Heardle Today: Clues to crack for May 17 2022’s Heardle Answer

For those who don’t know, today is National Walnut Day. Walnut, like a heardle, is difficult to crack but gives immense joy upon cracking. We hope you will have an enjoyable time while cracking today’s heardle.

If you are reading this, there’s a possibility that you are stuck with today’s heardle and don’t know how to reach the answer.

A heardle is a simple game like wordle where you are given six guesses to identify a song’s name and the artist’s name. To begin with, you will get to hear only one second of the song. If you get one wrong or choose to skip, you will get to listen to some more of the music for up to sixteen seconds for the final guess. You have to guess the song’s name and the artist with the least number of shots. Generally, the songs featured in hurdle are the most streamed songs of the last decade.


What were the answers to the last few days’ heardle?

• Wednesday, May 11: “Maria Maria” by Santana (featuring the Product G&B)
• Thursday, May 12: “Take On Me” by A-ha
• Friday, May 13: “Mr Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra
• Saturday, May 14: “Dancing in the Moonlight” by Toploader
• Sunday, May 15: “You Can Call Me Al” by Paul Simon
• Monday, May 16: “American Boy” by Estelle (featuring Kanye West)

Before directly heading for the answer, let’s look at the heardle clue.

• This is a song by an English singer-songwriter.
• This is a single released on October 30, 1990.
• The artist added a number to it to differentiate this song from a song with a similar name. On Wikipedia, this song is listed as a funk/pop song.
• The song reached #8 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #28 on the U.K. singles chart.
• This song was a #1 hit in Zimbabwe and Canada.

Now try to guess which song is featured in today’s heardle.

Still, if you can’t guess the answer despite several heardle hint, don’t worry; the answer is “Freedom! ’90” by George Michael.

Come back tomorrow to find a more tricky heardle.