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

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