There are various ranks of proficiency: Beginner, Good Start, Moving Up, Good, Solid, Nice, Great, Amazing, Genius, and then the ultimate, which is Queen Bee. There is at least one pangram per puzzle.Īs you find words, you get showered with little compliments, such as “genius,” and “amazing.” I ignore all that noise because I’m an obsessed maniac who bears down on the Queen Bee like a racetrack greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit. Individual letters can be used more than once.Īcceptable words do not include words that are hyphenated, a proper noun, or that qualify as “obscure,” except when they’re totally obscure, and there’s nothing you can do about it.Ī pangram is when you use all seven letters or more. Words three letters or fewer are not accepted. That was when I discovered the Spelling Bee. It’s that the clues get trickier, and the trickier they get, the more annoyed I become. It’s not that the words necessarily get harder. Monday’s is the easiest, Saturday’s the hardest, and Sunday’s is a marathon of patient endurance that I simply do not possess. They get increasingly difficult as the week goes on. How was I supposed to know how addictive they were?Īdmittedly, The New York Times crosswords were the best, although by Thursday’s puzzle, I was already irritated. Did I know that feverishly doing crosswords was only one rung down from crocheting tea cozies and watching murder mysteries?Īfter exhausting once again the entire seven-season Buffy oeuvre, plowing through Firefly for the fifth time, gritting my teeth during the creepy sexual assault subplots of Veronica Mars and reciting all the dialogue of both seasons of Party Down (you have no idea how much I love that show), it was only one lateral move to word puzzles. At some point during the pandemic, desperate for amusement of any kind, I turned to word puzzles.
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