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

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.

I only got pome yesterday because it came up in a previous puzzle and is an anagram of poem

The hardest one for me today (besides trying to put together the compound words) was haulage

Yes, I didn't get that one either until I looked at hints. Also missed HALAL, which makes me kind of sheepish given a certain thread I started.

In fact I just realized I think I typed that word into that thread shortly before looking at the hint that I apparently still needed.

Today I managed to get the pangram but needed hints to get to Genius for the first time in a bit, then couldn't quite get to QB even with hints so looked at https://www.sbsolver.com/ so I could move on.

I hate to bring a Friends meme into this, but pitapat? That's not even a word!

Yes, that one was problematic. I actually tried some variations on that but never hit on the accepted one.

wow, wtf!?

Also, can you really have a singular tapa?

That last one has come up before but yeah

Eagerly awaiting the day I can confidently type in panino unless that day has already come and gone.

I've only been doing the puzzle for a few months, but pitapat has also come up before

Maybe we could have a thread of just words like that not sure. Might not be our style.

I know tapa as a type of cloth. But does Sam know that?!?

Saw that in the dictionary earlier today, never knew about it before myself.

This is the second time that I remember seeing today's PG, and both times I've only gotten it with hints.

So this was changed in midstream to avoid a repeat puzzle, apparently

My words! My beautiful words!

I hear you.

I think today's PG is my favorite.

WHAT!! Noooooooo!!

oh wow, i get to play two today!!

Lol I got QB in the second one, all is forgiven.

Same - I assume DOBRO was excluded as a proper name, but I thought it was pretty genericized at this point.

i was expecting the updated PG to be "SO SORRY THIS HAPPENED EVERYBODY MY BAD SAM"

I hadnt done that arsed up one first time around so I got to Genius on it a few hours after it went up (they go up at 5PM here which is nice timing), now I gotta start all over!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr5Q26E-Esw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FB7bwhj4Qw