Neural Nexus Website and Game Launch
A website and daily game!
It’s extremely late and I work tomorrow, so I’m going to keep this short. I’m thrilled to announce Neural NeXus has a new home www.neuralnexus.press.
But I didn’t email you about that. I emailed you about this:
I built a daily Spelling Bee game and I bet most of you can’t hit Genius (don’t worry, I didn’t either).
Seven letters. The middle letter must appear at least once in every word you make. You have five minutes. There’s a leaderboard and scores are public like an arcade.
New puzzle every day. Today’s is live right now.
The original Spelling Bee on the New York Times is a favorite between my mom and me. Whenever we call to catch up, we play together. Rather than being cooperative, we usually see who can spell the most words before being kicked out (there is a cap on how many points you can reach without a paid subscription to NYTimes). I love the game concept, but never found the format satisfying. So I made my own. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we do.
And for launch day — the top scorer gets a shoutout in the next Neural NeXus article AND gets to pick the topic for a future deep dive. You choose the science, I write it.
Prove me wrong → neuralnexus.press/play
— David
Forty-four words from those letters and they include a G? No way.
Engine, ding, deign, ceding, egg, dinge, dig, indexing, nixing, icing, dicing, gin. That's all I got, unless you can include the present participle, too: dinging, deigning, egging, digging, ginning. Dinge shouldn't even count because no one uses it as a noun outside the UK. Is there a leaderboard for stupid?