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In 2014, we introduced The Mini Crossword — followed by Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, Tiles and Vertex. In early 2022, we proudly added Wordle to our collection. We strive to offer puzzles for...
- The Mini Crossword
Since the launch of The Crossword in 1942, The Times has...
- Wordle
Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available...
- Letter Boxed
Letter Boxed - Spelling Bee - The New York Times
- Sudoku
Sudoku - Spelling Bee - The New York Times
- Vertex
Vertex - Spelling Bee - The New York Times
- The New York Times
In early 2022, we proudly added Wordle to our collection. We...
- Spelling Bee Tips and Tricks
Spelling Bee is one of five games created by the New York...
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Learn more about the New York Times game Spelling Bee...
- The Mini Crossword
A sampling of the words that have given spellers trouble this year, with definitions courtesy Merriam-Webster and sentences from the New York Times archive, where possible. By The New...
- Can I Play The Spelling Bee For free?
- New York Times Spelling Bee Tips, Tricks and Strategies
- Look For Prefixes and Suffixes
- Ing and -Ed Endings
- Share The Load with A Friend
- Remember That Pangram
- Check Previous Games For Oddball Words
- Hit That Reshuffle Button Often
- Remember to Reuse Letters
- Center Letter Strategies
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.
- Gael Cooper
May 30, 2023 · Starting today, we’re rolling out Spelling Bee past puzzles on a variety of platforms, including the New York Times Games app on iOS & Android, our News app on iOS & Android, as well as mobile web and desktop.
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