Custom Post on Home Page

I created a custom post type called “special”, how do I get the newest post of that type to show up on my main page? I have little to no knowledge of php and I’ve spent about an hour searching this forum and trying different solutions but no luck.

I tried adding <?php query_posts( array( 'post_type' => array('special', 'post') ) ); ?>

before my loop which seems to be the main suggested solution but that doesn’t work.

any ideas would be awesome. Thanks!