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THURSDAY — Hi busy bees! Welcome to today’s Spelling Bee forum. There are a number of terms that appear in both this article and other online discussions of the Spelling Bee; a glossary of those terms compiled by Monicat, a Times reader, can be found below. For more Spelling Bee conversation, check out Deb Amlen’s weekly humor column, “Diary of a Spelling Bee Fanatic.”
Spelling Bee Grid
Center letter is in bold.
i a d e m t y
WORDS: 60, POINTS: 269, PANGRAMS: 1 (1 Perfect), BINGO
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Σ | |
| a: | 2 | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | 7 |
| d: | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 13 |
| e: | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 5 |
| i: | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| m: | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| t: | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 11 |
| y: | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Σ: | 22 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 60 |
Two letter list:
ad-2 ai-3 am-2
da-2 de-3 di-8
ed-3 em-2
id-3 im-4 it-2
ma-3 me-5 mi-6
ta-1 te-1 ti-9
ye-1
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