The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

KarenMarlowe

Oct 21, 2022 at 10:28am

marksierra said:
Plenty of words to find in the latest game (Oct 21)

Sure are. I have found 32 so far and I am only at "great."

jimmurphy

Oct 21, 2022 at 10:39am

KarenMarlowe said:

Sure are. I have found 32 so far and I am only at "great."

Crazy number of words today, but they flowed.

QB-2 in about 20 minutes, then nada.

yahooyahoo

Oct 21, 2022 at 10:44am

jimmurphy said:

KarenMarlowe said:

Sure are. I have found 32 so far and I am only at "great."

Crazy number of words today, but they flowed.
QB-2 in about 20 minutes, then nada.

32 words and one pangram and I've just reached "great." Need to take a break and resume during lunch.

ml1

Oct 21, 2022 at 1:16pm

I'm at 43 words and still pretty far short of Genius. Haven't looked yet, but I've got to believe today's QB is going to be around 70 words.

ml1

Oct 21, 2022 at 1:36pm

I tremendously overestimated the number of words for today's QB. I'm still 14 short at Genius, but it's not close to 70 words.

KarenMarlowe

Oct 21, 2022 at 2:57pm

50 words and 309 points. Genius, but not QB...

yahooyahoo

Oct 21, 2022 at 3:24pm

49 words and 311 points. I'm going to tap out unless I get bored later tonight.

alha

Oct 21, 2022 at 3:55pm

3 short of QB and that's where I'm likely to end up for today.

zucca

Oct 21, 2022 at 4:53pm Edited

52 words and 320 — I was pretty happy just to hit genius. But there's nothing like posting here to somehow help me find more words!

KarenMarlowe

Oct 21, 2022 at 5:09pm

zucca said:
52 words and 320 — I was pretty happy just to hit genius. But there's nothing like posting here to somehow help me find more words!

Haha! Keep going! I just got QB. I don't think there is one word that is uncommon, but now I got QB, I can't go back and look... Spent too much time on it, but I feel I accomplished something. LOL!

zucca

Oct 21, 2022 at 7:21pm

KarenMarlowe said:

Haha! Keep going! I just got QB. I don't think there is one word that is uncommon, but now I got QB, I can't go back and look... Spent too much time on it, but I feel I accomplished something. LOL!

Nice! I got one more long one since then but still have a long way to go. Good thing it doesn’t keep track of how long we spend on it. At least the crossword was fast today.

mjc

Oct 21, 2022 at 8:26pm

KarenMarlowe said: "but now I got QB, I can't go back and look..."

PSA: just recently realized that you can X out of the congratulations pop-up and see your words again.

marksierra

Oct 21, 2022 at 8:29pm

mjc said:
KarenMarlowe said: "but now I got QB, I can't go back and look..."
PSA: just recently realized that you can X out of the congratulations pop-up and see your words again.

Yes, I've discovered that, too.

KarenMarlowe

Oct 21, 2022 at 10:32pm

mjc said:
KarenMarlowe said: "but now I got QB, I can't go back and look..."
PSA: just recently realized that you can X out of the congratulations pop-up and see your words again.

Ohhh! I see that now. Thank you. Yeah, no words that were unusual.

jimmurphy

Oct 22, 2022 at 7:38am

Way to go Karen! snake

My last word found was ovine. Only miss was ovoid - shoulda seen it.

zucca

Oct 22, 2022 at 8:22am

I missed all four -ceived words. Argh!

KarenMarlowe

Oct 22, 2022 at 8:41am

jimmurphy said:
Way to go Karen!

My last word found was ovine. Only miss was ovoid - shoulda seen it.

Thank you! My last two words were civic and vivid.

alha

Oct 22, 2022 at 1:38pm Edited

KarenMarlowe said:

Haha! Keep going! I just got QB. I don't think there is one word that is uncommon, but now I got QB, I can't go back and look... Spent too much time on it, but I feel I accomplished something. LOL!

nice going on yesterday's QB question I mssed it by 3, two of which I should have gotten..."vivid" and "vended"...and one which I never would have gotten..."ovoid"....a word totally unfamiliar to me.

KarenMarlowe

Oct 22, 2022 at 2:52pm

alha said:

KarenMarlowe said:

Haha! Keep going! I just got QB. I don't think there is one word that is uncommon, but now I got QB, I can't go back and look... Spent too much time on it, but I feel I accomplished something. LOL!
nice going on yesterday's QB
I mssed it by 3, two of which I should have gotten..."vivid" and "vended"...and one which I never would have gotten..."ovoid"....a word totally unfamiliar to me.