Amal Augustine
Founder, Spelling Better
Amal Augustine is the founder of Spelling Better, an innovative learning app designed to help students improve their spelling, vocabulary, and language skills through interactive and engaging methods.
He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, focusing on research and technology-driven learning.
A quiz enthusiast, Amal has won 50+ national-level quiz competitions. He enjoys reading science journals, programming, and exploring Computer Science innovations. Through Spelling Better, he aims to make vocabulary learning simple, enjoyable, and meaningful.
Today's Hive Runs on M
Most puzzles hand you a single pangram and call it a day. Every so often, the board delivers a genuine rarity.
Not one, not two, but three valid pangrams from the same seven letters. Today is one of those days, and it's worth slowing down to appreciate.
Today's Letters
As always, every valid word must include the center letter M, run at least four letters long, and use only the seven letters shown. Letters can repeat as many times as a word needs — and today's puzzle leans on that rule harder than almost any I've solved recently.
How I Found Three Pangrams
I started, as usual, by hunting for one strong 7-letter-or-longer word built from A, D, G, I, N, T.
Three legitimate pangrams from one set of seven letters is genuinely uncommon, and it's a great reminder of just how much mileage repeated letters can generate in this game.
Today's Pangrams
The Full Word List
Beyond the three headline pangrams, here's the complete set of valid words I found using only M, A, D, G, I, N, T, with M required in every entry:
4-Letter Words
5-Letter Words
6-Letter Words
7-Letter Words
8-Letter Words
9+ Letter Words
My Go-To Solving Method
For a letter set this flexible, here's the approach that kept the answers flowing:
Never assume you've found "the" pangram. Once ADMITTING was confirmed, I kept scanning instead of stopping — and that's exactly how MANDATING and INTIMIDATING turned up.
Chase -ING forms aggressively. GAMING, MATING, TAMING, TIMING, IMAGING, and MANAGING all share that ending, and once you spot the pattern, it's worth testing against every short root you've already found.
Lean into heavy letter reuse. INTIMIDATING repeats the letter I four times — a strong signal that this board rewards solvers willing to stack the same letter repeatedly rather than searching for variety.
Don't skip the short, simple words. AMID, DAMN, MAID, MAIN, MIND, and MINT are easy to breeze past while hunting for something flashier, but they add up fast toward a full clear.
Wrapping Up the Hive
Days like this don't come around often. A single board producing ADMITTING, MANDATING, and INTIMIDATING all at once is a genuine treat for anyone chasing Genius or Queen Bee status — and the surrounding word list gives you plenty of ground to cover along the way. If you've been staring at M, A, D, G, I, N, T, hopefully this triple-pangram breakdown gets you the win.
See you at tomorrow's puzzle.