He can be reached at or write Box 274, Geneseo, NY 14454. It’s amazing.įrom his home in Livingston County, retired senior editor Jim Memmott will document the new normal of living in a socially distant world. There’s something to be said for daydreaming. So, if you want some order in your life, if you are good at unscrambling, give it a try. This is Diary of a Spelling Bee Fanatic, a weekly review of the game that drives me out of my hivemind.
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And though the Bee is free early on, once you reach a certain level, you have to be a subscriber to play. Word Games Learn more about how to play The New York Times word games and logic puzzles: Wordle, Spelling Bee, Letterboxed, Tiles, Vertex, and Sudoku. The Bee rules don’t allow “cuss” words, as well, a barrier that has drawn many Twitter complaints. “Can you believe ‘adlib’ didn’t make it?” They humble brag – “I’m only Genius.” They complain about words the Times will not allow. While she plays, Cindy texts our friend Laurie Bennett, another Bee fanatic.
The game brings like-minded spellers together. Why stop at Genius? Get all the words and you reach the Bee’s Holy Grail, you’re a Queen Bee. At the start you’re a Beginner, but as you add words, you get better titles, progressing from Good Start, to Moving Up, to Good, Solid, Nice, Great, Amazing and Genius. Sort of like Little League coaches encouraging their players, the game offers pats on the back as soon as you show up. “It’s a simple pleasure in a complicated time,” Lynn Enright wrote in Grazia. Who knows if and how schools will reopen, but, spoiler alert, the word “SCHOOL” is buried in the letters HOCLMAS. Available on a phone app and in print, the Bee is a hit, perhaps because it allows people to take some control at a time when the world is out of control. Years from now, as historians document what people did at home as they waited out the virus, there will probably be chapters on the Spelling Bee. As the words get longer, more points are awarded. Letters can be used more than once in a word. Stare at H, O, C, L, M, A and the central letter S. Once they reach the Genius level, either one can chime in with more words in their attempt to reach the Queen Bee level. I subscribed to the NY Times last night and got Genius on my first Spelling Bee. But there’s also an Easter egg level called Queen Bee. Still getting used to getting the paints mixed to the right consistency and lots of mistakes, but heres my latest practice. Within a given week, about 25 percent of players will achieve Genius at least once.
Six of the letters revolve around a central letter that has to be in each word. The Genius level requires 68 points, so one person works their way up to 34, then the other player takes over. The genius of The New York Times’ Spelling Bee.
The game asks you to make as many words of four or more letters as you can out of seven letters. I know at this moment that she’s working through The New York Times game called Spelling Bee. “I’m great,” she says, frustration evident. My wife, Cindy Schmitt, stares at a computer screen. It’s an ordinary day as we shelter in place.
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