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1. How do I use this page to help me solve Spelling Bee?
2. Do I really have to type in all those letters? Isn’t there a faster way to get hints on today’s Spelling Bee?
3. When I clicked the hints button, it brought me to a page that had statistics about today’s Spelling Bee but no answers. How do I get to the answers?
4. I see a bunch of other checkboxes on the main Solver page. What do those all do?
5. Isn’t this page just an elaborate way of cheating on Spelling Bee? Where’s the sportsmanship in that?
6. Is this page only good for finding answers to Spelling Bee?
7. I entered a seven-letter word, but your page told me my word only has six letters. Why is that?
8. What happens if I enter more than seven letters?
9. When I entered some letters in the Solver, I got some really strange words back in the results. Why is that?
10. How do you calculate the score field in the solution statistics?
11. You keep using words like pangram that I don’t understand. What does that mean?
12. I found a really great word that was not accepted in Spelling Bee. It’s an actual word, so why didn’t they take it?
13. I’m outraged because Spelling Bee censored a perfectly good word I entered. Sure, some people might find it offensive, but it has an innocuous meaning too, and it’s never offensive when I use it.
14. Browsing through the archive, I found a few puzzles with answers labeled disallowed elsewhere. What does that mean?
15. What is the compound distribution feature offered on your home page, and how do I use it?
16. You say that your definition of compound words is “quirky.” What do you mean by that?
17. I spotted a compound in today’s solution set that you overlooked. When are you going to get that fixed?
18. What is the plural distribution feature offered on your home page, and how do I use it?
19. Has it ever happened that a previous Spelling Bee gets repeated on a later date?
20. I’m trying to solve the weekly print edition of Spelling Bee. Why don’t you have an accurate solution set for that?
21. Why did you build this page in the first place? Were you just looking for a way to cheat on Spelling Bee?
22. What is the longest pangram in your database?
23. Does the adorable little bee in your logo have a name?
24. Do you work for The New York Times?
25. As a coder myself, I’m curious to know how your Solver works.