Today’s Wordle tip and answer for Monday May 6 for 1052

It’s that time of day again, so grab your favorite treat and spend five minutes with us to solve the problem. Wordle response for today, May 6.

For the uninitiated, the goal of Wordle is to find a five-letter word in six guesses every day. The fewer guesses, the better – and if you don’t get it right at all, you’ll end your streak.

This is why training today’s Wordle answer is such a priority because players take pride in continuing their streak. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer? This page can help you.

Once you’ve got the hang of today’s word, learn more about Wordle and how the New York Times got interested in games in this interview with NYTimes gaming editor Jonathan Knight. In keeping with the theme of words, we also explained why the NYTimes Mini Crosswords are a reliable joy.

Clues for today’s Wordle answer

Instead of jumping straight to the answer, you may only need a few clues to cross the line:

• Today’s word contains two different vowels.
• There are no repetitive letters today.
• This word starts with ‘S’.
• Today’s note ends the title of a very famous Wallace and Gromit short film called “A Close [WORDLE]’.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 1052 from May 6, 2024

Even with the clues above, are you still not sure and want to continue with this?

The Wordle answer today is TO SHAVE.

At my first guess, I put my usual word “BEACH”, which told me that today’s word contained both “E” and “A”, which was useful until a certain point. Then I spent my next few attempts expressing words that I knew hadn’t been seen before or at least for a while and luckily this method paid off. I managed to get today’s word “SHAVE” on my last guess – you could say it was a close shave… (No, I’m not apologizing for that.)

Now you have the answer, don’t spoil it for others! Don’t forget that you can share your spoiler-free results in the form of a grid.

Of course, no one should know that you came to this page to solve the problem. Maybe start by making a couple of false assumptions to confuse them, perhaps?

The etymology of today’s Wordle

The current word “SHAVE” is believed to come partly from the Old English “Sceafan” meaning to scratch something. Additionally, modern use of the word to refer to beard shaving is said to not have appeared until the early 1600s.

Does anyone else remember that slightly weird era of Apple I-Pod Touch games where you could use your finger to shave people’s beards and eyebrows when the technology first appeared? I have a distinct memory of my cousin buying one and then showing me the game – the appeal confused me but, to my young brain, the touchscreen was cool.

Wordle’s past answers for this week

And now our “Previously on Wordle” segment! (I know “in” works better, but let me have this…) Yesterday we saw this semi-modern word pop up:

• Sunday May 5 (1051) – STICKER

If you want to know all the words that have graced Wordle in the past, check out our archive of past Wordle answers.

What to play after Wordle

Once your daily Wordle is over, the question is: what are you going to play now?

You can of course try the other word games offered by the New York Times, such as Spelling Bee, Mini Crossword and Letter Boxed. You can also try your luck at Connections, the daily Sudokus and Tiles – a rather additive pattern matching game.

There are also a range of games that have tweaked the Wordle formula. Squaredle challenges you to find a series of words by connecting letters in a four-by-four grid. Meanwhile, Dordle, Quorodly, Octordly and Sedecordle all stick to the standard Wordle, while increasing the number of words you need to find. The challenge lies in how your guesses count for all words. So you need to decide whether you are going to focus on a specific word or try to solve multiple words at the same time. Fortunately, the number of guesses given to you increases as the number of words you have to solve.

If you want to take a break from spelling, try GeoGuessr. Here you will be given an image of somewhere, anywhere, in the world and asked to place a marker on where you think that location is. There is even an Old School RuneScape version.

Hope you enjoyed playing Wordle today!