you win and you lose (“Already found”).Įvery new valid word is worth points.There are three possible outcomes at this stage: If it’s not in the word list, it doesn’t count (see: Word List). Maybe your word even features the center letter. Maybe your word doesn’t use any bad letters. Making it past all these hurdles, you come to the biggest one of all: the Word List. Doesn’t use the center letter? “Missing center letter”.Uses a letter not from the hive? “Bad letters”.
Getting to genius on ny times spelling bee series#
Once you’ve managed to enter a word, it undergoes a series of checks before it gets scored. The button with the arrows is called “Shuffle” in as far as I can tell, it has no keybinding clicking it (or pressing the space bar!) permutes the outer 6 letters.To submit a word, press “Enter” (the button or the key).To erase a letter, press the “Delete” button (or the “Delete” or “Backspace” key).Don’t get too excited! You can only type 19 letters before the game slaps your hands, complaining that your word is “Too long” and throwing it out.To form a word, tap (on a touchscreen) or click (with a mouse) the available letters, or type (via keyboard) any letters at all.Her name is Beeatriz Buzzby and she guides you through the game: She’s there at the start, she’s there if you win, and she’s there when you quit (but not when you return). What’s a Bee without bees? The Bee’s mascot is a cute bee, designed with B’s in mind (I spy at least 3). (If you’ve never played the Spelling Bee, now’s as good a time as any.) The Mascot Ranging from reverse-engineered snippets of the game’s logic to quirks in the beekeepers’ controversial word list, some of it common knowledge, some - arcane lore, and all of it useless trivia, my hard-fought findings are the subject of this week’s post. Over the course of far too many hours of researches and investigations, I ended up learning… more than I ever wanted to know about the stupid game, really.
A lover of all manner of wordplay, I wrote my own command-line clone of the Bee 3 that lets me hunt words to my heart’s content.
Getting to genius on ny times spelling bee free#
I myself was first stung by the Spelling Bee sometime last year, back when it was free (some sort of promotion or other). “ Spelling Bee … is perfect” Laura Lippman As distracting as you could hope for.” Lynn Enright “It is a simple pleasure in a complicated time. The game’s virtues have been widely extolled: Like the print version it adapts, 2 the Bee operates on one basic principle: make words with the letters given. 1 Swarms of fans have subscribed (literally and figuratively) to the daily online puzzle since its release on ( a Wednesday, if you were wondering). It’s simple, undemanding, and pokes out just enough from behind its paywall to get you hooked. The New York Times’ Spelling Bee is a wonderful wordgame.
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