Anyone playing any of the *dle games?

I stopped playing this week. There have been a string a words that were just a pure guessing game: Skill, Shill, Spill, Still, Swill. Even if you got S_ILL on the second try, it's pure luck if you guess the correct word. Words that vague aren't fun at all.
I picked up this strategy from somewhere- first 3 rows do not repeat any letters
I’ll almost always get it by row 4 or 5
300 so far and maybe only 4 losses