i missed taciturn, inurn and circuitcircuit is the one i’m upset about not getting
interesting pangram today..
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
yeah I loled at the pangram
― that of a giant Slor (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
i knew it wasn't but was really hoping DEATHMETAL would be a companion to that lol
― Roz, Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
fairly easy QB today
― scanner darkly, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
You say that but I needed to use Shunn to get there.
― Leee Tigre (Leee), Saturday, 30 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
Oh, didn't know about Shunn's site. (I know about Shunn himself because he liked my Spotify playlist of songs that sample Steely Dan.)
I used the NYT's own hint page yesterday to get the last two words. For some reason, I never noticed that that page existed before a couple of days ago!
― jaymc, Saturday, 30 October 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
They only added it recently!
― Leee Tigre (Leee), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
We were 3 short of QB, and all short easy words we found earlier in the week. My brain just stops after I hit genius.
― Jaq, Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
the last word i got before QB was TRULY and it’s truly such obvious misses that make the puzzle interesting
didn’t know about the hints either! i do use nytbee.com to see how many pangrams there are and word counts by length
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
the hints are new
― flopson, Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
I would like to see daily stats on which words are found most frequently.
― jaymc, Saturday, 30 October 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
My brain just stops after I hit genius.
― Jaq, Saturday, October 30, 2021
mine too, if I even get there
― Dan S, Saturday, 30 October 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
xxp the link in the app is new but the page has been on the nyt website for quite a while… https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/spelling-bee-forum
― just sayin, Sunday, 31 October 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
There's a little Easter egg today when you reach Genius.
― Leee Tigre (Leee), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
i missed it - what was it?
maybe i should have ARANCINI for dinner, since the bee won’t take it..
― scanner darkly, Monday, 1 November 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
it was a witch's cap on the bee.
ARANCINI was on my mind too, since I just made it for the first time last week. it was a lot of work
― Dan S, Monday, 1 November 2021 05:14 (two years ago) link
maybe that’s why sam hates it, unlike tortoni!
5 pangrams today, holy smokes. i’ve got 4 and i’m sure i’m missing an obvious one
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 03:09 (two years ago) link
I only got three. condonation and diatonic were beyond me
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 03:29 (two years ago) link
well the first one quite obviously isn’t a word
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 10:05 (two years ago) link
Using the hints page "grid" thingy is a literal game-changer btw.
With perseverance you can change "stuck at Amazing" to Genius and even "stuck at Genius" to Queen Bee, just by process of elimination.
For example, I was frustrated when HACKLE wasn't on the list but ultimately figured out that I needed to be looking for a six-letter word starting with HE, which ultimately turned out to be HECKLE. It's a totally different task than just staring at the letters and shuffling them hoping for a miraculous revelation.
I have mixed feelings about this. Previously if I wanted to cheat I'd go to an anagram generator / Scrabble solver, which definitely makes it too easy. The hints page is obviously allowable but I'm not sure I will get the same satisfaction / challenge after using it.
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
I actually don't look directly at the letter counts, but I do note how many words begin with each letter? It just makes me linger longer on a letter and try to wring a couple more out of it.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
in orbit, that makes sense - also lets you know when you're going down the wrong rabbit hole (like today with EN- and UN- and ON- prefixes)
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
fun and relatively attainable (no extremely obscure words, most four letters) 21 word QB today. i lol’d at the pangram
― flopson, Thursday, 4 November 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
i got everything but the pangram but i did get fairly close with MEGACOCK
― scanner darkly, Friday, 5 November 2021 02:54 (two years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Friday, 5 November 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
I got QB yesterday but spent an embarrassingly long time 1+ points away because I was overlooking COOK.
― Leee Tigre (Leee), Friday, 5 November 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
Yesterday I am having a tough time forgiving lunular. On the margin of acceptable is landau.
Today we have a reasonably charming pangram situation. For me, genius status arrived early at 30 words but that means a long and potentially exasperating 13-word slog if I am to pursue QB.
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 November 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
Hope that we can all get one of Sam's favorite birds today.
― A Frome of One's Own (Leee), Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
Not without this thread
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
I got most of them, but didn't think of noncom as referring to a non-commissioned officer
― Dan S, Friday, 12 November 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
in 1950s manhattan everyone would have known what a noncom was therefore it’s validwhich is why WOOT is so upsetting, it exists outside the wes anderson diegesis
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 November 2021 09:17 (two years ago) link
i mean there are other reasons too
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 November 2021 09:18 (two years ago) link
I QB'd yesterday! NONCOM I got as a guess. I guessed COMMIT too, rhyming it with "comet" and thinking "this is some silly textile arts term"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 November 2021 12:19 (two years ago) link
Thanks also to the thread title for the freebie
both husband and i got genius yesterday and got most words between the two of us except for this very common word: COMMONfacepalm
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 13 November 2021 03:53 (two years ago) link
Omg we got QB tonight! 1st time ever!
― Jaq, Sunday, 14 November 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
i'm two words away and stumped ;_;
― flopson, Sunday, 14 November 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
QB as well but really because i got lucky just randomly getting DOETH
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 14 November 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
ha that was my last word as well and i only got it from the grid telling me i needed a DO 5 letter word
― just sayin, Sunday, 14 November 2021 04:08 (two years ago) link
the two words i was missing yday where TEETHE and TOOTHED. i had TEETH, TEETHED, TOOTH 🤦
surprised they didn't take DOLDRUM today
― flopson, Sunday, 14 November 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
same
― just sayin, Monday, 15 November 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
This got me trying to sign up for a bloody NTY games account, and something went weird. It half-did a transaction, said it errored, didnt take my money, and now I cant try again and they have the WORST "contact us" help links.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 November 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
i don't know if this will help you Trayce, but if you do try again later and you have a paypal account, you should use that to sign up for any NYT subscriptions rather than your credit card.
NYT deliberately makes it difficult for you to cancel/modify subscriptions by making you call in to customer service - you can circumvent all that bs by just canceling your automatic payments on the paypal site.
― Roz, Monday, 15 November 2021 07:31 (two years ago) link
Today leans heavy on food again with CARBONARA, BARBACOA, CORNCOB
Weirdly quiet on the avian front
― weregoats of boston (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 November 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
Thanks Roz, alas I dont have paypal :( i alredy have a NYT sub is the stupid part, and I just cant add a games sub to it. its weird, it sort of half-worked initially and I was able to access the full games site? then the pending charge disappeared and now its locked out again. Gah.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
lol’d at today’s pangram. well played, sam!
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
the site’s been down for me for the last half hour or so
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
I saw that, it should be back up now.
― A Frome of One's Own (Leee), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
Also, I'm a little miffed that a Y4 (YEGG) that I learned from SB isn't being accepted today.
― A Frome of One's Own (Leee), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
That's a hobo/criminal word, very rarely used these days
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link