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That may be the target, but there have been a handful of Spelling Bees with less than 20 words in the answer list. For instance, March 27, 2023 had 16 answers:
by banana_giraffe 3y ago
That may be the target, but there have been a handful of Spelling Bees with less than 20 words in the answer list. For instance, March 27, 2023 had 16 answers:
> MORTIFY, FORTIFY, FIFTY, FORTY, MOTIF, FIRM, FOOT, FORM, FORT, FROM, IFFY, MIFF, RIFF, RIFT, ROOF, TIFF
- darth_aardvark 3y agoToot, trot, tort, and moot aren't legal?
- ztravis 3y agoFrom the list of words, I think F was the required (central) letter.
- ajkjk 3y agoYou have to use the center letter, whatever it was.
- banana_giraffe 3y agoAs others have pointed out, all words must have the center letter, which was "F" on this day, the outer letters were "I M O R T Y"
- spyspy 3y agoVery possible. The've loosened the rules have a bit since I originally generated the puzzles e.g. they now allow more than one vowel, i+n+g and e+d are allowed in puzzles, possibly more
- angiosperm 3y agothe "ed" and "ing" puzzles are just annoying.
- JadeNB 3y ago> The've loosened the rules have a bit since I originally generated the puzzles e.g. they now allow more than one vowel, …. The original Bees allowed only one vowel? That must have made it really tough to get long Bees!
- spyspy 3y agoMaybe it was 2. It's been a while..