# 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:** 40
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/781 "2024-10-14T14:33:33Z")
In true Sam fashion, plenum was disallowed the only other time it was a possible word. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/782 "2024-10-14T15:09:09Z")
It should have remained that way, as well as the hardest word today. Jeez. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/783 "2024-10-14T15:10:46Z")
I remembered that word, one for its nerdy technical usage and the other for its other usage. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/784 "2024-10-15T02:54:07Z")
PEPLUM didn’t stump me, but it’s yet another of those cloth/fabric related words that Sam likes. It really brought me back, because years and years ago, I had a peplum dress, and google shows they’re back in style–who knew? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/785 "2024-10-15T14:57:33Z")
Every puzzle some completely illegal words occur to me and get stuck in my head. MARTHA (“that’s my mom’s name too!”) MOTHRA (perhaps the strangest kaiju ever) Also, perfectly viable, but not accepted, the Buddhist concept of TATHATA. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/786 "2024-10-15T15:04:03Z")
Yesterday annoyed me because we got to Genius without figuring out the pangram, and never found it, despite using hints. (I just looked it up this morning.) We almost never get to Queen Bee, so I was also annoyed when I saw that we had been only two words away from making QB the day before yesterday. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/787 "2024-10-15T16:49:56Z")
Sometimes I feel like a nabob stumbling blindly in a haboob. Ah, bathmat again. Another word that was allowed, then disallowed once, and now copacetic again. I swear they’re just winging it. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2024, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/788 "2024-10-16T08:19:40Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > MARTHA (“that’s my mom’s name too!”) > MOTHRA (perhaps the strangest kaiju ever) > > Also, perfectly viable, but not accepted, the Buddhist concept of TATHATA. I also tried MOTHRA and MARTHA, as well as THOR and MAHABHARATA. Because you never know. ETA: A couple of days ago I also tried ATMAN. No luck there either. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/789 "2024-10-17T14:22:56Z")
JFC, why would I know the Spanish word for pumpkin seed? **That’s** an acceptable word? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/790 "2024-10-17T14:38:32Z")
Sam is clearly not a Car Talk fan. TAPPET not accepted. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/791 "2024-10-17T14:39:46Z")
Yes, that’s been a notable omission since the OP of this thread. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/792 "2024-10-17T15:16:30Z")
It’s funny, you watch enough crime shows and you’ll know PETECHIAE (among other things, little blood dots in the eyes from strangulation), but alas. Also, no PIETA. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/793 "2024-10-17T17:12:04Z")
I missed it, but it’s the sixth time it’s come up. HEPCAT, HEPATIC and CHAPATI are brand spanking new, and I didn’t get any of them. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/794 "2024-10-17T17:17:48Z")
I only got one of the new ones before I got to Genius, but thanks for sharing those others, I don’t usually look later. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/795 "2024-10-17T18:14:03Z")
Apparently you can decapitate someone but you can’t capitate them. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/796 "2024-10-18T07:50:44Z")
I’m disappointed it doesn’t accept OFFOG. (We signed for one four years ago.) ---
**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:** [October 18, 2024, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/797 "2024-10-18T08:36:17Z")
I checked, but FIGGIN is apparently a word Terry Pratchett made up. While looking it up, I was also offered an explanation of what FIGGING is, which is knowledge I could well have done without. To continue the Pratchett theme, it involves a human deliberately doing to themselves what Vimes did to the Big Mary oxen in “Night Watch”. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2024, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/798 "2024-10-18T09:01:06Z")
Also: FUGUING should have been there. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/799 "2024-10-18T12:58:50Z")
One of the easier Genius levels today. I usually struggle to reach that level, but I got there in about 10 minutes today. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739/800 "2024-10-18T13:02:07Z")
Doof seems like it should be a valid word, and certainly doofi (plural of doofus…). What about funning, meaning kidding? That actually does seem like a real word to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=39) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-spelling-bee-drives-me-crazy/994739.md?page=41)