Are you struggling with today's Wordle, check out our hints and guides for the puzzles coming up on July 6 (747).

I have to admit, there have been times when I thought I had missed the answer to today's Wordle. Thankfully, I had the patience to think long and hard about the letters left behind, and after a while I found the happy, green-filled development I was hoping for.

Whether on a hilltop with a strong wind blowing, or on the streets of a big city like Chicago, any place where a strong wind is blowing can be represented by today's answer. To solve this problem, one only needs to find one vowel sound.

There are no repeated letters in today's wordle.

If you are new to solving Wordle puzzles every day, or if you have been absent for a while and need a refresher, let me give you a quick tip to help you win. Nothing makes the rest of your day more fulfilling than a small victory.

There is no timer, so there is plenty of time to find the winning word. If you get stuck, there's no shame in going back to the puzzle later that day and finishing it when your head is clearer.

One more sentence and you're the winner; the answer to the July 6 (747) Wordle is WINDY.

Keeping track of the last handful of Wordle answers will help you eliminate current possibilities. It is also useful for inspiring opening words and subsequent guesses if you are short on ideas for the day.

Here are the last 10 answers in Wordle:

Wordle displays five boxes in six columns each day, where the goal is to figure out the correct five-letter word by entering a guess and deleting or checking the individual letters.

Getting a good start on a strong word like ARISE, i.e., one that contains multiple vowels, common consonants, and non-repeating letters, is a good tactic; pressing Enter will display the correct or incorrect answer in the box. If the box goes to ⬛️, that means the letter is not in the secret word at all. means the letter is in the word but not in that position. means that the correct letter is in the correct position.

The second guess complements the starting word and uses another "good" word to cover the common letter missed last time, while at the same time trying to avoid the letter that we now know for sure is not present in today's answer. With any luck, a few colored squares will be created and you will be on the right track.

Then it is just a matter of using what you have learned to narrow down the correct word. You can try six times in all, and you can only use actual words (you cannot fill in the box with EEEEE to see if there is an E). Letters may 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 liked 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; 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.