Me too. I'm now two for two on getting it on the third try in my two ever attempts. Today, I used TEARS and CLOUD as guesses, which only gave me two letters (and both of them out of order). But it eliminated enough other letters for me to have a more reasonable pool of words to guess from.
Today's word was a self-descriptor as it took me 5 attempts to solve. My third attempt was pathetic, but I did learn a lesson in my second-ever game (I was a lot prouder yesterday with my maiden 3-attempt solution).
I got 3 today after going 0fer on my first guess (but perhaps getting nothing is sometimes good...).
OK, now I'm hooked. Thanks for posting the link -- I think
Today was my second game and I solved it in four tries starting from TAPES. I don't think I'd recommend that start - at least for today's word.
I always start with AROSE and CLINT.
That gets you all of the vowels save for U (and sometimes Y) and also R, S, T, and L. From there you usually have a good shot at figuring it out.
Today's puzzle was tough. Wife and I both took five tries. Will discuss later when others have attempted.
After an embarrassing goose-egg on yesterday's puzzle, I gave today's a lot more thought and managed to get it in 4 tries, after completely whiffing on the first. And that is something I like about this game: you can get a significant amount of information even on a complete whiff.