The answers to today's Quordle, game #1424, are… It felt like quite a triumph getting GRUFF, but the truth is that by this stage there was no other option from the handful of letters I had left. Instead of SALVE I could have opted for “sable”, but I figured that was a bit too obscure.

To start, guess a five-letter word. The letters of the word in each of the four quadrants will turn green if they’re correct, yellow if you have the right letter in the wrong place, or gray if the letter isn’t in that secret word at all. Ready for the ...