Keep your Wordle win streak heading in the right direction no matter what—just click yourself over to today’s answer. Or if you’d rather have a little help, you’ll find a clue for the July 13 (754) game waiting below, as well as plenty of tips and useful advice to help you figure out the solution to today’s puzzle.

The joy of uncovering a healthy string of greens early on was balanced out by the sheer number of potentially valid words they led to. Should I tactically “waste” a few goes trying to eliminate as many letters as possible, or should I stumble upon today’s Wordle answer on my next go, like the luckiest person in the world? It wasn’t a clever win, but hey—it still counts.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Thursday, July 13

If you’re looking for a way to upgrade weapons in Dave the Diver, then you probably haven’t unlocked the ability yet. You need to get to a certain point in the story before you can strengthen your weapons, and once you do, the option to upgrade will be added to the Weapon Shop on your phone.

There’s an avalanche of systems and activities to keep you busy in Dave the Diver, which has hit one million sales in 10 days. If you’re just diving in to see what the fuss is about, our Dave the Diver tips guide will help steer you in the right direction. 

Finding three yellow letters on an opening guess is a great way to start the puzzle—it’s a shame it took me so long to figure out where to put them. Three became four, then three with one green, and I was beginning to wonder if I’d ever find today’s Wordle answer as I shuffled them around. Luckily for me by this point there was really only one order for them to go in—the right order.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Tuesday, July 11

Today’s answer is the name of the planet you’re standing on, or another word used to describe the soil beneath your feet. You’ll need to find two vowels to solve this one. 

Is there a double letter in today’s Wordle? 

No, there is no double letter in today’s puzzle. 

Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day 

Looking to extend your Wordle winning streak? Perhaps you’ve just started playing the popular daily puzzle game and are looking for some pointers. Whatever the reason you’re here, these quick tips can help push you in the right direction: 

• Start with a word that has a mix of common vowels and consonants. 
• The answer might repeat the same letter.
• Try not to use guesses that include letters you’ve already eliminated. 

There’s no racing against the clock with Wordle so you don’t need to rush for the answer. Treating the game like a casual newspaper crossword can be a good tactic; that way, you can come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. Stepping away for a while might mean the difference between a win and a line of grey squares. 

Today’s Wordle answer

What is the #752 Wordle answer?

Let’s add +1 to your win streak. The answer to the July 11 (752) Wordle is EARTH.

Previous Wordle answers

The last 10 Wordle answers 

Wordle solutions that have already been used can help eliminate answers for today’s Wordle or give you inspiration for guesses to help uncover more of those greens. They can also give you some inspired ideas for starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh.

Here are some recent Wordle answers:

• July 10: FOLLY
• July 9: ENTER
• July 8: COWER
• July 7: DONUT
• July 6: WINDY
• July 5: VENOM
• July 4: IRATE
• July 3: HOTEL
• July 2: MOSSY
• July 1: BLEEP

Learn more about Wordle

Wordle gives you six rows of five boxes each day, and it’s up to you to work out which five-letter word is hiding among them to win the popular daily puzzle.

It’s usually a good plan to start with a strong word like ALERT—or any other word with a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels—and you should be off to a flying start, with a little luck anyway. You should also avoid starting words with repeating letters, so you don’t waste the chance to confirm or eliminate an extra letter. Once you hit Enter, you’ll see which letters you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.

Your second guess should compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you might have missed on the first row—just don’t forget to leave out any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer. After that, it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the correct word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words and don’t forget letters can repeat too (eg: BOOKS).

If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used, you can scroll to the relevant section above.

Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes. 

Sergeant Squidley: Space Cop!

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Release:‌ July 5
Developer:‌ Ninjaconor
Launch price:‌ ‌$15 |‌ ‌£12.79 |‌ ‌AU$21.95

Here’s a ’90s style point and click adventure with beautiful, vivid visuals and a protagonist who is a squid. Not only a squid, but a cop squid. Sergeant Squidley specializes in traffic duty—doling out speeding fines and stuff, I’m guessing—until he is suddenly promoted to investigate an underworld criminal case. This fish squid out of water situation is rendered more severe by a host of factors: a vengeful ex-wife, child-rearing, and some unspecified “dark secret” harassing the town. This is a point and click adventure, but it’s also a decision-based RPG of sorts, with stats, branching paths, and the ability to become a jazz saxophonist (nice).

Full Quiet

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Release:‌ July 8
Developer:‌ Retrotainment Games
Launch price:‌ ‌$10 |‌ ‌£8.03 |‌ ‌AU$15

Retrotainment Games specialises in developing games for antiquated consoles, mainly NES, and giving them lavish physical editions. Thankfully for us, they release their titles on PC too, and their latest looks really interesting. Full Quiet is an open world sidescroller which seems to have a whiff of La Mulana about it, with its focus on cryptic puzzle solving, labyrinthine exploration, and challenging enemy encounters. It’s not for the fainthearted—even by 8-bit standards—but at least some of the pain will be diminished by the gorgeous ’80s pixel art. If you’ve got a NES lying around and want to fork out for the cartridge, even better.

A Dark Room

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Release:‌ July 6
Developers:‌ Amir Rajan
Launch price:‌ ‌$7 |‌ ‌£5.89 |‌ ‌AU$10.25

This text adventure has been around since 2013, as a browser-based game and on mobile, but here’s its belated Steam launch. It may seem weird for a text adventure to have hit smartphones, but A Dark Room doesn’t require any text input: you’re offered a series of commands to choose from. The less said about its “plot” the better—all the better to preserve the mystery—but this Steam edition has a much-improved user interface, looks a lot prettier than the browser version, and even has modding capabilities. It’s definitely worth making time for this low key cult classic.

Alterium Shift

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Release:‌ July 6
Developer:‌ drass-Ray, Mottzy
Launch price:‌ ‌$16 |‌ ‌£13.40 |‌ ‌AU$23.60

Ah, another one of those 2.5D JRPGs, this time not developed by Square Enix. Alterium Shift is a staunchly indie affair, and while it doesn’t look like it rocks the boat when it comes to JRPG orthodoxy, there are hordes, nay millions, of people for whom that will be a good thing. There are three playable characters, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses, with these extending to powers that help access unique parts of the map. Combat is turn-based, and of course, there’s fishing. It’s an Early Access affair, and do be aware that the game isn’t complete yet. If you’re not happy with that, maybe try the free demo and check back in the months ahead. 

New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering

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Release:‌ July 7
Developer:‌Wikkl Works
Launch price:‌ $18 |‌ ‌£15.29 |‌ ‌AU$26.55

If the climbing in Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted strike you as too videogamey, well you’re not wrong! Also, maybe this climbing and bouldering sim will satisfy your desire for realism. What appeals to me most about New Heights is the inclusion of “real cliffs and structures”, which have been rendered accurately thanks to photogrammetry and drones. I’m not sure how much fun this will be for anyone not already obsessed with rock climbing, but it’s definitely serving a niche, and that’s what I love about PC gaming. New Heights is in Early Access and will stay there for a year while new locations, options and  a story mode is added. Depending on the game’s popularity, multiplayer may be added too.

The Silent Hill games are especially good at this, and have made me feel even more ambivalent about hospitals than I already did. Hospitals are stressful places to begin with, but Silent Hill 2 also visits places as comfortably mundane as apartment buildings, a nightclub, a historical society, and even a bowling alley, all of which it imbues with terror. A brief scene in a cemetery turns out to be a rare moment of safety. Though eventually Silent Hill 2 descends into a dark underground prison, its horrifying finale is saved for somewhere else: a holiday resort on a lake.

The scariest things in Silent Hill 2, whether geometry-faced butchers or mindblowing revelations, are accentuated by the ordinariness of their backdrops. We anticipate creepy stuff going on in gothic mansions, that’s the whole point of them, but the worst thing you expect to encounter in a bowling alley is a 7–10 split. Silent Hill takes innocuous places and peels their skin back until the walls bleed with rust and the floors flake away to reveal fragile chainlink over bottomless pits. 

What the chuck?

I used to live in an apartment building with an evacuation map on the wall just like the maps in Silent Hill and it freaked me out every time I saw it, but there’s a risk when horror games choose innocuous settings. If players aren’t personally familiar with them, they won’t have that element of recognition. 

I wasn’t frightened by the animatronic mascots in Five Nights At Freddy’s not because I’m so very brave, but because I didn’t grow up in a country where fast food restaurants have mechanical hosts. There’s no Chuck E Cheese in Australia—they tried in the 1980s under the name Charlie’s Cheese because “chuck” means vomit here, but even with the name changed it didn’t catch on. Freddy’s is as exotic as any Transylvanian castle to me, and doesn’t inspire lasting dread.

More often than not it’s an effective technique, though. The most frightening places in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines and Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth are regular old hotels. Both lull you into a false sense of security. In Dark Corners you can lock the doors of your hotel room before bed, but nothing will stop the locals from kicking their way in to kill you in your sleep, forcing you into a heart-hammering rooftop escape that culminates in the most frightening thing videogames can throw at you: precise first-person jumping.

Meanwhile, Bloodlines makes you a vampire with superpowers, so you expect to have nothing to fear from an empty hotel, even if it’s haunted. But when you get there the well-paced scares—popping lightbulbs, a distant child’s laughter, figures running past you down corridors but disappearing when you round the corner—combine with the mechanical worry of your blood meter slowly emptying because there’s nobody around to feed on to create a singular moment of traditional horror. In a game that’s otherwise about confronting the personal horror of your own monstrous nature, it’s quite the achievement. 

Alienation station

That’s not to say more obvious locations don’t have their place in horror games. The Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows is a perfect example: a mental asylum that is also a haunted orphanage, one cliché draped on another like a sheet over a corpse. It still manages to be memorable through a combination of claustrophobia, excellent enemy design—those twitching, cage-headed lunatics—and a command of light and darkness that benefits it both as a stealth game and an engine designed to freeze your blood solid.

Yet even in more typical horror settings, a dose of normality helps. The grisly spaceship Ishimura from Dead Space is frightening at first, but after a few hours there I learnt to expect necromorphs bursting from its blood-soaked vents. Though Sevastopol Station from Alien: Isolation was also floating helplessly in space and an alien was just as likely to slither out of the ceiling in a hall full of graffiti, it never stopped being scary. Its rooms were rather less full of corpses and rust, often antiseptically well-lit, with ordinary desks, old computers, and executive toys. It felt like an office for a paper supply company, all square edges and coffee cups, accentuating the sleek, gangling silhouette of the alien and its elemental wrongness.

They say familiarity breeds contempt, but in horror contempt is useful. Familiar locations trick us into thinking we know what to expect, and there’s power in yanking those expectations out from under our feet to reveal the thin chains separating us from the abyss.