The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

KarenMarlowe said:

One word shy today and I am just not seeing it. I'll keep working at it...

you're a lot closer than I am...currently at QB -4 and giving up


KarenMarlowe said:

One word shy today and I am just not seeing it. I'll keep working at it...

same here. Yesterday too. Penne (Doh!)


Got it! Last word was cellule. grin


KarenMarlowe said:

Got it! Last word was cellule.
grin

That's the one I missed.


Two days ago I was one short - "pinneped"  vampire


thought today I'd be the one singing the QB -1 blues but took a lucky guess and just got to QB  question


alha said:

thought today I'd be the one singing the QB -1 blues but took a lucky guess and just got to QB 
question

Wow! Congrats! Not even close...


79 words today. Holy cow. 

Even using the Buddy I can't get the last word. 


according to this site, yesterday was the second highest number of words and points in the history of SB:

https://www.sbsolver.com/stats/points/high

I was at 63 words when I got to genius. At that point I was burnt out on the puzzle and I went to the Buddy. Made it to 78 but even with hints I couldn't get "trigram." I did not know that was a word.


ml1 said:

according to this site, yesterday was the second highest number of words and points in the history of SB:

https://www.sbsolver.com/stats/points/high

I was at 63 words when I got to genius. At that point I was burnt out on the puzzle and I went to the Buddy. Made it to 78 but even with hints I couldn't get "trigram." I did not know that was a word.

yesterday was one of those days where getting to Genius was good enough for me.


alha said:

ml1 said:

according to this site, yesterday was the second highest number of words and points in the history of SB:

https://www.sbsolver.com/stats/points/high

I was at 63 words when I got to genius. At that point I was burnt out on the puzzle and I went to the Buddy. Made it to 78 but even with hints I couldn't get "trigram." I did not know that was a word.

yesterday was one of those days where getting to Genius was good enough for me.

the sheer number of words made it tough. Most of the 16 words I did not get when I made it to Genius were not uncommon. I didn't have migrating, migrant, immigrant, immigrating, etc. Sometimes I just can't stare at the puzzle any more grin


Got QB for the first time in a while today.


jimmurphy said:

Got QB for the first time in a while today.

congrats...I'm QB -5 today... didn't t even get the pangram but nonetheless made it to Genius and am fine with that. 


made it to QB today after many a day of near misses and many more of barely making it past Genius.  question


-5 yesterday. I missed some seriously easy words, like "barn." Oh well... 


should have persisted yesterday. There wasn't a single obscure word among the ones I missed.


collet was (is) obscure to me, electee a repeat offender


Anyone here do the daily KenKens?  (Yes, I still get a newspaper.)  If so, have they gotten harder recently or am I getting stupider?


QB for me today ...  question anyone else there or getting close?


One short.  I'm probably going to be slapping my forehead.


I am nine out!!! Never gonna get there...


QB is doable today. Just got it. Should have had it earlier...


KarenMarlowe said:

QB is doable today. Just got it. Should have had it earlier...

congrats...QB -3 here: should have gotten "blah" and "libidinal" but never would have gotten "blin"


I have to admit that "blin" was a bit of a typo. Going for "blini" and hit return too soon. 


Also doable today! Might have gotten there in record time today. 


zucca said:

Also doable today! Might have gotten there in record time today. 

nicely done! I'm at QB-4 and just not seeing any more words.


alha said:

zucca said:

Also doable today! Might have gotten there in record time today. 

nicely done! I'm at QB-4 and just not seeing any more words.

I'm at the same spot. QB-4 and no words to be had...


KarenMarlowe said:

alha said:

zucca said:

Also doable today! Might have gotten there in record time today. 

nicely done! I'm at QB-4 and just not seeing any more words.

I'm at the same spot. QB-4 and no words to be had...

same here 


ml1 said:

KarenMarlowe said:

alha said:

zucca said:

Also doable today! Might have gotten there in record time today. 

nicely done! I'm at QB-4 and just not seeing any more words.

I'm at the same spot. QB-4 and no words to be had...

same here 

Ended up QB-1. Somehow thought about "wigwag" while away from the computer but missed "wanna."


KarenMarlowe said:

ml1 said:

KarenMarlowe said:

alha said:

zucca said:

Also doable today! Might have gotten there in record time today. 

nicely done! I'm at QB-4 and just not seeing any more words.

I'm at the same spot. QB-4 and no words to be had...

same here 

Ended up QB-1. Somehow thought about "wigwag" while away from the computer but missed "wanna."

I used the Buddy to get QB yesterday when I stalled at -3. Would not likely have gotten "wigwag" on my own. And I didn't know pawpaw has an alternate spelling.

I try to get QB without using Buddy hints, but if I'm really close and feeling stumped, I will. 


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