This is a wordlog for the SpellBinding puzzle (in which you construct words using the specified letters; each word must contain the anchor letter).
Yesterday's words:
CLING CLINGING CLINIC CYCLING CYCLIZING CYNIC GIGGING GIGGLING GIGGLINGLY GINNING GINNY ICING INCLINING INLY INNING LINING LINY LYING NIGGING NIGGLING NIGGLY NINNY ZINC ZING
Pangrams: CYCLIZING
Missed: CLINGY ZINGY ZINGING LING ZIGGING GLYCIN
Thanks to all players who contributed the missing words via the in-game message system (just start your message with a period - as in .blah).
LING is a cod-type fish, while GLYCIN (aka GLYCINE) is an old-school fine-grain photo-developer component (which I always wanted to try, but was a bit afraid of and couldn't my hands on anyway...)
In other news, to NIG is to renege or go back on your word -- probably with a racist component. The second meaning is to whack stone with a sharp-tipped hammer -- probably with a racist component as well, although perhaps I am being too sensistive. Now, NIGGLING (adj): petty, bothersome, etc... Hmm. I can't help thinking...
But words are words. Even the actual N words are in the puzzle, after much deliberation. Because these things exist and if we hide shameful things, we are just perpetuating the shame -- and in the meantime people ignorant of history start using them inappropriatly...
Highest Word Counts
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18 δΉ™
18 Gritty
16 JB
13 johan
10 sil
06 drh3xx
Another day.
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