Does anyone do as I do and start with the same 3 words every morning? I have only one completed the puzzle on my first line. Its a bit of a shocker when you do that.
I used to have three favoured starting words. If one had a couple of letters or more that were correct, I would start to use those letters and think of another word rather than use my favoured ones. There would be one I normally start with, unless it was particularly successful the day before (3-4 letters correct), in which case I would revert to #2.
But when one of those is the word, I have to bin it and chose another, so currently only have 2 favoured words, and neither have ever been the solution. I have checked.