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Wordle is not the only NY Times word game. The Spelling Bee has a writing contest. Create your own Spelling Bee sentence. Winning entries appear in this year’s Puzzle Mania!
Enter the Spelling Bee writing contest for a chance to appear in this year’s edition of Puzzle Mania! Read the rules and submit your entry.
Puzzle Mania Spelling Bee Writing Contest - The New York Times
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY, open to legal residents of the 50 U.S./D.C. at least 18 years of age, begins at 9:00 a.m. ET on September 29, 2025, and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on October 5, 2025. Subject to Official Rules.
Here are the rules:
- Pick seven letters of your choice for a Spelling Bee puzzle, designating one as the center letter. Then, craft a sentence using only words that can be created from those letters.
- There are no restrictions on the kind of writing you can submit: It can be a poem, a phrase, a pun or anything else you can think of.
Some normal Spelling Bee rules apply:
- The center letter must be included in every word.
- Letters can be used more than once in a word.
Other normal Spelling Bee rules are changed:
- Words shorter than four letters are allowed.
- Contractions and informalities are allowed.
- Proper nouns are allowed.
15 of the wittiest and funniest entries, selected by our editors, will be included in this year’s edition of Puzzle Mania. Here are two examples:
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