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

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

I figured this title would be more helpful than, say, The Dildo in the Dodo.

Hello Random House? Have I got a spec title for you...

Had no idea what one of todays pangrams was until someone in the Hive comments said they didnt think they'd have to refer to Urban Dictionary to get the word.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/crosswords/spellingbee-tips.html

Exhausting day today -- genius addy 317!

has there ever been this many pangrams?!

8 pangrams seems kind of ridiculous!

Yeah I am fucking stumped, I can only find 3 so far. What the hell

there's 8??? i have 6 and thought i was doing well.

for those who aren't planning on finishing: CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT

sorry sorry! picked the wrong formatting

Ah cmon

Also two versions of that one word is normal or not?

I'm really sorry!

they do accept alternate spellings of some words, e.g. mama/mamma and tepee/teepee. I didn't know they would accept it for this word, just tried it, but I thought I remembered that like traveling/travelling, the word can be spelled two ways

I forgive you but not him

i found 7 pangrams (one by sheer luck), no idea what the eighth is.

fun day! I always prefer it when there are a gazillion words to find

thank you mod for deleting my post. I also like it when I can find a lot of words, but sometimes when there are only a few words I do better

i don’t even remember how many pangrams i got. they really should highlight them in the word list

Yeah the reddit spelling bee mob are saying the same. Ive now got 4, even using the grid Im stumped. I try to hold off looking at the hive's clues til im close to genius but motherfuck this one's a hard one.

we haven’t had indian or italian dishes in a while..

well we could have. GARAM was there for the taking yesterday.

Italian food makes a slight return with AIOLI.

I need to remind myself sometimes to try things that verge on nonsense - reduplicative words and babytalk like CANCAN, BOOHOO, BOOBOO, MOOLA, GLOB.

Yesterday's had the stupidest one ive seen in a while, bollix

wordle

first time trying the game
4/6

wordle

I didn't mind seeing Trayce's word but today's exercise in futilibee was WAHINE but not WADI

i have a 97% wordle get rate, only missed the first one when i didn't know what i was doing.