Quordle Answers Today – Aug 18, 2026 (Puzzle #1667)

The Quordle answers today for Tuesday, August 18, 2026 are ALGAE, MANOR, DONOR and DEALT in the Daily grid, puzzle #1667. The Daily Sequence answers are TRYST, APPLY, ETHIC and CREEP.

If you would rather solve it yourself, the hints come first and the full answers follow.

Quordle Hints Today, August 18, 2026 (Puzzle #1667)

Top left: starts with A, ends with E, three vowels, and one letter appears twice. It is the green growth on a pond.
Top right: starts with M, ends with R, two vowels, no repeats. A large country house with land.
Bottom left: starts with D, ends with R, two vowels that are the same letter. Someone who gives.
Bottom right: starts with D, ends with T, two vowels, no repeats. The past tense of what a card player does.
Two of these four words share their last three letters, in the same three positions. That is where the guesses go.

What Are Today’s Quordle Answers? Daily Quordle #1667

Top left: ALGAE
Top right: MANOR
Bottom left: DONOR
Bottom right: DEALT

Quordle Daily Sequence Answers Today, August 18, 2026

TRYST
APPLY
ETHIC
CREEP

Why Quordle #1667 Is Harder Than It Reads

MANOR and DONOR are the problem, and they are a worse pairing than they look. Both are five letters, both end in R, and both carry N, O and R in positions three, four and five. Only the opening two letters differ. MA against DO.

In an ordinary word game, an overlap would be a gift. In Quordle, it is close to poison, because a guess that greens N, O and R in the top right box greens the identical three cells in the bottom left box at the same moment. The two grids light up together, and the eye reads it as confirmation. Solvers who lock MANOR first will often spend two guesses insisting the bottom left box is another word in the same family before they accept that the difference is at the front, not the back.

The grid also runs against yesterday. Sunday’s #1665 and Monday’s #1666 were both vowel-starved boards, with BLIMP, DRYER and BIDDY carrying a single vowel apiece. Today is the reverse. ALGAE alone has three vowels and a repeated A, DONOR doubles its O, and every word on the board has at least two. The difficulty has moved from working out which vowel goes where to working out which consonant frame you are actually looking at, and a solver still running a vowel-hunting strategy from Monday will waste a guess discovering that.

ALGAE is the friendliest box and the right place to start banking letters. It shares nothing with DONOR and only its A with MANOR and DEALT, which makes it the one grid that will not mislead you about the others.

The Sequence board has its own quirk. TRYST comes first, and it contains no conventional vowel at all. In Daily Quordle, that is a nuisance you can work around by attacking a different box. In Sequence, you cannot move to the second word until the first is solved, so the puzzle has placed its most awkward entry at the gate. APPLY, ETHIC, and CREEP are all far gentler, which means the whole Sequence run is front-loaded.