It has an interesting chapter on a classic story of Oscar dysfunction: WR Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies, yearned poignantly for the Oscar Hearst's millions could not buy her, and the book draws a connection between that and the failure of Citizen Kane to win Oscars, perhaps due to the Academy's discomfort at seeing Davies fictionalised on screen. One of the few books that appears genuinely antipathetic to the Oscars, denouncing the 'pointless, gross charade of the Academy Awards – an institution that honours the cotton candy of box office instead of artistic integrity'. 3) Peter H Brown and Jim Pinkston – Oscar Dearest: Six Decades of Scandal, Politics and Greed Behind Hollywood's Academy Awards, 1927-1986 (1987) It has a 'running header' giving gags and wisecracks used at each ceremony, including this from Bob Hope in 1977: 'I haven't seen so much expensive jewellery go by since I watched Sammy Davis Jr's house sliding down Coldwater Canyon.' You had to be there. Notionally 'unofficial' but in actual fact as starry-eyed about the whole business as any endorsed publication, this is another stat-heavy, list-packed slab, periodically republished in updated editions like Osborne but with a more loo-bookish feel. 2) Mason Wiley and Damien Bona – Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards (1977) Very much the approved, authorised version. Try MEANT.A hefty, celebratory, coffee-table slab of a book, packed with stats and pictures like a book about sport. You should try to filter out the first letter ASAP before running out of attempts. For instance *IGHT can be, WIGHT / EIGHT / TIGHT / MIGHT / RIGHT / FIGHT / NIGHT / SIGHT / LIGHT. Second: If you only left one letter to guess, but there are still many options, don’t try them one by one. For instance, SABER and CLINT - These two words are also my starting guesses for almost every single wordle game.

However, try your best not to repeat the letters. You may pick one of them on your second try. The above words are not just for the first try.

We have filtered the best 30 starting words for you: First: It’d be useful to start with a word that has a lot of vowels and don’t have any repeated letters.

Inside Oscar by Mason Wiley