The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

jimmurphy said:

Woot!

Woot is an understatement... ...congrats on your achievement. I'm at 39/204 and don't see how I can come up with three more words to get me to QB today. 

alha said:

Woot is an understatement...

...congrats on your achievement. I'm at 39/204 and don't see how I can come up with three more words to get me to QB today. 

Thanks Alha! The final word was pretty ironic…

Nonillion.

I also missed that! After all that nonillion talk. And loon. . . .

zucca said:

I also missed that! After all that nonillion talk. And loon. . . .

I’m trying to join/pair words.

If you get lion, you get nonillion.

Cocoa, cacao, coca.

Etc.

I don’t care for today’s letters so far. 

jimmurphy said:

I’m trying to join/pair words.

If you get lion, you get nonillion.

Cocoa, cacao, coca.

Etc.

 My son and I do that too (acai, acacia, etc.), but some of them just don't seem to lodge into my head. 

zucca said:

jimmurphy said:

I’m trying to join/pair words.

If you get lion, you get nonillion.

Cocoa, cacao, coca.

Etc.

 My son and I do that too (acai, acacia, etc.), but some of them just don't seem to lodge into my head. 

It's surprising how often nonillion comes up.

If you get lion, you get nonillion.

not always!

oots said:

If you get lion, you get nonillion.

not always!

 Why not? One of the letters has to be in the center...

jimmurphy said:

 Why not? One of the letters has to be in the center...

 i mean-I dont neccessarily find lion even if I  found nonillion ( which I look for now-but missed the other day)

made it to QB today 

alha said:

made it to QB today 

 Nice! Way to go!

I'm at 20/54. Last word I got earlier was the/a Pangram.  

Will have to revisit, although I am not hopeful as there was a lo-o-o-o-ng stretch between finding words.

jimmurphy said:

 Nice! Way to go!

I'm at 20/54. Last word I got earlier was the/a Pangram.  

Will have to revisit, although I am not hopeful as there was a lo-o-o-o-ng stretch between finding words.

Correction 21/68. The pangram did not register from the iPad on the train (first day back in the office)

So that means three 4-letter words. More hopeful!

I also got to Queen Bee today. My son did it, so I felt like I had to too!

zucca said:

I also got to Queen Bee today. My son did it, so I felt like I had to too!

I missed Nene, a word I almost always get.  Oh well.

Woot!

Me too! Great day to go for it!

Embarrassed by the last word I got, which was "High." 

Congrats to both of you...I'm calling it a night at 21/114 and won't be joining you two in the winner's circle today 

I got Queen Bee yesterday too.

KarenMarlowe said:

I got Queen Bee yesterday too.

 congrats to you too... I missed filch and filching, words I should have gotten, grr

Why wasn't "unindicted" included in yesterday's (10/18) puzzle. It's a common word. It's been used in the NY Times over a thousand times. Wrote to them; didn't even get back the standard response.

KarenMarlowe said:

Why wasn't "unindicted" included in yesterday's (10/18) puzzle. It's a common word. It's been used in the NY Times over a thousand times. Wrote to them; didn't even get back the standard response.

Wondered that too. A few days ago “undaunted” wasn’t there either. Emailed and got the standard response. 

Only missed word yesterday was “binning.”

Binning? 

jimmurphy said:

KarenMarlowe said:

Why wasn't "unindicted" included in yesterday's (10/18) puzzle. It's a common word. It's been used in the NY Times over a thousand times. Wrote to them; didn't even get back the standard response.

Wondered that too. A few days ago “undaunted” wasn’t there either. Emailed and got the standard response. 

Only missed word yesterday was “binning.”

Binning? 

 I actually emailed them about "undaunted." I got back the standard response. I got "binning" but only because I was fishing. Missed five words yesterday, most of them easy.

KarenMarlowe said:

 I actually emailed them about "undaunted." I got back the standard response. I got "binning" but only because I was fishing. Missed five words yesterday, most of them easy.

I looked it up and see what it means, but the inconsistency of omitting more common words and accepting more obscure words does annoy me at times.

jimmurphy said:

KarenMarlowe said:

 I actually emailed them about "undaunted." I got back the standard response. I got "binning" but only because I was fishing. Missed five words yesterday, most of them easy.

I looked it up and see what it means, but the inconsistency of omitting more common words and accepting more obscure words does annoy me at times.

 "Binning" seems to be a word that should be on their no-no list. Being one that is "hyper-specific to any background or professional field, such as terms that might be familiar to, say, a physician or geologist, but not people outside of that area of expertise."

Woot!

jimmurphy said:

Woot!

 congrats! I'm one word shy of QB and that's very likely where I'll end up for today. Enjoy the view at the top! 

jimmurphy said:

Woot!

 Damn.  That means I need 4 more words for Queen Bee.  Currently at 19 words/102 points.

yahooyahoo said:

 Damn.  That means I need 4 more words for Queen Bee.  Currently at 19 words/102 points.

Then you got the big 19-point word, which was my second-to-last. Well done! Glad others are still doing this.