![]() To form a word, tap (on a touchscreen) or click (with a mouse) the available letters, or type (via keyboard) any letters at all.Her name is Beeatriz Buzzby and she guides you through the game: She’s there at the start, she’s there if you win, and she’s there when you quit (but not when you return). What’s a Bee without bees? The Bee’s mascot is a cute bee, designed with B’s in mind (I spy at least 3). (If you’ve never played the Spelling Bee, now’s as good a time as any.) The Mascot Ranging from reverse-engineered snippets of the game’s logic to quirks in the beekeepers’ controversial word list, some of it common knowledge, some - arcane lore, and all of it useless trivia, my hard-fought findings are the subject of this week’s post. Over the course of far too many hours of researches and investigations, I ended up learning… more than I ever wanted to know about the stupid game, really. A lover of all manner of wordplay, I wrote my own command-line clone of the Bee 3 that lets me hunt words to my heart’s content. I myself was first stung by the Spelling Bee sometime last year, back when it was free (some sort of promotion or other). “ Spelling Bee … is perfect” Laura Lippman As distracting as you could hope for.” Lynn Enright “It is a simple pleasure in a complicated time. The game’s virtues have been widely extolled: Like the print version it adapts, 2 the Bee operates on one basic principle: make words with the letters given. ![]() 1 Swarms of fans have subscribed (literally and figuratively) to the daily online puzzle since its release on ( a Wednesday, if you were wondering). It’s simple, undemanding, and pokes out just enough from behind its paywall to get you hooked. The New York Times’ Spelling Bee is a wonderful wordgame.
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