… Incidents like the unintentional omission of CLICKBAIT give me nightmares.” My poor girlfriend knows that the very last thing I do before bed is check the next day’s word list one last time. 31, clickbait, a pangram, was not recognized): “I am never 10,000 percent sure. One thing that nags at all Bee obsessives is the question: Are there other words out there? I asked Ezersky how he can be sure each daily word list is complete (there was quite a kerfuffle when, on Jan. You get 14 points for that sucker, while only one point for a four-letter word, five points for a fiver, etc. The online version is practically Pavlovian, awarding each discovery with a chirpy adjective (“Nice!” “Awesome!”) and showing one’s virtual progress through nine levels per day, from “Beginner” to “Genius.” The best moment, by far, is bagging a pangram, a word that uses all seven letters. The print version of Bee, which appears in the New York Times Magazine, plays by slightly different, stingier rules than the online game, which is probably why no one cares about the print Bee. The goal is to make as many so-called common words as you can, using the letters as often as you like-as long as the central letter appears at least once in each word and each word is at least four letters long.
Because each letter is encased in a hexagon, the visual effect is hivelike. Every day, it’s made up of seven letters, six of which surround a central letter.
Spelling Bee, however, is perfect, a sort of no-holds-barred Boggle, minus the time limit. “I dug my heels in for so long on this one, because, really, you never would use the familiar ‘annals’ in the singular,” he told me via email. The man who crafts this daily puzzle, Sam Ezersky, is still ambivalent about annal, and says its longtime ban generated more complaints than any other word in the puzzle’s history. Anal, too, was fine Spelling Bee, while hostile to vulgarity, allows nonpejorative descriptions of anatomy. Until that historic moment, the online puzzle had recognized the plural, annals, but not the singular. On Valentine’s Day, the New York Times puzzle known as Spelling Bee gave me the gift of annal. I Have Seen Into the Heart of the Year’s Strangest Celebrity Pairing, and I Have Findings Republicans’ Most Effective Strategy Is Courting People Once Far Outside Their Reach. I Turned Down the Ivy League Because I Thought Race Shouldn’t Matter. The Media Coverage Is Missing Something Big. Four Kids Survived 40 Days Alone in the Jungle.
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