With our help, steer your impressive Wordle winning streak in the right direction, and boost your deductions with tips written specifically for the August 6 (778) game.

I only clawed out a win at the last minute today. Hopefully tomorrow's Wordle will be a little easier.

Rereading an old biology textbook might help you solve today's Wordle. The answer may refer to a small, protruding collection of cells that are not supposed to grow anywhere inside the body, or it may refer to a small, wide, tubular sea creature. Today there is one vowel.

Yes, one letter is used twice 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, you have until midnight to complete it! There is no time limit beyond that. So treat this game like a casual newspaper crossword, and there is no reason not to come back to it later when you are blank. Sometimes it helps to step away for a while and come back to it fresh.

It seems silly not to decorate the weekend with a win; the answer to the August 6 (778) Wordle is "POLYP."

Past Wordle answers give great ideas for fun starting words to keep the daily puzzle solving 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 solutions:

Wordle offers five boxes in six columns each day, so to keep the winning streak going, you'll need to find the secret five-letter word hidden within 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 you may have missed last time, while at the same time trying to avoid a letter 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.