Hangman is all about deduction (a little intuition helps also)

There are nuggets explaining to how to use TOGGLE.. and to make use of your NOTES... but not one that explains how to properly use them TOGETHER...

We have all the tools we need provided.. but you must USE them... or your opponent will have a MAJOR advantage!

I will walk through a real puzzle to show you my technique.... (this was a KICKBACK game.. but as you will see... I was ready to guess BEFORE choosing a letter... the letter pick is required before you can guess tho... and it does CONFIRM)

this was a multi-player game... so there was ALOT of information to gain just from toggle

I picked "R" and here is what my board looked like.....



I was then able to SOLVE the puzzle... on my NEXT turn....not by magic.. but by simply using the tools....

I toggled 1st opponent...



so I typed into my NOTES section "1-1 and 2-5 and 7-4 all same... "

I toggled 2nd opponent...



so I updated my NOTES section at add "1-3 and 2-3 and 6-5 and 7-5 all same"

I toggled 3rd opponent...



so I updated my NOTES section to add "5-3 and 6-2 same"

on my next turn... opponent 1 had made another turn...



so I added this information to my NOTES section... which now read:

1-1 and 2-5 and 7-4 all same
1-3 and 2-3 and 6-5 and 7-5 all same
5-3 and 6-2 same
1-2 and 5-2 same

of course I dont know exactly what each letter IS...yet... and here is where a little deduction and intuition comes in....

the first word is 3 letters.. (most likely "the") and since 1-3 came in 4 times in the puzzle.. we can reasonably assume it is a common letter... most likely 'E"... that fits the theory... 1-1 is also a common letter that came in 3 times.. "t" fits the theory.... now.. player 1 having SEEN what letter came in 1-1... picked the 1-2 easily...

yes. it is reasonable to assume the first word is 'the'.. so lets update the NOTES!

1-1 and 2-5 and 7-4 all same...T
1-3 and 2-3 and 6-5 and 7-5 all same...E
5-3 and 6-2 same
1-2 and 5-2 same...H

here is what the puzzle would NOW look like with those letters.....



this is a kickback thematic hangman .. with a theme of "matching middles"....

hmm...that 2nd word is just screaming "great"

"the great ---- -- -H---"... if u look at that first half alone.... its NOT HARD to deduce "the great wall of china"... if this was the entire puzzle... it would be time to guess... but...since this is matching middles... you need the find the 2nd half....

if that 5th word is 'china'... that means 5-3 = I...

update NOTES section '5-3 and 6-2 same ... I"

here is the puzzle now...



if you could SEE the puzzle like this.. instead of just with the 'R's.. would you be able to solve it? probably...

now.. I was ready to guess!!

this particular game was kickback... so even if you were NOT quite ready to guess... you can choose a COMMON letter you KNOW to be in there... from the first section... A? N? L? .. and that would possibly give you more information and make the solution very obvious... and THEN you can make your guess that same turn...

so USE your TOGGLE.. USE your NOTES... visualize the puzzle more complete (and write the deduced words in your NOTES also)

and your opponent will be left open-mouthed... when you take this:



and figure out "THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA DINNER PLATES"