Today's Extreme Quordle lands with puzzle #838, and familiar vocabulary comes with some stubborn spelling hurdles. Welcome back. Take the hints in stages and leave yourself room to explore.
The Basics (For New Players)
Quordle gives you 8 attempts to crack four five-letter words at once. Each guess applies to all four grids simultaneously. A green tile means the right letter in the right spot, yellow means the right letter in the wrong position, and gray means that letter is not in that particular word.
This is the tighter daily format with more unusual words. The goal stays the same: solve all four quadrants before the guesses run out.
Today's Four-Word Challenge
Work through the quadrants one at a time. Each set of clues moves from broad meaning to letter structure, so stop as soon as a word clicks.
Word 1 (Top-Left) Hints
The Vibe: Your nose tells you something needs attention.
The Category: A verb in the territory of unpleasant smells.
The Boundaries: Starts with S, ends with K.
The Structure: All five letters are different, and the vowel sits in position 3.
The Giveaway: To give off a strong, offensive odor.
Word 2 (Top-Right) Hints
The Vibe: Think of a tool beside a painter's palette.
The Category: A noun for a tool used in cleaning, grooming, or painting.
The Boundaries: Starts with B, ends with H.
The Structure: All five letters are different, and the vowel sits in position 3.
The Giveaway: A handled implement with bristles for sweeping away dirt or applying paint.
Word 3 (Bottom-Left) Hints
The Vibe: Picture a gym session that puts your thighs to work.
The Category: A verb describing a way of lowering your body.
The Boundaries: Starts with S, ends with T.
The Structure: All five letters are different, and the vowels sit in positions 3 and 4.
The Giveaway: To crouch low by bending your knees while keeping your feet on the ground.
Word 4 (Bottom-Right) Hints
The Vibe: A calm expression can conceal a risky bluff.
The Category: A noun naming a card game involving betting.
The Boundaries: Starts with P, ends with R.
The Structure: All five letters are different, and the vowels sit in positions 2 and 4.
The Giveaway: A card game in which you wager on your hand and can win by persuading opponents to fold.
Quick-Reference Clues (All Four Words)
Word 1 First Letter: S | Last Letter: K
Word 2 First Letter: B | Last Letter: H
Word 3 First Letter: S | Last Letter: T
Word 4 First Letter: P | Last Letter: R
Today's Extreme Quordle Answers
Final warning: all four answers are directly below. Scroll only if you're ready.
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Word 1 (Top-Left): STINK
Word 2 (Top-Right): BRUSH
Word 3 (Bottom-Left): SQUAT
Word 4 (Bottom-Right): POKER
Word DNA (Breaking Down Today's Answers)
STINK: STINK is a verb meaning to smell strongly unpleasant. In casual speech, saying that something stinks can also express frustration with an unfair situation.
BRUSH: BRUSH is a noun for a tool with bristles used for cleaning, grooming, or applying paint. It also works as a verb, as when you brush your hair.
SQUAT: SQUAT is a verb meaning to crouch low with bent knees. In exercise instructions, it also appears as a noun naming the movement of lowering your hips and standing again.
POKER: POKER is a noun naming a card game built around betting on hands. The expression 'poker face' describes an expression that gives away no feelings or intentions.
The Difficulty Rating
I'd rate this quartet 4 out of 5 with the eight-guess limit in mind. SQUAT is my hardest pick because its SQU opening requires you to consider Q, while BRUSH is my easiest thanks to its familiar BR opening and SH ending.
STINK and BRUSH each squeeze a single vowel between consonant pairs, so sparse vowel feedback still leaves useful possibilities. POKER's ER ending is a different trap: it can tempt you to chase an occupation when the word names a game.
Strategic Insights
Use your opening guesses to cover different vowels alongside S, T, R, and K, which connect answers across this board. Once U is confirmed, keep the QU pairing in view so SQUAT stays in contention.
No answer repeats a letter, but S appears in STINK, BRUSH, and SQUAT. STINK and SQUAT also share T, BRUSH and SQUAT share U, and POKER shares K with STINK and R with BRUSH, so carry those confirmed letters across the boards.
Tomorrow's Reset
Give your word bank a breather, then come back for the next four-word board.
Extreme puzzle #839 arrives on the next daily reset.