The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

QB today. 2 uncommon words that I think we've seen.


jimmurphy said:

QB today. 2 uncommon words that I think we've seen.

Congratulations! I just got QB after leaving it for most of the day. The last four words just came to me.  question


KarenMarlowe said:

Congratulations! I just got QB after leaving it for most of the day. The last four words just came to me. 
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nicely done you two..the last four = 1 words are not coming to me so I'm calling it a SB night


KarenMarlowe said:

Congratulations! I just got QB after leaving it for most of the day. The last four words just came to me. 
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Nice!


Avoiding any more news, so early QB.

One uncommon word that is not new.


jimmurphy said:

Nice!

nice indeed...I ended up missing "diatomic" so no QB for me yesterday


Congrats everybody!

QB yesterday (long-delayed last word was macadamia, will try to squirrel that one away in memory).  We'll see about today, may be sort of nonfunctional here.


mjc said:

Congrats everybody!

QB yesterday (long-delayed last word was macadamia, will try to squirrel that one away in memory).  We'll see about today, may be sort of nonfunctional here.

Macadamia came to me right after macadam--which is a word I love (tarmacadam, tarmac, tar, macadam... ), so many words basically meaning the same thing. Diatomic was a fluke. I just saw it. 

QB-3 today and I think that's where I will end up. 


KarenMarlowe said:

mjc said:

Congrats everybody!

QB yesterday (long-delayed last word was macadamia, will try to squirrel that one away in memory).  We'll see about today, may be sort of nonfunctional here.

Macadamia came to me right after macadam--which is a word I love (tarmacadam, tarmac, tar, macadam... ), so many words basically meaning the same thing. Diatomic was a fluke. I just saw it. 

QB-3 today and I think that's where I will end up. 

Didn't know about tarmac/macadam, thanks!


Just got QB. A few uncommon, but nothing new.


jimmurphy said:

The words were Panama, as in the hat, which ml1 has objected to in the past; and Manhattan, as in the cocktail, which he may not object to.

Thinking about it he probably would not, on the grounds that nobody calls a panama hat just a Panama, whereas everyone calls a Manhattan a Manhattan. 

What say you, ml1?

I object to both. If Napa cabbage and India ink don't make the cut, those words should not either.


jimmurphy said:

Just got QB. A few uncommon, but nothing new.

I got the QB today using help from the Buddy. Once again they are totally arbitrary about which words with foreign language origins they accept and don't accept.

until they accept "viva" I'm not going to stop complaining about this grin


I mean, really. If it's good enough for Elvis, it should be good enough for the SB.


Just got QB after many returns and a lot of luck.

Learned some new words after I looked them up.


jimmurphy said:

Just got QB after many returns and a lot of luck.

Learned some new words after I looked them up.

jim for the win, again! nicely done...my many returns have not had the same success for me. I'm calling it an early SB night...no QB in sight for me tonight


I think the election (with other matters) has fried my brain.  -8 Fri, -4 yesterday.  -2 so far today, at least the trend is good, and there's still hope today.


mjc said:

I think the election (with other matters) has fried my brain.  -8 Fri, -4 yesterday.  -2 so far today, at least the trend is good, and there's still hope today.

a little less hope for me...I'm currently at QB -3 


Got the QB on Saturday.  Didn't focus and missed intuit yesterday.

QB-2 today.


Stayed at -4 Saturday, QB yesterday (didn't seem easy), -6 so far today.  Will the day end closer to QB, or with more practical tasks addressed??


another -3 day for me today... LOL


alha said:

another -3 day for me today...
LOL

-4 for me… ::sigh::


Missed paratha and hoodoo yesterday.

QB today.  grin 

All straight-forward. 


jimmurphy said:

Missed paratha and hoodoo yesterday.

QB today. 
grin
 

All straight-forward. 

I too missed "paratha" and "hoodoo" and somehow also missed "torah"...today, I'm picking up where I left off yesterday...stuck at -3 


Also missed hoodoo yesterday (and no idea where paratha came from, also close to missing torah). -4 so far this morning.


alha said:

I too missed "paratha" and "hoodoo" and somehow also missed "torah"...today, I'm picking up where I left off yesterday...stuck at -3 

managed to get it down to -2 but not too hopeful I'll get any closer


Missed dimity and toroid yesterday. Never heard of either.

QB earlier today. Some tricky ones.


QB today  grin

So many words!


Toroid by far the last one two days ago.  Dimity a leftover from reading Little House on the Prairie books, time after time (an experience you may have missed, if you're a Jim).  QB yesterday, delayed by one (or more?) of those two-spelling words.   Two short this morning.  Way too many words today, but familiar ones so far.

Usual acknowledgment, i always use the hints.

eta: cross posted, congrats jimmurphy!


mjc said:

Toroid by far the last one two days ago.  Dimity a leftover from reading Little House on the Prairie books, time after time (an experience you may have missed, if you're a Jim).  QB yesterday, delayed by one (or more?) of those two-spelling words.   Two short this morning.  Way too many words today, but familiar ones so far.

Usual acknowledgment, i always use the hints.

eta: cross posted, congrats jimmurphy!

way, way too many...when I hit Amazing and saw I still had 50 points to go to make it to Genius, I knew that today was going to be one of those day where making it to QB was not likely to be happening for me


alha said:

mjc said:

Toroid by far the last one two days ago.  Dimity a leftover from reading Little House on the Prairie books, time after time (an experience you may have missed, if you're a Jim).  QB yesterday, delayed by one (or more?) of those two-spelling words.   Two short this morning.  Way too many words today, but familiar ones so far.

Usual acknowledgment, i always use the hints.

eta: cross posted, congrats jimmurphy!

way, way too many...when I hit Amazing and saw I still had 50 points to go to make it to Genius, I knew that today was going to be one of those day where making it to QB was not likely to be happening for me

I made genius but 14 words away from QB. Not going to happen.

Congrats, jim! What time do you get up? LOL!


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