Turn every Wordle game into a winner, refine your guessing game, or make today's hints work for you; all the information you need, including the answers to the July 16 (757) game, is below.

Securing the first letter of today's Wordle answer early on certainly helped, but the biggest clue I had came from the letters I excluded rather than the few that remained. I was a little worried towards the end, but it turned out to be a satisfying Wordle game.

To solve today's Wordle, you have to think of a gemstone, but this shiny rock looks natural in any color, from yellow to pale blue; the November baby has this as his birthstone, with two different vowels and an unusual consonant.

There are no double letters in today's puzzle.

Anyone can play Wordle, but if you want to play Wordle well and make every guess count, these simple tips will help you start a Wordle winning streak:

Thankfully, there is a midnight completion Thankfully, there is no time limit on how long you have to complete them by midnight. So treat this game like a casual newspaper crossword, and there is no reason you can't come back to it later if you come up blank. Sometimes it helps to step away for a while so you can come back to it with a fresh mind.

Another win; the answer to the July 16 (757) Wordle is TOPAZ.

Past Wordle answers give great ideas for fun starting words to keep the daily puzzle solutions fresh. It is also a good way to eliminate guesswork for today's Wordle since the same answers are unlikely to be repeated.

Here are some recent Wordle answers:

Wordle offers five boxes in six columns each day, so to keep the winning streak going, you need to find the secret five-letter word hidden in them.

You should start with strong words like ARISE or other words that have a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels. You also do not want to start with words that begin with repeated letters, as this wastes the chance to delete or check for extra letters; pressing Enter will tell you which ones are right or wrong. If the box goes to ⬛️, it means that the character is not in the secret word. means the letter is in the word but not in that position. means that the correct letter is in the correct position.

The next guess complements the first guess, using another "good" word to cover a common letter that you may have missed last time, while at the same time trying to avoid a letter that you now know for sure is not present in today's answer. After that, it's just a matter of using what you've learned to narrow down the correct word. In all, you can try six times, and you can only use actual words. Remember that letters can also be repeated (e.g. BOOKS).

If you need further advice, see Wordle's tips. Also, if you want to know which words are already in use, scroll to the relevant section above.

Wordle was originally conceived by software engineer Josh Wardle as a surprise for his partner, who loved word games. From there it spread to his family and was finally released to the public. Since then, the word puzzle game has spawned a slew of Wordle-like games, focusing the daily gimmicks on music, math, and geography, and it wasn't long before Wordle became so popular that it was sold to the New York Times for a seven-figure sum. Indeed, it would only be a matter of time before we would be communicating solely through tricolored boxes.