@r0bh - Have a look into most common start/end letters and repeated letters in English etc.
ADIEU - gets the vowel
MYTHS - Common letters and Y
Also let’s you know if there’s an O in there or not.
From that, it should be relatively simple.
Last two days, I’d have got it in three.
If I knew about US spelling and wasn’t an idiot.
@gingerbongo - It’s a game. Surely you want to win? May as well just stop training for Cotswold, as that’s “procedural” - just rock up on the day and see what happens?
As the people above posted - I’m not mechanising this
I play sudoku sometimes and I make up my own approach. There are three (I think) standard algorithmic approaches but I’m using probability on the toughest ones at the moment which is quite fun.
I go PIOUS first, then GRATE. Worked well until until today, when my guesses 3 and 3 gave nothing extra (but I Iromman shuffled over the line on the 6th guess)