# 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:** 112
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2221 "2025-10-19T14:36:31Z")
I’m blown away they’re not allowing HOLOCENE today. I mean, I know they hate geology and related disciplines, but this is the freakin’ era the whole planet is in now, and has been for ten thousand years! (Yes, I know about the Anthropocene). ---
**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:** [October 19, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2222 "2025-10-19T14:38:33Z")
I tried that too. I think because it’s typically capitalized. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2223 "2025-10-19T14:49:04Z")
Ah, okay - that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2224 "2025-10-19T15:15:50Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I’m blown away they’re not allowing HOLOCENE today. That would have been in yesterday’s game. Have you updated the page today? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2225 "2025-10-19T15:51:45Z")
I guess _gibbet_ was too archaic for today. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2226 "2025-10-19T18:24:00Z")
Thanks. My wife always gets us started, and then I finish us off to “genius.” We were a day behind. We haven’t quite gotten to genius with today’s…still need ten points. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2227 "2025-10-19T20:24:26Z")
Yup. Plus its gerund. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2228 "2025-10-19T23:26:11Z")
And crows! ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2229 "2025-10-20T07:29:05Z")
Something’s wrong with the Bee. The stats are missing. When I first started, shortly after mdinight here (3 a.m. EDT is midnight on the left coast), it still had yesterday’s letters up. I reloaded and new letters came up, but the history is missing. It wasn’t a very hard set of letters. I got a natural QB in about 20 minutes. But I’m wondering if I’ll get credit for it once the history gets restored. Or possibly there will be a different set of letters put up later. That’s happened before. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2230 "2025-10-20T12:00:24Z")
wtf. I got around twelve points short of QB, went off to do something else, and when I came back it to it it had all zeroed out. I’m not sure how much I want to go fill all that back in. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2231 "2025-10-20T12:26:12Z")
The Yesterday results gives the list but doesn’t show which i found. Stats is still not displaying. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2232 "2025-10-20T12:30:07Z")
My wife’s device and mine didn’t sync while we were playing, and the Spelling Bee Buddy isn’t showing any of the words I’ve gotten. We’ve tried logging out of our NYT account and back in. No help. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2233 "2025-10-20T12:46:05Z")
When I finally decided I had given it all I had today, and opened up the hints, I was one word shy of Queen Bee, missing only ghee. I _ **always** _ miss that one. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2234 "2025-10-20T12:57:19Z")
Yes, it’s broken today. Normally I use Spelling Bee Buddy to track my progress but it doesn’t seem to think I’m logged in. So I got to Queen Bee on my phone without the Buddy, but now that I’m on my computer, the puzzle is completely unsolved. And I even had a pangram first. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2235 "2025-10-20T13:00:34Z")
AWS is reporting outages, I’m sure lots of things are down this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2236 "2025-10-20T13:27:15Z")
I’m sure that lots of things are down, but I had a streak going and don’t want that interrupted. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2237 "2025-10-20T14:02:56Z")
Seems to be fixed now as far as yesterday’s results being ready. Not sure how stats are affected. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2238 "2025-10-20T14:14:17Z")
My Spelling Bee Buddy synced on the NYT website, but not in the app. The app also wouldn’t load the Connections pzzle, but the website did. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2239 "2025-10-20T15:15:34Z")
I still see no stats, and a result list that doesn’t indicate which words I used yesterday. I did today’s Bee and screenshot my words in case I lose them when it’s fixed. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2240 "2025-10-20T19:03:55Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Seems to be fixed now as far as yesterday’s results being ready. Not sure how stats are affected. Yes, it shows everything I had last night but now it knows who I am. As far as stats, I don’t have the numbers for most of them memorized, but I’m pretty sure it gave me credit for a Pangram First. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=111) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=113)