Quordle Classic hints and answers for Saturday, January 17, 2026
Four boards, nine guesses, and one set of letters doing duty everywhere at once. Saturday's Classic set is a mixed one: two of the four answers repeat a letter. Each board below gets a hint first, then its first and last letters, then the answer - take only as much help as you need.
Top-left board
Hint: This word uses two vowels (O, A) and no repeated letters.
R _ _ _ T
ROAST
Top-right board
Hint: This word uses two vowels (O, I) and the letter O appears twice.
F _ _ _ O
FOLIO
Bottom-left board
Hint: This word uses one vowel (O) and the letter L appears twice.
D _ _ _ L
DROLL
Bottom-right board
Hint: This word uses two vowels (O, E) and no repeated letters.
P _ _ _ E
PROVE
How Quordle works
Quordle is four Wordle boards played at once: every guess lands on all four boards, and you have nine guesses to clear them all. This page covers Classic mode only - Quordle's Chill, Extreme and Sequence modes run different answers on the same day. One scheduling note: Quordle deals its new puzzle at midnight in your own time zone, not at a single worldwide moment, so your puzzle date is your local date.