How do you find out it’s a bingo? The hints will tell you, but they’ll give lots more info than that. Is there a way to find out other than the hints page?
I look at the hints page, but only long enough to see how many pangrams and if it says there’s a bingo today. Later, once I get to Genius level, I’ll look at the two-letter list and number of words per letter list so I can think about what I may be missing.
OK, that makes sense.
I don’t even look at the hints page until I get to Genius. Actually, not until I feel stumped, which is always after I get to Genius, sometimes well after.
I’m pretty sure I tried this word many times in the past but it wasn’t accepted until today.
Barback
Yes! I agree that’s a new one that didn’t work in the past.
How about collab? It works in today’s, but I’m not sure it’s done so in the past.
I think that’s also right. I’m sure I tried it unsuccessfully in the past.
I was wondering the same thing.
Today they didn’t take winching. 
(And coincidentally, Chrome’s autocorrect changed it to “inching” as I was writing this post.)
Didn’t accept tinning, either. And a week or so ago it didnt accept monadic. I continue to be baffled as to why it doesn’t use some standard dictionary as a baseline.
Yes. Accepted winch, as expected. But not winching. Not even after I entered it three times, thinking I had mistyped a letter somewhere.
I think I only entered it twice. It never takes tinning, which, as a former engineer who used to do some soldering, annoys me.
Is this the first time it took that British word for complaining?
That word would have an E in it. The word you allude to is a synonym for flying.
I don’t think so. I think you’re spelling the complaining word wrong.
Ah, I hadn’t tried the one starting WH. Some people spell it without the H.
So, is this the first time it took this word? I’m pretty sure it didn’t used to.
Don’t ask me. Obviously, I don’t know how to spell it right.
I have the non-inflected form of the word in my list of missing words, so it’s likely the present participle was also missing.
I also tried winching several times just to be sure. I can sometimes understand the missing words, but not this one.
Two words I have repeatedly tried that they didn’t take again today: continuo and monotonic. The former is from music, and I’ve known it since I was a child. The latter is used in math, but is also a synonym for monotonous. Neither strikes me as particularly obscure.
Huh, I’ve played music for most my life and never came across continuo. It seems to be something like figured bass? Seems to be connected with the baroque, but I guess I was never taught that and never came across it since. I also would have assumed the word was Italian and a specialized English word, not something common like legato or staccato.