Quordle Hints and Answers for Sunday, November 1 (Game #1742)

Quordle Hints and Answers for Sunday, November 1 (Game #1742)

For Quordle hints answers sunday november, the four Classic answers for game #1742 on Sunday, 1 November are DROVE, PRIED, SHELL and BEGIN. If you only want a nudge before committing, this puzzle uses 3 different standard vowels, has exactly one answer with a repeated letter, contains no Q, Z, X or J, and none of the four words share a starting letter (D, P, S, B). The Daily Sequence is SHARD, GECKO, DRESS, TWEED, and the Chill and Extreme sets are listed further down.

Everything below is split so you can stop at the level of spoiler you want. The hints come first, the answers after that.

The four spoiler-free hints for #1742

1. Vowels: there are 3 different standard vowels across the four answers (A, E, I, O, U; Y does not count here).
2. Repeated letters: exactly 1 of the four answers contains a repeated letter.
3. Uncommon letters: Q, Z, X and J do not appear anywhere in the answers.
4. Starting letters: 0 answers share a starting letter. The four starts are D, P, S and B.

Why this one plays easy: four distinct starting letters and a complete absence of rare consonants mean a vowel-rich opening guess will light up a lot of the board in a hurry. When your first word lands green or yellow in several columns at once, you can usually pin down two boards before you have used half your guesses.

The repeated-letter answer is the one to watch. It is the only board where a double letter can bite you.

Classic answers for game #1742

Stop here if you are still working the puzzle. The four Classic words, in board order:

• DROVE
• PRIED
• SHELL
• BEGIN

SHELL is the repeated-letter answer flagged in hint 2, with the double L. The other three are clean five-letter words with no repeats.

Daily Sequence answers for #1742

The Daily Sequence runs its own four words in a fixed order. For game #1742 they are:

• SHARD
• GECKO
• DRESS
• TWEED

The Sequence is a separate challenge from the Classic board, so solving one does not help with the other. If you play both, treat them as two independent puzzles with their own guess pools.

Chill and Extreme answers for 1 November

Merriam-Webster runs alternate modes alongside Classic, each with its own guess budget and its own set of words. For 1 November the answers are:

Chill gives you three extra guesses over Classic, which makes it the forgiving option if you want to experiment with vowel-heavy openers. Extreme takes one away and tightens the margin for error considerably: with eight guesses across four boards, a wasted word costs you real ground. Note that these are the alternate-mode sets, not the Classic answers above.

Yesterday's answers (game #1741, Saturday 31 October)

If you are on a different time zone and still working on the previous puzzle, #1741 was ANIME, SWARM, CHALK, RAJAH.

A new Quordle drops each day, so "today's" game depends on where you are. Players in one region are often a full puzzle ahead of players in another, which is why answer pages sometimes look out of sync with what is on your screen. If the board in front of you does not match the words above, you are almost certainly on a different day's puzzle rather than a wrong answer.

Where to play Quordle and how the modes work

Quordle is Merriam-Webster's official four-board daily game. You get four five-letter words, nine shared guesses, and one new puzzle per day, played at merriam-webster.com/games/quordle. The original quordle.com address is now a legacy redirect that points to Merriam-Webster's game (as of 25 October 2026), so bookmark the publisher's page if you want to skip the hop.

The rules are simple once you are in. Every guess counts against all four grids at once. Green means the letter is correct and in the right spot, yellow means it is in the word but in the wrong position, and grey means it is absent. The skill is in using each guess to extract information from as many boards as possible rather than chasing a single word.

The guess budgets are 9 in Classic, 12 in Chill and 8 in Extreme, as set out in the table above.

Quordle has run for well over 1,500 daily puzzles, which puts game #1742 deep into a numbering streak that shows no sign of stopping.

Reading the hints without spoiling the board

The single most useful clue in this set is the starting letters: D, P, S and B, all different. Keep those four in mind as you work, because any board whose opening letter resolves to something else cannot be the word you are chasing, and the sooner you eliminate a candidate the fewer guesses you spend confirming it.

Combine that with the vowel count. Three distinct standard vowels across four words is a modest total, so expect some boards to be consonant-heavy. Boards that come back mostly grey on your first two guesses are likely the consonant-heavy ones, which narrows the field fast.

The repeated letter is the trap. Once you have three boards solved, the fourth is the one with the double, and you can spend your remaining guesses confirming it rather than fishing.

If you also work through the other daily word puzzles, the same hint-first structure applies elsewhere; today's NYT Connections and NYT Strands pages follow a similar spoiler-gated layout.

Sources

• Merriam-Webster Quordle (official game page), game rules, mode guess budgets and play address
• TechRadar, Forbes, Yahoo Tech, Nerds Chalk, Try Hard Guides, GameSpew, Plusword and Beebom, daily answer sets and puzzle history