# 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:** 20
**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:** [May 29, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/381 "2024-05-29T18:07:59Z")
Indeed. There should have been two pangrams. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/382 "2024-05-30T00:24:45Z")
Has anyone actually sent any suggestions to the [buzzwords@nytimes.com](mailto:buzzwords@nytimes.com) address? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/383 "2024-05-30T00:29:35Z")
You mean dogpiled? I got the pangram but only because I knew it was 7 letters long and started with do. But I was nowhere near Queen Bee even with hints. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/384 "2024-05-30T00:38:45Z")
Yeah, that’s the one. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/385 "2024-05-30T06:44:31Z")
I had the time and determination and luck to make it to Queen Bee thanks to hints and googling, which did yield the super-obscure word, GEOIDE found by only 17% of players. And yes, there should have been 2 pangrams. I swung and missed with PEGLEG. So the list-makers don’t speak pirate? Re. NANKEEN, maybe a Jane Austen or Regency historical fiction fan got them to reconsider. I knew the word because I’ve seen it in Austen and Georgette Heyer. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/386 "2024-05-30T12:40:11Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > I swung and missed with PEGLEG I’m pretty sure I didn’t try that more than twice. Or maybe 3 times. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/387 "2024-05-31T11:28:57Z")
The OP of this thread mentioned the missing word abattoir and it’s back again today. It’s an odd omission for a word that isn’t obscure. What drove me nuts was the certainty that I was misspelling it and that I would eventually hit on the right combination of letters. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/388 "2024-05-31T14:09:30Z")
VIVA is missing again. And ROTA. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/389 "2024-05-31T17:12:37Z")
Also: no luck on ARRABBIATA. Mmm…arrabbiata… ---
**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:** [June 1, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/390 "2024-06-01T03:09:50Z")
I got genius with TRAITOR. Somehow appropriate to the days news. 🙂 ---
**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:** [June 1, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/391 "2024-06-01T03:59:11Z")
LOL it took me a while to find TRAITOR. It should have been more obvious to me! And yes, strange that ABBATOIR, VIVA and ROTA are not on the list, but RAITA and ARBORIO are. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/392 "2024-06-01T19:12:44Z")
Just to mention another fun word genuinely too obscure to include: UNNUN. It’s like the nun version of being defrocked. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/393 "2024-06-02T13:21:47Z")
Didn’t take HALON, a fire-suppressant gas, today. Not obscure or technical to me but… Or HOOCH or COOCH, but maybe they’re considered vulgar slang. AFAIK, the former is slang for bootleg booze. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/394 "2024-06-02T13:57:40Z")
Hooch has been accepted several times, including today. Kinda had to blur the whole sentence. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/395 "2024-06-02T14:03:31Z")
Oops, yeah. Sorry about that. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/396 "2024-06-02T15:14:47Z")
Chica? Yes, accepted. Chico? No, not accepted. That seems almost random. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/397 "2024-06-02T19:07:50Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > No, not accepted. That seems almost random Yeah, I griped about that back on Dec. 18. Plus, it seems to me that if they were going to pick only one to accept, it would have been the other one. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/398 "2024-06-02T22:09:16Z")
Chica is a plant. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/399 "2024-06-02T22:18:23Z")
Thanks. That seems to be the reason one word is accepted but the other is not. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/400 "2024-06-05T10:59:48Z")
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