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For anyone that plays Wordle on NYT Games site, there is another anagramming game called Spelling Bee in which the notion of a pangram is featured prominently. Basically, you get a set of letters from which to build anagrams (one privileged letter must appear in all your anagrams). Pangrams are considered to be any anagram which makes use of all the given letters and it will flash the word 'Pangram' on the screen when you get them, to give you a minor nerdy dopamine hit.

I am addicted to the game and get pissed at myself if I don't get to the top scoring tier every day.

EDIT: Removed spoilers for future readers.

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SirAllCaps|3 years ago

If you happen to speak Icelandic (whopping 0.004% chance!), I recently made a clone of this game to learn NextJS: https://skrafl.rkl.is/

2 biggest differences being:

- Unlimited playing requires no registration.

- The answer keys are not just chilling there in the source code.

mh-|3 years ago

I play that every day. I do my best and once I've given up by the evening time (it resets at midnight Pacific), I go to this site and see how much better I can do with the prefixes. You can tweak the checkboxes to show you more or less, all the way up to revealing the answers. Great site.

https://www.sbsolver.com/nctx/latest

stavros|3 years ago

Praising the game this much and not posting a link must be some sort of cruel punishment.

https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee

kmos17|3 years ago

Love that game, addicted too! ps. there’s a fourth pangram today you missed :)

daviddaviddavid|3 years ago

Thanks! I love it so much. The one thing that annoys me is that it rejects anything that it considers to be domain knowledge or some such criteria. For example, today you'd think you could use 'potto', which is a cool animal in the loris family. But nope, Spelling Bee seemingly rejects it because it considers it to be specialized zoological knowledge or something. BS.

EDIT: Removed spoiler.

thenberlin|3 years ago

Psst, there are actually five.

thenberlin|3 years ago

Yeah, +1 to Spelling Bee -- that game is great!

That said, this post needs a SPOILER tag.

kmos17|3 years ago

has anyone here managed to get all the words after the genius level? What happens then? I just missed 3 yesterday

thenberlin|3 years ago

When you get them all, it's "Queen Bee." I've only ever gotten it once -- for whatever reason, the puzzle just clicked that day -- but it was extremely satisfying.