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One of today's slots turned green on the first try, making the other slots more complicated than usual. And the yellow I found made little sense until the very end, when I took an all-or-nothing shot at today's Wardle answer, and won.

Today's answer is a short electronic sound, the kind you hear when you boot up an old PC or when your LCD alarm clock goes off. Sometimes speech is terminated by a similar sound. Today, find just one vowel sound.

Yes, there are two vowels used in today's Wordle.

If there is anything better than playing Wordle, it is playing Wordle well:

There is no pressure to complete it by midnight. So you can treat the game as something as casual as a newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you come up blank.

Here's your first win of the weekend: the answer to the July 1 (742) Wordle is "BLEEP."

The more past Wordle answers you can cram into your memory bank, the more likely you are to be able to guess today's Wordle answer without accidentally choosing an existing answer. Also, looking at past Wordle solutions can give you great ideas for fun starting words to keep your daily puzzles fresh.

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

Wordle displays five boxes in six columns each day, and it is up to you to decide which five-letter word is hidden within each box.

You want to start with a strong word like ALERT, which contains multiple vowels, common consonants, and non-repeating letters; press Enter and the box will show you the correct or incorrect answer. 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 time complements the first by using another "good" word to cover the common letter missed the 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.

Then it is just a matter of using what you have learned to narrow down the correct word. In all, you can try six times, and you can only use actual words (so you can't fill 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.