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It took me six tries today.

The first two tries I got all gray.

But that helps too...

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freeradical
It took me six tries today.

The first two tries I got all gray.

But that helps too...

"RATES" is my fave starting word, from my earlier mortgage career, and I mix those letters up for variety.
If that whiffs, I follow w/ "LINGO" (or "LOGIN") in keeping w/ my Wheel of Fortune paradigm.
Another whiff gets "DUMPY", "BUMPY", "CHUMP" or "MUCKY", depending on an unknown whim.
After the first two, you're left w/ only "U" or "Y" in the vowel department, and a few more than a dozen possibles.
All have a "U", most also have a "Y"; the "U" is mostly the 2nd letter, or else the 3rd, and the "Y" is always last.
If you ferret out the "U" and/or the "Y" in your 2nd word, your universe of possibles grows significantly.
If your goal is simply to solve, I can't fathom a word that could take more than 5 tries, on a bad day.....
It's when you start guessing for a quicker solve that the attempts add up, and can get ya.
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