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Forty three words start with VE, and two letters take almost half the third box.
R takes the third box in nine of the forty three, twenty one percent, with N on nine. Between them that is eighteen of the page, and eleven letters appear there in total.
VERSE, VERGE, VERVE, VERSO and VERST all come from it, and several differ by a single letter.
VERSE, VERSO, VERST and VERTS share four letters, so landing inside VER confirms almost the whole word and leaves the last box carrying everything.
VENOM, VENUE, VEGAN, VENTS and VEILS are the useful entries elsewhere, mostly from the N branch. VETCH and VEXED sit alone in their branches and either one splits the page well.
S closes fourteen of the forty three, thirty three percent, with E on seven and Y on five.
A and T tie for the fourth box at five words each, so that box gives you very little. Work the last one first.
They sit in the two largest branches and differ in three boxes, so guessing one of each across two turns covers most of the page.
A verso is the left hand page of an open book. A verst is an old Russian measure of about a kilometre. They share four letters and nothing else.
Open grassland, also written veld. Both VELDS and VELDT appear on this list.