First row: choose a word with at least four of the most common letters (ETAOINSHRDLU), including two vowels; e.g., STARE, NOTES, TEACH. Second row: incorporate any hits, moving the yellow ones (right letter, wrong place), and drawing again on the most common letters. Then slow, careful study, examining combinations, using what I know about the structure of English words and following something like Sherlock Holmes’s precept: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” I usually get it in the fourth row. I don’t think the “endless” Wordle, which is apparently a knockoff, plays fair. I’ve missed a couple of those because they were weird and dubious words.