Yeah, this time I had 3 letters in the right place on the 2nd try and had only ruled out 6 letters.
So I was thinking of trying to guess from about 15 letters using 2 at a time and what my chances were of doing it in the 4 remaining tries.
I broke down and picked a letter elimination word.
I was able to rule out 4 more and pick up an additional letter (not in the right place) with that guess or who knows what might have happened.
I do that a lot on those struggly ones. LOL
And it tends to be quite helpful most of the time.