NYT Spelling Bee

[ab_grp]

I can report that there are at least two pangrams today.  When spouse and I compared words, we had different ones, so that helped get our points up.  Still searching the database for the remaining words.

[Langue_doc]

Found the second pangram!

[ab_grp]

Found the second pangram!

Hurrah! I had to look at the answers for the final word (program turned up two others) but am now complete.

[Langue_doc]

Congrats!

I don't think I'll get there today. I'm four points short of 200, my target number for today.

[ab_grp]

Thanks, but I am not sure running programs and then actually looking at the answers is really a win.  We did get to 208 beforehand, though, I think.  I only made it to about 171 before that.  So you on good ground in my book.

[Langue_doc]

Made it to genius with 30 words and 97 points. It's a short list today.

[ab_grp]

Luckily the (?) pangram popped right out, but I still have about 20 points to go for QB.  I have run out of steam for now.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

SO, verbalized the pangram from yesterday before I could even look at it. Grr. Today's pangram (just one?) jumped out at me.

[ab_grp]

SO, verbalized the pangram from yesterday before I could even look at it. Grr. Today's pangram (just one?) jumped out at me.

Argh!! Sorry to hear about that.  Congrats on the pangram today! It jumped out at me too, luckily.  We had to look up the final word.  Yesterday we missed "twilit" (again).

[Langue_doc]

I got to 101 this morning, and no pangram. I too missed twilit and tali, both of which I've seen in previous puzzles.

EPW, I hear you about having someone tell you the pangram before you found it.

Recovering from a trip to the grocery store--the employees don't know what the protocols are anymore. Aargh!!!!!

Edit: found the pangram.

[ab_grp]

Glad you found the pangram, Langue_doc, and argh about the grocery store staff! I totally guessed tali yesterday, although I'm sure we've had it before.

[Langue_doc]

It's a wordy one today. Despite the two pangrams, I'm still 37 points short of genius.

I missed only two yesterday-- elegize and elegized.

[ab_grp]

That's great, Langue_doc! I am in a similar place today, though it looks like about 40 points for me left to go.  I felt like I was doing pretty well, but it definitely is a wordy one!

Yesterday when we went to compare lists, we both had the same number of words, but husband was only one point away from QB.  I gave him a hint, because I suspected which one he was missing, so he got QB.  It was "geez" again.   I was missing "dizzied".   We were both stumped on why "deglaze" and "deglazed" wouldn't be in there.

[Langue_doc]

ab_grp, I was stumped by deglaze and deglazed as well. I even googled the words just to make sure that I wasn't imagining things! I got dizzied not because I thought that it was an actual word, but just because I tried that particular configuration.

[Parasaurolophus]

It was "geez" again.  [...] We were both stumped on why "deglaze" and "deglazed" wouldn't be in there.

ab_grp, I was stumped by deglaze and deglazed as well. I even googled the words just to make sure that I wasn't imagining things! I got dizzied not because I thought that it was an actual word, but just because I tried that particular configuration.

No kidding! Me three (four?)!