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Thirteen words put H first and W third, and only three letters ever appear between them. The page is small and tightly shaped.
O takes the second box in seven of the thirteen, fifty four percent. A and E take three each and nothing else appears at all.
So the HOW branch is more than half the page on its own. If the second letter is not O, what remains is short enough to read straight through.
HOWLS carries the O branch, HAWKS the A branch and HEWED the E branch. Guessing one from each covers the whole pattern in three turns, which is as efficient as this page gets.
HOWFF and HOWFS differ in the last box, as do HAWED and HEWED in the second. Pairs like that are common here because the page is built from short verbs taking regular endings.
S closes five of the thirteen, thirty eight percent, which is the strongest ending signal. D follows on two.
HOWLS is the best first guess. It tests the largest branch, the commonest ending and two letters that appear nowhere else in the same combination. If it misses, HAWKS moves you to the A branch immediately.
Yes, it runs H, O, W, D, Y. It is one of the O branch words and the only one here ending in Y.
A favourite haunt or meeting place. HOWFS is a related entry and both are word game words rather than everyday vocabulary.
W in the third box is rare after any letter, and H in the first narrows it further. Thirteen words is what the language leaves for the combination.