Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday, July 14 (game #902)

Today's Quordle is a potentially tricky one, and one that I struggled to solve. I escaped with my streak intact – but it was a close-run thing. If only I'd had some hints to help me…

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Quordle today (game #902) - 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 #902) - hint #2 - repeated letters

Quordle today (game #902) - hint #3 - uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #902) - hint #4 - starting letters (1)

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Quordle today (game #902) - hint #5 - starting letters (2)

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Quordle today (game #902) - the answers

The answers to today's Quordle, game #902, are…

• MUSKY
• AGATE
• EXPEL
• SLICK

I made a right mess of this one, and only escaped thanks to a last-gasp solve on the top-right quadrant. Admittedly, it's a tricky one – AGATE has a repeated A and is uncommon, EXPEL has a repeated E and an uncommon X. And unsurprisingly, it was those two that I struggled with. EXPEL was particularly galling; I played LEPER even though I knew it couldn't be correct, because I'd failed to spot that EXPEL was an option and couldn't see anything else.

That left me one more answer to find, where I had --A-E and a yellow T. --ATE made sense, and when I spotted ABATE, I played that. But what I should have done was to have considered that AGATE also fit. It wouldn't have made any difference, but at least I would have known what I was doing!

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Daily Sequence today (game #902) - the answers

The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #902, are…

• INERT
• WOMAN
• RUDER
• DECOY

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #901, Saturday 13 July: GROWL, WHELP, CURVY, APTLY
• Quordle #900, Friday 12 July: CHEER, SQUIB, CLEFT, ODDLY
• Quordle #899, Thursday 11 July: BACON, JIFFY, ANVIL, ALLOY
• Quordle #898, Wednesday 10 July: RALPH, LIKEN, COUNT, DROWN
• Quordle #897, Tuesday 9 July: EJECT, DRIVE, CLUCK, CLOUD
• Quordle #896, Monday 8 July: DATUM, SLUMP, CHUMP, KNOLL
• Quordle #895, Sunday 7 July: STEAM, STAID, SCOUR, WHERE
• Quordle #894, Saturday 6 July: GRAIN, VIDEO, OLDER, FROCK
• Quordle #893, Friday 5 July: SOGGY, SCRUM, TENOR, WIGHT
• Quordle #892, Thursday 4 July: MIRTH, BLISS, SWUNG, MAUVE
• Quordle #891, Wednesday 3 July: QUOTE, PLUMP, SINGE, SCOWL
• Quordle #890, Tuesday 2 July: YACHT, LODGE, BELLY, COVET
• Quordle #889, Monday 1 July: INCUR, MINTY, LIMIT, SYNOD
• Quordle #888, Sunday 30 June: ALIBI, HYENA, NERVE, KNOWN
• Quordle #887, Saturday 29 June: BASIL, PLAID, REMIT, SHEIK
• Quordle #886, Friday 28 June: SCENE, PRIMO, MOGUL, OPIUM
• Quordle #885, Thursday 27 June: MAXIM, DOWNY, ROUSE, ATOLL
• Quordle #884, Wednesday 26 June: NORTH, LEVER, SERUM, SLATE
• Quordle #883, Tuesday 25 June: APPLY, FUNKY, SWORE, TWEAK
• Quordle #882, Monday 24 June: ANGER, SILKY, HURRY, ANODE