Blossom Puzzle, October 13
Letters: B E N O R S W
My score: 379 points
My longest word: 11 letters
๐น ๐ฎ ๐ผ ๐ท ๐ต ๐ธ ๐ ๐ป ๐บ ๐น ๐ฎ
Not a bad one. The -nesses a big help.
Blossom Puzzle, October 12
Letters: D E I L M N S
My score: 524 points
My longest word: 15 letters
๐ธ ๐ป ๐ ๐บ ๐ฎ ๐ผ ๐น ๐ท ๐ต ๐ธ ๐ป ๐ ๐บ ๐ฎ ๐ผ
Boom. That kind of felt like cheating as it was that same -lessnesses combo that got my last 500. Still, I'll take it and can confirm it's still Boss level.
271 is very good for a first go. It gets easier when you learn a few tricks of the trade. Usually I get somewhere in the 300 range but have had a couple of 400s and just that one glorious 500.
Blossom Puzzle, September 30
Letters: C D L E N O S
My score: 507 points
My longest word: 15 letters
๐น ๐ฎ ๐ต ๐บ ๐ป ๐ธ ๐ท ๐ ๐ผ ๐น ๐ฎ ๐ต ๐บ ๐ป ๐ธ
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Hot diggity damn. Weekend was ruined by the football but that's a shot in the arm. The...
I've had a go at Spelling Bee. It's different to Blossom in that the objective is to get as many words as possible whereas in Blossom the aim is the highest points total with 12 words. The scoring system is also different.
The main problem with SB is once you hit a certain number of words, you...
Blimey what was the word? I checked "all words" when I finished and didn't spot any megawords.
There were a couple of frustrating ones today eg. It wouldn't accept "sightings".
My best day was 488, I think. Lots of words ending -lessnesses.
Blossom Puzzle, September 29
Letters: G H N I O S T
My score: 360 points
My longest word: 9 letters
๐ท ๐บ ๐ ๐ผ ๐ป ๐น ๐ฎ ๐ต ๐ธ
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Some way short of my record despite a barnstorming 8 Pangolins!
A respectable 343 today but some dodgy calls by the Blossom ref.
Lustreless not accepted but then I see they allowed lusterless (lustre was also permitted).
Then they refused trouserless, which is a perfectly cromulent word, but deemed troutless permissible.
That was a tricky (Thursday's). Got a 290 but missed the pangram, which now seems so obvious looking at the letters as you've ordered them.
Today's even tougher. A paltry 212 but did get the one and only pangram.