First guess gave me a green and a yellow. Second guess was to try the yellow in new position, and to look for three other common letters.
Guess three was to put the yellow letter into the end position, and to test more common letters that hadn't been eliminated. After guess #3 I knew the yellow letter had to be in position two, so I had three of the five letters in positions, Combining that will all of the other letters I had eliminated in the prior guesses yielded only one remaining possibility, which was guess #4.
This is typical for my approach. I seldom solve in two or fewer guesses, and solving in three guesses doesn't happen very often. But by the time I get through the first three guesses almost always I've winnowed down the options sufficiently that I can almost always solve in two more guesses. I do get thrown off sometimes by weird words, such as gecko, eerie, gypsy, jazzy, fuzzy, queue, etc.
When I go with the less common word, the answer is the commoner one, and vice versa.
