Monday’s Wordle is a tricky one, so don’t feel dismayed if you’re stumped by the puzzle.
Even the game’s creator Josh Wardle, a New York-based software engineer, has confessed to struggling with it. He told Newsweek in 2022 that he usually needs at least four or five attempts to get the answer, while his partner is able to consistently find it in three tries.
Wardle created Wordle for his partner to play during the COVID-19 lockdown.
It quickly became an online sensation after it was released to the public in October 2021. The New York Times purchased Wordle for an undisclosed low seven-figure sum in 2022, and it remains free to play via the publication’s website and Games app.
The premise is simple: there’s a different five-letter word every day and plays have six attempts to guess it. If a letter they guess is in the right place, the tile will go green. If it is in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if the letter is not in the word at all, the tile goes gray.
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Wordle aficionados strive to guess the word of the day in as few tries as possible, and play every day to maintain their win streak.
Playing tactically is the best way solve the daily puzzle, Erhan Aslan, an expert in applied linguistics who teaches at the University of Reading in the U.K., has said in an interview with Newsweek.
“One thing that I think is important in this game is the starting letter chosen. Starting off with letters that include commonly used vowels, for example, e and a, consonants such as r and t, and sound sequences might be helpful,” Aslan said.
“Choosing a word that starts with q, z, j, or x, for instance, may not be the best choice. As you get more feedback after a few guesses, users need to draw on some knowledge of phonics to narrow down or eliminate some words that they might be thinking.
“For example, if the second letter of the target word is l (indicated by green) and the player feels that the word starts with a consonant, they will need to know that there are only a few consonant cluster possibilities—such as bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl.”
The answer for Monday’s Wordle can be found at the bottom of this page, so scroll down Newsweek‘s tips and clues with caution to avoid revealing it if you want to work it out for yourself.
Wordle #1,227 Clues for Monday, October 28
Newsweek has put together five clues to help you solve Monday’s Wordle puzzle.
Hint #1: The word is an adjective.
Hint #2: There are no repeated letters.
Hint #3: There is one vowel—the second letter.
Hint #4: Synonyms include vulgar, obscene and dirty.
Hint #5: Some of William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer’s work can be described using this word.
Wordle #1,227 Answer for Monday, October 28
The answer to Monday’s Wordle is “bawdy.”
Wordle resets at midnight in your time zone. While you wait for the next game, you could give the geography guessing game Worldle or Connections, the Times‘ second most popular game, a go.