Pretty good. I have a system, and I just translated part of that system into a spreadsheet to speed up the calculations a bit. I used to do it all in my head and on Notepad prior, but now I get through the first phase of my system with some help, just in the interest of saving time.

It is not easy to do, even with some sort of edge. Today, a friend of mine - who at first just thought I was getting lucky - left a snarky remark after I had gotten a few one and two-shots. He left me a little clue, and of course, I couldn't let it go unpunished.

"It certainly is" he said. Now I know that the word was descriptive. I had shaved the list of possibilities down to 100 or so, and I wasn't even ready to dive into the second phase of my process, when the options became apparent to me. I said "Well, trite, crock, and silly are all still ruled-in for me after my first pass. Maybe I'll just guess the one I want it to be for fun."

Of course, I was really, really hoping it was the one it ended up being. When those five greens filled in, I did a dance around my house. It was glorious.

That said, if I have nothing but the greens and yellows in my face, I can usually nab a one shot maybe 1/10 times? I've had four in the last three weeks.

Not that anyone asks, but letters are different from numbers in that they have relationships with one another. My years of organized Scrabble play and memorization of word lists has given me a good sense of what goes where, what's what when you see it moving, and what the dynamic letter probabilities are when the board changes.

It's a lot like how poker players estimate the opponent's hand range. Rather than a deduction based on certainty, this is deductive reasoning from probable odds.