Let us point you in the right direction with today's wordle hint, exercise your word-stirring muscles with our handy guide and tips, or just click straight through to the August 5 (777) answer. Either way, we're here to help.

Four yellows on the second one... Which means... Oh. That means four yellows on the third one, too. Today's Wardle stubbornly shuffled everything and carefully reduced the number of potentially valid places until only today's Wardle's answer remained. That settles the matter.

To solve today's puzzle, we need to consider scientific words, especially those related to electricity. This electrode can be positive or negative, depending on the situation. No, it is not a cathode. Nor is it a diode. This is _____. To win today you need to find three different vowels.

No letter is used twice in today's puzzle.

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 this game as something as casual as a newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you come up blank.

Let's start the weekend with a win: the answer to the August 5 (777) Wordle is "ANODE."

The more past Wordle answers you can cram into your memory bank, the more likely you will be able to guess today's Wordle answer without accidentally choosing an already 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 shows five boxes in six columns each day.

You want to start with a strong word like ALERT, which contains multiple vowels, common consonants, and non-repeating letters; 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 time, as a complement to the first, uses another "good" word to cover the common letter missed the last time and at the same time tries 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.