# 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:** 23
**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:** [June 18, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/441 "2024-06-18T14:48:35Z")
In fairness that happens any old time you use it. ---
**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 18, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/442 "2024-06-18T15:07:57Z")
This is the first time ‘backbeat’ has come up. I’m thinking Sam is going to get a few emails. ---
**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 19, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/443 "2024-06-19T04:22:17Z")
I mean, leaving off ACKEE I could understand, but that one? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/444 "2024-06-20T22:50:11Z")
Today it is not taking EELING or EXIGENCE. ---
**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 20, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/445 "2024-06-20T23:22:31Z")
Swung and missed with CELLIE, ILEX, INCEL, INLINE, EXIGENCE and EXILIC today. I really hate the whole Incel mindset so I’m glad that it’s not on the list. ---
**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 20, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/446 "2024-06-20T23:48:11Z")
It wouldn’t accept Cecil either today. ---
**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 20, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/447 "2024-06-20T23:56:18Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > ILEX To make matters worse, it was accepted the first time it cropped up, in 2018. I’ve been trying it ever since and wondering why it got the boot. ---
**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 21, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/448 "2024-06-21T00:15:25Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > I really hate the whole Incel mindset so I’m glad that it’s not on the list. Which is also why it didn’t take NEGGING. ---
**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 22, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/449 "2024-06-22T12:08:53Z")
This one is in keeping with the thread title. First it wasn’t a word, then it was a word, and now it’s not a word again. [Minyan | Spelling Bee Appearances | Spelling Bee Solver](https://www.sbsolver.com/h/minyan) ---
**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 22, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/450 "2024-06-22T14:04:42Z")
Accepted: ANTIMONY Not accepted: [ANTINOMY](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomy) ---
**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 23, 2024, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/451 "2024-06-23T06:38:18Z")
Still didn’t accept amnion (although it accepts amnio). Also myoma. My myectomy of a myoma in 1990 resents this omission. ---
**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 23, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/452 "2024-06-23T17:44:01Z")
Yesterday they took minion but not homophone minyan. Antisemites! (j/k) ---
**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 24, 2024, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/453 "2024-06-24T03:33:27Z")
It wouldn’t take TOMTOM yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/454 "2024-06-24T05:56:23Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > It wouldn’t take TOMTOM yesterday No doubt because it’s hyphenated in whatever source dictionary their word list is based on. It certainly is in M-W. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/455 "2024-06-24T16:51:20Z")
I achieved the rare genius, no four letter words, no pangram today. I might go back and look for the pangram, but it’s not a necessity. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/456 "2024-06-24T17:55:44Z")
There are two pangrams today. I was surprised that both were accepted. I would have assumed one or the other, but not both. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/457 "2024-06-24T19:37:48Z")
I’m surprised that CUPID was accepted. That should be excluded for being a capitalized word. ---
**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 24, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/458 "2024-06-24T19:51:37Z")
Same. But hey, I guessed it and it took it. TANNOY wasn’t accepted the other day, presumably because it’s 1) still a registered trademark (although often used in all lowercase as a generic name for PA systems), and 2) pretty exclusively British. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/459 "2024-06-24T20:47:01Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > There are two pangrams today. I was surprised that both were accepted. I would have assumed one or the other, but not both. Even worse, one of them is a misspelling of the other and the other is an intentional respelling of the real word. Still I made QB since I could not imagine what else the other pangram could be. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/460 "2024-06-24T21:04:38Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Even worse, one of them is a misspelling of the other and the other is an intentional respelling of the real word. Still I made QB since I could not imagine what else the other pangram could be. I think alternate spelling rather than misspelling. I got them both because they’ve been used before with a different index letter. I had a vague memory of that so I tried them both. The only word I needed the hints for was the capitalized one I complained about upthread. Curiously, in the previous game with those pangrams, I got QB without using the hints at all, even though that word was in both. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=24)