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.

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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

Your Quordle expert

Marc McLaren

Quordle today (game #1031) – 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 #1031) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Quordle today (game #1031) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #1031) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)

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Quordle today (game #1031) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)

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Quordle today (game #1031) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle, game #1031, are…

• MINTY
• TOPAZ
• BRUSH
• LAPEL

There are not many words in the Wordle/Quordle dictionary that end in a Z. There’s BLITZ, GLITZ, HERTZ, WALTZ, WHIZZ and TOPAZ – and I think that’s probably it. Spotting the latter today may therefore have been a tricky task, because your brain won’t want to have considered it. ‘No, no, it will have said to you. Zs don’t end words, surely it will be an N or a Y or an R or a T?’ But when all probable answers are ruled out, you have to move to the improbable – and so it was today.

That’s one of a couple of potentially difficult words in today’s game. MINTY could be NINTY too, while LAPEL has a repeated L and BRUSH could be CRUSH. You’ll have needed to work hard to solve them all, in short.

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Daily Sequence today (game #1031) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1031, are…

• KNACK
• BLURT
• TEASE
• MELEE

Quordle answers: The past 20

• 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
• Quordle #1017, Wednesday 6 November: SASSY, DRUID, THREW, SLOSH
• Quordle #1016, Tuesday 5 November: BEGET, AMUSE, STONY, LOUSY
• Quordle #1015, Monday 4 November: CHILL, TACKY, GRAPH, PLAZA
• Quordle #1014, Sunday 3 November: QUIRK, HEART, ELBOW, KNOWN
• Quordle #1013, Saturday 2 November: SWUNG, FLOOR, PARER, CRUST
• Quordle #1012, Friday 1 November: FIFTY, GULCH, RECUT, TWEET
• Quordle #1011, Thursday 31 October: TWINE, RIGID, BELCH, AMEND