‘Wordle’ #1,074 Clues, Hints and Answer for Tuesday, May 28 Puzzle

If you’re finding Wordle a bit difficult the day after Memorial Day then do not worry, Newsweek is here to help you with a few tips and tricks.

The viral game, invented by Josh Wardle, a New York-based software engineer, is simple to follow. Players must guess one five-letter word per day and have six attempts to guess it. If a correct letter is in the right place, the tile will go green. If it is the right letter, but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. If it is not in the word at all, the tile goes gray.

Wardle came up with Wordle because he wanted a game “for me and my partner to enjoy” and refined it during the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020.

After its public debut, the word-based puzzle exploded from 90 users on November 1, 2021 to 300,000 on January 2, 2022, according to figures by Statista. In January 2022, The New York Times purchased Wordle for an undisclosed low seven-figure sum, though the game remained free to play.

Josh Katz and Aatish Bhatia of The New York Times analyzed 515 million Wordle games and found that one of the most popular first-word choices was “Adieu.” However, although it was in the top 30 most-used starting words, it was actually not that helpful in solving the daily puzzle.

“The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place,” wrote Katz and Bhatia. “Our new analysis, though, shows that starting with ADIEU or AUDIO does actually put human players at a disadvantage.”

They continued: “On average, players who started with ADIEU needed about a third of a turn more to solve their Wordles compared with players who started with SLATE, adding up to 132 extra turns over the course of a year.”

If you need a hand solving today’s Wordle brainteaser, Newsweek has put together a few hints to help you out. The answer appears further down the article, so scroll with caution if you want to work it out yourself.

‘Wordle’ #1,074, Clues for Tuesday, May 28

Hint #1: Today’s answer is a preposition, noun and adjective.

Hint #2: It contains two vowels.

Hint #3: There are no repeated letters.

Hint #4: The word refers to a symbol used in subtraction.

Hint #5: Today’s Wordle answer begins with the letter “m.”

‘Wordle’ #1,074 Answer for Tuesday, May 28 Game

The answer to today’s Wordle is “minus.”

According to Merriam-Webster, the pronoun is defined as “diminished by: LESS.” The noun is defined as “a negative quantity” and the adjective is defined as “algebraically negative.”

Congratulations if you got the answer right but if you didn’t, there is no need to worry. Wardle previously told Newsweek that he usually needs four or five attempts before getting it right.

“[My partner] and I play it on the couch together each morning,” he said. “She will consistently get it in three goes, which is way, way better than I can ever hope to achieve. I normally need at least four or five attempts.”

Wordle is released at midnight in your local time zone. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.

While you wait for the next game, why not give the geography guessing game Worldle or other word puzzles a try?