Looking at the answers for yesterday (where I never even got to Amazing, I think), there were a ton of weird words, including both pangrams. Here’s hoping today is easier.
I agree. Considering they never accept standard words like dado and milt, I am amazed they allowed [Why can’t I make spoiler work? NM
I got to one word from QB very quickly and then spent the entire damn day until I finally found it
What was the word?
I got to QB today quite easily and quickly with only minimal hints. (My habit is to not use Spelling Bee Buddy until I’ve got past Genius.) Today I got to two words from QB before looking, and then only used the top letter-count grid to figure out those two.
I much prefer games where Genius is less than 100 points.
BORIC
I think that was my last word, too.
I guess you’ve never had cockroaches.
We don’t really have those here but I know about it from ants.
Today was annoying for whatever reason. I managed Genius and am done.
Just on the chance it would be accepted, I tried QUAALUDE. Surprisingly, it was accepted.
Yes, another proper noun that shouldn’t be accepted.
A pet peeve of mine since I started playing the Spelling Bee.
They accept MAMA.
They accept PAPA.
They accept NANA.
They don’t accept DADA.
Why not?
I stopped looking for consistency in the Bee a long time ago. QED:
GIMME and GOTTA are acceptable.
LEMME and WANNA are not.
Wanna is accepted. So are kinda and gonna. Justice for lemme!
But they do accept grampa and grandpa and grandad and grandpapa and granddad and grandaddy and granddaddy and did I miss any? Drives me nuts.
I came here to post this. As @commasense says above, as a proper noun, why is it accepted? And the same goes for ILLUMINATI , also above, from a few days ago.
I was stunned that they accepted that
Also, LOTTA isn’t accepted.
Disappointed TRINARY isn’t accepted. This has been brought up before in this thread, IIRC.
So who got their 1000 Genius badge today?
I have 31 to go.
I did. Since they started counting, I’ve got to at least Genius (no hints) every day, but one day there was a glitch and I too hastily revealed the answers so I didn’t get credit, and the badge came today.
Yesterday was also 1400 days since I didn’t hit Genius — the day before, I simply forgot to play so no score.
Did anyone get their 1000 Genius badge earlier? I thought this was the first day anyone could get one, but checking my records, I’ve missed a few days during the last 1000. So someone could have gotten it in the past two or three days.
When I started playing a year and a half ago, I accidentally paid for a year of gaming on my ex-wife’s NYT account. She put me on her family account ages ago. I sort of half heartedly played for a while and missed a lot of days and I also had a bit of time where I used hints to get QB every day for a while. When that year’s subscription ended I started from scratch on my own account apparently 142 days ago. So my stats are pure but that 1000 Genius badge won’t be for quite a while.
142 Games. 142 Genius. 15 QB. No hints.