# NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [December 17, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739 "2023-12-17T15:50:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 100
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1981 "2025-08-23T21:18:10Z")
An unaided QB here as well; I was stuck on VIED for the longest time, but finally it occurred to me. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1982 "2025-08-23T21:36:05Z")
I realize that today was fairly easy but a QB is a QB. My last word was ENDIVE ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1983 "2025-08-24T12:15:02Z")
Made it to Genius today before getting stuck. Disappointed that BARRATRY wasn’t accepted though - it’s a good word. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1984 "2025-08-24T15:55:18Z")
I had a terrible time of it today. I think this was the worst I’ve ever done. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1985 "2025-08-24T16:56:28Z")
Got to Genius today but it was a trial, today was a lot of fits and starts. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1986 "2025-08-24T20:13:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Made it to Genius today before getting stuck. Disappointed that BARRATRY wasn’t accepted though - it’s a good word. That’s the word I came here to post! I’m also disappointed about the omission of what seems like a common enough concept, BRATTILY, especially when a similar word, BATTILY, is accepted. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1987 "2025-08-25T02:03:01Z")
I finally got to QB today, but it was a struggle. Needed 4.5 hints and 1 clue. Half a hint? How’s that, you ask? Well, when I went to the hints page, I saw needed 5 more words (and 60-some points). The very next thing I saw was that a certain initial letter had some words and I didn’t have any for that letter. But before I got to the details of length and first two letters, I immeditately thought of what one of those words were. So I count it as half a hint. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1988 "2025-08-25T02:43:25Z")
So much blechhh. The formerly disallowed and always annoying BIRRIA. Plus, the debut of BILIARY, RATABILITY and ARABILITY. Not to mention LABILITY which was initially disallowed, then allowed, then disallowed again, and then allowed again. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1989 "2025-08-28T16:29:47Z")
Today had a perfectly good pangram that is disallowed CONVOCATE ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1990 "2025-08-28T16:47:19Z")
Yeah, I tried that one too. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1991 "2025-08-28T17:01:40Z")
Another pangram (perfect, in fact) disallowed: CENTAVO ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1992 "2025-08-28T17:53:53Z")
Not a pangram but also not allowed NONCONTACT ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1993 "2025-08-29T00:59:08Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > Sam likes music but not poetry, CANTATA is ok, not CANTO Same complaint today! And I see three other users with the same comment over the months. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1994 "2025-08-29T01:09:56Z")
But one day it might be so we have to try it every time ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1995 "2025-08-29T10:03:10Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Another pangram (perfect, in fact) disallowed: CENTAVO Yeah, that bummed me out. I was pleased to have thought of it. Today I confirmed that one cannot have one KUDO (which is fair, as it’s a back formation of KUDOS anyway). Also, I really need to bone up on my ice hockey terminology. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1996 "2025-08-29T14:41:13Z")
Any sport, not just hockey I was surprised that you can’t have one KUDO as well. But I did get to QB today without hints. It took me a bit to get the last word KUDU which I got by random guessing. (Hey! We can spoiler again without the word begin on a different line) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1997 "2025-08-30T17:58:49Z")
MENAGE isn’t allowed today, even though it’s in OED and M-W, and several others. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1998 "2025-08-31T13:57:05Z")
The pangram took a while but tipped me over to Genius without any 4LW (not that there seem to be a ton of those). Unaided QB would be really tough on this one, at least for me. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/1999 "2025-08-31T14:41:36Z")
All of that love for cuisine but CHIMICHURRI isn’t allowed? Very disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2000 "2025-09-02T07:16:03Z")
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