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
I'm familiar with this from doing the clone at bee.ignoble.dev . If you get four of AEIRST there's around 10 words you always have to make.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 11 May 2023 08:53 (one year ago) link
I am an old print-centric creature and we used to speak of Etaoin Shrdlu.
Also Matt Fixative and his colleague Ruby Lith.
If you understood any of that, you probably need bifocals
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 11 May 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
I think today's finally accepts a word for the first that Sam had previously rejected.
― Sid Bream You My Love (Leee), Thursday, 11 May 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
Raffia and teff.
Minor victories in a cascade of idiosyncratic wordz
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
Callaloo is good not bad, I thought I had remembered it was previously rejected which would have been annoying
― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
This is largely a game of plant and food words, afaic
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
Plants, Italian food, birds, Judaica
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
unexpected crossover right now, with the may 14 crossword and may 13 bee. 78D.
― formerly abanana (dat), Sunday, 14 May 2023 05:21 (one year ago) link
Wow after having several dalliances with the acacia / acai / iliac group we are back to the equally tedious cacao coca cocoa group.
I have been in love with the English language more or less since birth. It has riches beyond measure. Shakespeare, Milton, the Bible, Jane Austen, the lyrics of Queen.
And yet still I sometimes wake up at 4 AM and perversely occupy my stupid obsessive brain with coming up with yet more shapes of pasta and yet more dumb birds.
― sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
I have stopped doing the Bee for a while. It's very freeing.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
bee is awful
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
I think it's having an adverse affect on my spelling as I make up words to see if it will take them.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
Pangram today that’s not in the word list despite being so non obscure it has its own fkn emoji
― michel goindry (wins), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 09:52 (one year ago) link
What was it?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 25 May 2023 00:35 (one year ago) link
I was pleased to put in the hip musical genre 'boogaloo' yesterday.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Sunday, 28 May 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
I eventually guessed infinitude, but only then tried out finitude as a reflex. It is not a word I've ever encountered before
― Dan S, Monday, 29 May 2023 00:15 (one year ago) link
the paper version this week contains an “S”!!
!!!!!!11!!!1!eleven1!!!!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 May 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
Frustrating today to have "capacitive" rejected while playing on a capacitive touchscreen.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
once again pissed off that CAVITATE isn't a 'real' word
i mean has the guy even seen 'hunt for red october'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 05:27 (one year ago) link
xps alembic ⚗️
― michel goindry (wins), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 06:10 (one year ago) link
My job is to get genius on the NYT spelling bee every day and my bf’s job is everything else— dj fuck (@eggshellfriend) May 28, 2023
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 10:36 (one year ago) link
Yes that was annoying, also "capitate". And cavatappi! I thought all pastas were fair game.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
Spelling Bee Buddy is actually (and finally) a useful tool!
They've also been experimenting with the design for letting you play previous days and after too many one UI that needed too many clicks I think they've finally figured it out.
― Cashews Everything Around Me (Leee), Sunday, 18 June 2023 14:21 (eleven months ago) link
oh no
DOGGO
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 October 2023 08:10 (seven months ago) link
i found the one a couple of thursdays ago very difficult - the one about black ops maybe it was just because i hadn’t done one in a couple of months? felt more like a friday or even saturday tbh. enjoyable tho
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 October 2023 08:36 (seven months ago) link
how are CYCLONIC and CYCLONICALLY not accepted?! come on, sam
― scanner darkly, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:19 (seven months ago) link
lol i just realised i was posting about the crossword in the wrong thread, duh
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:24 (seven months ago) link
Speaking of other nyt puzzles, Connections is getting better. usually they have at least one hard group, like the one with SWIMMERS today. There's a copycat site called conlextions that's good too.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 28 October 2023 00:45 (seven months ago) link