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

Yesterday's CI word is pretty outrageous.

Today is a slog.

CINQUAIN is somewhat useful in scrabble because QUA and QUAI come up often.

Today is the first time in a month that I didn't get queen bee in before looking at the hints.

seriously, what’s up with repeated letters? four of the letters were present yesterday - and this was also the case for Apr 29 and Apr 30 bees

and the freaking Y again, both yesterday and today.

still annoyed about NACELLE

Otoh a lot of Star Trek nerds have probably been clamoring for NACELLE.

NACELLE annoyed me too, and like a lot of the Spelling Bee esoteric words I'm not sure I'll remember it in the future. I'm slowly learning to remember some though, and can make it to genius every day plus one or two words, without looking at the letter count stats and first-two-letter cues

I'm still amazed by how many four-letter words I miss. I try to focus on them first. They should be the easiest

Yesterday had LOLLOP again.

lol you're goddamn right i got nacelle

I don't give myself more than a half an hour or so to do this. Today there are three seven-letter words starting with G which are obvious on being given descriptive clues from the comments and are words I'm familiar with, but which I probably wouldn't get on my own: GALETTE, GLOTTAL, GAVOTTE.

Carly Simon would like a word with you, Dan S.

today the last words I got, only with the aid of clues in the comments, were NUNCIO and UNDID

sorry, I meant for them to be hidden

lol thanks though, the first was the only one I hadn’t got

may never get over VLOG being an answer the other day

that's just trolling

also trolling: using same 5 letters as we had 2 days ago and 1/3 of the answers also appearing 2 days ago

Like the grudgingly memorized sequence laic laical lilac acai acacia?

yep, and don’t forget iliac

Oh yeah, I'm hip to that one too.

haha

Sigh. Another day with good old laic laical lilac acai acacia iliac

Plus a bonus callaloo

I'm familiar with this from doing the clone at bee.ignoble.dev . If you get four of AEIRST there's around 10 words you always have to make.

I am an old print-centric creature and we used to speak of Etaoin Shrdlu.

Also Matt Fixative and his colleague Ruby Lith.

If you understood any of that, you probably need bifocals

I think today's finally accepts a word for the first that Sam had previously rejected.

Raffia and teff.

Minor victories in a cascade of idiosyncratic wordz

Callaloo is good not bad, I thought I had remembered it was previously rejected which would have been annoying

This is largely a game of plant and food words, afaic

Plants, Italian food, birds, Judaica

unexpected crossover right now, with the may 14 crossword and may 13 bee. 78D.

Wow after having several dalliances with the acacia / acai / iliac group we are back to the equally tedious cacao coca cocoa group.

I have been in love with the English language more or less since birth. It has riches beyond measure. Shakespeare, Milton, the Bible, Jane Austen, the lyrics of Queen.

And yet still I sometimes wake up at 4 AM and perversely occupy my stupid obsessive brain with coming up with yet more shapes of pasta and yet more dumb birds.

I have stopped doing the Bee for a while. It's very freeing.

bee is awful

I think it's having an adverse affect on my spelling as I make up words to see if it will take them.

Pangram today that’s not in the word list despite being so non obscure it has its own fkn emoji

What was it?

I was pleased to put in the hip musical genre 'boogaloo' yesterday.

I eventually guessed infinitude, but only then tried out finitude as a reflex. It is not a word I've ever encountered before

the paper version this week contains an “S”!!

!!!!!!11!!!1!eleven1!!!!

Frustrating today to have "capacitive" rejected while playing on a capacitive touchscreen.

once again pissed off that CAVITATE isn't a 'real' word

i mean has the guy even seen 'hunt for red october'

xps alembic ⚗️

My job is to get genius on the NYT spelling bee every day and my bf’s job is everything else

— dj fuck (@eggshellfriend) May 28, 2023

Yes that was annoying, also "capitate". And cavatappi! I thought all pastas were fair game.

Spelling Bee Buddy is actually (and finally) a useful tool!

They've also been experimenting with the design for letting you play previous days and after too many one UI that needed too many clicks I think they've finally figured it out.

oh no

DOGGO

i found the one a couple of thursdays ago very difficult - the one about black ops maybe it was just because i hadn’t done one in a couple of months? felt more like a friday or even saturday tbh. enjoyable tho

how are CYCLONIC and CYCLONICALLY not accepted?! come on, sam

lol i just realised i was posting about the crossword in the wrong thread, duh

Speaking of other nyt puzzles, Connections is getting better. usually they have at least one hard group, like the one with SWIMMERS today. There's a copycat site called conlextions that's good too.

Regarding Connections, the final swimmers category today was clever but not gettable on its own at all imo, and you had to know the four WNBA team names before that, which I also didn't know. My sister and I had a laugh over it

the purple (hardest) group I'm most proud of having gotten is:

mild, livid, mix, dill

yesterday's bubble, globe, marble and pearl seemed obvious in the end