The man behind the NYT’s Spelling Bee on how he decides which words to allow.
This game was adopted from the print Spelling Bee, which has been around since 2014 or 2015 and still today appears weekly in the Sunday Times Magazine, curated by Frank Longo. When Spelling Bee was adopted for digital in May 2018, people who were longtime puzzle solvers were familiar with the game because they had solved the Sunday crossword in the magazine. But the major following came around the start of the pandemic.
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. I’ll see if it gets a lot of news coverage. 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.
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