THERE ARE NO WORDS:   The kids from What's Happening!! join Rick Dees, Rip Taylor, Fake Jan and the rest of the Brady Bunch Variety Hour...

TEN SPELLERS REMAIN:   Spelling resumes shortly after 8pm. Let's have fun. 11:05pm: Our livechat is archived below the fold. These wer...

A TRADITION LIKE MANY OTHERS:   This year's computerized round, for your amusement: SUHN-dree: items often found with your various on...

LAGNIAPPE:  The folks at 538 want you to know, as we long have, that words derived from Hebrew are the hardest in the Bee , though it looks ...

ROUND SIX:  Seventeen spellers remain, and you'd expect this will be the final round of the afternoon. Buzzsaw like round 4, or gentle s...

ROUND 5:   21 spellers remain.   If it's as bloody as round 4, it'll be our last round of the day, but our first three spellers are ...

GREETINGS FROM NATIONAL HARBOR:   Round 4 begins with 45 spellers . Unlike the past two years, today will proceed with a carefully titrate...