![]() ![]() The SB wouldn’t take it) figured out that QB was double the points of the rank of Amazing (one step below Genius). Whaaa? What’s better than Genius?īy sheer luck, one day I found all of the words and was rewarded with the Easter egg of Queen Bee! But it felt opaque and mysterious-once you reach Genius rank, how far are you from QB? Five words, 10 words, 40 words? Eventually, a friend who’s way mathier than I (I know, mathier isn’t a real word. It got better when I realized there were levels (ranks) in the game when you reach certain percentages of possible points in a given puzzle (getting stuck at the oh-so-condescending Nice rank is torturous), but then I got frustrated again when I reached the highest rank-Genius-and the game asked if I wanted to keep playing. ![]() When I had no idea how many points were possible, or how/when it ever ended, I quickly lost interest. ![]() Sure, it’s important to know the rules of the game, but even more so to know what you’re aiming for. ![]() And lately I’ve realized this game has some lessons to impart for leaders and managers.ġ. But after a few minutes, I thought, “Does this ever end? How many words are there?” I lost interest and gave up.īut today, I’m hooked, and, thanks to some recent improvements in the game experience and, most importantly, the fun of working on it with another person, we tackle the game every day, and most days-at least 3 out of 4-we reach Queen Bee, finding every word on the list. One insomnia-plagued late night a few years ago, weary and anxious from doomscrolling, I decided to try the Spelling Bee-a simple word-finding game in which you make as many words as you can of at least four letters in length, always using the letter in the center of the 7-letter honeycomb structure. I’m not suggesting we ignore it, but if you need a break, here’s something considerably lighter: Leadership lessons courtesy of the New York Times Spelling Bee. If you’re not finding the pangram, it’s going to be really hard to gain progress.The news in our world is grim and getting more worrisome by the day, it seems. There are some solvers who won’t even begin solving the rest of the puzzle until they find the pangrams. I have a particularly high bar with the pangram, because that is the linchpin of the puzzle. This Year’s World Scrabble Champion Blew Everyone Away With a Three-Letter Word The Famous “Runaway Train” Music Video “Saved” 21 Kids. Simone Biles Just Shocked the Gymnastics World Again Netflix’s New Show Stars Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler. I try to make the puzzle hard primarily through the answers in the puzzle, especially the longer ones that are worth more points, rather than the pangram itself. I don’t believe there was a single marginal call, but that pangram was wicked, right? I usually try to avoid that, though. I believe all the other words in the word list were six letters or fewer and were very, very, very straightforward. That pangram was so difficult and so hard to see, to stitch together a few letters and then tack on the remaining ones. Ultimately, my guiding question is: What feels fair to our wide-ranging audience? I don’t want to snub those where it’s a word that is so common to their background or lifestyle or culture, but I also don’t want to include something that will truly mystify the vast majority of our solving audience-and not just those queen bee folks who know everything. I’ll see if the word is listed in the major dictionaries that I have at my disposal, which primarily are Merriam-Webster and the Mac dictionary, which I believe riffs off New Oxford American. I’ll see if it gets a lot of news coverage. If I’m unsure, if this is something that’s a total blind spot–hello to all the gardeners out there, you all know I don’t know my plants that well-I’ll go digging around. My methodology is just extensive research. Even though the word list is a binary “yes, it’s in the word list” or “no, it’s not in the word list,” there are tons and tons of close calls. That’s the million-dollar question! A lot of the calls are pretty easy. ![]()
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