Adult Spelling Bee

This adult spelling bee was created by J. Davies at the Albany Public Library. I served as emcee of the evening and a good number of teams showed up, I believe around 60 or so people. This differs from a traditional spelling bee in that most rounds are team challenges.

There were 5 Rounds of gameplay:

Round 1: Commonly Misspelled Words-Can your team identify which if these everyday words are spelled correctly? Round 1 sheet for players

Round 2: JUMBLE!-Create the longest word possible out of 14 letters we give you. Form for team to place letter tiles on or write in

Round 3: Is it in the Dictionary?-Do you think "twerk" is list in the Oxford English Dictionary?

Round 4: Hot P-o-t-a-t-o-Can your team guess the next letter in these difficult to spell words? Round 4 words

The Finale: The Spelling Bee- Send your team's best spellers to the front of the room to suffer or win prizes. List of words for the bee 

Here is the powerpoint presentation used to introduce and explain the rules of each round. We did this program a number of years ago so not all the files are intact. Any answer sheets, etc we had available are hyperlinked above.

Poster for the event

Happy Spelling!