Melbees

Learn, practice and bring it to the classroom

Melbees fits in one sentence: on each hex you match or discard the letter, the Pollen number counts the right letters among its neighbors, and a mistake costs a petal. To go beyond that sentence:

• How to play. The Daily Challenge, the honeycomb, what the number tells you, petals and what changes from one day to the next. Start with Beginner: one word, a small honeycomb.
• Strategy. Reasoning from the simplest to the subtlest, with three examples solved step by step on real game honeycombs.
• Printable challenges. Six Paper Honeycomb boards, with Language Arts, Geography and Literature words, and an answer key.
• For teachers. A 10- to 20-minute activity, per student or in pairs, that brings vocabulary and reasoning together. The answer key has each word's definition, for the discussion afterward.