Checked the hints page today to find the last words (got stuck on PINNIPED) and discovered that there is an error there.
The page you get where you click on “Hints” thinks there’s an additional pangram (with the accompanying number of additional points). The Spelling Bee Buddy has the correct number of words and points.
Wonder what happened there? I assume it will get amended at some point today.
ETA: The forum commenters have naturally picked up on the discrepancy and think the missing word is HEADPIN (spoiled because it gives away other words).
Is it truly your assertion that HAMATE, a carpal bone, is NOT obscure or technical? It’s just an everyday word for you, like THEM? (I assume no one needed that one blurred.)
Hamate is a familiar word to baseball fans. Some of the best players have broken that particular little bone, like David Ortiz, Mike Trout, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Ramirez, Tony Gwynn, Ken Griffey, jr., Jim Thome and many others.
Well. Started off directly with five pangrams and then spent quite a while looking for another before turning to the rest of the puzzle. Got to Genius pretty quickly.
Today the last remaining word, for which I needed a hint, was napoleon, which
Merriam-Webster tells me can be lower case. But the word is derived from the proper name, so I would think it should be excluded. .
Not all words derived from proper names are capitalized. I believe I pointed out a little ways upthread that many names of measurement units are not capitalized even though they’re named after people.
As far as today, cockroaches are disappointed that CUCARACHA isn’t accepted.