Slate Pears Game 286: May 27, 2026
Pears Game 286 has been released, featuring new words every day at noon. The longest word from the previous game was BANDANA, and the complete Pears archive is now accessible. Slate Plus members can enjoy over 200 games of Pears at their convenience.
- ▪Pears Game 286 was released on May 27, 2026.
- ▪The longest word in Game 285 was BANDANA.
- ▪Slate Plus members can play 200+ games of Pears anytime.
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Record
| Original publisher | Slate |
| Canonical URL | https://slate.com/life/2026/05/word-game-slate-pears-286-for-may-27-2026.html?via=rss |
| Publication time | Wed, 27 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-27T16:03:01.754Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-27T16:03:01.754Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | BTWRXOOpFv0R |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
<p class="slate-notification--error"> Please enable JavaScript to view this. </p> New Pears every day at noon! This is Pears Game 286. The longest word in Game 285 was BANDANA. The complete Pears archive is now open! Slate Plus members can play 200+ games of Pears anytime. It’s an all-you-can-eat Pears buffet! Got a word to suggest? Let us know at [email protected]. Recent additions: HYPED, BROADBAND. More Games From Slate Slate SoundBites for May 27, 2026 Which French Explorer Is Credited With Naming Canada? Slate Mini Crossword for May 27, 2026 Slate Crossword: Brand Recently Acquired by Shein, to the Horror of Millennials Everywhere (Eight Letters) Copy Link Share Share Comment Slate Games Pears
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