Today's Wordle hint and answer #756: Saturday, July 15

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You'll find some direction without giving away the answer to today's Wordle with our helpful clue—or go straight for the win with the solution to the July 15 (756) game. However you want to play, you'll find everything you need on this very page.

I think after the past few days Wordle decided to give me an easier game today, something I was able to clear in a quick and simple three guesses. By my second go, if it wasn't that word then surely it had to be this one—and it was. Hopefully tomorrow's Wordle answer will be just as painless to find. 

The word you need to find today is the sort you'd often find used in fairy tales to describe an old and ugly witch, although she doesn't need to have magical powers for this word to apply. There are two vowels to find today. 

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. 

Start the weekend with a win. The answer to the July 15 (756) Wordle is CRONE.

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.

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

Every day Wordle presents you with six rows of five boxes, and it's up to you to work out which secret five-letter word is hiding