Two months ago, I rambled about the strange ways that your brain did or didn't work on Spelling Bee, the game from the NYT. I have more thoughts.
First off, it seems like it does get easier, almost as if you just need to exercise your brain to make it work better. Some of this is just because certain combinations of letters yield the same results. You see I, N, G, plus a B and a T, and you get fun words you don't ordinarily use like "beignet." But then there are certain combinations that just don't make sense to you. And that's interesting because Diana obviously gets the same letters that I do, but the puzzles that are hard for me are easy for her, and vice versa. Talk about the different wiring!
But I'm generally to the place where I can get "genius" four times a week, and the rest are (usually) "amazing." Again, some of it is just repetition and training your brain to see things in those seven hexagons. The annoying thing is needing that center letter, because my brain gets stuck on the words found around the outside.
It's a fun distraction, and beats dicking around with anti-social apps.
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