Good job!
Of course, I always think the success of the game depends a lot on your first word. I’ve found from bitter experience that when I change it up, I lose, massively. So I’ll keep the same word until it pops up as the first word and then I’ll change it.
Indeed it does... the word that I use most often as the starter has already come up... but it does serve to ‘confirm or deny’ many key letters...