Tomtit in the tilth -- the NY TIMES SPELLING BEE thread

I was also peeved tiffin was not allowed. And yet finito was. Que?

Course cunt was the first word I tried wannit.

If that worked it would have been in like 9 of the last 15 bees, tbh. That combo of letters has come up a lot.

Nice collection of most commonly used words here: https://nytbee.com/ (scroll down to Haven't I seen these words before?).

"finito" was our last word to reach Genius (which is our victory condition/stopping point), so i'm glad it worked!

the 2 words i was missing yesterday were DEFAT and DEFATTED. fake words

especially since FATTED wasn't accepted!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatted_calf

DEFAT was the last one i got so sure enough i forgot to do DEFATTED

today’s was kind of a slog for me

No tuple, punnet, unpeel and honestly whose nephew is this fraud exactly

“unpeel” redundant, surely just “peel” gets you there

but then if that’s so, what on earth does UNOPEN mean

whoops sorry all jeez

Hahah thank you *yoink* todays one has done my head in.

I cannot see the pangram on todays for love or money.

And it seems theyre skating the edge with some answers I'd class as 2 words, which makes it a bit unfair (like pullout for eg)

Yeah today was really rough in terms of what it took and what it didn't, not gonna lie. Got the pangram and got to genius but QBing, nope. Then I got so vexed that I peeked and gah, double nope.

Genius is good going today imo, im at standstill some ways back

Leave it there, seriously. It's ugly. You're welcome.

tired of tomtit so wordle is the new hotness

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

basically hangman with some nice twists, only one word a day, six guesses max.

nice! got today’s on my 4th guess

same!

LOL got the panagram first go today. It just immediately jumped at me.

omg how on earth did i miss HEMP

important wordle rule that i just discovered: the word CAN contain two of the same correct letter and it doesn't have a mechanism for telling you that except you guessing.

Intriguing.

Right now I would say I have no interest in a new word game timesuck

Then again that's also what I said about the Bee when I first saw it. Gah, reusing letters? I will never get the hang of that because it's different from Scrabble

-signed, Currently at a 223-puzzle streak on the NYT crossword

Who just re-upped for Fireball

not a timesuck! three minutes a day at most!

Yes, worth it! Thanks forks - did you also bring up Two Dots? Not words but someone mentioned it and now I am hooked.

forks, "not a timesuck" brings up problems of its own, unfortunately.

Some days I actively need to banish time. If I can finish the Bee before getting out of bed, and do the crossword before breakfast, wtf am I supposed to do for the rest of the day? Work at my job, like a savage? Fuck that.

Got my first QB today :) I did have to cheat a bit on one word, which I completely didnt know so had to cross check via the discussion thread clue people.

congrats! :)

is "Two dots" "Two No Touch"? If so, unfortunately that's me.

Lately I seem to have a knack for QB minus one, which usually means it's something other than typical English orthography. If there's a structure like -ED, -ING, or -ATION, I get the stuff that works in those patterns but miss stuff that is outside it, like pasta or birds.

Yesterday the one I couldn't get was BABKA. Today it was DOODAD.

I got the wordle on my second guess today!

trying to think of the best wordle word to start with. "Atoms"? "Safer"?

I would reveal my go-to wordle start word, but then I would be practically giving away the answer to today's puzzle.

I lucked out and got four of the letters - two in the right place, two in the wrong place.

LOL, Lily that has me guessing your starter word! TIDAL?

nope!

Back in the typesetting era we would have worked backward from ETAOIN SHRDLU. Which really only helps on the first few guesses, because orthography kicks in and starts constraining your options.

tired?

I’ve been starting with a three-vowel word

that's the one!

ok this is pretty fun. i got wordle in 3 tries, which is probably a lot of luck however it’s interesting how quickly you narrow it down

todays SB was odd. Doggo, really? And wtf is noodging (I had to literally start making up words to work that one out and just hit it by chance)

tracer’s post upthread about how ‘Sam Ezersky is a guy who says WOOT’ is so otm

Trayce I think you're officially One Of Us now.

Hehe yes its very addictive!

the thread title that keeps on giving

lol

just reading m john harrison’s most recent book and the word “tilth” makes a small, matter-of-fact appearance

I get emails and promotional stuff for gardening supplies and--surprise!--there's a tool called a "tilther."

pure tilth