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.
Four pangrams, one handful of letters
Most days you hunt one pangram. Today the hive gives up four — two of them perfect — and they're all cousins, built from the same handful of letters shuffled into different shapes. Find one and you've effectively found them all.
Tap a letter to filter the word list
Filled = perfect pangram, every tile used exactly once
How I solved it
I spotted the free suffix
I, N and G are all sitting in the outer ring. That isn't a coincidence — it's an invitation. –ING is the single most productive ending in English, and when all three letters are available, the pangram is very likely a verb wearing it.
Three letters gone, four to go
With –ING locked at the end, I was left with B, T, L, O and a much smaller question: what four-letter verb do those make?
BOLT. Immediately, obviously. BOLT + ING = BOLTING. Seven letters, seven tiles, each used exactly once — a perfect pangram, found in about twenty seconds.
Then I shuffled instead of searching
Here's the part worth stealing. Once you have a pangram built on –ING, the remaining letters can usually be rearranged into other verbs, and every one of those is another pangram. Step through the family:
The fourth came from looking at BOLTING sideways. The same seven letters, reordered, spell BILTONG — South African dried meat, and the only noun in the group. I'd never have searched for it. I found it by rearranging something I already had.
When I, N and G are all on the board, solve the four-letter core and then anagram it. Pangrams travel in packs.
Every word in today's hive
Tap a word once you've found it and the bar above keeps score. Each group stays hidden until you ask for it, so you can take one length at a time.
pangram perfect pangram
Word of the day
Biltong
noun · air-dried cured meat, from South Africa
Strips of beef or game, cured with vinegar, salt and coriander, then air-dried into something halfway between jerky and charcuterie. The name is Dutch by way of Afrikaans.
Two words, bolted together
What to carry into tomorrow
- Check for I, N and G before anything else. All three present means –ING is free, and three of your seven tiles are placed instantly.
- Shrink the problem, then solve it. A seven-letter pangram minus a three-letter suffix is a four-letter word. Four letters rarely make more than a handful of options.
- Anagram what you've already found. BOLTING and BILTONG are the same seven letters. The second pangram cost no searching at all.
- Multi-pangram hives share a core. If one pangram uses a short verb plus a suffix, try every rearrangement of that verb. BOLT, BLOT and BOTTLE all paid out today.
- Nouns hide behind verbs. The –ING pattern trains your eye to look for actions. BILTONG only appeared once I stopped looking for a verb.
Centre B · Outer T L I O G N · Pangrams BILTONG, BOLTING, BLOTTING, BOTTLING
See you at tomorrow's hive.