Spelling Bee: Why I’m Completely Obsessed With The Best Puzzle On The Internet

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around the time Boris Johnson was hospitalised with coronavirus. It was bleak, that week in early April – scary and sad. There was very little to do – even on your phone. Instagram was just a parade of screenshots of people doing quizzes on Zoom and Twitter was where you kept up-to-date about the coronavirus pandemic. There was a cessation in sarcasm and gossip and all that fun stuff online, as everyone scrolled through the unthinkably bad news.

Spelling Bee is a game in which you must find as many words as possible, from the seven letters provided, using the central letter in each. You are awarded points for each word you create – and the longer the word, the more points you get. Extra points are awarded if you create a “pangram”, which uses all seven letters.

As soon as I started to spend up to an hour a day playing the game, I began to notice how many others were similarly hooked. Once you become a Spelling Bee fan, you notice your fellow aficionados everywhere . Rachel Syme, the New Yorker writer, tells me it is part of her night-time routine. 'I love doing it before bed: it’s soothing even though I never reach Queen Bee,' she says. 'I can’t sleep until I at least hit "genius".'

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