# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/61 "2024-01-08T09:41:13Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > BTW, one of the things I do is look to see if it’s a bingo today (meaning there’s at least one word starting with each of the seven letters) and if it is, trying to come up with a word for each. How do you find out it’s a bingo? The hints will tell you, but they’ll give lots more info than that. Is there a way to find out other than the hints page? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/62 "2024-01-08T13:39:21Z")
I look at the hints page, but only long enough to see how many pangrams and if it says there’s a bingo today. Later, once I get to Genius level, I’ll look at the two-letter list and number of words per letter list so I can think about what I may be missing. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/63 "2024-01-08T14:04:22Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I look at the hints page, but only long enough to see how many pangrams and if it says there’s a bingo today. OK, that makes sense. > [@](#): > > Later, once I get to Genius level, I’ll look at the two-letter list and number of words per letter list so I can think about what I may be missing. I don’t even look at the hints page until I get to Genius. Actually, not until I feel stumped, which is always after I get to Genius, sometimes well after. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/64 "2024-01-12T13:24:34Z")
I’m pretty sure I tried this word many times in the past but it wasn’t accepted until today. Barback ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/65 "2024-01-12T14:55:49Z")
Yes! I agree that’s a new one that didn’t work in the past. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/66 "2024-01-12T17:17:11Z")
How about collab? It works in today’s, but I’m not sure it’s done so in the past. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/67 "2024-01-12T17:20:23Z")
I think that’s also right. I’m sure I tried it unsuccessfully in the past. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/68 "2024-01-12T17:30:15Z")
I was wondering the same thing. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/69 "2024-01-25T13:01:10Z")
Today they didn’t take winching. 😠 (And coincidentally, Chrome’s autocorrect changed it to “inching” as I was writing this post.) ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/70 "2024-01-25T13:26:29Z")
Didn’t accept tinning, either. And a week or so ago it didnt accept monadic. I continue to be baffled as to why it doesn’t use some standard dictionary as a baseline. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/71 "2024-01-25T13:33:33Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Today they didn’t take winching. Yes. Accepted winch, as expected. But not winching. Not even after I entered it three times, thinking I had mistyped a letter somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/72 "2024-01-25T13:45:20Z")
I think I only entered it twice. It never takes tinning, which, as a former engineer who used to do some soldering, annoys me. Is this the first time it took that British word for complaining? ---
**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:** [January 25, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/73 "2024-01-25T13:58:54Z")
That word would have an E in it. The word you allude to is a synonym for flying. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/74 "2024-01-25T14:03:08Z")
I don’t think so. I think you’re spelling the complaining word wrong. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/75 "2024-01-25T14:05:10Z")
Ah, I hadn’t tried the one starting WH. Some people spell it [without the H](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/winge#:~:text=1.,noun). ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/76 "2024-01-25T14:07:18Z")
So, is this the first time it took this word? I’m pretty sure it didn’t used to. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/77 "2024-01-25T14:21:06Z")
Don’t ask me. Obviously, I don’t know how to spell it right. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/78 "2024-01-25T14:53:51Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > So, is this the first time it took this word? I’m pretty sure it didn’t used to. I have the non-inflected form of the word in my list of missing words, so it’s likely the present participle was also missing. I also tried _winching_ several times just to be sure. I can sometimes understand the missing words, but not this one. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/79 "2024-02-15T12:18:23Z")
Two words I have repeatedly tried that they didn’t take again today: continuo and monotonic. The former is from music, and I’ve known it since I was a child. The latter is used in math, but is also a synonym for monotonous. Neither strikes me as particularly obscure. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/80 "2024-02-20T17:10:34Z")
Huh, I’ve played music for most my life and never came across continuo. It seems to be something like figured bass? Seems to be connected with the baroque, but I guess I was never taught that and never came across it since. I also would have assumed the word was Italian and a specialized English word, not something common like legato or staccato. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=5)