Babble: Archived Puzzle for Saturday, February 12, 2005

12:15 am

metags

7/52

1:48 am

metags

M7/48

3:53 am

sprite

How nice, after the recent 'gnome' word yet another Tolkien-like creature!

4:44 am

sprite

A7/48

4:49 am

sprite

Found the 7/52, starting Y.

4:54 am

Atalante

And Aman - the land of the Valar ...

4:55 am

sprite

Can't believe it won't accept 'ramadan'!

5:03 am

sprite

A7/36 as well. Combo with A6/24: highly explosive mixture of ammonium nitrate and trinitrotoluene.

5:05 am

sprite

And M7/40, forgot to mention it. Only 5 x 7, nothing bigger, and really stuck at 139/1743. Some interesting words, though! :D

6:54 am

Milly

Looks like you've finished Sprite!

139 words
7x5
6x21
5x41
4x72

Ax23
Dx12
ix1
Lx5
Mx27
Nx9
Ox2
Px3
Rx14
Sx4
Tx33
Yx6

9:23 am

MAJA

maja

11:16 am

Mary

Any help with the M7/48?

11:46 am

fit1

Darn, they won't except "nano" as in nano second :)

11:51 am

Treble99

Any help with the M7/40 please

2:02 pm

sprite

What a nice surprise! That hardly ever happens: not having to look for those elusive last few words :)

M7/40: an evergreen tree
M7/48: combo with the M6/24 with which one plasters bricks together. The 6 is also a kind of gun that can fire shells, the 7 is an adjective.

Good hunting everyone!

3:24 pm

periwinkle

it won't take yoyo

3:31 pm

boatierra

I think that's 'cause technically its a hyphenated word, 'yo-yo'.

4:08 pm

boatierra

"At 11:46 am fit1 said...

Darn, they won't except "nano" as in nano second :) "

Ya, I wish it would take those prefixes (deci, hecto, centi, kilo, milli, mega, micro, giga, tera, pico, femto, peta, exa, atto, zetta, zepto, yocto) .

Babble's dictionary might take some of these, like kilo, mega and micro, though I cannot remember if it does.

For a list of some of these more extreme prefix measurements, one can go to:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=quantifiers

Scroll down below the definition and there will lots of neato information about the measurement prefixes. :)

4:11 pm

boatierra

For the etymologists among you: zepto is an adaptation of the Latin for seven with the s changed for z to avoid confusion with other esses and the a swapped for an o to make it consistent with nano, pico etc. Yocto has similar roots as octa, but with the y added to clarify the abbreviation.

http://www.sciencebase.com/yocto.html

5:02 pm

fit1

the "Nano" I was thinking of was Mork's expression from Orck on Mork and Mindy. Really very un brilliant. :)

5:19 pm

periwinkle

It won't accept amor. It takes other French words.

5:19 pm

periwinkle

It won't accept amor. It takes other French words.

5:35 pm

jan

Although it won't take love from Spanish, you can't say it won't take nothing from Spanish ;.)

5:51 pm

runningforhome

23 A-words?!
*looks sadly at list of 8 As*

7:40 pm

periwinkle

I only have 10 A words. Can't believe there are 23.

8:06 pm

runningforhome

My As (I'm at 15):
ai4x2
am6, am7
an5, an6
ao5
ar4, ar5x2, ar6
at4, at5x2, at6

8:22 pm

onyx

theres an am 5

10:03 pm

fit1

I have 19 a words, which makes me almost brilliant

10:25 pm

jan

I need a clue for the fifth 7 letter word--I've got an a, 2 m's and a y...

10:53 pm

runningforhome

It's another A. I don't have it either.

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