On my third try today I had 4/5 letters. On my fourth I still only had 4/5, but everything was in the right spot leaving one missing letter. Because I had three letters that would work, even though I thought one was a letter less often used than others and likely a better choice, I decided to make up a totally different word that used two of my three possibilities. That way I tested all three letters (2 in my new word, one by virtue of being left out of the word). So I got it in six, but if I’d chosen the letter “less often used” I would have had it in five.
