Presumably with five words left, you achieved Genius status, which is still really good.
I struggled to Genius and quit. I usually pick at for the rest of the day and then try for QB if I get close but I’m done
You and me, brother.
I’m 3 points from Genius, and have found 3 pangrams. I’m usually done in the morning, but today’s isn’t the easiest puzzle.
Had to go to Hints with 4 words to go. That breaks my streak of natural QBs at 7.
My wife and I work on most Spelling Bees from our respective tablets, simultaneously using the same account, so we see each other’s contributions. We try for the pangram first, and get it maybe half the time or a little more, but if it isn’t obvious after a few minutes we give up and go on to other words.
She is happy once we’ve gotten to Genius and rarely works beyond that point, but I keep going and will start using SBB in the quest for QB, as mentioned above.
But today my wife got the pangram first and got to Genius before I joined her at the breakfast table. Then we continued on and managed a natural QB, just a couple of days after saying I almost never do that. Of course, it probably helped that Genius is only 42 points and QB is 60.
Is that the record for lowest Genius/QB? I don’t recall a lower one.
BTW, why was COLLATOR not accepted yesterday, Sam?
March 27, 2023 had a QB of 47 points.
March 27, 2023 | Spelling Bee Answers | Spelling Bee Solver
SBB??
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I tried that word as well.
Ok, thank you.
Can I say that I don’t think Captcha is a word? It’s an acronym, and I thought (perhaps erroneously) that acronyms aren’t allowed.
Some acronyms, like laser, sonar and radar, are now used as words.
Perhaps the standard is whether on not they’re commonly used without capitalization. Pondering RADAR led me to search for GAYDAR, which I remember being accepted. It has been five times, but hasn’t been a playable word since 2020. That led me to a puzzle from the first Spelling Bee year, 2018, where the sole pangram was GRANDBABY. Who on God’s green earth has ever used the term grandbaby?
So is LIDAR, but it’s not accepted.
My guess; a grandparent.
Many grandfathers that I’ve known, including me. And some grandmothers, but far fewer than grandpas.
I don’t think it’s an acronym, but I’m 90 percent sure it IS a trademark. Thus I agree it shouldn’t be included, and probably only was because of the dearth of words from today’s letters.
ETA: I stand corrected. CAPTCHA - Wikipedia
Still, it seems to be all caps everywhere in that article, and everywhere I see it.
Granddaughter, grandson, grandchild…but grandbaby? Maybe it’s a regional thing.