Babble: Archived Puzzle for Saturday, May 15, 2004

12:09 am

CalamityJames

Ouch. No B, E, H, J, K, N, O, Q, V, W, Y, or Z.

12:28 am

CalamityJames

Nasty setup, this is.
45 words--4.36--444

12:39 am

Christine

May I buy an E.... I could make up to thirty words, depending where the E is placed.....let me have two, please.

12:53 am

4t8

stopping at 40. happy to find fives today.

1:00 am

ctrl+alt+del

closing in on 60 words, and quickly losing steam

1:09 am

CalamityJames

I'm at the lockdown point already. My goodness.
73 words 4.32 670

1:16 am

4t8

i am the only one who's said because statim doesn't work and druid's not qute there

1:17 am

4t8

**sad!!
really AM tired...

1:33 am

4t8

60 and sleepy. g'night.

1:49 am

ladylikebag

this makes me feel stupid

1:52 am

ejackg22

40/4.25/343
No 7's, 8's or 9's
Maybe I'll find some more words after a good night's sleep.(Joey)

2:16 am

Babygirl

70 words, 4.34, 654

C u''s l8r. must find pillow. . . zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz . . . .

2:19 am

ladylikebag

correct me if im wrong, but i find it impossible to use the L

2:53 am

Babygirl

80 words/4.35/743
couldn't tear away . . . c u"s l8r!

2:55 am

Magican

L = indeed impossible! Grrrrr.

2:59 am

ladylikebag

letters are playing with my mind, giving up at 49/4.35/447 but i'll be bak. not bad for my first time?

3:10 am

Magican

Okay... Appearently being ENGLISH helps a lot... I'm stuck at 21/4.29/173. :S

4:58 am

Magican

Now I'm getting the hang of it...
40/4.33/378

6:28 am

Morgan

*grins at Magican* You here from Robin's message board as well? :P

6:37 am

skittledog

Heh. That's certainly where I wandered over...I wonder how many people's procrastination she's now responsible for...:)

6:39 am

Morgan

She oughta be ashamed of herself :D *is playing instead of doing work that should be finished in two weeks*

6:42 am

skittledog

*is playing instead of writing up a project report that's due in 6 days*

Oh this is all her fault...;)

6:42 am

Morgan

:D

Oh man, I only make 4 letter words. I've got 2 5 letter words and that's it... *sigh*

6:44 am

skittledog

I know the feeling. Didn't realise quite how impossible a lack of Es makes the whole thing...I'm sure there must be words longer than 5 letters in there somewhere. But where are they?

6:48 am

Morgan

Eh, can't find them. I've got 20 words now and I think I'm stuck...

6:49 am

skittledog

28 currently. i just really annoyed myself by discovering how you can nearly make dramatic, but actually can't. Grr.

6:52 am

Morgan

Haha, yeah, I got that one as well :D Why can't you use a letter more than once *pout*

22, so there's still hope.

6:52 am

refusal

You can so nearly make PARADIGMATIC. And COAX. Sigh.

6:54 am

skittledog

38. I just had a little spree. I wish there weren't so many nearly-words, though. They're really distracting.

6:56 am

Aussie Goddess

Hoy blondie...u with me yet ??

7:06 am

skittledog

Hmm. There should be bonus marks for really nice and infrequently used words. That sooo deserved more than 12 points. :)

53/4.32/464 and grinding to a halt.

7:12 am

standby4sue

Never far behind :-" Bright Eyes ;;

7:13 am

Aussie Goddess

44 and totally inspired now ;) ;)

7:40 am

N00dles

40 , and totally inspired as well :)

7:40 am

Liz

Hi to anyone who's from Robin's newsgroup/sffnet (I haven't posted in her group, just lurked...)

7:46 am

Aussie Goddess

54 and boggled eyed LOL

7:52 am

lawyer-1

63/556 and gone to have a life!

7:57 am

skittledog

*waves at Liz*

Hello. :)

Gah, I seem to be totally stuck on 54 words at the moment. Brain...where have you gone?

8:03 am

Aussie Goddess

ANyone found a 6er ??

8:06 am

bacchae

Yup....Just the one so far though...

8:06 am

Aussie Goddess

LAURA ya rotten Scot...LOL Give us a cloo or i'll SHOVE ya ;)

8:09 am

bacchae

Oh and a seven....

8:13 am

Aussie Goddess

Im stuck on 59 and time for bed in OZ me thinX...

8:23 am

Liz

Hi Skittledog! Nice to meet you. You're way ahead of me - brain fried today!

I do have one 6, though (I think it's easier if you are used to British English - I think it's more commonly used over here.)

But there's a 7... oh dear. I may never escape now! (Can't go while there's a challenge like that to be had!)

Liz

8:55 am

skittledog

Grr. I'm british, and still no 6. Or 7. This is annoying. :)

9:21 am

Liz

Sorry! I wish I could stop seeing 'damage' (proabably beacause this is damaging my brain...)

9:24 am

Liz

I don't care what it says, 'starmap' ought to be a word. So there.

9:30 am

skittledog

So did strim. My mother has a strimmer. So why can't I strim?

9:35 am

skittledog

Found the 6! Wooo! 56 words...gosh I'm getting slow.

9:35 am

Liz

I tried that too... but I just found about six words all of which I thought I'd put in because I found them on the way to longer ones (if that makes any sense...) I have really, really got to go and do some shopping!

9:47 am

ladylikebag

i can only find 4's and 5's. this is sad

10:20 am

beluga

too bad aramaic isn't allowed (cuz it's capitalized, i guess)

10:46 am

beluga

4 ne1 keeping score, i have 86/4.41/851

11:04 am

boomrz2

there's one 8 and five 7s I've found so far...

11:49 am

ladylikebag

if that m was an n, i could get a few words

12:09 pm

Liz

Huh - it seems to allow anything the dictionary doesn't capitalise, even when the only definition of a word is as part of a proper name. Interesting - might account for quite a lot of strangenesses.

12:20 pm

CalamityJames

I just woke up (so I'm here, naturally). I'm also from Robin's boards. I'm JamethyWilkins, a couple of anonymouses as well (I forget that I'm not logged in a lot).

Wow, much happened while I slept. I've catching up to do.
I'm resuming from 81, 725.

12:44 pm

CalamityJames

Wow. .a nice sleep really did me a lot of good. I found one of the six-letter words, but other than that, it's all five and four-letter words. But I don't mind that much.
103 words - 4.36 - 945

12:47 pm

CalamityJames

Honestly, though, I'm just happy to have used that X. Stupid X.

12:47 pm

CalamityJames

Oh, I forgot. ::also waves to Liz::

1:58 pm

CalamityJames

My brain hurts. I've got to go do the "life" thing. I don't know where you guys are getting 8-letter words. That's crazy.

James out:
Leaving with 125 words 4.49 1322

2:07 pm

Luraison

the only thing i can find with the x is tampax

2:25 pm

jbullock

sorry to give one away put what is "purs"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=purs

2:52 pm

RET

OK I have 711 - how in the world does someone get 1322?

5:04 pm

ctrl+alt+del

found a 7 that i didn't know was an actual word ...

5:05 pm

qu0s

Hmph. 25 words... pathetic. Only one six-letter word, the rest were fives and fours. And I'm rather annoyed that it insists 'prag' isn't a word. Hey, they use it on 'OZ', don't they?!
Oh well. Off to bed. Maybe the nest one won't be so hard (ha!).

6:00 pm

Liz

Found the word that uses the 'X' and it's not that difficult after all. Now if I could just find a couple more of the sevens. To say nothing of the eight...

6:05 pm

Twisted

Read about this on Robin Hobb's SFF net newsgroup and decided to give it a try.
Bad idea. Forgot how bad I am at word games. Been staring at it for an hour & I have 6 words, 1 with 5 letters.
Please.......shoot me.

6:10 pm

Liz

Hi Twisted. I found out about it there, too. Sorry, can't help with the shooting part. My editor may shoot _me_ if I don't find a way to give this up, though (big deadline for Friday... oh my!) You know how they call Everquest 'Evercrack'? Well I think this should be called 'Babblecrack'...

7:16 pm

April

why doesn't this thing allow any latin (botanical latin)? It is driving me crazy, I could have had the X and a 7 letter one at that!

7:49 pm

April

oh that x word WAS easy! but not as high a scorer as I would like ;(

8:08 pm

CalamityJames

Did yall have fun while I was away? =)
Popsicle clue for Twisted and others: Look up to find seven-letter words.

8:23 pm

CalamityJames

RET: Scrabble, Boggle, and I go a long way back. Someone gets 1,322 points when one's parents give their child busywork at a young age that includes transcribing pages from the dictionary by hand. Being that comfortable with the dictionary attracted me to games like Boggle and Scrabble early on, and that's where 1322 comes from. Or came from. That score is history, now. ::grins::

9:03 pm

bacchae

Calamity....i may have to hate you (in a friendly, loving, horribly envious way of course) =)

Think I'll give up where i'm at....finding a 7 was taxing enough at the moment...

9:15 pm

RET

818 - time for bed - good for you calamity - hopefully i'll be better competition for you and others some other time.

9:17 pm

Liz

popsicle=ice lolly? (Fruit flavoured ice on a stick... I'm English. Two nations divided by a common language and all that.) Now me, I grew up on Scrabble and cryptic crosswords (Boggle was unknown in our house), but today my concentration is just shot. (I think it's because I know I have other things I should be doing - things that will pay the rent and so on...)

9:52 pm

ejackg22

53/4.36/499
Not so "hot"-compared to Calamity/ Congrats! Good night (joey)

9:53 pm

CalamityJames

I expect that you will be outstanding competition after a week of this or so. You're doing great, already. Each day, just push for 30 more words than the last day. You can do it.

9:58 pm

itzie

I'm sad that grampa doesn't count on here. Was I the only one to call my grandfather that?

10:09 pm

Liz

Of course, some of us newcomers (mentioning no names, of course...) have found _fewer_ words each day than the one before...

11:12 pm

April

I have certainly found less words each time I play!

11:22 pm

Liz

I meant me, of course! (I came second the first time I played, two days ago; yesterday I came just outside the top ten... tonight I think I'll be lucky to be in the top hundred!)

11:29 pm

April

Well I came in around 190th the first time, 200th the second time, to 204 now, tonight maybe 210th place! For these reasons, starting new things like word puzzles can be intimidating...

11:36 pm

beluga

a tough day today, but at least i spend most of the day outdoors, away from the laptop. as far as the *rankings* i started 40 something, then 30ish, then 20ish, then finally cracked top 20 at 17, but will probably slide down tomorrow. :(

either way, if i play tomorrow, i should be shot.

11:53 pm

Liz

I shouldn't have let myself play today, and I really shouldn't play tomorrow. In theory, I do a bit of work then do this and so on. Only today the work didn't happen. Bad me.

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