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Forty four words put G first and I third, and exactly half of them open with GR.
R takes the second box in twenty two of the forty four, fifty percent. L follows on eight and U on seven, with A on four and almost nothing else.
GRIND, GRIEF, GRILL, GRIME, GRIPE and GRIST are the ordinary words in that branch. The trouble is depth, since GRIDE, GRIDS, GRIGS, GRIKE, GRIME and GRIMY all share three letters and split late.
The GUI branch holds GUIDE, GUILD, GUILE, GUILT and GUISE, and every one of them is a word you would use. It is a third the size of GR and far more productive per guess.
The GLI branch is the opposite. GLIDE and GLINT are reachable, but GLIAL, GLIFF, GLIKE, GLIME, GLIMS and GLISK are not.
E closes thirteen of the forty four, thirty percent, ahead of S on nine and T on eight.
So the last box is worth testing before the second, even though the second looks more dramatic. Only four words repeat a letter, which makes a visible double a strong signal here.
Not necessarily. GUIDE covers a smaller branch but every word in it is common, so a hit there narrows the page more cleanly than a GR guess would.
Yes, it runs G, O, I, N, G. It is the only word here with O in the second box, so guessing it either wins or eliminates one entry.
Only in the last box, and GRIPY and GRIPT sit on the same stem. That corner of the GR branch absorbs turns without giving much back.