Let's do another NYT Spelling Bee together (spoilers!)

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1

It’s another day that’s asking for too many points and I just don’t feel like dealing with it by myself.

The rules are that you have to use the capitalized letter at least once in every word. Otherwise, you can use any combination of the remaining letters, as many times as necessary.

Today, the letters are:

Nimoprt

You get 1 point for a four letter word, 5 for a 5 letter, 6 for 6, etc., plus extra points if you use all the letters (called a pangram – I haven’t found it yet). I have 20 words and there are 50 total. Here’s what I have so far:

  • Imprint
  • Into
  • Minor
  • Mint
  • Mono
  • Moon
  • Morn
  • Moron
  • Noon
  • Onto
  • Pint
  • Pinto
  • Pontoon
  • Porn
  • Porno
  • Print
  • Pronto
  • Tint
  • Toon
  • Torn

No cheating! I know where to find the answers, but I trust that no one here will search them out.

2

Promotion, right off the bat.

3

Motion
Monitor
Point
Promo
Portion

4

Promotion was the pangram! Thanks. Thanks for the rest, except PROMO – no “N”.

5

Onion
Notion
Intro
Nitro
Mono
Potion

6

All excellent. I had already found MONO, though.

I would usually try harder before throwing it to you intellectual wolves, but I just don’t have the energy today.

7

I’ll add Proton and we’re up to 31 words. 19 to go!

8

I’m up to 37 words. 13 to go. Here’s the current list:

  • Imprint
  • Into
  • Intro
  • Mini
  • Minion
  • Minor
  • Mint
  • Monitor
  • Mono
  • Moon
  • Morn
  • Moron
  • Motion
  • Nitro
  • Noon
  • Notion
  • Onion
  • Onto
  • Pinion
  • Pinot
  • Pint
  • Pinto
  • Pippin
  • Piton
  • Point
  • Pontoon
  • Porn
  • Porno
  • Portion
  • Potion
  • Print
  • Promotion
  • Pronto
  • Proton
  • Tint
  • Toon
  • Torn
9

Option
Proportion

10

Excellent! Option got us to Genius level (163 points), and proportion helped blow it away.

There are still 11 words that remain, and prion doesn’t count (I guess it’s too obscure?).

ETA: Just added Opinion, so 10 to go!

11

Iron
Triton

12

Nice! 8 left.

13

Intromit
Intromition

which are real, but unlikely to be on the list

14

Yeah, no luck.

15

Orion (a constellation)
Prion (a malformed protein)
Ronin (a Samurai rank)
Tinpot (?)

16

Pinpoint
Roint

17

I tried all of those before (except Orion – no proper names) and it doesn’t accept any of them. I was mostly surprised by prion and tinpot. They accept some scientific terms (which I never heard of, like bilabial) and not others.

ETA: Yes to pinpoint, no to roint.

18

Only 7 words left. If we don’t get them by around 5PM, I’ll find them and post them.

19

I thought Orion was the most likely to go through, given that they accepted Triton also.

20

Triton: a large mollusk which has a tall spiral shell with a large aperture, living in tropical and subtropical seas.