NYT Spelling Bee drives me crazy

I feel like I need to kick somebody’s ass.

I kept going and I have 192 now so five or six short of QB without hints. There goes the rest of the day until I get there.

::backs away slowly::

All those, plus GIMME, GOTTA and KINDA, but not LEMME.

I was just happy to see a different set of letters.

You’re not wrong. I pity anyone trying to learn how to pronounce it as a second language.

I keep thinking CANNA falls into that category in some Scottish way, but it’s apparently a flower.

CANNA

Can too!

Today I am your Queen. No hints.

Woo hoo!

Congrats!

I note that Sam is especially RUTHless today, moreso than usual.

I was hoping for BUGOUT.

Never heard of a BURGOT before.

Ditto for HOTTUB and RUBOUT, neither of which were accepted.

Had to look that one up afterward. I did get it, but only after going to hints and then guessing a lot plausible words starting with the first two letters. Looking at the clue would not have helped.

I just guessed to get burgot.

It’s BURBOT you weirdos.

No, no, no, it’s TURBOT you silly people.

Sorry. That is what I meant.

Oops! Fat fingers on a cell phone.

I really thought I was being pranked somehow.

Me too.

I often find that typing in plausible non-words helps me find real words in the puzzle. Usually because they will remind me of an actual word; less often, as in this case, because my “non-word” turns out to be a real word that I didn’t know.