Babble: Archived Puzzle for Monday, September 27, 2004

12:09 am

fnurt

I could be wrong but it looks like there might be about a million words today.

12:50 am

fnurt

I could be wrong...

12:51 am

onyx

any one out there use the q yet?

12:52 am

onyx

any one out there use the q yet?

1:10 am

Karen

not yet

2:03 am

Krys10

I just introduced my husband, who is dyslexic, to this latest addiction of mine. He had a blast with it - his favorite words were "raydoot", "donortia" and "equdoot". Other than that, we haven't used the Q yet either :)

2:30 am

Krys10

BabbleStats (lite)
232 words, 10 sevens and one eight.

3:16 am

goforit

BabbleStats
(heavy)
;)

By word length:
4 .... 133
5 ..... 63
6 ..... 28
7 ..... 11
8 ...... 1
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TOTAL: 236
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By start letter:
A .... 21
D .... 12
E .... 3
F .... 7
G .... 25
H .... 16
i .... 6
L .... 16
M .... 25
N .... 15
O .... 16
R .... 12
S .... 19
T .... 32
W .... 6
Y .... 5

3:25 am

sprite

I will not play today...
I will not play today...
So much work to do... but then again, that Q... and those stats...
This game is way beyond tempting, it is really addictive!
Let's see if this control freak can beat the urge... ;-)

4:11 am

Krys10

Thanks for the unabridged stats... I just don't have the patience for the squinty thing. Off to bed.

4:44 am

carmen

goforit, how do you get the stats?

9:29 am

fit1

s/7/60 theatrical people

9:37 am

jlm_mi

Also
A/7/32 extreme pains
G/7/32 albatross (plural)
L/7/28 crazy people

9:39 am

stevedallas

s8 how can you miss it!

9:42 am

Kirsty1

M/7/36 I'm looking at it...

9:46 am

Krys10

Good morning.
G7/44 cleaned an animal

9:48 am

jlm_mi

Good morning Krys!

G/7/32 a yummy, icy dessert

9:57 am

Krys10

At 09:39 am stevedallas said...
s8 how can you miss it!

Is that a clue or are you just chiding us?

9:58 am

stevedallas

its a clue Krys

9:59 am

jlm_mi

steve - if you have the same 8/S I do, I don't get the clue, unless it's just the "miss" part that is the clue?

10:00 am

stevedallas

thats it Jlm

10:02 am

fnurt

How many points for the S8?

10:02 am

jlm_mi

40, and it relates to a 5 and a 6 as well.

10:03 am

stevedallas

ahh these clues are getting mighty close to the actual word

10:07 am

fnurt

HAHA too cute.

10:08 am

Krys10

I'm convinced you are talking about two S8s, your clues are so different. Found jlm's, though :)

10:10 am

jlm_mi

A/7/28 lack of normal muscle tone (plural)

10:11 am

Krys10

I have 9 MEs and 15 MOs. Anyone know which I'm missing?

10:28 am

stevedallas

jlm's and mine are one and the same :the operative word in the clue was "miss"

10:29 am

jlm_mi

Krys - I have the same counts as you. We could compare letter counts, and maybe that will help?

ME - 6x4, 2x5, 1x6
MO - 10x4, 3x5, 1x6, 1x7

10:31 am

Krys10

I'm missing an MO5 and you're missing an MO4

11:05 am

stevedallas

hey ok ok Im a hypocrit, anyone have a non cryptic clue for the M7 ?

11:07 am

jlm_mi

It's not quite as cryptic as it seems. You really are looking at it, right now.

11:09 am

jlm_mi

Oh, and from my list below you can see that O is the second letter. :)

11:11 am

stevedallas

duh thanks jlm sometimes i feel like a lizard

11:11 am

Krys10

Much frustration with the E's - all the trouble I went through to find eoan, and it's not accepted :(

11:11 am

jlm_mi

LOL!

11:13 am

jlm_mi

One of the E words is a pretty normal word - an animal (plural). Another is a chemical word. The other I have no idea what it means. All are 4 letters.

11:14 am

jlm_mi

OK, actually I do know what the other e word means. It's plural of an obscure word meaning "an uncle".

11:14 am

Krys10

Looks like I'm missing the chemical one - I'll find it, thanks.

11:27 am

jlm_mi

Hmm - trying to complete letters here. I'm so close (missing one of each) on i's and w's, why not start there.

i: 1xiN, 1xiO, 3xiR
w: 1xWE, 1xWH, 3xWO

Anyone else?

11:29 am

BIA

I have 2xWH

11:30 am

Krys10

You're missing a WH - both are common words.
I'm short one D and one F:
DEx4, DOx7
FAx2, FIx4

11:35 am

jlm_mi

You are missing a DO and an FA.

I'd guess the DO is 6 letters for 27 points and the FA is 5 for 16.

11:35 am

stevedallas

you are missina a DO Krys

11:46 am

Krys10

Got them both - thanks for the help. Good guessing, jlm :)

12:00 pm

jlm_mi

OK, the O's are really getting to me. I only have 9. Can anyone help?

2xOL, 1xOM, 2xON, 1xOO, 1xOR, 2xOW

12:14 pm

Krys10

I'm looking for your oodley word. Am I right that we have 8 out of 11 sevens accounted for?

12:25 pm

fnurt

There is at least one OD.

12:28 pm

fnurt

and an OT...

12:29 pm

Krys10

Two ODs, actually

12:35 pm

fnurt

My A's are AEx1, AGx5, AIx1, ANx2, AOx2, ARx1, ATx2. Since A is my least favorite letter to find I am sure people have more!

12:37 pm

fit1

I got the S8. It is a Spanish miss. :)

12:37 pm

Krys10

I was hoping someone would do the A's - I had so few I was embarrassed to post :) I do have 3 ANs and 2 ARs though.

12:41 pm

stevedallas

AEx1, AGx5,AIx1,Anx2,Aox2,ARx4,ATx3 so far

12:42 pm

stevedallas

an another AN

12:44 pm

stevedallas

and another AN

12:44 pm

stevedallas

and those are all the A's

12:45 pm

stevedallas

AGx 6

12:46 pm

stevedallas

wish I could count need 1 more

12:48 pm

jlm_mi

Krys - Yes, I believe we have just 8 of the 11 7s accounted for so far.

7/32/A
7/28/A
7/32/G
7/32/G
7/44/G
7/28/L
7/36/M
7/60/S

12:52 pm

fnurt

For L's I have 1xLe5, 8xLo4, 1xLo5, 1xLo7.

12:53 pm

jlm_mi

I have another LO5 and 2xLO6. Still missing 2 Ls here.

1:00 pm

Wendrie

I have an 0 7/36 as well.

1:14 pm

cjustine

any clues on the 7/28/A?

1:16 pm

jlm_mi

yep, see 10:10am

1:18 pm

cjustine

:) thanks, jlm

1:23 pm

parsec

There's an LY and another LOx5--you're probably missing the 16-point one with no definition.

1:24 pm

parsec

sorry, i meant there's one more five-letter LO, not that there were five more!

1:24 pm

jlm_mi

Gs? I have:

GAx3, GOx7, GRx9

1:30 pm

parsec

There are three more GO, but I got bored with that letter before combing for GRs. Ns?

1xNA, 2xNE, 1xNI, 9xNO.

1:37 pm

jlm_mi

I don't have your NA but do have 3xNE and 10xNO so I think that's all of the Ns.

1:41 pm

fnurt

I have 5xNo4, 2xNo5, and 1xNo6 but am struggling to find anything else.

1:44 pm

jlm_mi

7xNO4 My NOs go:

4,4,4,4,4,5,6,4,5,4

1:51 pm

jlm_mi

OK, and now to admit that half of the words I'm still missing start with T. I have:

TAx1, Tix5, TOx9, TRx8

or

13x4, 7x5, 3x6

1:53 pm

fnurt

I have one extra TA and TO.

1:59 pm

Wendrie

I have 10 Tr, 13To

2:07 pm

jlm_mi

T/7/40 a ballet garment

2:14 pm

Karin

Thanks jlm_mi .I`ve been looking for the last T for the past 45 mins.

2:30 pm

jlm_mi

For anyone who's using these stats to keep track of what's out there, I found the last i word that I was missing from my post many moons ago. It was an iN.

3:05 pm

jlm_mi

OK, for anyone still looking for 6-letter words, or those who can help me find the last one, here they are with starting letters and points, but I don't want to type that many meanings!

A-21
A-18
A-18
A-18
D-27
G-24
G-33
G-21
H-42
i-33
i-18
L-24
L-18
M-36
M-24
N-21
O-21
O-18
R-27
S-18
S-18
S-33
T-24
T-18
T-18
T-18
T-18

I know the missing 6 starts with either S or T, but I don't know which.

3:11 pm

parsec

T-21, before the first 18.

3:13 pm

jlm_mi

Thanks parsec! That one I should have seen earlier. I kept wanting to put the last letter in the 3rd from last position though, and got stuck there. :)

3:18 pm

Karin

I have t/6
3xTr
3xTo

3:26 pm

Treble99

A clue for the D6 would be helpful

3:26 pm

stevedallas

think Stonehenge

3:35 pm

jlm_mi

I'm looking for one more 4 and one more 5, one more S and one more T. Can anyone help me determine which is which?

S: 8x4, 5x5
T: 16x4, 8x5

3:39 pm

fnurt

Did anyone ever find the last 7? I have

A-32
A-28
G-32
G-32
G-44
L-28
M-36
O-36
S-60
T-40

3:40 pm

jlm_mi

Nevermind! Got it by noodling. That makes it 9x4 for S's and 9x5 for T's.

3:41 pm

jlm_mi

There is another O36 very similar to the one you have.

4:22 pm

jlm_mi

236/2819

Cannot believe the 4 letter S word worth 9 points that I was missing!

4:23 pm

parsec

LOL, I was just thinking that. The one that comes after Joe?

4:24 pm

Boo

Great clue ;-) At least that one is in the dictionary!!
Just goes to show, no word is too silly to try!! :-)

4:56 pm

fnurt

I have 2xGA4, 1xGA6, 4xGO4, 3xGO5, 2xGO6, 1xGO7, 4xGR4, 4xGR5, 2xGR7. Where did I go wrong?

5:04 pm

Krys10

The two O7's.. do they use the M?

5:52 pm

Krys10

fnurt, sorry, it took me a while to realize I had your missing G - it's a GR4, I think.

5:59 pm

onyx

still no use for that q?

6:08 pm

fnurt

Thanks Krys! I am missing one more G besides that one, if anyone has it.

6:40 pm

Krys10

I need help with the O7's! Any hints besides the point breakdowns?

6:46 pm

onyx

ancient greek mead

7:22 pm

jlm_mi

fnurt - you are also missing a GR5

The O7s are very similar, and the mead contains wine and honey, which may help those with language familiarity other than English.

9:34 pm

runningforhome

I really want to make 'hormones' and 'granola'...

Hey, any word on the eight? I didn't see anything in the log.

10:02 pm

Krys10

There's a bunch of relevant clues from 9:39 AM to 12:37 PM...

10:19 pm

marigold

a pretty girl

10:50 pm

modina

how many i's does everyone have.
I have 5 cant find more. is there really six of them??????

10:55 pm

onyx

my bad, i thought that mead had wine in it.... the s8 ....spanish miss

11:35 pm

Krys10

I only have five I's too - they go 6 4 4 5 6 in order.

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