Someone on reddit provided an impressively detailed chronology.
Yesterday’s puzzle was fine with ‘umami’ but rejected ‘unagi’.
That chronology says that Spelling Bee Buddy was for the second set of letters but I think it was for the original, first set of letters.
That’s today’s puzzle, so I’ve asked for a spoiler tag.
Ah crap, sorry.
Clearly, you’re not the only person whose Bee was confusing today!
It’ll be funny to see the reaction if tomorrow’s Bee is the one aborted today.
The second pangram for yesterday’s second puzzle was mulligan! So appropriate.
Grrr. After being disallowed 48 times, we’re now tasked with remembering freaking ANNATTO. I guess Sam had some Latin-American cuisine last week.
Today’s puzzle gave me all sorts of trouble. My brain was fuzzy for some reason and I had to resort to clues.
Genius or QB? I happened to have a fairly easy time getting to Genius today which is ordinarily where I stop. If I get there early I’ll sometimes check in a couple more times to see if a new word pops out at me.
Genius level. What’s really annoying is that most of the words I couldn’t dredge up were stupidly common and simple.
I’m with you man, getting to Genius today was more work than usual for me. I do find that - on average - three-vowel puzzles are more difficult for me.
To be clear: “stupidly”, “common”, and “simple” were not words in the puzzle, so no need to blur.
I wonder why DOPANT is not accepted. It’s not that technical a word, is it?
that would have been one of the WTF words that usually confirm I’d never made QB and make me feel stopping after genius was the right decision.
I found no fewer than 6 English words that he didn’t accept. A couple are somewhat recherché, but definitely English, unlike annatto: dado, pion, inondation, dopant, inanition, natation. Really, Sam, get a dictionary.
I’ve tried dado previously.
DADO has been rejected 67 times now, but there will be justice someday.
What sucks is that you have to keep trying them in futility each time in case things change.