ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I got it, but it was a wild guess - not a word I've ever used or even seen used. I stopped at 24; got burned out.

I usually hunt around for a/the pangram and then go from there. I never did find it today.

 Proclivities wrote:

i missed 3 really stupid/obvious ones...

Stopped at 31....

 lily34 wrote:
Some of those drive me crazy. 

 Proclivities wrote:

hmm. i would have thought there was! LOL

there was another word i actually looked up to see if i made it up or if it was a word, and it's a word, but it wasn't included. i can't remember what it was right now...

 lily34 wrote:
Yeah, a couple of the "made-up" words I used worked...  A couple of the longer (relatively common) words didn't come to me until the end.
I guess they don't consider "moondial" a word.

 Proclivities wrote:

i got queen bee today, but i definitely thought i was making up some words just by putting combinations together  and for a few others i went to the "hints" for, and was like i should have had those...

Got to 42 words then stopped.

 lily34 wrote:
I burned out at 55 words...

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

that's awesome! the first word i got was the pangram. funny!

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  I tried to get to Genius using only words that start with M but couldn't do it. Got to Amazing before I had to use another letter though...

1 word away from "queen bee" sigh...

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

 I guess Ezersky has that expurgated version.

 Proclivities wrote:
I never took a deep dive into the lyrics
And when I captured Janet
She bruised her pomegranate


TIL that the Monty Python version was a cover ;-)

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Yeah, it was kinda weird that "gannet" was rejected.  I looked up that word many years ago when I first heard Ian Dury's "Billericay Dickie".

 Proclivities wrote:

A vaguely medical term.

Community comments are running high about young Mr. Ezersky's refusal to include the gannet. It's come up before; I have never heard of him going back and adding perfectly cromulent words to the options. People who own boats are up in arms about vang not being accepted.

 lily34 wrote:
Cool.  I burnt out at 42.  2 more "G" words apparently.

https://www.nytimes.com/badges...

queen bee - 2nd time since starting to play 11/6. never thought i'd do it again.  

 lily34 wrote: 
Believe me, I was just speaking for myself, not meaning to throw shade at anyone else. 

To answer your question I think you, Scott, and Pro are all very good spellers.