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Two hundred four words put S first and A third, which makes it one of the largest patterns in this family. Nothing about it narrows quickly.
T takes the second box in thirty three words and H in thirty two. P follows on thirty, C on twenty five, W on twenty three and L on twenty. Several branches, none of them decisive.
With two hundred four words behind that spread, a guess in the second box removes maybe a sixth of the page. That is real progress but it is not the single clean cut some patterns offer.
R takes the fourth box in thirty six of the two hundred four, eighteen percent, more than any other letter. L follows on twenty four. That is the most reliable thing on the page and it is worth assuming rather than testing.
S closes fifty of the two hundred four, twenty five percent, and E another thirty nine. Between them they take eighty nine of the page, so ruling out both at once is the biggest single cut available anywhere here.
The last box. S and E close eighty nine of the two hundred four between them, so confirming or eliminating that pair moves you further than any second letter guess.
Both are common and they come from the two largest branches, so guessing one of each across two turns covers more than any pair from the same branch.
Only nine out of two hundred four do. The A in the third box usually sits between two consonants that differ, which leaves very little room for a repeat.