Spelling Bee: “What’s a chilblain?”1
Continue reading “In all fairness to Spelling Bee, when I had these a few years ago, my regular doctor didn’t know what they were either.”
(I will cop to trying this word a couple of times before remembering that it has everything to do with The Silmarillion and nothing to do with poling boats around the canals of Venice.)
Isn’t this the second time you’ve told me something like this, Wordlebot*?
Continue reading “Wordle: Judgy? Or Just Envious?”So I’ve sort of been collecting amusing (to me, anyway) screen shots of Spelling Bee words that were not accepted. Most of them are words I didn’t expect it to take but that I wanted to spell anyway, and since they’ve started to kinda clutter up my device with pictures, I figured it was time to finally post them. (Like I said before, it’s not easy keeping an author blog going when you’re not authoring …)
Continue reading “Words, Words, Everywhere The Words”
Surely any random person, presented with this set of correct and/or misplaced letters:
would go straight to the word “HENGE“, right? Right … ?
Continue reading “Pardon Me, Your Fantasy Background Is Showing”Since last week I posted about Wordle, I figured this week I would post about another word game I play, Spelling Bee. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Spelling Bee gives you seven letters, and you have to make as many words as you can out of them. Oh, and the words always have to include the letter in the middle. However, there are a few quirks:
Continue reading “Spelling Be Like …”So lately I’ve been playing yet another word game, Wordiply, by The Guardian. The way this game works is that they give you a short series of letters (the instructional blurb below says it’s a “starter word” but it is most definitely not always an actual word) and then you have to come up with the longest five words you can think of that includes these letters. This is a more difficult task than you might expect.
Viscosity 