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Got to genius, but no pangram.  I thought I had it right away, but mine wasn't accepted.  Hmm!! I checked the spelling and everything! Wonder if there will be some outrage from the public.  Yesterday I also got to QBABM, final word madam.

No luck on LB yet again, but I did get one right away today!

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Oops almost forgot:

Quote from: namazu on March 11, 2024, 12:28:45 PMDid the Bee while I should have been sleeping.  Made it to QBw2LL+grid.  I have a vague sense of deja vu, like the pangram(s) appeared in a previous puzzle -- but maybe I'm misremembering.  Is there an easily searchable archive of Spelling Bee letter combos somewhere?

I don't know if there is such a searchable resource, but I would guess there is one out there by this point.  If you want to know whether the pangram appeared before, you can check the nytbee page for the puzzle.  Here is yesterday's: https://nytbee.com/Bee_20240311.html  It indicates that the pangram appeared twice before, which dates, and what the center letter was that day.  I think that also indicates how many times that particular combo of letters has been used before, since the pangram has all the puzzle letters.  Is that what you were looking for?

Quote from: ab_grp on March 12, 2024, 07:56:22 AMI don't know if there is such a searchable resource, but I would guess there is one out there by this point.  If you want to know whether the pangram appeared before, you can check the nytbee page for the puzzle.  Here is yesterday's: https://nytbee.com/Bee_20240311.html  It indicates that the pangram appeared twice before, which dates, and what the center letter was that day.  I think that also indicates how many times that particular combo of letters has been used before, since the pangram has all the puzzle letters.  Is that what you were looking for?

Yes, that's great (and that I'm probably not misremembering)!  Thank you.  I didn't realize they recycled letter combos, though I guess at a certain point they have to (especially if they continue to exclude "s").  I suppose the center letter can differ, which makes the puzzle different.

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Pangram and above genius. Missed micromini--micromini?!

vowing/grapheme

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QBwH for morocco, microform, moonroof. LB avow-whimpering.

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Pangram and genius today so far; yesterday I needed help for micromini (!) and omicron.

LB: Lots of variety! My combo was have-empowering. No 2fer yet today.

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Got to genius with pangram so far.  Yesterday it took me all day to find the pangram, mostly because I thought I had that word already and didn't think it was a pangram anyway until I realized it had all the letters and that I didn't actually have it in my list.  I thought initially that coniform was the pangram.  Oh well.  Anyway, we needed bee buddy for micromini, too.

For LB I had whoever-revamping.  Yep, lots of solutions!!

Namazu, I'm glad it helped! If I run across something searchable, I'll post it here.

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Two pangrams and above genius, but still a long ways to go. Last word was tutti, which like belle and tonne, I never remember until the very end.

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Genius with both pangrams this morning, but a way to go yet. Yesterday I resorted to SBB to find tutee (which I always miss) and my last word, glutei.

LB: I had pimples-subservient. No 2fer yet today. Only one vowel! Yikes!

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QBhH for glutei... what? LB pimples-subservient.

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Quote from: Langue_doc on March 14, 2024, 05:18:22 AMGood morning!

Two pangrams and above genius, but still a long ways to go. Last word was tutti, which like belle and tonne, I never remember until the very end.

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I was proud of myself for remembering tutee, then of course needed a hint for tutti. Gah.

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Got the pangrams and to genius so far.  Yesterday we needed help with glutei.

No luck on LB.  Congrats on your solutions!

We had some excitement yesterday, as someone had lost his wedding ring (he has lost a bunch of weight, and it is too loose now, but I didn't realize it was that loose!).  We looked around before he went to work, but no joy.  He decided to take the afternoon off and go get a new one, and then he found the wedding band in the refrigerator in a snack bag of cauliflower right before we were going to leave (I had joked that maybe it was in a bag of broccoli... close!).  We decided to go anyway and get real wedding rings since we had bought our rings the night before the wedding.  I'm glad we found his original one so that we can put those away together for safe keeping. 

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QBwH for traiga - gah. I was just thinking about that word the other day for some reason. LB flanks-scratchpad.

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Easy QB--a short and sweet one today. QB yesterday, but needed help for gigabit and another word.

No mate for parklands, alas.

ab_grp, that's an interesting story--glad you found the lost ring and also got a new one in the process.

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Got the pangram right away, but it took forever to get to genius, and now I am stuck.  Congrats on QB, Langue_doc! I will hold out hope.  Yesterday we needed help with gigabit.

I also tried parklands to no avail.  Congrats on your 2fer, ciao_yall!

I have somehow fallen under a curse of customer service nightmaredom and no longer have time to do anything but track down issues, report issues, follow up on issues.  What the hell.  I seriously think I might lose my mind.

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QB yesterday with 2LL help to find habitat, igniting, and bight. Today I'm at genius with the pangram, but like ab_grp, stuck. Congratulations on your QB, Langue_doc!

LB: I also had flanks-scratchpad. No 2fer yet today.

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