Surprised not to see LUTEIN.
INLINE should be a word
It is a word. M-W hyphenates it, so that may be why it’s not accepted in SB. Although I’m not sure what, if any, dictionary he uses as an authority.
MOCHI, yum. The omission of GNOMIC is annoying.
Sam and his love of obscure cuisine: TEFF. Really?!?
I don’t even know what that word means. Which is not unusual; there’s a number of words I get but don’t know the meaning. I just know they’re valid words for this game. Yeah, I could look them up or google them, but I’d likely forget after a while. Not worth wasting my time.
At any rate, I got it because I got almost to QB but needed one more point. That meant there was a 4-letter word I hadn’t gotten. So I tried out various likely 4-letter words and eventually tried that. So QB without hints.
How do you know the QB score without looking at the hint?
I covered that in a post way back. Too lazy to look it up, but the short answer is that the Amazing score is 50% of the QB score. You have to do a little bit of arithmetic to allow for rounding, and it’s not always possible to determine the exact score, but in this case it was.
Thanks. I’m new to the game so I missed the old post
You can just glance at the Hints link. It provides the total number of words, number of points and number of words for each letter, including by letter count. If all of that is too much of a hint, you could just look at the number of points and close the link.
Yes, if the Amazing score is N, QB is either 2N or 2N-1.
What the heck? No gaffing??
This EFFING puzzle, I tell you.
Haha! Definitely tried that, too.
I was so proud to find NAILFILE but no.
I’d be surprised if 1/10 of the people eating that cuisine at a restaurant knew the name of that ingredient.
It’s not completely obscure cuisine where I live, but pretty niche, I guess. I’d guess maybe 20 restaurants in the region.
The absence of that word has been complained about for quite a while.
Not by me!
Forgot to mention on Monday:
DOWNWIND was acceptable.
WINDDOWN was not.
I use the latter quite a lot in my work, so this was annoying.
I think that second one is used as a two word phrase.