Well? Which do you do?

Pick a word and try to work out letters from it making an educated guess on the next one.

If you pick a word like thing and you get three right. I will choose another word that ends with ing and go from there. I will take guesses with the suffixes of a word.

I generally look for a word that ends in -ing, -ed or -tion or some other such common ending. If the correct number comes up matching at least he ending, I can eliminate anything with a different ending and visa versa. Then it's a matter of picking a second word, more or less at random, then comparing them. I generally try to get it figured out in three words, though, so that I don't risk locking the terminal. That is, of course, unless after the third word, I'm very sure what the answer is, then I'll use my fourth guess.

Yes that is what I do. You explained it better than I.

Pick first word. Hover over each word in order comparing letters until right number match. Pick that. Continue comparing until exact match.

Click 1st word. If that fails click another and work out the word from there or find the magic brackets :whistling:
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