Babble: Archived Puzzle for Wednesday, April 14, 2004

12:39 am

sacofat

pfft

8:03 am

Yecats

Beauregard with over 4000 points yesterday??? Sheesh!
I fell asleep early last night (food coma) and never got to finish the puzzle...oh well.

8:33 am

lra

Hi Bella and Karen and Special K, I really really wish I was there with you. Have a good day and I will see you but not talk to you tomorrow! Ira

8:38 am

donkeyjacket45

yes, beauregard's score yesterday made me very sad... i was so determined to do really well, and thought i had. i couldn't see that there could possibly be more than a handful of weird and wonderful words i'd missed.... but then still someone manages to get around double my score :(

8:45 am

Yecats

You still got a pretty amazing third place score, donkeyjacket45!

8:47 am

domissamerica

do some WORK fiona :p

8:50 am

donkeyjacket45

this *is* work. i'm exercising my brain! ;)

8:53 am

domissamerica

if there is no philosophical terminology in the grid, it's not work. and i'm like totally determined to beat you today. it would help if you, um, weren't playing at all since that's my only chance!

9:25 am

Assa

There is an un. And it is absolutely useless as far as I can determine.

9:53 am

jono

jonno back

10:45 am

Assa

The optical illusion that PENIS is there is cruel indeed.

10:56 am

discodave

Well, if there's a 9 letter word in here today, I'm not going to find it.

10:59 am

Assa

Has anyone ever actually done a 25 letter word?

11:01 am

donkeyjacket45

i can only assume that there is one every day, that one lucky person figures out. explaining how there always seems to be someone with about double the score to everyone else.

11:01 am

domissamerica

yes. i got one yesterday. they wouldn't count it though. hellooooo alastair.

11:04 am

Assa

Hello, LM! How's you?

11:15 am

cbullock

just to do the math, the odds of getting a 25-letter word are 2 in 15,511,210,000,000,000,000,000,000

... good luck!

11:34 am

cbullock

and a 25-letter word would be worth about 900 points

11:50 am

africajosh

cbullock, how do you figure the math? Are there just 2 25-letter words in English?

12:22 pm

cbullock

yeah, only 2
at least, there are only 2 that you can make within the limitations of Scrabble/Babble tiles

12:24 pm

cbullock

of course, i'm assuming that babble has the same distribution as scrabble, ie. never two Z's in one day

12:27 pm

cbullock

and the total odds are somewhere near the upper limit of 25! (1.551121e+25)

12:33 pm

Assa

Okay, people, own up... what's the silliest invalid word you've tried?

12:38 pm

Ohn

The girl next to me is wearing CAPRI pants. Either they exist or she's not wearing pants. I think I prefer the latter.

12:40 pm

cbullock

nucytraoeirejewnofpfnedrt

... today's 25-letter word :)

12:41 pm

cbullock

the problem is, it's Capri, not capri
...proper noun

12:46 pm

Assa

Shame... I kinda liked the idea of imaginary pants...

12:46 pm

Assa

As in, the Emperor's new...

12:50 pm

uhhhlis

if only farty was a real word

12:52 pm

Assa

It IS!
Just because the people who wrote the Scrabble-words book were too stupid to realise it...

1:05 pm

holmes

is there a definite number of words that you can make?

1:33 pm

Ohn

There's definitely more than 80.

1:45 pm

donkeyjacket45

lisa-marie, you surely have your best hope yet of beating me today... i have so far: 63 words, 4.38, 662, and don't seem to be getting anywhere fast...

2:07 pm

thrillho

i think the 25 letter 'word' is "thrillhoisanabsoluteidiot"
i think i forgot how to spell. i hate this game.

2:41 pm

minetmanie

4000+ yesterday?! wow. well played beauregard.

2:41 pm

Prototype1618

How many of you are IRCers?

(Ute)

2:47 pm

aswag74

irc

2:55 pm

domissamerica

fi - i'm on 457 and struggling. i wouldn't be worried if i was you ;)

2:59 pm

Dave1073

The Walrus/Man is an IRCer

3:04 pm

Assa

Unaware that my elbow was leaning against the mouse, I just saw the cursor move across the screen, aparently of its own volition.
For one eerie moment, I thought that some weird ouija shit was going on.
Do the spirits play babble?

3:05 pm

Assa

ecofart is, it seems, not a word.

3:12 pm

RC Jester

IRCer right here - same name and everything - yet another wonder work distraction thanks to the improv community!

3:14 pm

cbullock

if you saw this puzzle, could you find the 25-letter word?

E T E T E
Y H N R T
L E I A A
E N M E C
D I A T E

3:42 pm

yaygena

i put the post on the IRC. glad folks came to play..... i hope none of you beat my score though.

3:57 pm

Meljo

irc

4:03 pm

Meljo

gena is a dirty ho.

4:17 pm

DTOX

irc.

jennings is a cheating pussy.

4:26 pm

Meljo

jennings cried one time.

7:30 pm

ReenieRoach

Another IRC'R is in Da House.

8:36 pm

Ohn

IRC. Lan there. Ohn here.

10:09 pm

Sugar-Snit

IRC late nite yo

11:49 pm

drscottjennings

i'm a cheating pussy.

11:57 pm

Ohn

And you made me cheat too.

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