Today’s Wordle Hints and Answers: Help for April 28 #1044

Today’s Wordle Hints and Answers: Help for April 28 #1044

Today’s Wordle answers shouldn’t be too difficult, and they have familiar meanings — or, actually, several meanings. But scroll up if you need help.

Every day, we’ll post tips and then answers for today’s Wordle, in case you need them.

Today’s Wordle hint
Warning: If you read on, you will see the Wordle answer for Sunday, April 28, No. 1044. That could be a terrible spoiler for some players. But if you just need the answer — maybe you’ve already guessed the last one and don’t want to see 800 games in a row go by — read on.

Hint Wordle No. 1: Vocals
There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle Tip No. 2: No repetition
No letters are repeated in today’s Wordle answers.

Hint Wordle No. 3: Initial letters
Today’s Wordle answers start with the letter P.

Wordle Hint No 4: Meaning
Today’s Wordle answers have multiple meanings. One is food. But it also describes something that gardeners do.

Wordle Tip No. 5: Joke jokingly
There are a lot of jokes about today’s Wordle answers, many of which have to do with the food older people eat.

TODAY’S WORD ANSWER
Here’s the spoiler: Today’s Wordle answer is PRUNE, a dried plum recommended for constipation and the subject of many jokes about older people eating it. Of course, it’s also a gardening term, meaning to cut off unwanted branches.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer
Yesterday’s answer, No 1043, April 27, was GLEAM.

Past Wordle answers
April 23: No. 1039: ROVER

April 24, No. 1040: OVERT

April 25, No. 1041: INTRO

April 26, No. 1042: VAPID

Daily Wordle tips
I’ve written a lot about Wordle — from covering the 1,000th word to my list of the best starter words to useful two-step strategies to news about controversial word changes. I’ve also compiled what I’ve learned playing popular online word puzzles for a whole year. So, if you’re rethinking your need for real answers, you can try a tip from one of those stories.

Still need an introduction? One person told me that they just look around and pick a five-letter object they see to use as their starting word — like SARA or CHAIR. I tend to stick to the beginning words that have the most popular letters used in English words. I like TRAIN for starters, although I have friends who use TRAIL. I’ve read that people use the financial term ROATE, but I like to use words I actually know.

What is Wordle?
If you read this far, you know how to play. You have six chances to guess a five-letter word, and the game gives you feedback on whether the letter you guessed is in the puzzle, and if it’s in the same place where you guessed it to be. The New York Times bought the game from creator Josh Wardle for seven figures in 2022. Wardle famously created the game for his partner, and let him whittle the 12,000 five-letter words in the English language down to just 2,500, creating a database of answers. It’s also easy for him to have a name that plays on “words.”

A Times spokesperson told me it listed the first Wordle appearing on June 19, 2021, and the paper celebrated the game’s 1,000th word on March 15. Spoiler: The 1000th word is ERUPT. As in, “Dad will explode if Wordle is so hard he loses his streak.”

There are other fun games in the Times Games stable. My latest addiction is Connections, which I think is more complicated than Wordle. This is a game where you look at a grid of 16 words and try to fit them into four groups of related words. Sometimes the connections between words are beautiful out there — like when four words all start with rock bands, like “Rushmore” and “journeyman.” (The extension gets a little cheesy on April Fools’ Day with a puzzle full of emojis. Some players do NOT find that funny.)

Spelling Bee is a popular Times game as well. And there’s a new game still in beta, Strands, that I’m trying to master.