The four Daily Quordle answers for game #1631 (Monday, July 13, 2026) are VOICE, BISON, BURNT, and BUILT.
Two of today’s answers share a BU- opening – a reliable solver trap that can stall a grid when letters confirmed in one word suggest an incorrect path in the next. Hints for all four words are below, followed by the complete solution.
Hint for Word 1: The sound produced by a person speaking or singing. Starts with V.
Hint for Word 2: A large, shaggy-haired wild ox native to North America. Starts with B. No repeated letters.
Hint for Word 3: The past tense of burn – damaged or destroyed by fire. Starts with B.
Hint for Word 4: Constructed or put together – past tense of build. Starts with B.
Here is the complete solution for Quordle game #1631.
Word 1: VOICE
Word 2: BISON
Word 3: BURNT
Word 4: BUILT
The standout answer today is BISON. The word names the massive, humpbacked ungulate that once roamed North American plains in herds of millions and nearly vanished due to mass hunting in the nineteenth century. As a Quordle entry, it is unusual: the B-I-S-O-N pattern offers no repeated letters, but the combination of S in position three and O in position four lands outside the common letter sequences most solvers use for opening guesses. Solvers who eliminate B early from other grids will need the crossing letters to isolate it cleanly.
The board’s defining difficulty comes from BURNT and BUILT occupying the same grid simultaneously. Both words begin with B-U, both are five-letter past-tense forms, and confirming BU in one grid actively misleads solvers into treating the other as a near-identical solution. The distinction – BURNT carries R-N-T while BUILT carries I-L-T – requires either deliberate differentiation guesses or enough crossing letters to rule out one pattern before committing to the other. Solvers who conflate the two will burn extra guesses on both boards.
VOICE is today’s most accessible entry. The V opening is distinctive enough to place quickly, and the V-O-I-C-E pattern contains no difficult consonant clusters. Most solvers will clear it in two or three turns. Once it is off the board, attention can shift to managing the BU- trap across the remaining three grids.
Overall difficulty: medium-hard. BISON is the vocabulary challenge; the BURNT-BUILT pairing is the strategic one. Solvers who recognise the trap early and guess a dedicated differentiator – something containing R but not I, or I but not R – will resolve both cleanly. Those who do not may find themselves deep into the grid before the distinction becomes clear.
Yesterday’s Quordle (game #1630, July 12, 2026) answers were STAIN, BINGO, LARVA, and DICEY. Also published today: the complete NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, July 13, 2026.
