NYT Spelling Bee

[Langue_doc]

Afternoon!

I didn't think that I'd ever find the pangram, but I did. Not sure if I'll make it to QB. Missed a few words yesterday. Words such as road and other familiar ones that I distinctly remember typing didn't seem to have registered.

machinery/yucks

Happy Valentine's Day!

[cathwen]

Good afternoon!

Yesterday I needed help to find canard, circadian, rand, and draconic (last word).  Today it took me an age to find the pangrams.  I finally made it to QB. 

LB: Some variety this time!  I had amnesiac-churchkey.  No 2fer today yet, although I have some good words.

Happy puzzling!

[Langue_doc]

Good morning!

Genius and then the pangram. Found the first pangram yesterday because I mistyped the word. I didn't realize that there was a second pangram until I noticed the misspelling and typed what I thought was the correct spelling.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

QB yesterday with a desperation attempt that turned out to be the second pangram (hiccuped) and my last word.  Today I'm at Alpha and need two more words.  It took me a while to find today's pangram.

LB:  No 2fer yesterday, and none yet today!  But lots and lots of good words that don't seem to fit together.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

QB-1 then finally needed a hint for hiccuped which I thought I tried. LB was 3fers coming out of my ears until finally got a hint for warmth-honeybun. Compound words get me every time.

Happy solving!

[ab_grp]

Good morning!

No pangram yet (again), but I did get past genius.  Yesterday, I had to get a hint of an h to get my final three words, hiccup(p)(ed).  Ugh.  Oh well!

For LB, I got the schmofficial warmth-honeybun after lots of tries.  I have some good contenders today but haven't put too much time in yet.

Happy solving!

[Langue_doc]

Good morning!

Short one today, so not-too-difficult QB.

Last word yesterday was dodo, which took me to QB.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

A surprisingly quick QBABM today.  Yesterday I went to one-letter hints to find peapod and gooey. 

LB:  I had prevaricate-eyebolt, which was a wild guess.  Today I do not yet have a 2fer.  I have a couple of long words, but no other words that use the remaining letters. 

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwH for some new words doggo, odea. LB was prevaricator-reliability which I think is my record for the longest 2fer ever.

Happy solving!

[ab_grp]

Good morning!

Got to genius with the pangram but then switched over.  Congrats on the QBs! I hope to join you.  Yesterday I was missing dopy, odea, popped, and we were both missing poppa. 

I also had prevaricator-reliability for LB after many contenders and many tries.  At least something finally worked.

I should have several billion hours to wait around at the retina specialist today, so maybe I will get somewhere with the puzzles.  Hopefully since nothing has changed he will just say see me in 6 months or a year unless there's any change.  I'm not really getting anything out of these appointments other than a sore back for sitting for so long.  But it's nice to have the scans in case he sees something changing that I don't.

Happy solving!

[Langue_doc]

Good luck with the medical appointment, ab_grp. Hope they find that things are working as they should.

[ab_grp]

Thanks, Langue_doc! No change, although I was able to read an additional line with the problematic eye.  I think I was just trying harder.  But now my next appt is in 6 months unless something changes, so that's good.  It only ended up being about 2 hours this time, but that is way too long for a 2 minute appt, and given how busy it is and how much more in need others are, I'm fine with holding off.

But I did get QB! No wifi, so LB wouldn't load.  I'll get to that shortly.

[Parasaurolophus]

GWP.

[Langue_doc]

Good morning!

Pangram and above genius; I think that's it for today.

Last word yesterday was cirri.

Happy solving!

[ab_grp]

Good morning!

Got to genius with the pangrams so far.  Yesterday I was happy to get to QB, and I think my final words were pricy, cyclic.  I guessed rick, kicky pretty late in the game. 

No luck on LB despite a lot of trying! Argh!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention a couple days ago that the change in bee rankings is back, maybe for good this time? And now sudoku has appeared in my app! Still no LB, though.  I wonder what the hold up is with that puzzle. 

Happy solving!