As seen here: Rewrite the openings to famous novels in the style of John Lanchester
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
I had another pair to gripe about but capitalization.
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
there were a lot of chemistry words today
tried both mamacita and catamite
missed words like climatic, lacteal, acetate
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
and titmice!
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
chemistry words and medical words
acetalaceticacetatecalcitemalic
celiaciliaclactic
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
didn't hide it all, sorry
but not ictal, which an often used medical term
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link
Keep typing LAIRD to no avail.
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 May 2022 11:06 (one year ago) link
Yeah that’s bullshit. Fuck catamite not counting as well!!
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Sunday, 8 May 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Inclusions are never bullshit ime, exclusions are often bullshit
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Sunday, 8 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Tomtit talks and bullshit walks.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 May 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
Biggest bullshit today might be that none of the variant spellings of arrack are accepted
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Monday, 9 May 2022 07:16 (one year ago) link
That’s right folks, The CADDY.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
Ok I know the whole gag is that definitions of obscure are like subjective but let’s be real there exists no sane rationale for iodine but not iodide. It’s stoopid
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
a lot of chemistry words again today! oxide, dioxide, diode, iodine, monoxide, neon, xenon
I got doxxed but didn't think of doxx or the alternate spelling of the past tense, doxed
― Dan S, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
No HIPPING, no credibility.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 08:40 (one year ago) link
QB no hints today!feel like CAPING should be a word?
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
Well done! May your reign last forever!
Agree on caping. I was genuinely surprised that there was no pipping allowed either.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
I absolutely smashed it yday, QB in no time & some v satisfying words like COLDCOCKEDAnother bit of editorial stupidity to complain about tho: DECKLE but not DECKLED? The latter form is the only one I ever encounter, ymmv but in any case why would you not have both
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Saturday, 14 May 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
yes otmin orbit probably has thoughts on this
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 14 May 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
Thought the same thing about DECKLED.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 May 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
Having real trouble getting to genius today!
― Santa Barbarous (Leee), Monday, 16 May 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I hit the wall a while back as well. Will need the hints tonight I guess
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 May 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
i got there but it felt like tacking against the wind
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 May 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
Just made it to Genius but now I want to collapse.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
Okay, kind of annoyed FLAM is not accepted.
― Apollo and the Aqueducts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 May 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
I wonder if today is an all-time low in the number of different letters that the words start with (sort of an anti-bingo).
― Averaged Sevenfold (Leee), Friday, 27 May 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
I got very annoyed about WIGWAG because it is NOT A WORD.
― trishyb, Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
and also WIGWAGGING
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
yesterday I got tripped up by the -oid words - droid, android, paranoid, opioid
and I wouldn’t have thought of words like riparian and rapini on my own
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
I wonder if today is an all-time low in the number of different letters that the words start with (sort of an anti-bingo).― Averaged Sevenfold (Leee), Friday, May 27, 2022
and almost all of them start with one letter!
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 May 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
Yay: GIGGING finally accepted!Nay: WINCHING isn't
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Saturday, 4 June 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
in orbit probably has thoughts on this
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, May 14, 2022 3:34 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
You know me so well!
Today: No WENCHING is just stupid.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 4 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
well and WINCHING, which seems like an actual mistake rather than a judgment call
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
I think that most days tbh, but I’m not sure how there can be mistakes as I assume they start with a full list of dictionary words & then actively take out ones they don’t like? Equally though I find it hard to imagine an actual professional editor looking at today’s set & going oh there’s no way we can include such obscure, never-encountered words as CONMEN, TOTEMIC or COMMIE
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Sunday, 5 June 2022 10:54 (one year ago) link
webster has “CON MAN” as two words but it feels tendentiousCOMMIE slangy but hard to justify excludingTOTEMIC feels like a straight up miss, usually the sort of word sam loves to include
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 June 2022 11:53 (one year ago) link
lol, was coming here to post about TOTEMIC and somehow knew someone would've beaten me to the punch. Ludicrous omission.
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Sunday, 5 June 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
Today's is just making me weary. So many words
― Jaq, Sunday, 5 June 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
Agreed
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 June 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
Multiple PGs too though only one is typical SB fare.
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Sunday, 5 June 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
loved today's spelling bee, forgot about the pangrams and enjoyed finding a lot of words
― Dan S, Sunday, 5 June 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
today the hardest words for me were ecotone, icemen, mnemonic, tectonic, monotonic
― Dan S, Monday, 6 June 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
sorry meant to hide that, not italicize it
I use the spelling bee assistant app in Chrome, and when I saw there were 32 fucking words starting with CO my heart sank.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 6 June 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I started too late in the day and I just had other things to do. I think I got maybe half the words. It's a good reminder that losing your precious streak is not actually a big deal and the sky does not fall in just because you didn't get QB one day.
― trishyb, Monday, 6 June 2022 09:09 (one year ago) link
I got to genius yday and immediately stopped, couldn’t be arsed finding all 500 words Looking at the answers tho was there really IMMINENCE and not IMMINENT? Really sloppy
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Monday, 6 June 2022 10:02 (one year ago) link
C was the middle letter
― just sayin, Monday, 6 June 2022 10:20 (one year ago) link
Doh yeah, quite conspicuously so! I forgot already
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Monday, 6 June 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
I was HORRIBLE yesterday, just didn't see half of those words at all. Admittedly I was a bit busy and *gasp* FORGOT TO FINISH WORDLE for the first and only time in 125 days. RIP streak.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 6 June 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
My brane just shuts down at some point can’t see anymore words.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 June 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
mine does too, usually somewhere between 5 and 10 words from the end, although in that bonanza episode yesterday it was more like 20
― Dan S, Monday, 6 June 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link