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L first and U third gives 31 words, and eight in ten of them put O or A in the box between.
O takes about forty eight percent and A thirty two, which leaves E with sixteen and a single stray word on a branch of its own.
LAUGH is the only entry most players would reach for without thinking. LOUSY, LOUSE, LOUTS, LOUPE and LAUDS come next, and after those the group runs to names and dialect.
LOUSY and LOUSE differ in one box, so between them they cover a good part of the O branch in a single guess.
If O fails, LAUGH is the obvious second, since its G and H appear on no other branch.
And if both fail, the answer is more likely a word you do not know than one you have overlooked.
No. LUNCH puts U in the second box and N in the third. The U needs to sit one place later.
LAUGH. It sits on the second largest branch, but its G and H rule out more than any O branch word does.
Yes, it is in the list as a word for a lake. It shares four letters with LAUGH, which makes the two easy to mix up.