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

The other day we were mad that it didn't take CETACEA

and i guess NONACIDIC is such an obscure word too. not
sam must’ve failed chemistry since he hates it so much

Ah, the daily ritual of Bee annoyance, what Sam will and won't include.

I love the smell of grievance in the morning

Allow me to grouse about a word that is not accepted today: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/placable

Last night's real words that were not accepted: BARDO and DOBRO.

accepting INEFFABLE but not EFFABLE is LAFFABLE

came here to post the same sentiment. i mean it’s one thing to cherry pick what’s accepted and what’s not, but this is pretty ridiculous

(i haven’t finished the bee yet but opened the spoilers because i knew exactly which words you meant lol)

Just out of devil's advocacy, have you really ever said, or written, EFFABLE?

Or, like, vincible, couth, plussed, sheveled?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaired_word#In_English

sam is a force of nature and we mere humans can attempt to rationalize his decision making but the point of this game is precisely the lack of any rhyme or reason when it comes to what’s accepted and what’s not

ppl love knowing the name of the dude who randomly deleted some words from the list of words

Scanner darkly, I have said before that if anyone else curated the list, the list would be just as arbitrary (just in a different way). What is obscure, what is obscene, what is a variant spelling.

Sam is okay with pipit, pippin, tallit, cabala, and dildo. He likes the acacia and acai combo, plus cacao cocoa coca.

The game is not (and has never been) "every word." Even Scrabble isn't "every word"; it's "every word in the official dictionary," which may mean the US Scrabble dictionary or SOWPODS or whatever.

it’s not arbitrary at all, it’s a character study of sam ezersky in chiaroscuro

^ best use of "chiaroscuro" in ilx history; thanking u

i doff my cap sir

anyway that's why i like the paper one, because there is a word list, but (as i have probably bored you with already on this thread) you are actively encouraged to count other words not on the list if you deem them acceptable (by whatever your own criteria are), so actually every paper spelling bee becomes a character study of YOU!

Gutted that I tapped out at Amazing on Friday. Ended my 26 day Genius run. On my birthday, even!

did sam forget to turn in his homework or

wha happen

my app refuses to update with wednesday’s

ok sam is just plain trolling us with that pangram at this point, right

My thoughts exactly.

Trolling through the tulgey wood

Pangram was good but they should have accepted ummagumma