Help for Newcomers

[maradnu]

Also keep an eye out for"

experience or excellence

[cyclisted]

I've gotten much better as time has gone on, and all the patterns you folks have mentioned are pretty familiar to me now, but when I was starting out, I often had success by just trying out "the" for each three letter word in the puzzle. Also, putting any letter in a spot, even a wrong one, can help highlight the patterns.

Ed

[Crypt101]

thanks for the helpful hints!!!

[opallady]

Happiness, people, which can also be proper, committee, success, succeed, successfully, coffee.

[cayot]

If you come cross a four letter word that begins and ends with the same letter chances are its that, but it could also be
dead
says
test
onto
else

[bansaisequoia]

Of course it's not quite as likely to be:

kick
pomp
whew
fief
gong
neon
bulb
teat
alga
orzo
sans
twit
chic
eave

or

hush

[kat]

hath (But if you enter "that" you can usually figure out when it's "hath")

[smoochie222]

high

[maradnu]

that hath sons high says dead died else sins edge tent ease seas area text test sits rear sets shes roar asia gang taut onto ohio suns tact agua pomp pump hugh alva grog dyed sans sirs kick kirk greg noun sums trot erie saws aida aqua hush gong hash maim neon prop taft aura barb bomb prep pulp tilt chic sags sows tint tout alga blab blob bulb eave edie eire fief kink ocho oleo olio ouzo pimp plop sots subs suds tart teat tort tuft twit whew

Includes some names, some foreign stuff, & some obscure stuff.

[kat]

like the way you ended with whew! how perfect is that? lol! great job!