I guess I can go ahead and say this much. My opening word gave me two vowels, and just as importantly it told me that they didn't go where you might normally expect them to. So a ton of usual words were eliminated right off the bat. Once I let that settle in, it probably wasn't a minute before the word popped into my cranium. I knew there wouldn't be many if any other words that fit, so I went with it without checking for others and bingo. Felt pretty good after bombing out the other day. Look at that one and tell me how lucky I am.
If I had gotten just one of those two letters as a consonant, and if they hadn't showed me where not to put them so well, I would probably have gone four at least.