The Completely Unauthorized
NY Times Spelling Bee Toolbox
The Beesheet
A Print and Play Tool for a Digital Game
The New York Times provides a grid and a two letter list as well as hints for each puzzle. They also provide Bee Buddy, which allows you to keep track of the words you’ve found.
If you don’t mind flipping back and forth between two screens, all of those tools work great. Our worksheet simply takes the provided data and turns it into a printable checksheet format. Whenever you guess a word, check off the corresponding length and fill in the word. Through process of elimination you’ll see what word lengths and start letters you have left. Please let us know if you have any suggestions by emailing missioncontrol@thegamebureau.com.
About the Bee
Spelling Bee is a word game that challenges players to construct as many (minimum 4 letters) words as they can using pre-selected letters. Each word must include the center letter provided in the puzzle.
Spelling Bee can be played by New York Times Games, All Digital Access, and Home Delivery subscribers.
Where to Play
To play Spelling Bee online, visit nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee. Or, you can play Spelling Bee in the New York Times Games app (for iOS and Android). Spelling Bee puzzles are released at 2 a.m. CST every day of the week.
Spelling Bee puzzle answers are available to subscribers the following day. To view the previous day’s puzzle answers, select Yesterday’s Answers, located on the right of the Spelling Bee grid.
Note: A Spelling Bee puzzle is also available to play in the print edition of The New York Times Magazine. The print version of the Spelling Bee puzzle provides a different letter set and utilizes a different scoring system than the digital version of Spelling Bee. Answers for the print edition of the Spelling Bee puzzle are posted at 9 p.m. CST the following Thursday.
Rules of Play
Construct as many words as you can using at least 4 letters, including the center letter of the puzzle.
Words should be at least 4 letters long (no maximum limit).
Each Spelling Bee puzzle is curated to focus on relatively common words (with a few tougher ones periodically to keep things challenging). They try to avoid terms that are ultra-specific to any professional field to maintain a level playing field for all of our solvers.
Scoring
Four-letter words are worth one point each.
Longer words earn one point per letter. (A six-letter word is worth six points.)
Each puzzle includes at least one “pangram,” which uses every letter at least once. A pangram is worth an additional seven points.
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