![]() ![]() My best performance was I was one word short of Queen Bee, and I never would have come up with that last word.Īt the end of day, that is how the New York Times Spelling Bee Works. It usually involved finding really archaic and low-frequency words. This is incredibly difficult to do, for the reasons I mentioned. ![]() If you get every word, you earn the title of Queen Bee. The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023. The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019. The last time there were more answers than this was on July 9, 2023. This puzzle's 42 possible answers rank it in the 62nd percentile of all puzzles. You can usually get to Solid or Nice without too much extra effort. The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023. The jump from Amazing to Genius is by far the hardest to make. On the road to becoming a Spelling Bee Genius, players work their way through several levels: Beginner, Good Start, Moving Up, Good, Solid, Nice, Great, and Amazing. Words that are primarily not English words seem to also be excluded. In addition, offensive words tend to not be included. I’ve found words that are only proper nouns, tend to not be included. The most disturbing is when you type something in, and you swear up and down it is not a word. Some of them are how you spell out different sounds. Some words are lesser-known variations of words you may already know. This resource for players of the New York Times Spelling Bee offers customizable levels of spoiler-free hints to assist you in solving the puzzle. If a player users all seven letters to form a word, then that word is known as a Pangram and you will get an extra seven points for finding that word. So a seven-letter word earns you seven points. Players earn one point for finding a four-letter word, and one point per letter for words with five letters or more. You can use any of the letters as often as you like in the word. The only requirement in making words is you must use the center letter in the word. You earn points by making words only with the seven letters presented. The number of points changes each day and can vary wildly, from low 50s to high 200s. The point of the New York Times spelling bee is to collect enough points to earn the title of Genius for the day. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Seven simple letters can cause so much grief. ![]() Then, in the kind of ugly public rift that is at once breathtaking and all too familiar at the Times, the blue check-marked account tweeted a meme from “Succession” at Smith-Cameron with the words, “I don’t like to take sides. Smith-Cameron plays the character Gerri on “Succession.” Getty Images Smith-Cameron, who plays hard-nosed executive Gerri on HBO’s “Succession” tweeted at Ezersky - who had, in a staggering failure of either judgment, competence or moral rigor, neglected to include the word “undaunted” as one of the acceptable answers in Thursday’s puzzle - saying, there’s an absolutely valid word the Bee won’t accept and I’m annoyed. The stunning schism began when actress J. Tom Cotton, the Gray Lady’s strength has been tested again and again.īut on Thursday the most shocking fracture yet emerged - when the paper’s official word-puzzles Twitter account broke ranks with the editor of the popular Spelling Bee game, Sam Ezersky, and publicly came out against him. The New York Times has been pushed to the brink of crisis several times of late as internal strife has shaken its newsroom.įrom writer Bari Weiss resigning after her own colleagues publicly protested her hiring to the opinion editor James Bennet being forced to step down amid a another staff outcry over an op-ed by Sen. Who will fill ESPN’s Jeff Van Gundy void?īiden reveals he’s got no defense for his censorship campaign Veteran sportswriter excoriates The Athletic’s culture: ‘Soul-sucking’ Sheriff forced inmate to have sex on hog farm, retaliated against women who accused him of sexual misconduct: report ![]()
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