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
was today’s SB co-edited by ned flanders??
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Wait when did he started putting the points for QB upfront?
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
Just noticed that! A change since this morning in the app.
― Jaq, Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
Thanks for confirming. Today looks like another slog through the word pit. Quatermass and the Word Pit.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 11:11 (one year ago) link
It is, to me, a bummer that the pangram INVAGINATION is kiboshed
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
Hmmm the QB point level is not there now, was earlier this morning.
― Jaq, Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
RUGRAT: Not in word list.
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 June 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
AGHARTA: Not in word list
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 June 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
Still at Amazing but at least I got GANACHE
― Jimmy Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne Mary-Anne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
Yeah I got that one too. Could not have gotten galangal without a hint.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
i got both of those but will got stuck 13 points from QB :/
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
I am really amazed today's SB allowed nonce. Given it seems to really sidestep any potentially offensive words.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 16 June 2022 07:38 (one year ago) link
?
I only think of it as for now / ad hoc / coined, as in "nonce word."
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 16 June 2022 10:01 (one year ago) link
That one has at least 2 common definitions besides the potentially offensive one which I guess is how it’s kept in; the same is true of ones I’ve seen excluded tho, I think it’s quite inconsistent (unsurprisingly). Also nixing INCEL feels vaguely cowardly Completely different note but I was pleased when OLEIC was allowed today and immediately tried LINOLEIC and LINOLENIC, no dice
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I assumed incel wasnt there as its fairly new slang. Though noob is, so who knows.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 17 June 2022 05:47 (one year ago) link
YENTE ?an alternative spelling of YENTA? really?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 08:57 (one year ago) link
and no GIBBET ehwishful thinking on sam’s part surely
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 08:59 (one year ago) link
No DOBBED or GOBBED either.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
The one I am most disappointed in not receiving credit for is GOTOBED.
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
Still weird to me that BOLE is not acceptable.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 09:22 (one year ago) link
agreed
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 11:00 (one year ago) link