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> Every day's puzzle is guaranteed to have at least one pangram. I’m almost certain that wasn’t true for at least one puzzle early this year, but haven’t been

> Every day's puzzle is guaranteed to have at least one pangram. I’m almost certain that wasn’t true for at least one puzzle early this year, but haven’t been able to come up with an exact date.

banana_giraffe 3y ago
The 2140 or so puzzles I've grabbed over the years all have at least one panagram. > 1: 1642, 2: 364, 3: 90, 4: 24, 7: 2, 5: 12, 6: 5, 8: 1 That 8 panagram day was December 16, 2021
chockablock 3y ago
Official rules say otherwise: "Each puzzle includes at least one “pangram,” which uses every letter." https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee -> click on 'How to Play'
- tptacek 3y ago
  I've always assumed they generate the puzzle starting from a pangram.
  - ddejohn 3y ago
    This is the assumption I started with when I started building my clone.
  - spyspy 3y ago
    That's exactly how it works. The script scanned the dictionary for pangrams and then built the puzzles from that list, filtering out pangrams that didn't meet the other rules for the game.
JadeNB 3y ago
https://nytbee.com/ https://nytbee.com/ is an excellent source for historical data, if you'd like to try to track it down.