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A try at cloning the New York Times Spelling Bee
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I love playing the Ignoble Bee - how come no new puzzles? I also write clues for the NYTimes Spelling Bee, but the hours are killing me (3am is the new puzzle drop each day)! Let me know if you'd like me to write clues for your puzzle! #61

Closed KittRichards closed 1 month ago

KittRichards commented 1 month ago

PS I also write clues for the NYTimes Spelling Bee, but the hours are killing me (3am is the new puzzle drop each day)! Let me know if you'd like me to write clues for your puzzle!

baetheus commented 1 month ago

Hiya Kitt! I've been rewriting the bee for a couple of months now in my spare time. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how I could integrate better hints. One of my thoughts is to expand bee to include a few other languages, types of puzzles, and accounts so you can play across devices.

KittRichards commented 1 month ago

Hi, Brandon!

I'm no coder - I'm a creative - so I don't have any suggestions on how to integrate hints electronically, but I'm one of the top hint-writers for the Times (they use my hints in their Spelling Bee Buddy tool, and published an article about us in April):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/crosswords/spelling-bee-hints.html

The downside is I have to write them at 3am(!) which (obviously) disrupts my sleep...so if you would like someone to write fun, entertaining clues for your puzzle (and could let me do it at a reasonable hour!), I'd be happy to help on that creative front.

Kitt

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baetheus commented 2 weeks ago

New puzzles are up!