NYT Spelling Bee

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwH for chihuahua. LB filmography-yep.

cathwen I use a similar strategy. Grid, 2LL, and I like the SBB feature that shows how common the missing words are.

If it's way up over 40% of solvers already found it, I try to go back to find an obvious one I missed.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good afternoon!

Also QBwH for chihuahua.

LB: grief-filmography.

SBB is very helpful. I like the grids. I try not to look at the hints (the ones you get by clicking on the gray box) unless I'm really stuck, as I was yesterday with chihuahua.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwH last word metonymy. LB nudge for injustice-enwrap. Just wasn't putting it together.

I like the little nudges on SBB at the top where it says things like "look for a word with multiple Ms."

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good afternoon!

QBwH for last two words, moneymen and tonne, which I always seem to miss.

Love the SBB nudges! Sometimes it's all I need.

LB: justice-enwrap. Took me a good while to find it.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBWATHICG for diploid. LB fracked-duckling.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

QBwH for diploid, then I saw lodging and dodging—my last words.

LB: feared-duckling, flared-ducking.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QB last word cancan. I went into community hints and someone posts a 3LL because I knew I was stuck on a fairly common CA-6 and did not want to succumb to hints. SBB wasn't any help.

LB bushwa-alkanized.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

QB, last word cantina with SBB hint. Needed 2LL hint for titanic, which I should have seen.

LB: Well, I was really flummoxed, so I went to hints for bushwalks-seized. I don't think I would have found that on my own. Congratulations on your 2fer!

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwSBB last word hubbub. LB needed a nudge to find alternative -eyebrow.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

QBw1L, last word hauled.

Congratulations on a non-"official" 2fer! I always find it a little deflating when my 2fer is the "official" answer, as it was yesterday: wrote-enviably.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QB accidentally got a hint for my last word allele while going for the 3LL.

LB nudge for exfoliant-toques. I had toques but wasn't seeing exfoliant.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning, ciao_yall!

Without a hint, I would never have made QB yesterday. I needed a hint for paella, which I always seem to miss, and then for my last word, pelf, which I would never have thought of otherwise.

I had a hard time with LB yesterday, but finally found exfoliants-sequel.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBw3LL from the comments section to remember mania. That is where I started going after SBB except sometimes I accidentally see hints so maybe that's
not the best strategy.

LB limbo-outwardly.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

QBw2LL; I, too, had trouble remembering mania, my next-to-last word. But my last word was imagining, which I thought I had already entered.

LB: I also had limbo-outwardly.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwG last word torii. LB prolificated-dab. I thought I made up the first word but hey, it took!

Happy solving!