Today's Wordle hint and answer #749: Saturday, July 8

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If you need help with your daily Wordle, I've got everything you need right here. Whether you're after a tailor-made clue for the July 8 (749) game or today's answer served up on a plate. Once you've won, why not spend some time reading our tips and guides too, so you can make the most of every guess.

Locking in a pair of greens usually feels good—except when they leave the board so wide open I know there's no guarantee I'll whittle today's Wordle down to the answer in time. The good news is one of my guesses today ended up almost revealing the correct word, so in the end I only had to switch out a single letter to win. 

Today's answer is a physical response to a frightening situation, a sort of crouching or shrinking action where someone makes themselves small. You'll need to find two vowels to win. 

No letters are used twice in today's puzzle. 

If there's one thing better than playing Wordle, it's playing Wordle well, which is why I'm going to share a few quick tips to help set you on the path to success: 

There's no time pressure beyond making sure it's done by midnight. So there's no reason not to treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you're coming up blank. 

Weekends and Wordle go hand in hand. The answer to the July 8 (749) Wordle is COWER.

The more past Wordle answers you can cram into your memory banks, the better your chances of guessing today's Wordle answer without accidentally picking a solution that's already been used. Past Wordle answers can also give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle solving fresh.

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Every day Wordle presents you with six rows of five boxes, and it's up to you to work out