #1053 and #1361) against answers published on the day.

The next-day repeats are worth knowing about too: NOISE was an answer on #1377 and again on #1378, and WORDY on #1505 and #1506. Nothing in the game stops yesterday's Quordle answers from coming back today.

Letters, Vowels and Rare Letters

About one Quordle answer in three, 31.9%, contains a repeated letter, like POPPY, STINT or DRIER. That matters more in Quordle than in Wordle, because a double letter on one board often hides the word you need on another.

• S starts 15.8% of all answers, more than any other letter, followed by C, B, T, A and P.
• One day in five (19.7%) includes a Q, Z, X or J somewhere in its four words.
• Nine different answers have no A, E, I, O or U at all: CRYPT, DRYLY, LYMPH, MYRRH, NYMPH, SHYLY, SLYLY, TRYST and WRYLY. Only AUDIO, EERIE and QUEUE have four vowels.
• The four words share 12.7 different letters on average, from as few as 8 to as many as 17.

So a starting word that tests S, the common vowels and one of R, T or L covers most boards, while a second guess with a Y is the quickest way to catch the vowel-less answers.

Finding a Past Quordle Answer

• By date: use the month links above the list. The two most recent months are open.
• By number: every row shows the Daily Quordle number, and #N falls N days after January 24, 2022.
• By a word you remember: type it into the search box. It shows every day that word was one of the Quordle answers and opens the right months.
• Yesterday's Quordle answers: they're always on the ticket at the top, hidden until you tap.

A new Daily Quordle starts at midnight in your own time zone. If you played late in the evening in Asia or Australia, the puzzle you solved may carry the previous day's date here, because we date puzzles by US Eastern time.

Getting Better at Quordle With Past Answers

An archive of past Quordle answers is more than a way to settle an argument. A few habits it supports:

• Don't rule a word out because it was used recently. Unlike Wordle, Quordle keeps reusing its list, and a word has come back the very next day 12 times.
• Watch for repeated letters early. With a third of answers containing one, a board that refuses to resolve after four guesses usually has a double letter.
• Replay old days honestly. If you use the game's archive mode for 2022 puzzles, check this page first: 41 of those days now play with different words.
• Practise without spoilers. Our Quordle page has an unlimited board for practice, and the Wordle solver works for any single Quordle board too.

About Quordle

Quordle is Wordle times four: you get nine guesses to solve four five-letter words at once, and every guess counts on all four boards. It launched in January 2022, at the height of the Wordle craze, and has belonged to Merriam-Webster since early 2023, which runs it alongside variants such as Daily Sequence, Chill and Extreme.

This archive covers the classic Daily Quordle only. The other modes use their own word draws, so their answers are different from the Quordle answers listed here.

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