# NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739
**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
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2026, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2561 "2026-02-05T04:27:39Z")
RAMADA is some kind of sun shelter, not the hotel chain, obvs.
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2026, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2562 "2026-02-05T06:52:51Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#):
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> RAMADA is some kind of sun shelter, not the hotel chain, obvs..
If you’d read the spoilered text in my post a couple up from yours, you’d see I gave a definition.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2026, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2563 "2026-02-05T08:30:35Z")
Did you just throw RAMADA at me?
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2564 "2026-02-06T15:05:05Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#):
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> Did you just throw RAMADA at me? .
Is there some kind of wordplay in there? I don’t see any.
Today I had a sort of weird experience. I thought I was a ways away from QB so I didn’t check the rankings for quite a while. When I finally broke down and did, I found I was a single point away from 2 \* AMAZING. Which meant I didn’t have to do any calculations, just look for a 4-letter word. Which I quickly found (AMEN for those interested), so that’s another natural QB.
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2565 "2026-02-06T15:29:38Z")
> [@dtilque](#):
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> > [@BlankSlate](#):
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> > Did you just throw RAMADA at me? .
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> Is there some kind of wordplay in there? I don’t see any.
Ramada = shade?
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2566 "2026-02-06T15:31:03Z")
> [@commasense](#):
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> Ramada = shade?
Well, if the shadow fits, …
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2567 "2026-02-08T12:13:00Z")
I typed in niblet multiple times today, with various possible spellings. I can’t believe it’s not allowed.
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2568 "2026-02-08T13:38:46Z")
Also, no lutein, but that seems more obscure.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2569 "2026-02-08T13:55:41Z")
I was surprised too, but it appears to be British only? It’s in the OED but not Merriam-Webster.
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2570 "2026-02-08T14:24:24Z")
Apparently, I’m an Anglophile!
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### Author:  [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2571 "2026-02-08T17:51:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> The other day (I think Thursday), the selected letters allowed for the word inline, although it wasn’t accepted and apparently never was accepted. I don’t know why; it seems a cromulent word.
Still not accepted today.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2572 "2026-02-08T17:59:30Z")
It’s annoying that some words come back after having been rejected previously so we have to retry them again and again
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2573 "2026-02-08T19:50:06Z")
Yesterday, there were two pangrams, where the three previous times those letters came up, there was only one. I had to use the clue to get the new one. Don’t think I’ve seen that before.
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2574 "2026-02-09T09:09:24Z")
Disappointed [COLITA](https://www.straightdope.com/21342208/in-the-song-hotel-california-what-does-colitas-mean) is not accepted.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2575 "2026-02-09T09:49:09Z")
I’m still salty about them taking away OCOTILLO.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2576 "2026-02-11T20:24:52Z")
QB no hints today but it was a relatively easy day.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2577 "2026-02-12T02:14:10Z")
> [@RitterSport](#):
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> Also, no lutein, but that seems more obscure
That bugged me, too.
Also, no “taiko”.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2578 "2026-02-12T03:51:39Z")
An unaided QB today, my tenth apparently.
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2579 "2026-02-12T10:26:52Z")
The first word I see is a pangram, formant. What, it’s not accepted?? Is that an obscure word?
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2580 "2026-02-12T14:15:16Z")
_I’ve_ never heard it. Looking at the definition, I’d say it’s obscure or technical.
Also not accepted today is NATRON, which IME is less obscure than FORMANT, but maybe that’s just me.
BTW, did anyone notice on Tuesday ( **H** BINORT) that although TION was present, only one word used it, and it _wasn’t_ the pangram. I was all the way past Genius and only a couple of words from Queen Bee when I noticed TION was available, and was stunned that I hadn’t seen, or _needed_, it before.
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