![]() ![]() But a few consecutive three-guess-or-better days is pure bliss, a jolt of smug gratification that will last at least through Spelling Bee. ![]() ![]() Ones and twos seem fluky and show-offish. A five or a six will cloud my day with thoughts of cognitive decline. We’re all pretty solid four-guess Wordle solvers. We are secretive about strategies and starting words and disdain the help of bots - we’re intellectuals, for goodness’ sake - with their tips about multiple vowels and the most common consonants. Insomniacs and early risers, we collect our scores as the day breaks, competing to be the earliest bird with the lowest score, and post the results in a text thread that also includes Twitter memes. My Wordle pod consists of me my wife, Justine and our best friends Michael and Stephen, who live in Kentucky. This month’s featured artist is Mark Pernice. Scroll no further if you haven’t solved it yet. Be warned, this article contains spoilers for today’s puzzle. The New York Times recently released its own hints page, but longtime solvers also like the thoroughness of novelist William Shunn ( /bee/) and the hints on Twitter provided by solver Bee is available on The New York Times website and app - a subscription with games may be required for regular play.Welcome to The Wordle Review. Hints: There are many resources where you can find hints to each day’s Bee - some break down how many words total, how many pangrams, how many words per letter, etc. A new Spelling Bee is released at midnight every day and it takes every ounce of willpower for me to go to bed before that happens so that I’m not up late solving (at least I’m not on the East Coast, where some people wake up at 3 a.m. The Hivemind includes celebrities like Steve Martin, Aidy Bryant, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, William Jackson-Harper and many more. Many communicate on Twitter to share clues, post funny word combinations and vent about words that aren’t accepted (no proper nouns, contractions or slang words). The Hivemind: The Spelling Bee community - called The Hivemind - is a group of equally obsessed Bee fans. On some holidays, like Halloween, she even wears a costume. I also love Beeatrice,the game’s bee mascot that greets you every morning and congratulates you when you reach Genius and/or Queen Bee. It has a clean, hexagonal design that resembles a bee hive - a nice, clutter-free escape when I’m feeling overwhelmed, anxious or bored. Spelling Bee is a word game you can play by yourself, and now that it’s on The New York Times’ Crosswords app, I can play it anywhere, anytime. Why I’m obsessed: I’ve always loved word games - crossword puzzles, Boggle, Bananagrams (not Scrabble because that’s a math game. But we truly addicted, we continue playing until we reach the secret Queen Bee level that appears once all words have been found. It takes a high number of points to get there, and once you do, the game stops. What’s the ultimate goal?: Most people work through the levels - Beginner, Good Start, Moving Up, Good, Solid, Nice, Great and Amazing - until they get to the coveted title of Genius. The game’s main objective (at least for me) is to find the pangram as quickly as possible because this is a game that tallies up points (longer words = more points) and you move up levels based on points versus words. Tell me more: There’s at least one pangram in every Spelling Bee - a word that uses all of the letters. Created by The New York Times, the object is to make as many words as possible from a set of seven letters - the catch is you have to use the center letter at least once. What I’m obsessed with: While everyone on the internet is going crazy for the online word game, Wordle, I want to acknowledge the original addictive word game, Spelling Bee. San Diego Union-Tribune editors and writers share what they’re currently obsessing over.
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