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

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.

Oh yeah, totally.

I really didn't like that HUBBY was an accepted work today.

My organization's subscription level doesn't get me access to the full game, so I have to be content each day with hitting the halfway limit or whatever the cutoff is.

i don’t use hints because i hate sam ezersky and don’t want to give him the pleasure #realtalk

B-b-but then why do the Bee at all?

As predicted I am one word shy of QB. Not sure if I want to go to the hints yet.

Okay, looked at the hints and it’s over. An easy word I just wasn’t seeing.

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

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:32 PM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i should've made it hidden, my bad

the NYT games subscription is only $40 per year and is totally worth it! I still haven't gotten to queen bee without hints, but today I came close.

I can solve most of the hard sudoku puzzles, but was stymied by the one today. I've also been trying to solve LA Times' impossible sudoku.

The crossword puzzle is fascinating, I'm learning, but the puzzles beyond Monday/Tuesday are mostly beyond me

Thinking maybe I might try to post some of the words I didn’t know at all the next day on this thread.

the NYT games subscription is only $40

What! Its charging me $5 a month via the AppStore! (i could not get it to work via my regular NYT account on the website)

The crossword puzzle is fascinating, I'm learning, but the puzzles beyond Monday/Tuesday are mostly beyond me

I started doing them last year and felt the same way but you'll get the hang of it pretty quickly imo, esp once you get used to the oft-repeated crosswordese.

I do the crossword, spelling bee and wordle all in the 5-6 hours after I finish work and before I go to bed

I must have tried BUBO about 20 times in the Spelling Bee yesterday. I still don't understand where their word list comes from.

Sam W., if you go to nytbee.com, you can see both the answers and a tidy list of dictionary words that weren't included. Sometimes it helps to see the kind of thing Sam E. might have considered and rejected as "obscure."

beebee
bene
benne
benny
bobby
bobo
boney
bonne
boubou
boyo
bubbe
bubby
bubo
bubu
bunn
hebe
nobby
unbe
yobbo
yobby

Some are Briticisms, like boyo, or Frenchy stuff that doesn't quite rise to the level of a properly integrated loanword, like bonne. Some might be considered potentially offensive, like hebe.

I get that it's fun for some folks to just plain hate on Ezersky for what he includes vs. excludes; I continue to think that if you or I made the judgment calls, some of those calls would seem just as arbitrary and capricious.

of course they would, but the inclusions/exclusions would be more interesting

bobo

gotta give sam props for excluding this though, suck it david brooks

A Mad Puffin-curated Bee might have more nautical terms - clew, luff, bitt - and fewer birds and types of pasta. Probably more medievalisms - glaive, shrove. Might have to draw a clearer boundary around Yiddish, probably. (Like in the past few days it's allowed "yente" but excluded "bubbe," for no reason that I can discern.)

I had exactly the same experience vis-à-vis BUBO. Eventually I searched for it and found that nytbee.com site YMP mentioned. I too often end up typing words multiple times just in case I typed them wrong or thought I had typed them but didn't.

lol more BINNACLE and TAFFRAIL please

xpost

Tracer, we got fantail today

YMP OTM.

I take issue with not allowing "Britishisms" like bobby/lorry/yobbo, when theyre fine with obscure spanish words like HORCHATA which I'd never heard of til playing this game bcs not everyone has a mexican food-heavy culture!

(ok mayb not obscure to americans but sure as shit was to me)

I always know that one from visiting Barcelona.

But what I really came to post is:
tedious exercise: enumerating just how many words can have a -Y or -LY stuck on the end

Today's word I never heard (of before):
LAYETTE

Oh that's just a small lay.

eely was also new to me

Isn't that what the Christ said on the cross?

"Eely eely Lama sabachthani"?