Here are graduated hints for Quordle game #1214, dated Thursday, May 22, 2025, followed by the answers. The same-day clue article points to CLOSE as the first word, but a later TechRadar archive list records LOSE instead; that first answer is disputed.
Gentle hints for May 22, 2025
Quordle asks you to solve four five-letter words in nine guesses. Try the clues below before revealing the stronger letter hints or the solutions.
- A distance’s awkward personal space.
- A hand’s protective fabric buddy.
- A time-limited work contract.
- A spreadsheet’s overachiever program.
Stronger clues
These are the starting, middle and ending letters for each word, in puzzle order:
- C–O–E
- G–O–E
- S–I–T
- E–C–L
The same-day clue article gives these letter patterns: CCVCV for words one and two, CCVCC for word three, and CVCVC for word four.
How Quordle’s tile clues work
Green marks a letter in the correct position; yellow means the letter appears in the answer but belongs elsewhere; gray means it does not appear in that target word.
Answers for game #1214
Spoilers below.
The May 22, 2025 Analytics Insight article gives the answers as CLOSE, GLOVE, STINT, EXCEL. Its sound-alike clues are CLOTHES without TH, LOVE with G at the start, PRINT with ST instead of PR, and EXPEL with C instead of P. Those clues support the same-day answer set, including CLOSE.
There is a source conflict on the first word: TechRadar’s later past-answer list labels game #1214 as LOSE, while keeping GLOVE, STINT and EXCEL. No primary historical game archive is established here to resolve the discrepancy, so CLOSE is supported by the contemporaneous clues but should be treated as disputed.
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Sources
- Analytics Insight, “Today’s Quordle Hints and Answers for May 22, 2025”, published and updated May 22, 2025.
- TechRadar, “Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, May 29 (game #1221)”, published May 28, 2025; its past-answer list gives the conflicting first word for May 22.
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