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

have ended with JAZZY twice

Oh yeah, I just had that one!

actually just got it again. the way i play seems to force it in that direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0COws8SyQus

Absurdle 5/∞

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SEAMY
GROIN
BUTCH
FLEET
TWEED

Took some trial and error, I can get 6 fairly reliably. Put Y in the first guess so it doesn't appear in the result, gets rid of words ending double letter Y e.g. JAZZY. Getting S out of the way also helpful, and as many other high frequency letters as you can.

Ahhhh that's a good tactic

Wordle 207 4/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Started off with ADIEU today after reading about it from someone else's strategy.

Ooh thanks for Absurdle, I like it

Absurdle 5/∞

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

5 on my first Absurdle. I did my first Wordle in 2 so there’s some serious beginner’s luck going on here

Absurdle 5/∞

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Tomorrow's Wordle answer should be MATHS. See how they like it

— Alex Selby-Boothroyd (@AlexSelbyB) January 12, 2022

I’ve managed to get in five or six attempts pretty regularly on Absurdle - still trying to get that elusive four. Anyone else has managed?

Lots of fives but no fours - weirdly the one mention in the notes (aiery/canst/dolma/offal) doesn't work, laugh/lauch/pupal are all possible after that.

But if you guess pupal it gives you the win, instead of carrying on with laugh/lauch and giving a grey for the Ps and a yellow for the U.

sorry, not lauch (whatever that is), the c is not available. laugh still works though.

it has been pointed out to me that 'laugh' is not available at that point as 'a' in second place has already been ruled out.

Your point still stands: that the example given on the website does not work.

tangential but with wordle going supermainstream it's time for new new hotness:
https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/

my top so far is 10

11 on my first go, the last one actually had the date in the title but I misread 1598 as 1958

Nice, thanks! I got to two, then tried again for ten.

okay, 12

I like some of the titles & subtitles:

Jesus. Deity.
Diet of Worms. Diet.

Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire did not end in 1AD you fuckers.

Okay, 14. I'll stop until i get to 18

Mount Olympus, Mountain of Greece, created: 1938

Gigabyte Technology, Electronics company, created: 789

none of these other games including wordle or absurdle are as interesting as spelling bee to me

Puma clothing company apparently created in the year 0.

Yeah this is bad. Puma (brand), German clothing and consumer goods manufacturer, created: 0

Lol I posted that without refreshing the thread first oops

there are bugs, seems like they're wiki related. hoping they clean it up if there's enough interest!

needs a "complain about this date" button for sure

So OCOTILLO and however many other trees are accepted but not PIPAL??

No ITAL either.

Today I learned that Okinawa was created in 753CE and that Homicide (the act of human killing) dates to 1,300 BCE

This is just to say

I have eaten
the bread
⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️

the lemon
🟨⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️

the meals
🟨⬛️⬛️🟨🟩

the slime
🟨🟩⬛️🟩⬛️

the plums
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

— evilbooster’d 💉 (@evilrooster) January 10, 2022

is 1300 bce cain offing abel?

the "created" places are so infuriating. i need to stop playing this dumb thing.

lol’d at “The Time Machine (1960 film)” card
i find i can actually place things more accurately just based on the pics, a hairstyle or a painting style are good clues

17! getting there!

peaked at 23, really gotta walk away, all the dumbass things make my blood boil more than this mild diversion is worth it. one i don't think we've vented about is the arbitrary and silly dates when various art movements and historical periods "ended." also mannn there are a lot of Nazi military officers in this thing. can't recall ever getting any of their Allied equivalents even.

Probably due to nazi fanboy wikipedia editors: https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/

good read, thank you! i kinda figured. on top of Nazi apologism, Wikipedia provides ideal conditions for military nuts and wargame grognards generally. you wanna add crufty detail to some article nobody else is paying attention to? go right ahead! so any article about any battle or military figure is REAMS longer, more pointlessly detailed, more prose-y, and less citation-rich than an encyclopedia article should be. except for bold souls like ms. coffman, nobody edits all this stuff except other military nuts and wargame grognards, and barely anybody else reads it. god help you if you just want to BASICALLY brush up on the Battle of Midway, you could spend a whole afternoon there.

https://spellingbeetimes.com/2022/01/19/new-york-times-nyt-spelling-bee-answers-and-solution-for-january-19-2022/
The word ALIT has no known definition.

i was genuinely surprised it didn't accept HONEYBOOBOO today

Was thinking we should have a spoilery thread for such words.

first QB in some time for me today

Can't usually get to QB, especially without hints. Thus far have resisted the latter, but have this feeling like I must be a word or two away.

My rule is that if I get to Genius all by myself, I can go look at the Forum. That's usually good for another several words. Like, if I see there is still an EU- word out there and it's 6 letters, it's pretty easy for me to eventually get to EUNUCH.

If I'm still a word or two away, after working assiduously through the two-letter list and the word-length grid, I call it a day. If I'm very curious I may look at Hive hints or just frickin swallow my pride and go peek at the actual answer from nytbee.com or wherever. But I will not put it into the app, because I didn't earn it.

This regimen has me working - actively or passively - on the Bee from about 5:30 til 6:00, usually finishing at QB or a few words away, while still in bed. Once I get up I do the daily crossword, taking between 5 and 15 minutes depending on the day of the week. If I have down time during the day I will do archived puzzles or Wordle or Absurdle or Sweardle or Lewdle, but mostly I am just waiting for the next morning to start the cycle again.

I was just one word off QB before reaching for the hints today - annoyingly, it was the root of another word I’d found earlier. sometimes you just miss easy ones like that.