I was mildly annoyed once again yesterday (?) when it still wouldn’t accept “hipped”.
When you say “hints”, do you mean the hints with the grid and the first 2 letters of the words (or the nicer Spelling Bee Buddy) or do you mean the definition hints that community members submit? I’ve seen people use it both ways.
I’ve never completed it without using the grid hints/Spelling Bee Buddy.
The first one. I try to get QB without using the grid/first two letters. I only occasionally do, but I always try. I do use the other hints but only as a last resort. Even those don’t work for obscure foodie words.
Interestingly, the last time these two were the pangrams, I got it without using the hints at all. This time I just needed that one word, which I’m fairly sure was not allowed the last time.
I try, but give up after typically getting only about 1/3. If it’s a good day.
I never use hints, but then I think I’ve only gotten Queen bee half a dozen times. ETA I did manage to go back and get the pangrams though.
Looks like they added BOHO to the accepted list. Fine but why don’t they add some words that people actually know.
Throwing up my hands in the air and rolling my eyes at the word that only 25% of players found: HABOOB, meaning “Violent dust or sandstorm in Sudan or SW U.S.” Really?! I’d never heard this word before and googled it since I was 1 word away from Queen Bee.
At least I’ve heard BOHO before, as in boho style or boho chic.
I only know it from previous Spelling Bees (I think).
Ditto. I think it may be something women are more aware of since it’s fashion/style-related.
I actually heard this word on the news a couple of years ago when such a storm hit Phoenix. I had to look it up because I wasn’t sure I heard correctly.
A new word rears its ugly head: Kroon, the official currency of Estonia before the Euro. A tragic oversight, now remedied.
Boho has been on the list since I’ve been playing. It’s always HOBO then BOHO for me. Chrome thinks that boho is misspelled.
I saw BONOBO last week, so thought that LANGUR would be accepted today, but it’s not.
Well that was weirdly annoying.
Also: no love for GOJI.
Has that ever happened before? I don’t recall an SB like this one ever.
What did I miss? I got past genius pretty quickly, but haven’t bothered with QB.
ETA Oh, I think I might know what you mean. No, I don’t recall this ever happening before, assuming the pattern continues to Queen bee.
Yes, it was a little different today, with it containing only words beginning with JI or JO.
I guess they wanted words that looked like JULY but without using the U, as close to the 4th of July theme as they could get? Was GOJI not accepted because they didn’t want to break the JI and JO pattern?
And TIL a word new to me, Jollily, one I’ve never seen used and probably never will again, except for maybe a future Bee.
The OED site says “How common is the adverb jollily?
Fewer than 0.01 occurrences per million words in modern written English.”
Some were not words I’d expect; Jollying? Joying?
Jollying I’ve only seen and heard in British usage, where jolly is also a noun. But joying I’ve not seen before.
The first I’ve seen a fair amount; the second, nope.