7/26/2023 0 Comments Spelling bee nyt help![]() ![]() ![]() I start with the pangrams, actually, because that is the linchpin of the puzzle. I have a database of every possible puzzle that could be created, right? My goal, which is why a game like this needs an editor in general rather than a computer, is to actually come up with the good, enjoyable puzzles. It’s too much credit to say that I just sit back in a chair and come up with these. So with UVA right there in the background, that hangout session kind of evolved into what paved my way to my career now, that very moment in Charlottesville in May of 2016.Ĭan you walk us through the process of how you create a Spelling Bee? I actually point-blank reached out to him and was like, hey, do you want to get together? And to my surprise, he was like, oh yeah, I’d love to come over. Will Shortz (Law ’77) himself, the longtime editor of the Times crossword, gave his keynote speech at the law school in 2016, and I happened to be in Charlottesville at the time. I was all set to go work in an engineering career, and then my dream job opened up and went directly to me. And then, frankly, right place at the right time. I continued to make puzzles in my time at UVA, expecting it to just be like a passion project that was developing. And then I actually had my first puzzle published in the Times when I was still in high school. I started submitting puzzles as a teenager. Of course, they were not Times-caliber publishable things. I was drawing up little crossword grids in crayon. On long car rides, a normal person might be playing on their Game Boy, which I also did, or just like playing I Spy in the back seat. I’ve been solving them or similar puzzles since I was 5, 6 years old. I have been into crosswords and other word puzzles for genuinely almost as long as I can remember. Melissa Bunni Elian for The New York Times
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