How to Play Quartiles

Quartiles is a daily word puzzle from Apple News+. Each puzzle gives you 20 letter tiles arranged in a 4×5 grid. Your goal is to combine tiles to form as many valid words as possible.

Forming Words

Select between 1 and 4 adjacent or non-adjacent tiles to spell a word. Each tile can only be used once per word, but tiles can be reused across different words.

Scoring

1-tile word1 point
2-tile word2 points
3-tile word4 points
4-tile word8 points

The Quartile Bonus

Hidden within each puzzle is a quartile solution — exactly five 4-tile words that together use all 20 tiles exactly once, with no tile left over. Finding all five earns a +40 point bonus on top of your regular score.

About This Site

Quartiles Solver publishes the verified answer for each day's puzzle — the real accepted words, scores, and quartile combination, reviewed by a human. Use the hint controls to reveal as little or as much as you want before looking at the full solution.

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