So many valid word not taken today. Why COWL and not COWLED? DECKLE, but not DECKLED? What’s wrong with CODEC? And I’ve never understood why they don’t take COLE as in COLE SLAW. It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
COLDCOCK and COLDCOCKED and LOCOWEED? Really? Thank goodness for the hints and clues from the forum, because never in a thousand years would I have come up with those words that I’ve never heard before.
And yes @commasense I saw those valid words too!
I knew about the first two and guessed them early. The last one seemed familiar once I got it from the hints
@hajario, true, now that I think of it, I’d seen LOCOWEED the last time a puzzle with a similar letter combo came up.
I had most of the guesses early, and was trying for Queen Bee without clues, but COLDCOCK had me completely stumped. From the fact that 50+% of readers got it, I guess it’s a not uncommon term in boxing?
The last time today’s pangram was used (about two years ago), the index letter was W, so that word appeared then. I doubt if it’s shown up since.
I didn’t get it then, and I didn’t get it this time.
I’ve never heard it in that context. I know it from fiction (action/noir/that sort of thing).
Those were the three words I didn’t get yesterday.
For today, PARM should be allowed.
Yesterday was my first QB. Largely because I finally got over it being cheating using Buddy. I try to get to Genius with at least on pangram on my own before I go to hints.
Saturday: there are a zillion different variant spellings in use for PAPADAM (the package in my kitchen right now says “Pappadums” on it). Pretty much all of them would work with this letter set. None of them do.
Given how often NAAN comes up (and now PARATHA), you’d think some form of PAPADAM would be accepted.
And now I’m hungry for Indian food. Guess I’ll go eat the “pappadums”.
I was just coming here to say that.
Same here! I can’t believe papadam isn’t accepted, given all the other weird food items are OK. Papadam is a much more common word than teff, whatever that is.
I checked the spelling over and over. At this point it feels like trolling.
I just came to say the same thing
Isn’t raita allowed? How is that more common than papadam? They would seem to be equally common, on all the same menus.
I also came here to complain about the lack of PAPADAM, and once again, DADO.
No CANTRIP? Must not play D&D.
What about TRAINCAR or PAINTCAN? It’s not different than a lot of compound words.
Yup, tried it.
CANTRIP would have been a perfect pangram too, dammit.
Still no ACTINIC either.