@Thoosa
I guess this is where the tactics discussed yesterday come in. For your second guess, could you have thought of a word that includes all the remaining options for the last letter and then you’d have got it in 3.
Yes. Today is a good example of when it would work if it was the final letter you were missing (not going into specifics.
Yesterday, I had this. Couldn’t think of a five letter word containing F, J & M to test with (I bet someone will tell me one now) so just has to plod through the options.
I can't think of a word containing F, J and M either, but, if I was down to two guesses, I would have used something containing two of them - JUMPS maybe. That way, if it's J or M they will go green or yellow and if neither of them do, I know I will need to use F so guaranteed correct in two goes. (Unless I'd missed an obscure word!)