NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy

Disappointed PACMAN wasn’t accepted…

Despite the lack of bimbos, they’re good on pimps.

… and pimping

…and dildos

See, now you understand why we play. We get to come and complain!

I tried BIMBO too!

Today I learned a word new to me, but apparently not to 81% of players: MACING

Because there is no S.

I meant it’s funny that dildo is a word he allows, along with pimp, when he doesn’t allow bimbo. I was responding to

Sorry if that was confusing.

I’m confused because you wrote dildos, not bimbo, so I thought you were talking about the plural.

I was following the speech pattern of the previous posts, which wasn’t obvious with all the spoilers!

I think we’re over-spoiling, but better safe than annoy someone by mistake, I guess.

Thanks for the clarification. I’m just trying to follow along at home :slight_smile:

How’s everyone doing with today’s puzzle? We haven’t found the pangram and are having a hard time getting to Genius.

Me too. I’d normally be at Genius or very near by now and I’m not close

And of course I went back and immediately saw a pangram but still a ways from G

Actually got a Pangram First (not that that’s a badge past 200, IIRC) today. But yes, it did take much longer than usual to get to Genius.

ETA: NAPHTHA is still rejected.

The first thing I saw was the Volkswagen Phaeton.

Opened it up, saw a pangram and entered, and then headed off to do things. Forgot all about it until your post. ETA: Still no NAPHTHA I guess.

I’m surprised that PHONATHON wasn’t accepted.

And why do the allow PENTANE and HEPTANE and in the past OCTANE but not NONANE? They allow NONET along with OCTET, SEPTET, etc.

No opah.

I had an awful time with it. Gave up with 5 words to go. Never even heard of phaeton, and never remember patentee.