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		dwd on March 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Better Strategy for Hangman Given your perception can generally fill in the vowels - picking any early on would seem non-optimal.

grandalf on March 30, 2012 [–]

I think it's more a goal of eliminating uncertainty about which letter occupies a slot.

For example, if I have guess T and E and see _ _ E as the word I know it's not the word "The".

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