![]() ![]() If I don’t have a lot of time one day to do the Spelling Bee, but if I get the pangram, I feel like I have already achieved something, and I am more than content with my low point total. ![]() Searching out Pangrams is often its own joy. But, if Genius is in the 200s, you are going to stumble on to that Pangram pretty quickly. It’s not as big a deal when Genius is 200 points, not getting 14 points is a little more affordable. If the Genius level that day is in the 50s or 60s, the minimum 14 points gets you there a lot faster. Spelling Bee is just much harder if you don’t get the pangram. Do You Have to Get the Spelling Bee Bingo? With multiple pangrams, sometimes they are easy to get because they are derivative of each other. Sometimes there are two, and even three on some days. Unlike Scrabble, there is at least one pangram in every puzzle. This means the Pangram is worth at least seven points, with some pangrams able to push 18 or 19 points, depending on the length of the word. When you have a Spelling Bee Pangram, you get a bonus of seven points, on top of the one-point per letter. On the New York Times Spelling Bee, when you find a word that uses all seven of the available letters, that’s called a Pangram. 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.If you’ve played a lot of Scrabble, you are familiar with the concept of a bingo, which is when you use all of your tiles. 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. Join us here to solve Crosswords, The Mini, and other. 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. See the Glossary of Spelling Bee Terms and our Tips and Tricks for more useful information on Spelling Bee. 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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