Good old Sam, including a word that is noun or verb, but not including its present participle/gerund form.
Twice.
What’s wrong with GIMBAL?
Why no ballgag?
Lambing season is a rural, agricultural phenomenon, and hence obscure.
Gimbals are something that only technicians and engineers care about, and hence obscure.
This game is apparently not about having broad knowledge and wide-ranging vocabulary. It’s about having the same interests as a sheltered New Yorker.
And since when does obscure matter. Arhat is obscure as are many many words he allows. Yes, disallowing lambing did surprise me
That’s actually in the official game description, in the ‘How to Play’:
I personally think that’s dumb, for various reasons I’ve put forth up-thread, but it is in the game’s design brief. ‘Arhat’ may be obscure to you, but it’s apparently not to Sam, and that’s what matters. Meanwhile ‘lambing’ and ‘gimbal’ are perfectly ordinary words to you or I, but they’re obscure to Sam, and that’s what matters.
Apparently Sam likes to eat at Indian restaurants, because I’ve seen raita, naan and roti; more than once I think. And just the other day, the word list included paratha, which I thought was more obscure.
That’d be New York, Uttar Pradesh… given a recent puzzle had arhat, paratha, and hatha. (All of which have been redlined by my spell checker)
Probably easier to find Indian food and eastern religions in New York than a ewe giving birth.
Ezersky’s degree was in mechanical engineering. I strongly suspect he knows that word.
Also, I see repeated NY callouts, he grew up outside Baltimore and attended U Virginia.
I’m going to say -ABLE words are just as annoying as UN- words, in that you have just try all the ones you can think of to see what will or won’t be accepted.
Right. And you’d think BOOTABLE would be accepted, but no.
Definitely. I’ve said ‘bootable’ many, many times, but I’ve never once said peelable.
And please, just say no to boatel.
That second one is just stupid. Ugh. Bootable is way more common than that other B one you mention.
I was proud of myself for remembering cioppino, but alas I was unprepared for canopic and poinciana.
I know the second word there well, but haven’t a clue what the other two mean. Will have to go look them up.
No love for KNOUT today? And I just happened to walk by a Museum of Torture earlier, where they probably had knouts.
TIL it’s officially “end zone”, not “endzone”.
DEIONIZE/D
I know others have done this many times, but today was a first for me.
I achieved Genius level without finding the Pangram.
Frankly, I thought today’s puzzle was relatively easy.