No vowels, so now I always go with this second word (it's the plural of sulcus, a type of furrow that your brain has plenty of):
Let's try for some more consonants, as well as testing for the 'Y'. Fortunately there's a word that does it all:
So if this word has 2 'U's, it would probably be an "UN-" word. Let's focus on the keyboard and try to find some common words that use the remaining letters (we can quickly eliminate "UNTIL", "UNCUT', "UNFIT", etc. because those letters are gone. So our word most likely has 4 consonants and the 'U'. The 'R' is most likely in position 2 because it follows so many consonants, and the 'N' is probably in position 4 because it readily precedes consonants. I'm now racking my sulci thinking of words that start with "WRU", "DRU", "FRU", "GRU", or "BRU".
Before I looked at the keyboard I had first thought of "CRUMB" but word 2 eliminated the 'C'. So let's try
words that end with 'G'. "BRUNG" seems most likely.
OK. How about "WRUNG"?
Note that if the 'G' was wrong I would have tried "DRUNK", so "BRUNG" was a good word, because if it fails it points the way to the winning guess at try 5.
My system often requires four tries where other people are getting the word at try 3 or even 2 (and my system will never get a hit on try 1 or 2 because my initial words are valid guesses but will never be goal words). But the system hasn't let me down yet.
