The NYT Spelling Bee has been around since 2014 in print and since 2018 online. The rules are pretty simple: Each day offers up seven letters arranged in a honeycomb shape (that's a bee joke).

The NYT Spelling Bee’s daily puzzle ends and resets daily at 3:00 AM Eastern Standard Time and is live for 24 hours, giving players a full day to get their best possible score.

There are 26 letters in the English language, and roughly 44 sounds, depending on dialect*. Consonants are more straightforward, with 24 of the sounds representing 21 consonants.

On March 12, the excitement poured in. Solvers celebrated in The Times’s Spelling Bee Forum, where solvers interact with one another and share strategies. “An S, a superb, sunny, shiny, strong ...

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