The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

Finally a good day to go the distance. I know some of you have more recently, but I feel like it’s my first time reaching QB in a while!

Way to go!

Don’t think I’d ever have gotten “netty”

Yes, "netty" was just a shot in the dark.

mjc said:

Yes, "netty" was just a shot in the dark.

Agreed. The kind of thing you guess when your son already reached Queen Bee so you just have to.

zucca said:

mjc said:

Yes, "netty" was just a shot in the dark.

Agreed. The kind of thing you guess when your son already reached Queen Bee so you just have to.

Agreed. Stabbing wildly. Missed QB by one: "excellence." How even? Oh well...

KarenMarlowe said:

Agreed. Stabbing wildly. Missed QB by one: "excellence." How even? Oh well...

So you got excellent, excel, and excellency, but not excellence?

Ouch. 

Been stuck at QB-1 all day. Keep going back and shuffling, and nada…

ml1 said:

KarenMarlowe said:

Agreed. Stabbing wildly. Missed QB by one: "excellence." How even? Oh well...

So you got excellent, excel, and excellency, but not excellence?

Ouch. 

Yup. Doh!

jimmurphy said:

Been stuck at QB-1 all day. Keep going back and shuffling, and nada…

I am not even at genius. Been a very busy day... 

Tidbit. Grrrrr….

After a long dry spell, I finally got to QB today. It's only the second time this year that I've managed to go the distance.

alha said:

After a long dry spell, I finally got to QB today.

It's only the second time this year that I've managed to go the distance.

Way to go!

alha said:

After a long dry spell, I finally got to QB today.

It's only the second time this year that I've managed to go the distance.

Woot! Congrats! I've been calling it at genius lately. I always have an ebb and flow with the puzzles I do. 

KarenMarlowe said:

alha said:

After a long dry spell, I finally got to QB today.

It's only the second time this year that I've managed to go the distance.

Woot! Congrats! I've been calling it at genius lately. I always have an ebb and flow with the puzzles I do. 

I’m letting go a bit too. Hit a wall at 22/131 and didn’t really go back because I wasn’t making progress.

jimmurphy said:

KarenMarlowe said:

alha said:

After a long dry spell, I finally got to QB today.

It's only the second time this year that I've managed to go the distance.

Woot! Congrats! I've been calling it at genius lately. I always have an ebb and flow with the puzzles I do. 

I’m letting go a bit too. Hit a wall at 22/131 and didn’t really go back because I wasn’t making progress.

24/133. I gave up.

Gave up at 23

Small number of words today but I'm struggling with the last few.

I'm thinking I should have pressed on yesterday. But I'm not sure I would have considered "dunno" a word. 

ml1 said:

I'm thinking I should have pressed on yesterday. But I'm not sure I would have considered "dunno" a word. 

similar one today.

ml1 said:

I'm thinking I should have pressed on yesterday. But I'm not sure I would have considered "dunno" a word. 

"dunno" was the word that got me to QB yesterday 

yahooyahoo said:

Small number of words today but I'm struggling with the last few.

You and me both...stuck at 20 and ready to give up

jimmurphy said:

ml1 said:

I'm thinking I should have pressed on yesterday. But I'm not sure I would have considered "dunno" a word. 

similar one today.

that one I got

ml1 said:

that one I got

No Genius for me, today. Yet… 

Although I’m not optimistic. 4 points away and I got nothin’.

I've been away from the B for some months now. Trying to get back into it, and either I've lost a lot since then, or they've gotten harder - but I'm getting nowhere.

drummerboy said:

I've been away from the B for some months now. Trying to get back into it, and either I've lost a lot since then, or they've gotten harder - but I'm getting nowhere.

it's been weeks since I got it. And some days it just requires too much time. I'm not going for it if it's 60 or 70 words to solve. 

Learned a new word = villanelle.

yahooyahoo said:

Learned a new word = villanelle.

that's a new one for me too but don't know that I'll be able to remember it for future use.

alha said:

yahooyahoo said:

Learned a new word = villanelle.

that's a new one for me too but don't know that I'll be able to remember it for future use.

Never heard of it either… 

KarenMarlowe said:

Never heard of it either… 

I only heard of it in Killing Eve. So never thought of it as a SB word.