On a late-winter Saturday, the daily ritual of a five-letter word puzzle reaches its 1,496th round, and a technology site lays out a path of hints that lets readers arrive at the answers slowly. The four words, BERTH, SNARE, QUILT and CRONE, reward patience, and the guide's own author admits that a more familiar opening would have spared him some labor. Such small rituals, shared across time zones where the same puzzle is always either just begun or just ending, quietly mark the passing of days.
Quordle Today, Game #1496: Hints and Answers for Saturday, February 28
No two answers share a first letter, and none repeats a letter
Mark
So what does this page actually give you, beyond the answers?
Mimi
A ladder of hints. Vowel count, repeated letters, rare letters, then starting letters. You can stop at any rung.
Mark
What were the starting letters today?
Mimi
B, S, Q and C. The answers are BERTH, SNARE, QUILT and CRONE.
Luke
And the rare letter hint? Is that confirmed?
Mimi
It says one of Q, Z, X or J appears, and the Q start matches QUILT.
Mark
The writer admits a misstep, right?
Mimi
Yes. He guessed QUILT early, regretted it, and says BUILT would have helped him reach BERTH faster.
Luke
That's his account of his own game. It's not a measure of how hard the puzzle was for everyone.
Mark
Is there anything on difficulty overall?
Luke
Only that Quordle offers a genuine challenge. No solve rates are given.
Mimi
There's also the Daily Sequence set: TRYST, CRUMB, FORGO and SNORT.
O Pulso
- The puzzle opens with a tight constraint: four words, each starting with a different letter, none repeating a letter inside itself.
- A rare letter, Q, hides among the answers, and the guide's author confesses that his first guess, QUILT, was a costly detour.
- Hints arrive in stages, with the spoiler held back until the reader chooses to scroll down for the answers.
- The grid settles at BERTH, SNARE, QUILT and CRONE, while a companion Daily Sequence set of TRYST, CRUMB, FORGO and SNORT completes the day.
On a late-winter Saturday, the daily ritual of a five-letter word puzzle reaches its 1,496th round, and a technology site lays out a path of hints that lets readers arrive at the answers slowly. The four words, BERTH, SNARE, QUILT and CRONE, reward patience, and the guide's own author admits that a more familiar opening would have spared him some labor. Such small rituals, shared across time zones where the same puzzle is always either just begun or just ending, quietly mark the passing of days.
The fifth hint in TechRadar's guide to Quordle game #1496 gives away the shape of the day's puzzle: four answers beginning with B, S, Q and C, none sharing a first letter, none repeating a letter within itself. The earlier hints have already marked out the territory, including the presence of all five standard vowels and one of the rare letters Q, Z, X or J, which the starting-letter clue reveals to be Q.
The answers are BERTH, SNARE, QUILT and CRONE. The author admits he suspected a rare letter would appear, and he regrets opening with QUILT, since the more common BUILT would have brought him to BERTH far sooner.
The page also carries the Daily Sequence answers, TRYST, CRUMB, FORGO and SNORT, and a note that a new Quordle appears at midnight in each time zone. Readers wanting yesterday's puzzle, game #1495, are pointed to a separate guide, and a list of past solutions runs back to game #1476. TRYST, it turns out, had already appeared as a Quordle answer in game #1479.
The fifth hint in TechRadar's guide to Quordle game #1496 gives away the shape of the day's puzzle: the four answers begin with B, S, Q and C. No two share a first letter, and none repeats a letter within itself. That is the whole architecture of a Saturday, February 28 grid, and it comes from a guide that walks readers up to the answers in stages.
The guide's earlier hints narrow things further. All five standard vowels, A, E, I, O and U, appear across the four words, with Y not counted. One of the rare letters Q, Z, X or J turns up among the answers, and the starting-letter hint shows it is the Q.
The answers are BERTH, SNARE, QUILT and CRONE. The guide's author writes that he suspected a rare letter would appear, then regrets jumping in with QUILT as a guess. Had he started with the far more common BUILT, he says, he would not have labored so long before landing on BERTH.
The page also covers the Daily Sequence version of game #1496, which has its own answers: TRYST, CRUMB, FORGO and SNORT.
TechRadar explains that a new Quordle appears at midnight in each reader's time zone, so some people are always on today's game while others are still on yesterday's. Anyone after Friday's puzzle, game #1495, is pointed to a separate guide. That day's answers were STIFF, SINCE, PATSY and METAL.
The guide also lists the previous twenty days of solutions, running back to game #1476 on Sunday, February 8, whose answers were ENJOY, MAMBO, WRATH and STRAP. Among them is a repeat: TRYST, today's Daily Sequence answer, was also a Quordle answer in game #1479 on Wednesday, February 11.
The guide describes Quordle as one of the original Wordle alternatives, still going strong after more than 1,400 games. The author also points readers to his NYT Connections and NYT Strands pages, and to Marc's Wordle column for the original game.
For anyone who has not played yet, the guide carries a spoiler warning and places the answers well below the hints. Tomorrow's puzzle arrives at midnight, and a fresh guide should follow.
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The author says he regrets guessing QUILT early and that BUILT would have gotten him to BERTH faster.— TechRadar Quordle guide author
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