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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.

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.

Quordle today (game #1038) - hint #1 - Vowels 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 #1038) - 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 0.

Quordle today (game #1038) - 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 #1038) - 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 #1038) - hint #5 - starting letters (2) What letters do today's Quordle answers start with?

• H

• R

• I

• U

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

Quordle today (game #1038) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle, game #1038, are…

• HEART
• ROGUE
• INEPT
• UTILE

The other day we had a Quordle with barely any vowels in it – only four of them across the four words. Today, in contrast, there are 10 out of the total 20 letters, and this will probably have made this an easier day for most people. That's because vowels are played by most people early on (especially if, as in Wordle, they start with the popular AUDIO or ADIEU), which will have given Quordlers a head start on all of these words here.

UTILE, despite having three vowels itself, is probably the hardest of the four; it's simply not a common word. But aside from that there's not a lot to worry about today.

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

Daily Sequence today (game #1038) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1038, are…

• UNCLE
• SAUNA
• THIGH
• BALMY

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #1037, Tuesday 26 November: PRIED, FAINT, HURRY, WOOER
• Quordle #1036, Monday 25 November: NUDGE, SNOOP, SHACK, DRYLY
• Quordle #1035, Sunday 24 November: CLOTH, CLAMP, PETTY, CHEST
• Quordle #1034, Saturday 23 November: AVOID, PLANT, FILET, TWIRL
• Quordle #1033, Friday 22 November: CUTIE, ALOOF, ETUDE, SILLY
• Quordle #1032, Thursday 21 November: RABBI, EAGER, COUGH, BRASH
• Quordle #1031, Wednesday 20 November: MINTY, TOPAZ, BRUSH, LAPEL
• Quordle #1030, Tuesday 19 November: NINJA, PENCE, PAINT, FOIST
• Quordle #1029, Monday 18 November: ASCOT, BRINK, WEIRD, HOMER
• Quordle #1028, Sunday 17 November: STATE, BRAWN, SWORE, URBAN
• Quordle #1027, Saturday 16 November: NOTCH, BENCH, BUSED, FOUND
• Quordle #1026, Friday 15 November: PURER, TRUSS, TORCH, FORUM
• Quordle #1025, Thursday 14 November: EXALT, TASTE, CRONY, CLOUT
• Quordle #1024, Wednesday 13 November: YEARN, ELBOW, SURGE, PINEY
• Quordle #1023, Tuesday 12 November: CHORD, ATTIC, OLIVE, EIGHT
• Quordle #1022, Monday 11 November: COPSE, REGAL, GRUNT, GOODY
• Quordle #1021, Sunday 10 November: GROIN, FAULT, FERRY, SUITE
• Quordle #1020, Saturday 9 November: FLUME, THERE, ATOLL, SANER
• Quordle #1019, Friday 8 November: DELAY, NAVAL, MOLAR, SWARM
• Quordle #1018, Thursday 7 November: REPAY, SYNOD, LOATH, PITHY

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #535) - today's words

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

• RUBBER
• BABY
• BUGGY
• BUMPER
• HOUSE
• MIRROR
• ERRATIC
• TRIBUTE
• SPOTTY
• PLANT
• PET
• WEDDING
• BOY
• GRILLE
• GLITCHY
• RIM

NYT Connections today (game #535) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• Yellow: Breaking down
• Green: GEARS is another
• Blue: Need looking after sometimes
• Purple: Blank [word for a musical group and other things]

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #535) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: NOT WORKING RELIABLY
• GREEN: CAR PARTS
• BLUE: WHAT A SITTER MIGHT SIT
• PURPLE: ___ BAND

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

NYT Connections today (game #535) - the answers

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The answers to today's Connections, game #535, are…

• YELLOW: NOT WORKING RELIABLY BUGGY, ERRATIC, GLITCHY, SPOTTY
• GREEN: CAR PARTS BUMPER, GRILLE, MIRROR, RIM
• BLUE: WHAT A SITTER MIGHT SIT BABY, HOUSE, PET, PLANT
• PURPLE: ___ BAND BOY, RUBBER, TRIBUTE, WEDDING

• My rating: Moderate
• My score: 3 mistakes

I came this close [makes gesture of roughly 1 inch space] to failing again here, only to scrape home at the last gasp following the realization that I was missing an obvious connection.

Things had started off well, with yellow – NOT WORKING RELIABLY – standing out immediately. I made an incorrect guess on blue, before spotting that WHAT A SITTER MIGHT SIT applied to BABY, HOUSE, PET and PLANT. But there I stalled.

I could see that MIRROR, GRILLE and BUMPER were all CAR PARTS, but it didn't occur to me that RIM would be another. A rim is a part of a car, I guess, but it doesn't seem as integral as the others; there are rims on many things other than cars. So I went with RUBBER, thinking of tires, and when that was wrong switched tack and tried something with WEDDING, TRIBUTE and er MIRROR and BOY with the vague thought that it might be something like 'Things you would make a speech to', which was quite clearly a terrible guess and obviously wrong. So I returned to cars and this time thought a bit harder, at which point RIM seemed like it had to fit. And it did of course, but I felt like a right fool.

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 26 November, game #534)

• YELLOW: GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK BONUS, EQUITY, PROMOTION, RAISE
• GREEN: DISREGARD DISCOUNT, FORGET, IGNORE, OVERLOOK
• BLUE: KINDS OF CRACKERS ANIMAL, CLUB, GOLDFISH, RITZ
• PURPLE: FEATURED IN “ELOISE” ELOISE, PLAZA, PUG, TURTLE

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

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

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #269) - hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Come fly with me

NYT Strands today (game #269) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• FRONT
• SHUT
• WEST
• PILE
• SPILL
• GRIND

NYT Strands today (game #269) - hint #3 - spangram What is a hint for today's spangram?

• Have wings, will travel

NYT Strands today (game #269) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First: bottom, 3rd column

Last: top, 4th column

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

NYT Strands today (game #269) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #269, are…

• FRONTIER
• UNITED
• VIRGIN
• DELTA
• SPIRIT
• SOUTHWEST
• SPANGRAM: AIRLINES

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

As with yesterday's game (see below for the answers if you missed them), this is a Strands puzzle that is perfectly acceptable but that which wasn't really one for me. I don't fly, generally, and I'm not based in the US – so the likes of UNITED, DELTA, SPIRIT and FRONTIER did not spring readily to mind. I didn't need a hint to get started, however, because I found FRONTIER by accident and once I combined that with the theme clue of 'Come fly with me' I had enough knowledge to know what was needed.

The trouble was, though I have heard of all of the AIRLINES included here, I couldn't think of them, so had to do a combination of word-searching and letter-pattern-searching until I got them all. So not the most fun, but I'm not blaming the NYT – this was just not the day for me.

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Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Tuesday, 26 November, game #268)

• TOTE
• BARREL
• MESSENGER
• BUCKET
• DUFFEL
• CROSSBODY
• SPANGRAM: HANDBAGS

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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