My opener:

SOARE

CLINT

PUDGY

Developed it looking at the answer and guess lists and finding words that maximize frequency and placement. E.g. Y and E are very commonly seen in fifth position. No code, just excel and searching the word lists with regular expressions.

It's so effective the game lost a lot of its fun :( I almost always get the answer on guess #4. The days I struggle and get it on guess 5 or 6 are fun though! :)