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

WAP?

Ah, I got it, thanks!

Okay, in what world is unimmunized not a word?

Thine alabaster cities gleam UNDIMMED by human tears

The Sheik, he drove his Cadillac
He went a-cruisin' down the ville
The MUEZZIN was a-standin'
On the radiator grille

garbage game

Appropriately enough no MIDDEN either.

Was stuck on last word and gave up. Don't think I've ever had last word be such an easy, common word: medium. Hard to feel good about getting all the other words when you miss such an easy one.

Okay, in what world is unimmunized not a word?

― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Saturday, March 12, 2022 9:22 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's irreversible, no?

oops sorry forgot to re-do the hide tag

Had the same reaction, Leee. That was the point where I peaced out.

oh yeah, that one. Me too.

One word completely unknown to me today but managed to construct it from the hint.

Muon is definitely a word, idiots.

I know right!!

Unless it's a bird, Sam doesn't care.

Not even all birds make the cut with Sam - no caracara, no motmot

not allowing yoyo baffled me. Is it because its hyphenated?

Probably

The hoopoe is another rejected bird

Almost got to QB without having to look up the NYT chat column on yesterdays! Had to use them only for one word, so I'm pretty chuffed.

Anyone get QB today? I've got 2 LI words left and wondering if it's worth it to keep trying or of they're too bizarre.

Lol ok now it's 1 word left. How the fuck did I not see linen until now.

Granny, I used to always overlook that word till I forced myself to remember. As for the last word:

If it's an LI8, then it's a compound word
If it's an LI7, then it's a noun derived from an LI5

Good on you guys. I almost never make QB without hints, probably will not happen today.

I've got 5-6 points to go, I'm presuming it's one word. Annoying

I turn to the official hints once I've reached "Amazing" and my progress has halted. (Which is why I knew it was LI words I was missing)

Thanks for the hints Leee! It was the latter one and no way I would've gotten it without your hint. Now gotta file it away for reference.

How come FIEF but no LIEF?

Also would never have gotten LIBELEEE without the hint.

I knew to expect that one from previous Bees.

Actually the last few days have been pretty clean, with relatively few "why this but not that" outrages. Like, MINICAMP but no PAPI is one I remember.

The compounds and baby talk remain a realm of mystery. Like BOOBOO and CANCAN and BOOHOO but not YOYO.

Like all Bee players I have extremely
precise gripes about what gets deemed foreign. Like, if NADA is okay, why not ARRIBA?

On some level it's pointless to belabor these, but the consensus on this thread has generally been that griping is part of the game. Okay

Outside the thread too.

lol it was BELLE i missed. ffs

Happens all the time

As a Canadian, I keep getting distracted from legitimate words this Saturday by the presence of “Manitoba” and “Timbit”.

Yesterday was my first time to reach Queen Bee level without looking at the two-letter hints. So proud of myself.

nice!

Well done!

Not a Canadian but I also kept seeing Manitoba

No, wait, not Queen Bee, but Genius. Yes, that's what I meant. False alarm. Stand down, everyone.

Good job, still! I have the thing where, once I see a word that's not on the bloody list, I keep seeing it over and over to the exclusion of other actual words. So I have to stop and go do something else for awhile before my brain goes reasonable about letters again.

i find it difficult to get to QB when the number of answers exceeds something like 50 precisely because it’s difficult to stop the brain from going over the same words or forgetting the words you already found

^this!

So CAMI is short for camisole?

yes, that comes up frequently

Thanks. How about COACT?

:) I didn't get that until reading the comments

I've learned to think of coca, cocoa, and cacao together, and cami and camo

after months of trying I can usually get to genius, but even when I get beyond that and eventually give up I'm always at least 8 or 9 words short of queen bee

Good idea. What about COXA?

Feel like Genius is gettable most days but QB is almost always too hard, so basically try to get to Genius on my own for as long as possible but have no qualms about looking at hints for QB, which I believe others on the thread have said as well, not to take away from those who do get to QB on their own of course.

^same here

xp COXA was from left field I thought. As someone in medicine I'm always looking for words related to it, but that's not a medical term