Babble: Archived Puzzle for Monday, February 28, 2005

1:11 am

sprite

Today's babble stats:

9 x 1
8 x 2
7 x 9
6 x 35
5 x 71
4 x 96

--- 214 words ---

A -- 7
B -- 14
C -- 33
E -- 7
F -- 22
O -- 12
R -- 36
S -- 18
T -- 55
U -- 2
Y -- 8

1:22 am

Xanika

Where do you get the babble stats from?

1:24 am

sprite

We make them ourselves. It takes a couple of tricks to get it done without seeing the words, but a friend of mine made a statmaker that makes it a little easier (less time consuming). Most of us enjoy it more when there are stats, so we know what we are aiming for. ;-)

1:33 am

bigbirdboss

T/8/50

1:34 am

sprite

I have only one 7 so far (still dizzy of yesterday's maybe *lol*): R7/28

1:35 am

sprite

Oh, and a A7/36.

1:39 am

bigbirdboss

C/8/50

1:49 am

sprite

R7/36

2:34 am

sprite

F9/84 (compound)

2:45 am

metags

O7/36

2:51 am

Mal

Congratulations Sprite that was one BIG grid yesterday. It must have taken you hours.

2:51 am

sprite

Thanks, that is a new word for me! :-)

2:52 am

sprite

@ Mal: I must confess... it did, and I enjoyed every minute! Rarely happens that a day off coincides with a big grid. It was a real challenge.

2:54 am

Mal

Sprite clever you!

2:58 am

sprite

metags, I like the O7!
Lacking quickness of perception or intellect - not for babblers, then ;-)

3:02 am

metags

I like the word too! my excuse for playing Babble is that it helps keep my mind nimble. But playing too much makes me O7 :-D

3:05 am

sprite

That's for sure. I really slipped up with copying the recap yesterday, totally O7d by the giant grid. :-)

3:12 am

sprite

Ah, F7/48, nice one!

3:16 am

metags

'night sprite! Still recovering from yesterday's grid, need to catch some Zs.

3:17 am

sprite

Sleep well - hope to see you later. :-)

3:23 am

sprite

Interesting T7/40: pipes, nozzles, or other openings through which air is forced into a blast furnace or forge to facilitate combustion.

4:29 am

sprite

Anyone playing who can help me with the last C? It must be a 6. So far I have C6/24 x 3 and C6/33.

5:20 am

sprite

Found it by noodling. It is another C6/33, a dead language.

5:20 am

sprite

214 words / 4.85 / 2957 points

10:32 am

taylor

help

11:04 am

incender

oreo!?!

11:30 am

sarcasticah

Help with what, taylor??

12:38 pm

testing

oreo is a proper name.

And that T/7/40 pipes is a great word that I was so psyched to know! I do combustion modeling as part of my job, and learned that word from a client a couple months ago talking about modeling his burner. It actually appeared in a grid a couple weeks ago too. It's fun to know obscure words!

12:54 pm

kcbabble

For a moment I thought that the T7 word was a kind of Cheese! :-)

12:55 pm

freeradical

T/7/36 is one more than R/6/24, which isn't worth what it was under Stalin.

1:51 pm

tourmalinity

too bad you can't combine the r/7/48 with the f/7/48

2:39 pm

Gail

a7/36 and a7/36 - different spelling of the same word

3:45 pm

runningforhome

What? No uber? :p

4:00 pm

Kishka

any hints on the a7s? they're driving me crazy! :)

4:46 pm

periwinkle

May I please have hints for the 8 letter words.

5:14 pm

periwinkle

found them

6:02 pm

sprite

The A7s: Needlelike, as the leaves of pine.
G'night all.

6:40 pm

runningforhome

I keep seeing 'attribute' and 'ferocious'... argh!

6:59 pm

atlatl51

stats are nice but there's no way your're not seeing the words. How can you account for a perfect score of 495 words?

8:21 pm

Krys10

i was lurking around on Sunday (work day for me, never a Babble day) and I was impressed with the big 495 monster. I think that's the biggest I've seen - does anyone remember a bigger one? And I think the smallest I've seen is about 37...

8:24 pm

onyx

there was one this past summer that was 425 i spent the whole day on it

8:33 pm

runningforhome

I think I've done a 29-word puzzle before. Very disappointing.

8:50 pm

onyx

an e 5 for 14, how did i ever pull that from my memory? and why would anyone use it instead of belch ?

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