![]() My best performance was I was one word short of Queen Bee, and I never would have come up with that last word.Īt the end of day, that is how the New York Times Spelling Bee Works. It usually involved finding really archaic and low-frequency words. This is incredibly difficult to do, for the reasons I mentioned. ![]() If you get every word, you earn the title of Queen Bee. You can usually get to Solid or Nice without too much extra effort. The jump from Amazing to Genius is by far the hardest to make. On the road to becoming a Spelling Bee Genius, players work their way through several levels: Beginner, Good Start, Moving Up, Good, Solid, Nice, Great, and Amazing. Words that are primarily not English words seem to also be excluded. In addition, offensive words tend to not be included. I’ve found words that are only proper nouns, tend to not be included. The most disturbing is when you type something in, and you swear up and down it is not a word. Some of them are how you spell out different sounds. Some words are lesser-known variations of words you may already know. If a player users all seven letters to form a word, then that word is known as a Pangram and you will get an extra seven points for finding that word. So a seven-letter word earns you seven points. Each time you enter a word on the answer list, you receive points that move you from Beginner status to Genius. Players earn one point for finding a four-letter word, and one point per letter for words with five letters or more. Seven Letter Words Eight Letter Words Nine Letter Words Finding Spelling Bee Answers One of the fun things about the online version of the daily Spelling Bee is the progress chart. You can use any of the letters as often as you like in the word. The only requirement in making words is you must use the center letter in the word. You earn points by making words only with the seven letters presented. The number of points changes each day and can vary wildly, from low 50s to high 200s. The point of the New York Times spelling bee is to collect enough points to earn the title of Genius for the day. If you’re not finding the pangram, it’s going to be really hard to gain progress.Seven simple letters can cause so much grief. There are some solvers who won’t even begin solving the rest of the puzzle until they find the pangrams. I have a particularly high bar with the pangram, because that is the linchpin of the puzzle. This Year’s World Scrabble Champion Blew Everyone Away With a Three-Letter Word The Famous “Runaway Train” Music Video “Saved” 21 Kids. Simone Biles Just Shocked the Gymnastics World Again Netflix’s New Show Stars Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler. ![]() ![]() I try to make the puzzle hard primarily through the answers in the puzzle, especially the longer ones that are worth more points, rather than the pangram itself. I don’t believe there was a single marginal call, but that pangram was wicked, right? I usually try to avoid that, though. ![]() I believe all the other words in the word list were six letters or fewer and were very, very, very straightforward. That pangram was so difficult and so hard to see, to stitch together a few letters and then tack on the remaining ones. Ultimately, my guiding question is: What feels fair to our wide-ranging audience? I don’t want to snub those where it’s a word that is so common to their background or lifestyle or culture, but I also don’t want to include something that will truly mystify the vast majority of our solving audience-and not just those queen bee folks who know everything. I’ll see if the word is listed in the major dictionaries that I have at my disposal, which primarily are Merriam-Webster and the Mac dictionary, which I believe riffs off New Oxford American. I’ll see if it gets a lot of news coverage. If I’m unsure, if this is something that’s a total blind spot–hello to all the gardeners out there, you all know I don’t know my plants that well-I’ll go digging around. My methodology is just extensive research. Even though the word list is a binary “yes, it’s in the word list” or “no, it’s not in the word list,” there are tons and tons of close calls. That’s the million-dollar question! A lot of the calls are pretty easy. ![]()
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