I found the schef (adam schefter ha ha)'s government name, to no avail.
― jaymc, Friday, 19 November 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
discovering the hints has made it easier to get QB (i only look at them after i've hit genius) which i've now gotten like 3-4 times in the last week but it came at the cost of me wasting way more time on this game
― flopson, Friday, 19 November 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
the hints feature doesn't work on my partner's phone! nothing at all happens when you click "today's hints." maybe it's for the best.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 November 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
after genius I usually give up. Today I got friar, but not friary. also of course fray, but not affray and the puzzle didn't accept miliary (which is a common medical term), or milliary, referring to a Roman mile
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 November 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
Dr. C., I also find that the hints page doesn't work from in the app, but it does work from a web browser. Which actually is better because it makes it easier to toggle back and forth.
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 20 November 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
Ok today's PG is pretty obscure, and I had to cheat to get it.
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Saturday, 20 November 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
Agreed. I got it and thought "WTF dude, how can you know that and not know so many other common words?"
― Jaq, Saturday, 20 November 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
I got genius yesterday and today Ive only found six words... is saturday always hard?The crossword was quite hard too.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
Also how is pfft a word and not pepito?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
NYT's crosswords progress in difficulty, starting on Monday (easiest) to Saturday (hardest). Sunday is longest -- sometimes it's hard, more often it's more gimmicky.
The Bee doesn't seem to adhere to any kind of difficulty progression, meaning that any given day could be really hard -- at least in my experience.
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Sunday, 21 November 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
one of the hardest spelling bees ever today
― flopson, Sunday, 21 November 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
don't know how but I got the pangram today, some distant memory of an archaic word
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
I always have the most trouble with the compound words, got tipoff, but not tiptoe or tiptop
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
also didn't get potpie
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
managed to get to genius without the pangram which felt like a real achievement. was v surprised that pfft was accepted
― just sayin, Sunday, 21 November 2021 05:40 (two years ago) link
Considerably more palatable today! (Although I know some players don't like the high point total days.)
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Sunday, 21 November 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
I got loads really quickly today, easy wins with the IN UN and ING combos
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
Yep hit QB today (just the last three words with hints - as always, it was the easy obvious words that I had missed!)
― Roz, Monday, 22 November 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link
there were only two un-s and one in- unless you count inning and union, which I don't, but 19 -ings!
― Dan S, Monday, 22 November 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
i got QB but it took completely unreasonable amount of time to come up with GIVING/UNGIVING after getting everything elsewas a fun one today!
― scanner darkly, Monday, 22 November 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
It was voguing that escaped me (wouldnt it be spelt with an e?). I'm still not at QB yet, but I have 132 points so i guess im not far off?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2021 04:55 (two years ago) link
GAH the only 2 i missed were the 2 in Dan's post lol. Of all words to miss.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link
Today was a bit frustrating for me - got there but it was messy.
Futilibees:
continuo
tiffin
conn
nuncio
Words I didn't get without hints
uncuff
coconut
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 November 2021 12:27 (two years ago) link
woops sorry if that spoils -
I missed GOUGING yesterday to fall 1 word short of QB -- that one seems to always elude me.
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Monday, 22 November 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
I was also peeved tiffin was not allowed. And yet finito was. Que?
Course cunt was the first word I tried wannit.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
If that worked it would have been in like 9 of the last 15 bees, tbh. That combo of letters has come up a lot.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 22 November 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
Nice collection of most commonly used words here: https://nytbee.com/ (scroll down to Haven't I seen these words before?).
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
"finito" was our last word to reach Genius (which is our victory condition/stopping point), so i'm glad it worked!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
the 2 words i was missing yesterday were DEFAT and DEFATTED. fake words
― flopson, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
especially since FATTED wasn't accepted! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatted_calf
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
DEFAT was the last one i got so sure enough i forgot to do DEFATTED
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
today’s was kind of a slog for me
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
No tuple, punnet, unpeel and honestly whose nephew is this fraud exactly
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
“unpeel” redundant, surely just “peel” gets you therebut then if that’s so, what on earth does UNOPEN mean
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
whoops sorry all jeez
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
Hahah thank you *yoink* todays one has done my head in.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
I cannot see the pangram on todays for love or money.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
And it seems theyre skating the edge with some answers I'd class as 2 words, which makes it a bit unfair (like pullout for eg)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
Yeah today was really rough in terms of what it took and what it didn't, not gonna lie. Got the pangram and got to genius but QBing, nope. Then I got so vexed that I peeked and gah, double nope.
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
Genius is good going today imo, im at standstill some ways back
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
Leave it there, seriously. It's ugly. You're welcome.
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 November 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
tired of tomtit so wordle is the new hotness
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
basically hangman with some nice twists, only one word a day, six guesses max.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 November 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
nice! got today’s on my 4th guess
― donna rouge, Thursday, 25 November 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
same!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 November 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
LOL got the panagram first go today. It just immediately jumped at me.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 25 November 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
omg how on earth did i miss HEMP
― scanner darkly, Friday, 26 November 2021 05:24 (two years ago) link
important wordle rule that i just discovered: the word CAN contain two of the same correct letter and it doesn't have a mechanism for telling you that except you guessing.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 November 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
Intriguing.
Right now I would say I have no interest in a new word game timesuck
Then again that's also what I said about the Bee when I first saw it. Gah, reusing letters? I will never get the hang of that because it's different from Scrabble
-signed, Currently at a 223-puzzle streak on the NYT crossword
Who just re-upped for Fireball
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 November 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
not a timesuck! three minutes a day at most!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 November 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link