Wordle today: Hint and answer #861 for Saturday, October 28

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Scroll on down and take a look at our freshly written hint for today's Wordle, ready and waiting just in case you need a little extra help with today's game. And if you need a lot of extra help with today's Wordle you're in luck: the answer to the October 28 (861) game's here too.

After too many win-streak worrying days in a row, it felt great to finally have a nice, straightforward victory again. Yellows, greens, answer—done. Thank goodness for that. Not exactly a Wordle for the history books, but today's game did my blood pressure no end of good.

Today's answer refers to a skilled professional known for their ability to prepare, cut, and then create buildings or other objects from stone. You'll need to find two different vowels to solve today's Wordle.  

No letters are used twice in today's puzzle. 

If there's one thing better than playing Wordle, it's playing Wordle well, which is why I'm going to share a few quick tips to help set you on the path to success: 

There's no time pressure beyond making sure it's done by midnight. So there's no reason not to treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you're coming up blank. 

Kick off your Wordle weekend with a win. The answer to the October 28 (861) Wordle is MASON.

The more past Wordle answers you can cram into your memory banks, the better your chances of guessing today's Wordle answer without accidentally picking a solution that's already been used. Past Wordle answers can also give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle solving fresh.

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Every day Wordle presents you with six rows of five boxes, and it's up to you to work out which secret five-letter word is