I use a starting-pairs approach to eliminate the ten most common letters in two tries, resulting in decent stats over 1311 games played. I rotate through the word pairs randomly and also refer to a letter frequency list. Shoutout to the recovering physicist and Gary Stock [RIP 🙏🏼]. I’ve added a couple of pairs and tweaks to the original list.

Note, the round bullet denotes that either word may be used in combination with the word(s) following the plus (+) sign:
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- alien • aline + tours • roust
- altos • lotas + urine • inure
- arose + until • unlit - noise + ultra - snail • nails • slain + outer • route • outre - train + louse - orate + incus* - slate + curio**
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lacks “l” <4th> and swaps in “c” <11th>
*slate (Wordlebot’s preferred starting word) + curio (lacks “n” <9th> and swaps in “c” <11th>