The Hivemind includes celebrities like Steve Martin, Aidy Bryant, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, William Jackson-Harper and many more. Many communicate on Twitter to share clues, post funny word combinations and vent about words that aren’t accepted (no proper nouns, contractions or slang words). The Hivemind: The Spelling Bee community - called The Hivemind - is a group of equally obsessed Bee fans. On some holidays, like Halloween, she even wears a costume. I also love Beeatrice,the game’s bee mascot that greets you every morning and congratulates you when you reach Genius and/or Queen Bee. It has a clean, hexagonal design that resembles a bee hive - a nice, clutter-free escape when I’m feeling overwhelmed, anxious or bored. Spelling Bee is a word game you can play by yourself, and now that it’s on The New York Times’ Crosswords app, I can play it anywhere, anytime. Why I’m obsessed: I’ve always loved word games - crossword puzzles, Boggle, Bananagrams (not Scrabble because that’s a math game. But we truly addicted, we continue playing until we reach the secret Queen Bee level that appears once all words have been found. It takes a high number of points to get there, and once you do, the game stops. What’s the ultimate goal?: Most people work through the levels - Beginner, Good Start, Moving Up, Good, Solid, Nice, Great and Amazing - until they get to the coveted title of Genius. The game’s main objective (at least for me) is to find the pangram as quickly as possible because this is a game that tallies up points (longer words = more points) and you move up levels based on points versus words.

Tell me more: There’s at least one pangram in every Spelling Bee - a word that uses all of the letters. Created by The New York Times, the object is to make as many words as possible from a set of seven letters - the catch is you have to use the center letter at least once.

What I’m obsessed with: While everyone on the internet is going crazy for the online word game, Wordle, I want to acknowledge the original addictive word game, Spelling Bee. San Diego Union-Tribune editors and writers share what they’re currently obsessing over.

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