I do that too.
Today (Saturday) - no luck on KINE, THETE or TENCH, but KENTE was acceptable? Sheesh.
Well, some of them. Not a lot that I’ve tried.
I attempt to get to Amazing, then sometimes leave it alone for a few hours and come back to it with fresh eyes.
Sheeshing right along with you!
No luck with HENCH or HITTITE either.
I would have thought Hittite was a proper noun.
Still plowing my way through today’s very long list, but I would like to reiterate a hearty “Fuck You” to Sam and his love of fabrics I’ve never heard of.
Yeah, my wife knew that one, but I had never heard of it.
More than one today: TOILE and VOILE.
Just finished. Phew.
Thank goodness for clues over the last 2 days. Without them, I never would have come up with OLLIE and NONILLION yesterday and TAMARI and MORATORIA today.
And @Gyrate it’s probably the Biblical Uriah the Hittite that makes me think of that word as an adjective rather than as a proper noun.
(It’s two days away now, I don’t think we need to spoiler it any more.)
If you find LION, you should get that word. I knew this, but had forgotten it (there’s lots of these kinds of words and it’s hard to remember all of them) for that puzzle. I remembered after I’d gotten the hints (didn’t need any clues).
Ickle one today. There was only one word I didn’t find easily, and I found that one by random poking.
Hey, whatever works…
Yes, I went through lots of possible letter combinations to get to that elusive last word. It took me a while to realize that yes, PULI is a word.
Yep. That was the one.
And I tried PUPU unsuccessfully yet again. What does Sam have against the pupu platter? If TAMARI and TATAMI are acceptable, why not PUPU?
There was a tweet that I saw that said something like, “If I die and go to hell, my personal hell will be showing me all the times I didn’t get nonillion.” You’d think that would make me get it every time it shows up, but I missed it again the other day.
Today was super easy. I think it’s “pu pu platter”, not “pupu platter”, so that’s probably why he doesn’t acccept it.
Last one for me as well. And I found it only because in my random guessing, I was actually trying to enter a word with those last two letters swapped. So finally fat-fingering was good for something!
I still manage to forget it 9 out of 10 times.
I was excited to find BARRATRY, but it’s not accepted.
Friday: No luck with either TOYBOY or BOYTOY, or ROTA or TOTO either.
Saturday: nothing too obscure on the list, but it took me a while as I blanked on some obvious ones.
Someone tell me what’s the matter with GODHOOD. What could possibly be the reason for rejecting it?
The Bee is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The word GODHOOD was perfectly acceptable for five years (13 appearances) but here in 2024, it is now verboten (twice.) You might ask why and so might I.