Ny times spelling bee pangram1/31/2024 ![]() ![]() The key is simply the unique letters of the word in alphabetical order. ![]() For a word list, I used the dictionary word list that is part of every Unix/Linux distribution. Then assign a key to the 7 letters in the same way and look for matches. She tried towngown, now living in a university town where such. The basic idea is to start with a word list and assign each word a key. Spelling Bee on the New York Times website, found the pangram within ten seconds: outgrown. It turns out to be straightforward and easy so I’ll devote the rest of this post to showing how I did it with Elisp. Naturally this caused the nerd in me to rise up and I started thinking about how I could automate the search. A quirk of my mental makeup makes me pretty good at it but sometimes I can’t find the answer. Using the Right Strategies to Solve NYT Spelling Bee: Use Proper Nouns: Try Alternate Spellings: Look for Common Letter Combinations: Experiment with. I don’t have the time for that but I do like to see if I can find the pangram. Working the puzzle is an open ended process because you never know when you’ve found all the words. A word that contains all 7 letters is called a pangram and earns extra points. ![]() You can read the exact rules at the link but the TL DR is that you’re given 7 letters and have to make as many words as possible from them, possibly repeating letters. There are a number of terms that appear in both this article. At the end of the summary, they always have the day’s Spelling Bee puzzle. SATURDAY Hi busy bees Welcome to today’s Spelling Bee forum. I had to register with the NYT to be able to read them and one side effect of that registration is that every morning I get a short news summary emailed to me. From time to time I find a reference to a New York Times article in my feed. ![]()
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