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

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

At some point I don’t mind that much if I don’t get the last few since I can look at them all the next day to remind me of the ones I missed.

um, here's another daily puzzle thing, albeit not words, that i've been doing for ~6 months and this is the first one i haven't managed.

https://brainbashers.com/showtracks.asp?date=0330&type=B&size=10

(i don't think that you ever need to try things and see what happens and backtrack if they don't work, it's not one of those puzzles. every click should be logical based on the current state)

ooh, Puzzle Solved [Time = 11:28]

Yesterday I missed DEVEIN, DEVEINED, DIVVIED and VIVACE.

And just now learned the word HEME.

I met Sam at #acpt2022 such a big 🐝 fan I am!!
thanks for doing so much to make it fun this weekend !! pic.twitter.com/aXCkfRAjzX

— jk (@kaplajk) April 3, 2022

Was confused by that lady's neck attire til I realised its just a mask pulled down.

really struggling with getting genius today

yeah todays is quite hard

I usually have a few goes at it throughout the day and yesterday I didn't have time, so I didn't get genius, which was frustrating. So many easy words. Who doesn't know POEM? I don't want Sam thinking I don't know POEM.

Don’t think of that way. Don’t think of it as you don’t know the word. Think of it as it was hard to come up with the word because the puzzle was challenging/confusing/stressful for some reason.

i know poem, i don’t know pome

Group them together from now on, like somebody said upthread about some other words.