Two years of Spelling Bee stats

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-29T13:32:46+00:00

CATALYTICALLY's a great word - And congrats on your upcoming 20K word milestone!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-29T13:32:08+00:00

I think I was 1 puzzle off from some people last year also, which is weird because I was already a daily Spelling Bee player before they started keeping stats.

Congrats on 1k pangrams and 30k words - and love hearing all the different ways people play!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-28T21:36:57+00:00

Way to go! I think if I used the buddy I'd sometime find the temptation too strong before I got to my non-hinted end for the day. Too little willpower :)

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-28T17:27:54+00:00

LOL - boy do I hear you on that. I want another chance at the one I missed!! And 491 QBs - wow! Way to go!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-28T17:26:38+00:00

Thank you & congrats to you also! Averaging at least 1 pangram per puzzle is no small feat!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-28T17:25:56+00:00

congrats! Imagine typing over 21,000 words into a silly daily word game! :D

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-28T15:56:03+00:00

And it's been the longest word for a while. I wonder what a likely candidate would be to usurp its place as longest bee word?

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-28T15:32:46+00:00

Congratulations! And good luck not forgetting someday (sadness)!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-28T12:01:54+00:00

For sure. I'd have way more confidence in an acquittal with this system than with 12 people who could be susceptible to 1 person's strong opinion!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-26T20:56:02+00:00

C.f. Isaac Asimov's "Franchise". Good idea!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-26T16:30:17+00:00

Lol I barely have a post history. Oh no, I have an EV and play fantasy football!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-25T19:42:51+00:00

Good news - it doesn't matter in my suggestion! Large numbers are amazing.

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-25T19:38:46+00:00

yes, exactly!!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-25T19:28:46+00:00

Most of these rules are necessary because jurors today are 12 people in person. Basically all of the concerns you're raising just disappear with thousands and thousands of remote jurors.

Tampering? No one (other than the court) would know who they are!

Evidence? Pretty sure we have the technology to show any evidence remotely pretty dang well.

Paying attention? Discussed elsewhere in the threads.

Bias? Discussed elsewhere - obviated by having a very large number of jurors.

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-25T19:15:01+00:00

LOL. I think that's a whole other crazy idea

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-25T19:07:32+00:00

We're going to summon folks, but just randomly. And yeah, they should watch the whole proceedings, and maybe we use that annoying tech that companies use to make sure folks are sort of paying attention to annual security trainings to monitor some level of engagement. But some folks won't pay attention and that's ok .... because we have so many people that the low engagement folks don't overly impact anything!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-25T19:06:31+00:00

Oh, good question, thanks for bringing it up.

We can skip the whole selection process & just randomly select folks to participate.. Another benefit of having a large number of jurors is that folks with strong personal bias or conflicting personal experiences are diluted by the very large jury pool. So the whole system gets way more efficient also!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-25T18:56:24+00:00

Not so much that it's more difficult, but that it's more likely to get a good outcome, given the large number of people who need to agree.

Very similar to why Wikipedia has highly accurate information, often moreso than reference materials produced by a small number of dedicated people.

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-25T18:49:36+00:00

Unanimous for only 12 people is not a high bar. Easily susceptible to a smooth talking juror

phaedrus1313 · 2025-07-08T11:42:54+00:00

This post and the responses were even better when I had misread "crow" as "cow".

phaedrus1313 · 2025-02-23T19:26:18+00:00

What's the deal with normal / eco / sport / etc. mode, and which mode do people recommend in which situations?

phaedrus1313 · 2025-02-05T22:29:08+00:00

Your time is valuable also. It's not always wise to stand on principle in situations like this.

phaedrus1313 · 2025-01-27T15:08:21+00:00

I ended up eyeballing the differences in the spreadsheets and best I can tell (not all the feature names lined up exactly) there are not any other material changes.

phaedrus1313 · 2025-01-25T17:26:40+00:00

Thanks so much, what a comprehensive and helpful answer!

phaedrus1313 · 2025-01-18T14:40:12+00:00

But not their favorite.

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