# 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
**Page:** 137
### Author:  [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2026, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2721 "2026-03-21T12:38:57Z")
Sorry! Thanks for fixing it.
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2722 "2026-03-24T18:18:46Z")
Rubaiyat would be a pangram today. Omar Khayyam would be pleased.
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### Author:  [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2723 "2026-03-24T19:12:13Z")
I was pretty surprised Sam the foodie declined to include the spicy red sauce the letters would have allowed, for 9 points.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2724 "2026-03-24T20:13:31Z")
> [@mtnmatt](#):
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> the spicy red sauce the letters would have allowed
I give up.
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2725 "2026-03-24T20:34:08Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> I give up.
Ditto.
Not accepting YTTRIA, which I suppose is understandable.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2726 "2026-03-24T21:06:09Z")
> [@mtnmatt](#):
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> I was pretty surprised Sam the foodie declined to include the spicy red sauce the letters would have allowed, for 9 points.
I always try this one. One day he will surprise me.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2727 "2026-03-24T21:25:02Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> I always try this one.
Which one?
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2728 "2026-03-24T21:27:16Z")
The spicy sauce
I don’t know what it is either
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2729 "2026-03-24T22:16:48Z")
Oh, sorry.
Arrabbiata. Presumably excluded because of its root in “Arabia”. Also, I think it’s 10 points.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2730 "2026-03-24T22:36:57Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2731 "2026-03-24T23:34:21Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> Oh, sorry.
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> Arrabbiata. Presumably excluded because of its root in “Arabia”. Also, I think it’s 10 points.
I tried it and was disappointed. And the word, surprisingly, means “angry”:
Arrabbiata literally means ‘angry’ in Italian; in Romanesco dialect the adjective arabbiato denotes a characteristic (in this case spiciness) pushed to excess. In Rome, in fact, any food cooked in a pan with a lot of oil, garlic, and peperoncino so as to provoke a strong thirst is called “arrabbiato” (e.g. broccoli arrabbiati)
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### Author:  [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2732 "2026-03-24T23:41:06Z")
yep, 10, which I could have really used. just bad counting, not an attempt to obscure the right answer
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2733 "2026-03-24T23:52:47Z")
Now do puttanesca
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### Author:  [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2734 "2026-03-25T00:34:06Z")
Lol, puttanesca is one of my favorites! I first ate it at a restaurant in Little Italy in the Bronx, NYC. The menu explained the possible name origins.
I wonder whether it will ever appear in the Bee?
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2735 "2026-03-25T00:39:28Z")
Well eight different letters one of which is an S…
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2736 "2026-03-25T03:13:09Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> Arrabbiata.
I’d rather he include arrabbiata than “arancino”, which I almost never see in the wild. Arrabbiata is featured in several NYT recipes and seems to be trending.
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2737 "2026-03-27T04:45:47Z")
Tough one for me today. I got to genius, but the pangram eluded me. I hate it when that happens.
It does contain a word that uses the six outer letters, but not the central one … something I call a pain-gram. It’s a six letter word too, so a perfect pain-gram: ALMOND
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2026, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2738 "2026-03-27T04:49:55Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#):
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> … the pangram eluded me
I just went back to give it one more try and got it instantly. Weird how that works sometimes.
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2026, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2739 "2026-03-27T04:56:37Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#):
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> It does contain a word that uses the six outer letters, but not the central one … something I call a pain-gram.
I call those a donut pangram. And I did spot the perfect one you did.
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2026, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/2740 "2026-03-27T17:58:53Z")
> [@dtilque](#):
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> I call those a donut pangram.
Ooh, that’s a good one!
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