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Spelling BeeMay 25, 2024. Edited by Sam Ezersky. About New York Times Games. Since the launch of The Crossword in 1942, The Times has captivated solvers by providing engaging word and...
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Learn more about the New York Times game Spelling Bee including access, how to play, and answers to common questions. About Spelling Bee. Spelling Bee is a word game that...
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- Look For Prefixes and Suffixes
- Ing and -Ed Endings
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- Remember That Pangram
- Check Previous Games For Oddball Words
- Hit That Reshuffle Button Often
- Remember to Reuse Letters
- Center Letter Strategies
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Note that while Wordle is free on the New York Times site --at least for now-- the New York Times Spelling Bee is more complicated. Stay with me, here. People who don't subscribe to any form of the New York Times, paper or digital, can play up to the rank of "Solid," a Times spokesperson told me in an email, noting that this may be a different numb...
Just as with Wordle, there are some tips and strategies for playing the New York Times Spelling Bee. Here's my best advice.
So you've made a word -- say, "happy." You'll be even happier if you can turn that base word into a bunch more. If you have the right letters, use a prefix, like "unhappy," or a suffix -- "happiness." There are levels of happy, too, like "happiest" or "happier." No reason not to wring as much juice out of one word as possible.
If you ever see the letters ING or ED in your daily spelling bee, you're golden. Maybe you found a word like "test," as in "The New York Times Spelling Bee is a real testof my patience." You can dress that up with "testing" or "tested."
CNET's Connie Guglielmo shared this advice for the Bee in our Wordle tips story. She plays the Spelling Bee with her husband. One of them starts the game and finds as many words as they can. The Genius level requires 68 points, so one person works their way up to 34, then the other player takes over. Once they reach the Genius level, either one can...
The puzzle promises that there is always one pangram -- a word using all seven of the provided letters. Just knowing that word is out there sometimes pushes me to see the options. I'll keep rearranging the letters to see if I'm inspired to find that magical word. Not that it could be longer than seven letters, if you reuse a letter or two. And once...
You can go back and look at the previous day's game -- and you should. As Guglielmo points out, over time, you'll learn that words you may never have thought of are included, such as "ratatatat." CNET staffer Dan Avery, a frequent player, notes that just like with crossword puzzles, certain relatively obscure words show up again and again, such as ...
The Spelling Bee has a super-simple layout. Below the day's letters, there's a button to delete letters from your guess and a button to enter, or submit, your guess. In-between those buttons is an unlabeled reshuffle button. This doesn't give you new letters, but it does rearrange the day's batch. Use that button, often. Getting different letters n...
Just like in Wordle, letters can be used more than once. As you study the honeycomb of letters, think about which ones are frequently doubled up in words (EE, RR, LL) and see if you can do that here.
Oof, that diabolical center letter. It has to be in every word you make, and many times I've thought I had a great answer, only to have my word rejected because I forgot the center letter. If you have a word rejected for this reason, consider if that word can be used in a compound word that might include the center letter.
Learn tips and tricks to master the NYT Spelling Bee, a word game that challenges you to make words with seven letters. Find out how to access the game, what levels are available, and how to use prefixes, suffixes, and pangrams.
- Gael Cooper
The New York Times Spelling Bee, or simply the Spelling Bee, is a word game distributed in print and electronic format by The New York Times as part of The New York Times Games. Created by Frank Longo, the game debuted in a weekly print format in 2014. A digital daily version with an altered scoring system launched on May 9, 2018.
5 days ago · Play the daily Spelling Bee and other word and logic puzzles from The New York Times. Subscribers can access the archive of crosswords and Spelling Bee puzzles, and track their stats and leaderboards.
