Thank you for your comments, I really appreciate the time and effort undertaken by you and the BP team. I thought I’m not that much of spoilsport, but in this case, I guess I am/was. Sorry.
The “nice guess” would work perfectly well for me in a live environment, where the teacher is in front of me and I know from their tone of voice exactly how it is to be perceived, but online schooling does have it’s limitations and here this sort of encouragement falls flat and might not do anything to lighten the mood, but enhance stress instead.