Literally the first word I saw, but you need an O
― Godley and Creamsicle (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 27 November 2022 11:11 (one year ago) link
lots of great words in today’s bee
― scanner darkly, Friday, 9 December 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
It was a fun one to be sure. As of the predawn hour in which I usually do the Bee, the official Times forum hints had the count wrong - 68 words. It is actually 69 and there is one more LE- than the official grid. Correct on the Shunn site.
Anyway it was a good bee, with my only quibble the inclusion of GALANGA while excluding GALENA
― Cirque de Soleil Moon Frye (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
Ok I have to admit wordiply, the graun’s attempt to get in on the word game craze, is pretty good and benefits from apparently having a properly inclusive word list. They seem to get around the (nonexistent) issue of “obscure” words by having a main list of common words and counting everything outside of that as a rare word - so eg today I entered a 12 letter word & it said “longest word found!” but I also got a 14 & a 15 letter word, so at the end it tells you “your guess was *longer* than the longest common word you fucking clever clogs” which also supplies the flattery over unremarkable achievements that seems to be a key element of all of these Another way it shows up the nyt dorks: the first day I played it the starter word was HER, you better believe my first guess was MOTHERFUCKERS and of course it was accepted
― pilk/pall revolting odors (wins), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
this sounds promising
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
Spelling Bee Assistant is borked, for which I'll blame it for missing QB (although the last two words I had overlooked were TINT and TINTING of all things).
― Shartreuse (Leee), Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:39 (one year ago) link
what is the spelling bee assistant??
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 23 February 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
I manage to make it on my own to genius most days, but queen bee is still elusive without help
― Dan S, Friday, 24 February 2023 01:19 (one year ago) link
SBA is a Chrome extension that shows you how many words you've gotten for certain categories (words by length, words by first letter, words by first two letters), or at least it did before it broke.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
tired of the Y and all the various -y words
― scanner darkly, Friday, 14 April 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
lotta repetition in this game over time
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 15 April 2023 12:21 (one year ago) link
true in any such game tho
over time you will memorize sequences like ACACIA ACAI etc. or COCCOON COCOA COCA CACAO, VEIL VILE EVIL LIVE
The changing center letters keep it at least a little interesting, and once you get the easy stuff out of the way there is usually that lasts few words that elude you. Today it was WILDWOOD
― doja catharsis (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 April 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
granted (and i’m tired of the fucking açaí also)but Y itself works as a suffix which makes it tedious to go through Y-ing everythingand since march 24th we had Y in half of the bees including a stretch of 4 of them in a row
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 15 April 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
and still no S
seems very stubborn when they have no problem with LY or ING or ED
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 15 April 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
made worse by the presence of L so now you have to both -Y and -LY everything
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 15 April 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
ugh
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
It's still fun for me despite occasional annoyance.
The most recent OMG WHY inclusion for me was HIRAGANA. Given the number of perfectly recognizable English words that get excluded, how on earth is that word deemed non-obscure?
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
that was one of the 2 i missed
but we just had the fucking Y with L in the center 3 days agoit’s these repetitions that turn it into a slog
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
smdh at yesterday's A5, Sam's inclusion of which is weird especially when compared to other cromulent words that aren't accepted (and I also can never remember how he wants it spelled).
― Shartreuse (Leee), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
lol that was the other of the 2 i missed
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
Level, you mean AARGH but no ARGH?
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
* Leee not Level
Yes to the first word, but the words that aren't included aren't specific to yesterday's set (I was thinking tuatara, for example).
― Shartreuse (Leee), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
Lol my wife has started doing this and we usually collab at the end of the night, it's pretty ridiculous as far as real English words that are not allowed ("hipping" was one recent one, but I know there have been a few even better examples, like some science-y words) vs the arbitrary non-English ones that are.
So far I've learned that they love Italian words (and some Indian, and obviously some Japanese) but hate Spanish.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
not all of it though, just some arbitrarily chosen words
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
For Spanish, I know that NADA is accepted (granted it's pretty well assimilated into English now) but IIRC maybe HOLA too?
― Shartreuse (Leee), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
HOLA is not accepted: https://www.nytbee.com/Bee_20230305.html
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
After months of not really playing and generally being bored with this, I started it again recently. How is ALLUVIAL not a word? It's definitely a word. I learned it in geography class!
― trishyb, Friday, 21 April 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
It is a word! Sam just thinks it's obscure, probably.
― Sid Bream My Baby (Leee), Friday, 21 April 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
lol i emailed sam about this very word right before checking the thread
― scanner darkly, Friday, 21 April 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
Yesterday's CI word is pretty outrageous.
Today is a slog.
― Sid Bream You My Love (Leee), Sunday, 30 April 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
CINQUAIN is somewhat useful in scrabble because QUA and QUAI come up often.
Today is the first time in a month that I didn't get queen bee in before looking at the hints.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 30 April 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
seriously, what’s up with repeated letters? four of the letters were present yesterday - and this was also the case for Apr 29 and Apr 30 bees
and the freaking Y again, both yesterday and today.
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
still annoyed about NACELLE
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
Otoh a lot of Star Trek nerds have probably been clamoring for NACELLE.
― Sid Bream You My Love (Leee), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
NACELLE annoyed me too, and like a lot of the Spelling Bee esoteric words I'm not sure I'll remember it in the future. I'm slowly learning to remember some though, and can make it to genius every day plus one or two words, without looking at the letter count stats and first-two-letter cues
I'm still amazed by how many four-letter words I miss. I try to focus on them first. They should be the easiest
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
Yesterday had LOLLOP again.
― Ice cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
lol you're goddamn right i got nacelle
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 02:32 (one year ago) link
I don't give myself more than a half an hour or so to do this. Today there are three seven-letter words starting with G which are obvious on being given descriptive clues from the comments and are words I'm familiar with, but which I probably wouldn't get on my own: GALETTE, GLOTTAL, GAVOTTE.
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link
Carly Simon would like a word with you, Dan S.
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 May 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link
today the last words I got, only with the aid of clues in the comments, were NUNCIO and UNDID
― Dan S, Saturday, 6 May 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
sorry, I meant for them to be hidden
lol thanks though, the first was the only one I hadn’t got
― Roz, Saturday, 6 May 2023 02:41 (one year ago) link
may never get over VLOG being an answer the other day
that's just trolling
― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 May 2023 02:57 (one year ago) link
also trolling: using same 5 letters as we had 2 days ago and 1/3 of the answers also appearing 2 days ago
― scanner darkly, Monday, 8 May 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
Like the grudgingly memorized sequence laic laical lilac acai acacia?
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
yep, and don’t forget iliac
― scanner darkly, Monday, 8 May 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah, I'm hip to that one too.
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 May 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
haha
― Dan S, Monday, 8 May 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
Sigh. Another day with good old laic laical lilac acai acacia iliac
Plus a bonus callaloo
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 11 May 2023 07:14 (one year ago) link