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Ten words put Q first and E third, and every single one of them opens QUE. There is no second box to guess.
QUEEN and QUEST are the two most people would produce. QUEER, QUERY and QUEUE follow, and all of them are ordinary words, which is a high hit rate for a page this size.
U takes the second box in ten of the ten, which is every word on the page. English does not follow Q with anything else at five letters.
So three letters are settled before you start. The entire pattern comes down to the fourth and fifth boxes, which is unusual enough to change how you should guess.
Three words repeat a letter. QUEEN doubles the E, QUELL doubles the L, and QUEUE manages a repeat without the pair touching. If your puzzle shows a double, that small group is where to look.
N closes three of the ten, more than any other letter, with E on two. QUEEN tests both the commonest ending and the doubled E, so it is the natural opening here.
It is the most common word here and it tests the most common ending. If it misses, QUEST moves you to a completely different fourth and fifth box.
A hand mill for grinding grain. It differs from QUERY only in the last box, which makes the pair worth remembering together.
Not on this pattern. All ten take U in the second box, so the QU pairing is fixed before the puzzle even starts.