Make Sunday's Wordle a winner with our help: use our July 21 (1128) tips to come up with new ideas, or go for the win with today's answer. This page is full of tips to help you turn your tactics into winners.

Today's game went very well. I was so good that I didn't think carefully about my follow-up guesses. Embarrassing.

This is just the name of something tiny. Dust on a clean glass. A tiny speck of dirt on a shirt. A spoonful of salt added to a meal. All you have to do today is find one vowel.

No, 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, you have until midnight to complete it. 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 a blank space arises. Sometimes, if you go away for a while, you can come back to it with a fresh mind.

Let's turn this game on its head: the answer to the July 21 (1128) wordle is “SPECK.”

Past Wordle answers give you great ideas for fun starting words to keep your 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 with 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 at all. A 🟨 means that 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 previous guess, using another “good” word to cover a common letter that you may have missed last time, while 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 invented 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, 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.