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Fifty six words carry A in the second box and K in the third, and they are far more alike than that number suggests.
Thirty six of the fifty six put E in the fourth box, sixty four percent, and most of those are the AKE family. MAKES, TAKEN, LAKES, BAKER and CAKES are the same skeleton with a different front letter and a different tail. Once you have spotted the shape, the pattern becomes mostly a question of which consonant leads.
Because so many of these sit one letter apart, a guess that only tests the first box wastes a turn. TAKEN and BAKER differ at both ends, so the pair covers more than TAKES and MAKES would.
NAKED earns its place for the same reason. It steps outside the S and R endings that eighteen and twelve of these words respectively land on.
No. Thirty six of the fifty six take E in the fourth box, and in words like MAKES and LAKES it does stretch the A. The rest take something else there, as in LAKHS.
L leads with six words, with B, R and W on five each. No letter runs away with it, so the first box is genuinely open.
Six do. TAKEN is the obvious one, and TAKIN, the name of a goat antelope, is the one that catches people out.
Not at all. Here the A sits second, which means another letter always comes before it. Words that open with AK are a separate pattern.