Do you think there is something psychological about finding the elusive last word needed to see the rosette next to your name?
I know very well the feeling of desperately trying to find the one or two missing word(s).
One of the problems of being one word short is that I tend to imagine that I am looking for something fairly obscure when in reality it is some very common word that I have overlooked.
The last word I played in the
underrate game was
reader and in the
defrocked game it was
forced.
Other than 'cheating' and looking up the answers in an online anagram solver, which I have never done in ten years of playing Chi, I don't think there is any easy answer.
One thing that has worked for me several times, however, is to turn off the computer, get a pen and paper and play the game again, from the beginning, the 'old-fashioned' way. It is surprising how often this reveals the easy word(s) that I have failed to realise I haven't played.