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Read MoreA strategy guide for the September 3 ‘Quordle,’ a puzzle game similar to ‘Wordle,’ but which gives the user nine guesses to figure out four different words. 
If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you’ll get what you need.
Quordle is a five-letter word guessing game similar to Wordle, except each guess applies letters to four words at the same time. You get nine guesses instead of six to correctly guess all four words. It looks like playing four Wordle games at the same time, and that is essentially what it is. But it’s not nearly as intimidating as it sounds.
Yes, though not diabolically so.
Amid the Wordle boom of late 2021 and early 2022, when everyone was learning to love free, in-browser, once-a-day word guessing games, creator Freddie Meyer says he took inspiration from one of the first big Wordle variations, Dordle — the one where you essentially play two Wordles at once. He took things up a notch, and released Quordle on January 30. Meyer’s creation was covered in The Guardian six days later, and now, according to Meyer, it attracts millions of daily users. Today, Meyer earns modest revenue from Patreon, where dedicated Quordle fans can donate to keep their favorite puzzle game running.
“Kwordle.” It should rhyme with “Wordle,” and definitely should not be pronounced exactly like “curdle.”
Yes and no.
Your starting strategy should be the same as with Wordle. In fact, if you have a favorite Wordle opening word, there’s no reason to change that here. We suggest something rich in vowels, featuring common letters like C, R, and N. But you do you.
After your first guess, however, you’ll notice things getting out of control if you play Quordle exactly like Wordle.
Solving a Wordle puzzle can famously come down to a series of single letter-change variations. If you’ve narrowed it down to “-IGHT,” you could guess “MIGHT” “NIGHT” “LIGHT” and “SIGHT” and one of those will probably be the solution — though this is also a famous way to end up losing in Wordle, particularly if you play on “hard mode.” In Quordle, however, this sort of single-letter winnowing is a deadly trap, and it hints at the important strategic difference between Wordle and Quordle: In Quordle, you can’t afford to waste guesses unless you’re eliminating as many letters as possible at all times.
Guessing a completely random word that you already know isn’t the solution, just to eliminate three or four possible letters you haven’t tried yet, is thought of as a desperate, latch-ditch move in Wordle. In Quordle, however, it’s a normal part of the player’s strategic toolset.
In my experience Quordle can be a slow game, sometimes dragging out longer than it would take to play Wordle four times. But a sort of blunt-force guessing approach can speed things up. The following strategy also works with Wordle if you only want the solution, and don’t care about having the fewest possible guesses:
Try starting with a series of words that puts all the vowels (including Y) on the board, along with some other common letters. We’ve had good luck with the three words: “NOTES,” “ACRID,” and “LUMPY.” YouTuber DougMansLand suggests four words: “CANOE,” “SKIRT,” “PLUMB,” and “FUDGY.”
Most of the alphabet is now eliminated, and you’ll only have the ability to make one or two wrong guesses if you use this strategy. But in most cases you’ll have all the information you need to guess the remaining words without any wrong guesses.
If strategy isn’t helping, and you’re still stumped, here are some hints:
Two words have twice-occurring letters. One is a double letter.
No.
S, C, R, and M.
Are you sure you want to know?
There’s still time to turn back.
OK, you asked for it. The answers are:
SLUMP
CROOK
REVUE
MUSKY
Now that Apple has released the invitation for its Wonderlust event, we’re in the home stretch of rumors and speculation before the iPhone 15 arrives. We know the Apple Watch Series 9 will also make an appearance, but we can still glean a few clues from the invite about some of the finer details of Apple’s upcoming announcements. Here’s what we’ve uncovered:
The first thing that jumps out is the colors inside the Apple logo. They’re not bright or ornate like some previous invites, but they do blend well together. The hues are subtle—gray, black, blue, gold—and are decidedly muted, much like the rumors of this year’s new iPhone 15 Pro colors. Just last week, we heard that Apple was going to launch new gray and blue colors for the iPhone Pro, which seems a little too perfect. But if the blue in the invite is the one Apple uses for the phone, count us in.
Another longstanding rumor is that the iPhone 15 Pro will switch to lighter and stronger titanium for the sides of the phone in place of stainless steel. Unlike stainless steel, most titanium products are made from titanium powder, which is a very fine substance used to make parts with little waste. If you look closely at the Apple logo in the image, you’ll see little gray specs floating off the edge, which very much resemble titanium powder.
The tagline “Wonderlust” is an obvious play on the German word wanderlust, which means “a strong longing for or impulse toward wandering,” according to Merriam-Webster. So in this case the term means “strong longing for or impulse toward amazement or curiosity.” It just so happens that the iPhone 15 Pro Max is expected to introduce a periscope zoom lens with 6X optical zoom (twice that of the iPhone 14 Pro). If that doesn’t make us lust for wonder, I don’t know what would.
Finally, the term wanderlust pertains to traveling, and there’s no better travel companion than an Apple Watch. We know Apple is releasing a new Apple Watch Series 9, so there’s no huge surprise here, but there could be new features for hiking or perhaps the Apple Watch Ultra’s precision dual-frequency GPS system will come to the smaller watches.
Even if the logo is made of titanium powder, the swirling could also represent sound waves, like in the HomePod 2 launch vidio. While we weren’t expecting updates to any of Apple’s AirPods models, a rumor this week claims that Apple will at least replace the Lightning ports with USB-C, either on the case (AirPods, AirPods Pro) or the device (AirPods Max) at the September 12 event. So maybe Apple has a few audio surprises up its sleeve.
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The internet posted recollections, tributes, and loving jokes in honor of singer Jimmy Buffett after learning of his death. 
Today we are all parrotheads.
Capping off Mashable’s Jimmy Buffett Summer with the worst possible news, the legendary singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett passed away Saturday. The progenitor of his own brand of Caribbean-tinged escapism enjoyed a career that carried him from the life of a street performer in the 1960s to national treasure status — and quite possibly a ten-figure net worth — in the 2020s. His signature song, “Margaritaville,” is a ubiquitous earworm, a chain of restaurants and resorts, and a lifestyle unto itself.
But despite a consistent frankness about mortality in his lyrics, Buffett was never one to dwell on the morbid, and it’s safe to say that rather than grieve, “Bubba” — as his friends and family called him — would have wanted us all to pour some tequila, and toast to the adventure his life was.
And that’s just what the internet has been doing all Sunday.
Here’s a round-up of tributes from celebrities and fans alike.
The chillest news show on network TV posted a segment from 2020 in which Buffett reflected on his life, and even ruminated a bit about death.
Buffett wasn’t there in the ring when The Rock and Stone Cold sang his song, but it’s fitting that he would inspire a rare moment of camaraderie in the ring.
Hunt down and watch The Beach Bum if you can. This moment alone makes it worth your while.
Thanks to Jimmy’s efforts, the twin margaritas survived the grisly pterodactyl onslaught.
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