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

compact discs i.e. redbook CD format media, are not a computer storage medium.

just go with the shifting plurals in that sentence alright

I had a dreamed about the SB last night, and what's more, S was one of the letters.

today's pangram seemed esoteric to me, I would never have gotten gunport

I like having tried to solve the low word count puzzles of the last few days though

TFW when you're at 43/170 but have accepted that you're not going to get the last 4-letter word.

I haven't encountered a puzzle with that many words yet, I try hardest to get every 4-letter word, it seems just

I stop at Genius and feel like a loser when two or three of my friends get to Queen Bee

Like, how tf

Irrationally upset that fronton isn't accepted today. The cultural fading of jai alai continues apace.

got the pangram today easily as with most of the puzzles, but with so many words it was hard to get them all - rotini, croci and tortoni (my nemesis, that horrible dessert) were all beyond me - but it burns me that I got friction, the pangram, but not fiction

tricot and tricorn came to me for some reason when I was thinking about tri- words, but I just made a guess with triton

not accepting PENTANGLE (a pangram!) is a halloween season outrage

As a fan of the band, I too was disappointed!

haha! that would-be pangram was one of the first words that jumped out at me

I got one of today's pangrams easily, but not the other, I couldn't think of any words that started with egg

Got genius today thanks to the thread title

I missed that one!

there seem to be a lot of bird-related words, today also pipit

I'm about done with the Italian foods. Tortoni, rotini, (both used recently) focaccia a couple days ago.

Meanwhile no prion, no introit

:) I have been primed to think about Italian foods. I got tortoni and rotini today.

To be complete you have to scour for every element in the table of elements and every bone in the body and its latin plural, although other common medical words like prion and embolize are ignored

sorry, didn't mean to reveal those words

ha those were the 2 i was missing to get queen be (i had long given up and would never have quested tortoni)

focaccia is fine imo but tortoni and rotini.... cmon

yeah i find raer foreign food words kinda start to blur the line of proper noun. also where the game shows its ass re: western-centrism

yeah why is miso accepted, but not mirin?

or nori!

yesterday's frankly a murderer's row of bullshit words that are only ever encountered in the spelling bee

And yet a bunch that would be perfectly good in Scrabble or an NYT crossword weren't. So it goes. My earlier assessment stands (that any one curator would probably yield the same complaints).

To Dan S.'s list of things to try I would add animals generally. Many times I struggle with common household words but can come up with shit like "okapi" or whatever.

Miso? That has an S though!

I've only been playing this a week or so and am so frustrated by the words that are not in the previous list!

Precious list, not previous. Ugh!

Miso? That has an S though!

Ah you’re right we never get S’s - I think i was mixing it up with my nyt crossword words lol

anyway the point was mirin should totally be in the list, as should nori!

I agree that MIRIN should be accepted, especially since UDON is a regular word in SB.

today's omissions included undaunted

and untenanted >:[

today's omissions included undaunted

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i literally thought i was going nuts so tried it a second time. still can't believe that omission.

xp I couldn't even think of tenant

And exudate!

This is the problem with a hand curated word list, omissions like undaunted are bound to happen.

Ugly letters today, I got spoiled on two words and I didn't even mind it.

Yeah I got to Genius and am stuck with 22 words in. Feels like there should be more in there, but there just aren't.

there were only a few words that had more than 5 letters. I got chichi, archaic and harridan but couldn't get the pangram today arachnid or anarchic

as far as puzzles go, I'm getting much better at the NYT hard sudoku and the LAT expert sudoku. The LAT impossible sudoku is still a challenge, because it requires visualiziing multiple moves in advance to solve it

I've been doing the NYT hard sudoku too! I think today's will stymie me though.

I got QB today, which is much more tractable than yesterday's, even though 2-4 of the words imo stretch the definition of common.

I feel like a DUNCE for falling one word short of yesterday's QB.

When you get to QB, does it change from Genius so you know? Because it seems unlikely I will get to that point and see it in person.

i think it’s the first time i got to genius without discovering a single 4 letter

xp yep a little graphic screen and everything

Nice! Something to strive for

QB status mostly eludes me. I usually do these in the morning. I get to Genius and stop. By the next morning I forget where my mind was, what avenues I'd pursued, and what I'd tried and hadn't tried, so seeing the answers the next day isn't very illuminating.

An exception: a few days ago I was already at Genius trying to get to Queen Bee. I think I saw, but didn't try, "ladyland". Turns out the word I was missing was the rather more pedestrian "landlady." Reader, I kicked myself.