12:03 am
justafreep
ho8 and happy flip
12:03 am
justafreep
ho7 x 2
12:04 am
justafreep
mi7 x 2
12:05 am
justafreep
fa7 x2
12:06 am
Rainiqui
nbt, nbs
12:10 am
dizgrannie
nbt/nbs
12:16 am
Gillie
zenith is just not quite there
12:17 am
licketySplitAUS
Clues are up
12:17 am
marksdolly
ty lickety!
12:18 am
justafreep
thanks lickety
12:19 am
cybernan
goodnight all :)
12:20 am
justafreep
night, nan
12:22 am
dizgrannie
my last 8, et
12:24 am
justafreep
hmmmm
12:24 am
dizgrannie
mo 7 x 3
12:25 am
Gillie
The woolen you don't wear (my mo7)
12:27 am
justafreep
I feel like there's a sentence that can be made with the three mo7s
12:33 am
Jacula
There's a whole short story from all of the 'ems'!
12:33 am
Jacula
...with other words added, of course.
12:35 am
justafreep
I look forward to seeing it :-)
12:38 am
Jacula
FIREWORKS! *~*~*~*
12:38 am
justafreep
sweeeeet!
12:41 am
justafreep
just got st7 for my last 7
12:43 am
justafreep
also sweeeeeeet
12:45 am
Gillie
Congrats! Ty for the et8 - I did finally find it
12:47 am
Gillie
Think I'll leave my last 15 for tomorrow . Bye, everyone
12:49 am
justafreep
and FW here (after realizing I somehow didn't get two root words of longer words :-()
1:01 am
ursh
FW here - missed a few plurals
4:06 am
sugar
Can anyone give me a clue for st7,
4:12 am
sugar
Got it! FW’s
4:41 am
MollyL
For those of you who aren't quite that fast, st7 has female chicken in the middle. Weird word. \
6:07 am
ItalianGreyhound
fun grid - a couple of testers, but overall pretty easy
8:00 am
hokie carla
well, HOET until I got to the bottom row. 40 let.
8:02 am
MollyL
Oh thank God. I'm sure everyone was on pins and needles wondering about Carla's half on every tile status.
8:11 am
MollyL
I just read this about why American words have less vowels than Brit words (color/colour, etc) Back in the olden days in America, postal letters used to be charged per letter. So Americans decided to take out certain letters they deemed unnecessary to the contribution of the meaning of the word. (So the “u†in color and favorite, the “o†in diarrhea, etc) Does anyone know if this is true?
8:13 am
MollyL
By the way, Carla's HGH means haters gonna hate. No hate was involved in my comment. Just joking, sarcastically.
8:13 am
hokie carla
I listened to a podcast recently about this. The "expert" they talked to did not mention a postal connection. I can't remember if she said the Americans spelled them and then the Brits added the superfluous vowels to be fancy or if they kept them to be fancier than the Americans.
8:15 am
hokie carla
I have a hard time believing people would be employed by the postal service back in the day to count letters in words of pages of handwritten correspondence.
8:16 am
MollyL
I thought the same thing. Although I think telegrams used to charge by the word or letter.
8:16 am
hokie carla
(ps - "recently" listened in the last year, which is why the deets are sketchy)
8:16 am
hokie carla
I would buy that
8:17 am
hokie carla
If I can remember even which podcast it was I'll find the episode and post it. I did recommend it that day, but who knows.
8:19 am
BzznBea
Interesting stuff. Thanks Molly and Carla.
8:19 am
MollyL
This seems like a more likely explanation. "British English has tended to keep the spelling of words it has absorbed from other languages (e.g. French), while American English has adapted the spelling to reflect the way that the words actually sound when they're spoken."
8:21 am
MollyL
I read some of this in an article about words that are not spelled the way they sound. Wednesday, hiccough, colonel, etc.
8:21 am
hokie carla
I got a new phone in Apr and lost all the podcasts I was subscribed to. sure wish I could remember that one and another one I'm thinking of.
8:28 am
BzznBea
Hello, welki.
8:31 am
hokie carla
ok, it was 99% Invisible (podcast) - episode 460 "Corpse, Corps, Horse, and Worse".
8:31 am
hokie carla
howdy welki
8:41 am
HarryHood
good morning!
8:41 am
HarryHood
first pass done, still missing the Zed
8:41 am
hokie carla
harry!
8:41 am
HarryHood
halla Carla
8:42 am
hokie carla
just failed wordle and broke a long streak
8:42 am
HarryHood
ouch sorry carla
8:43 am
BzznBea
How long was your streak?
8:43 am
hokie carla
I had only 2 choices per scoredle and chose poorly
8:44 am
hokie carla
I really don't know, bea. it says my max is 82, so probably that one. mine got reset when NYT bought it, so it wasn't really accurate anyway.
8:46 am
MollyL
I too chose 4 words, all wrong. The correct word was the only one left to guess.
8:47 am
hokie carla
yeah, if I had 7 guesses, it would have been the only possible
8:47 am
hokie carla
okay, i give up on the Z and A, stats P&TY?
8:47 am
BzznBea
Must be a difficult one today.
8:48 am
MollyL
az5/20 and ze4/9
8:49 am
HarryHood
21 to go
8:49 am
hokie carla
how is the z that easy when I know the stat? I swear I tried that earlier.
8:49 am
HarryHood
and ty molly
8:49 am
MollyL
Harry I like your soylent green pasta
8:49 am
marksdolly
I'm not seeing the dh 5, can somebody clue please?
8:49 am
HarryHood
garlic scapes
8:50 am
MollyL
dh5 Hindu loincloth
8:50 am
HarryHood
add the first three letters of an elevator company
8:50 am
hokie carla
what's the points, dolly?
8:50 am
HarryHood
or lex luther's helper
8:50 am
rururocks
d Not cold plus vowel
8:50 am
hokie carla
nm, I remember it
8:50 am
marksdolly
dh 5/14
8:51 am
marksdolly
ooohhh got it! ty!!
8:51 am
hokie carla
is the loincloth wearer a hottie?
8:51 am
MollyL
So! Excited!!
8:52 am
marksdolly
depends on whose eyes you're looking with ;)
8:52 am
hokie carla
btw, I was looking at the wrong D even though I have that one grayed
8:52 am
hokie carla
I like people being excited about word games!
8:52 am
MollyL
Wait, you were trying to make a word with a tile you had greyed?
8:53 am
hokie carla
apparently so. wish I could say that's never happened before.
8:53 am
MollyL
You! Must! Love! Hurshy! Then!
8:54 am
hokie carla
well, she's a little too excited for word nerdery 😜
8:56 am
BzznBea
I see what you mean about wordle. I have the last 4. Tried two begining letters...
8:57 am
mael
I fell in a wordle hole today, got it in 5
8:57 am
hokie carla
everyone at my other place got 5 or 6. I'm the only failure so far today.
8:58 am
BzznBea
I got it in 5.
9:00 am
welki
<-- joins carla in the wordle losers corner
9:01 am
hokie carla
woot!
9:01 am
hokie carla
misery loves company 😜
9:06 am
BzznBea
Yea! We are getting rain!
9:06 am
hokie carla
we lost power last night for several hours
9:07 am
mael
we were supposed to get storms yesterday and not a drop fell from the sky :(
9:07 am
mael
I'm happy for you bea!
9:07 am
hokie carla
oddly it was 3 hours after the storm moved on
9:07 am
BzznBea
Due to storms?
9:08 am
hokie carla
I guess. Duke Power email said something about limbs falling on their equipment.
9:08 am
hokie carla
it was under 2000 customers
9:08 am
BzznBea
That's always the culprit here. Those old trees cant take much water and they fall over.
9:09 am
bichon
so 5/20, pls
9:10 am
BzznBea
Use the high point letter, bichon
9:10 am
hokie carla
we had heavy rain & storm for about an hour around 6:00, then power went out about 9:15.
9:10 am
rururocks
maybe the power company needs to branch out
9:10 am
hokie carla
I found one candle and one lantern.
9:11 am
BzznBea
They are well rooted in our communities.
9:12 am
hokie carla
well Duke definitely has a lot of power in NC
9:12 am
BzznBea
The H's are endless...
9:13 am
hokie carla
I need 1 lower left H and 4 lower right
9:15 am
hokie carla
24 total left - 4-6-8-5-1
9:16 am
hokie carla
oh, found 2 H's
9:20 am
BzznBea
Back later for the last 13...
9:21 am
hokie carla
19 here now and kinda stuck
9:31 am
hokie carla
howdy mkg
9:31 am
mkg
Any clues or stats for the A words or the o words for the o in fourth row? Ty
9:32 am
hokie carla
az5/20
9:32 am
hokie carla
oh4/5 babblet
9:34 am
hokie carla
14 left. think I'll make some breakfast.
9:35 am
hurshy
top row grey!
9:38 am
cybernan
good morning everyone :)
9:39 am
hurshy
morning nan
9:41 am
hurshy
second row grey!
9:42 am
mkg
Got one oh 4. Ty
9:42 am
mkg
Ty got the az. Ty.
9:43 am
mkg
Done for the day.
9:43 am
mkg
Stay safe and healthy everyone.,
9:47 am
moolingwa
146 to go, I think I got this
9:48 am
moolingwa
hey hursh happy Tuesday
9:48 am
hokie carla
14 left - 1.75 WPT
9:49 am
hurshy
and to you, moo
9:49 am
moolingwa
111 left, 5.56 per tile
9:49 am
hokie carla
2-3-5-3-1
9:49 am
hurshy
fourth row grey!
9:50 am
moolingwa
I got two tiles grey :)
9:51 am
hokie carla
found a word!
9:51 am
moolingwa
24-17-13-5-2
9:52 am
hurshy
4s finished!
9:52 am
moolingwa
first row greyed, 45 to go
9:53 am
moolingwa
18-10-8-3-2
9:53 am
moolingwa
second row greyed
9:53 am
hokie carla
1-3-5-3-1 and phone call
9:53 am
hokie carla
I still need 2 M
9:53 am
moolingwa
should I pause?
9:54 am
hurshy
8s are fa, ho, and...?
9:54 am
hokie carla
LOL, no
9:54 am
hokie carla
those are the 2 I have
9:54 am
moolingwa
and now me too :)
9:55 am
hurshy
sorry moo, hope i didn't spoil your finding fun
9:56 am
moolingwa
nah, all good...just typoed it I think
9:56 am
moolingwa
already had the 7
9:56 am
moolingwa
20 to go
9:56 am
moolingwa
5-7-4-3-1
9:57 am
moolingwa
yeah, probably wouldn't have stumbled on those ones
9:58 am
hurshy
yeah i didn't even expect it to work when i put it in
9:59 am
hurshy
i was just like, that would be a fun word
9:59 am
hokie carla
ok, I'm back. are y'all saying I will not find these?
9:59 am
hurshy
they are on the weird side, yeah
9:59 am
moolingwa
you could mind them, there's not many places that that set of stats can work
10:00 am
moolingwa
er find
10:00 am
hokie carla
what's the 7 stat?
10:00 am
hurshy
yeah it's et7/40
10:00 am
moolingwa
3-6-4-2
10:00 am
moolingwa
1st and 4th rows greyed
10:01 am
moolingwa
7s complete
10:02 am
moolingwa
4th column grey
10:03 am
hurshy
the lower left H is a puzzle, 3 that go together but idk what the fourth can be
10:03 am
hokie carla
still 1-3-5-3-1
10:03 am
moolingwa
you have the 5 hursh?
10:03 am
hokie carla
it's HE5, hurshy, I just monkeyed it randomly
10:03 am
hurshy
how many points
10:03 am
hokie carla
no definition
10:04 am
moolingwa
a lot ;)
10:04 am
hokie carla
a lot of points
10:04 am
hurshy
ok got it, thanks!
10:04 am
hurshy
that leaves 2 S and 1 F
10:04 am
moolingwa
there's a high scoring unusual s too
10:04 am
hokie carla
I have DD S MM HH EE S F FF
10:04 am
MollyL
It means to raise up, exalt.
10:05 am
moolingwa
T R HH S F
10:05 am
moolingwa
do you have the high scoring f6 hursh?
10:05 am
hurshy
thanks for the S moo
10:05 am
hokie carla
ok, looked up the E's
10:05 am
moolingwa
H's done
10:06 am
hurshy
um, guess i do not, moo - i have fo6/30 but that's not that high
10:06 am
hokie carla
y'all are too fast for me
10:06 am
MollyL
he5/22 is derived from high and pleased
10:07 am
hurshy
one to go!!
10:07 am
moolingwa
think I found the other s you're missing hursh
10:07 am
hurshy
it's an S6
10:07 am
hurshy
yes, got it!
10:07 am
moolingwa
add to the high scoring 5
10:08 am
hokie carla
where are you finding this info, molly? just google?
10:08 am
hokie carla
huzzah
10:09 am
moolingwa
the ahs have been huzzed
10:10 am
hokie carla
still 9 herre
10:10 am
hokie carla
guess I will list
10:15 am
hokie carla
freaking brit spelling. now I know why we were talking about that earlier. had to look that one up even.
10:16 am
moolingwa
yeah, it stinks ;)
10:17 am
hokie carla
most of the rest were words I should have added an s to
10:18 am
moolingwa
yeah, I missed a few of those along the way, or similar words that I thought I had typed
10:18 am
hokie carla
one left, will probably have to look it up too
10:18 am
moolingwa
what letter?
10:19 am
hokie carla
oh, I remember molly's clue now. ST7
10:19 am
hokie carla
can't say it helped then or now
10:19 am
moolingwa
oh yeah, I specially look for that word...because the letter combo
10:19 am
moolingwa
first three letters are consonants
10:20 am
hokie carla
ok, and I know the next 2, it's the last 2 I can't seem to get, but I'll keep trying now that I know for sure the 3rd
10:21 am
moolingwa
latin plural?
10:21 am
hokie carla
finally
10:21 am
hokie carla
is it?
10:21 am
moolingwa
think of medium :)
10:22 am
hokie carla
well, if I'd ever heard of the singular version of this word, I probably would
10:23 am
hokie carla
oh, you missed a weird plural yesterday - startsy, pl. of staret
10:23 am
moolingwa
don't know whether or not this one is a plural :)
10:23 am
moolingwa
oh...yeah I did
10:23 am
hokie carla
unless you came here later. maybe you didn't miss it.
10:24 am
moolingwa
I did play, but I think I had like 12 left or something when I lost interest
10:24 am
hokie carla
just at great right now on the bee
10:24 am
hokie carla
doh, amazing
10:25 am
moolingwa
I got to genius
10:25 am
moolingwa
36 words so far
10:25 am
moolingwa
won't take ranula...
10:25 am
hokie carla
44 total, I'm at 22
10:26 am
moolingwa
or tuatara
10:27 am
moolingwa
no laura/l or unau either
10:28 am
hokie carla
oh, that helped me get a big spider
10:28 am
moolingwa
auntly not acceptable either
10:28 am
hokie carla
but aunty is
10:29 am
moolingwa
well yes
10:29 am
hokie carla
oops, spoiler
10:29 am
moolingwa
okay, had it
10:29 am
hokie carla
yeah, but a lurker may not
10:31 am
hokie carla
23. going to have to go back to it later. going to play tennis or pickleball with the kid.
10:31 am
moolingwa
sounds fun...don't hit too many pickles
10:33 am
mael
have a great day everyone
10:35 am
cybernan
hi again - still have 36 to go and heading for list as soon as I have all the 4's
10:58 am
penquis
hello all...
11:00 am
penquis
hi, nan...
11:19 am
cybernan
st 7 is my last word and my mind has gone blank and the monkeys died
11:20 am
MollyL
It has female chicken in the middle of it
11:20 am
MollyL
Weird word
11:25 am
penquis
weird....ty, molly...
11:38 am
cybernan
of course - the last combo possible! ty molly - very strange word. Hagd everyone. Sorry for the delay -- have painters working on the house trim and have to go an check up on what they are doing periodically.
11:38 am
cybernan
hagd everyone :)
11:39 am
cybernan
need to see if I can redeem myself at wordle -- took me 4 yesterday and 5 the day before that.
11:47 am
penquis
Bye, nan...and congrats...
11:50 am
hokie carla
well, I wouldn't put too much hope in today's wordle, nan
11:50 am
penquis
makes me want to try it... ;o)
11:51 am
hokie carla
welki & I failed, bea took 5 or 6
11:54 am
penquis
consider me forewarned...
11:56 am
hokie carla
may the odds be ever in your favor
11:58 am
penquis
i had the last four letters on the fourth round but kept guessing the wrong first letter....so i bombed out...
11:59 am
hokie carla
there's a great website for after the fact called scoredle. you enter the answer and then your guesses and it tells you how many possibles after each of your guesses.
12:00 pm
penquis
i still don't know what the first letter was...just know that I did not have it....
12:01 pm
hokie carla
it tellls you the answer when you fail
12:02 pm
penquis
somehow i did not see it...
12:02 pm
hokie carla
well, I'll tell you tomorrow 😜
12:03 pm
penquis
heh heh...thanks...
12:03 pm
hokie carla
or you can email me
12:03 pm
hokie carla
looks like it does not tell you when you go back so you have to see it right when you fail
12:03 pm
penquis
tomorrow is fine...
12:03 pm
penquis
yes, i tried going back twice...
12:12 pm
bichon
ho 6/21, pls
12:13 pm
penquis
i have one that builds on the watering tool....it is a more so word...
12:20 pm
penquis
i am stalled at 15....still have a four to find and an eight...
12:21 pm
hokie carla
can guess the 4 if you want the first letter
12:22 pm
penquis
too many options....D M H E S O F....
12:22 pm
hokie carla
no, I was going to guess without even knowing your letters
12:22 pm
hokie carla
and it is one of those
12:23 pm
hokie carla
because it was my last one
12:23 pm
penquis
ah....should i know it?
12:24 pm
hokie carla
we have it but just didn't occur to me to look at 2nd letter
12:24 pm
penquis
i have the odd electricity word...
12:24 pm
hokie carla
then carry on 😜
12:25 pm
hokie carla
my 2nd guess would be an O. maybe a regular S that took me a while.
12:31 pm
penquis
it was an E....a babblet we often have....
12:32 pm
penquis
just found my 8...
12:38 pm
penquis
i am down to 8....all 5s and 6s.....M H SS OO FF.....
12:38 pm
penquis
found the two Os...
12:45 pm
hokie carla
there's a weird H5 that rhymes(?) with an F
12:46 pm
penquis
the ones with the high point letter?...
12:46 pm
hokie carla
I'm terrible at this
12:46 pm
penquis
got those, thanks...
12:47 pm
penquis
M H SS FF now...
12:49 pm
hokie carla
oh, I missed mi5
12:49 pm
penquis
is there more than one?
12:50 pm
penquis
well i have two....
12:52 pm
hokie carla
there are 3 it appears
12:53 pm
hokie carla
there's an so5/20 and 6/33
12:53 pm
penquis
ah ok...thanks...
12:55 pm
penquis
got the S words...
12:56 pm
penquis
and got the M....down to three....H FF....
12:57 pm
hokie carla
there's the german wind and the brit stink
1:00 pm
penquis
got the stink...
1:00 pm
penquis
and already had the wind with two spellings...
1:02 pm
penquis
found my H....a missed pl....just one F 6 word left...
1:04 pm
hokie carla
there's one that looks like the muppet that's moreso than another
1:04 pm
hokie carla
fo6/42
1:05 pm
hokie carla
if that one had a double cons, that is
1:10 pm
penquis
sorry, got interrupted...
1:11 pm
penquis
got it...i am done...thanks for the help....
1:15 pm
hokie carla
no prob. well done.
1:16 pm
penquis
thanks...
1:16 pm
penquis
this grid had a little bite to it...
1:17 pm
hokie carla
for some of us...others breezed through 🤣
1:17 pm
penquis
well i am off to the bee....bye all....
1:20 pm
EvaNadine
hints for the A?
1:23 pm
ch1212
involves the 6 pt tile
1:33 pm
HarryHood
12 to go here
1:39 pm
HarryHood
listing my last 9
1:44 pm
HarryHood
wow some crazy words in there. hagd
3:36 pm
periwinkle
81 left here but I had a visit from my niece and her husband with their new baby. He is 2 and 1/2 months and is a real cutie pie
3:38 pm
periwinkle
hi folks
3:58 pm
MollyL
Aw, new babies are the best.
3:59 pm
MollyL
And you don't have to excuse your 81 left because you were actually off the computer living your life 😊
4:25 pm
Kaplan the Magne
My granddaughter is a mischievous 10 months. She is great.
4:26 pm
periwinkle
Molly I love your icon!!
4:27 pm
Kaplan the Magne
She babbles and I think will walk soon and her discussions with herself on the monitor are hilarious- it's like she is playing back her day---bla blah dad da mmmmmdc baba
4:27 pm
periwinkle
that is cute Kaplan
4:35 pm
cherlyq
13 to go weird words today
4:36 pm
72 Temple Owl
ST 7 PLS?
5:21 pm
NANCY
can you clue it owl?
5:25 pm
NANCY
found it on my own
6:09 pm
cherlyq
5 e's left
6:49 pm
cherlyq
Stuck on the et 7 8 combo
6:55 pm
Bugsaw
ends with robot ending
6:55 pm
Bugsaw
starts like the others
6:57 pm
Bugsaw
bring out your monkeys
6:58 pm
Bugsaw
how are you doing cherlyq
6:59 pm
cherlyq
having a blond moment I think lol
7:00 pm
Bugsaw
it is a stupid word that nobody uses. Do you recognize the robot ending?
7:00 pm
cherlyq
no sorry I dont
7:01 pm
cherlyq
I keep looking for noid
7:02 pm
Bugsaw
yes, just without the n
7:02 pm
Bugsaw
you are SO close
7:03 pm
cherlyq
Fire works and you were right wow
7:04 pm
Bugsaw
so glad you kept at it. Well done! I am done now too. Enjoy your day.
7:09 pm
cherlyq
you too and thanks for the hint I really appreciated it
8:13 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
hi all, gonna git ma feets wet
8:23 pm
Sophie512
planning on getting about half , have 88 on my own so far
8:26 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
woot!
8:26 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
clue for the lone A?
8:51 pm
wht
Gwen, do you still need a clue for the A?
8:51 pm
wht
And I hi all.
8:52 pm
Sophie512
30 left, and I'm done...... need a clue? It MAY be one I have
8:53 pm
Sophie512
hello wht
8:56 pm
wht
I don't need clues yet, Sophie. Good to see you.
8:58 pm
Sophie512
ok, good luck
9:00 pm
wht
Maybe I spoke too soon. I could use a clue for the fo6,42
9:11 pm
wht
nm. Just monkeyed it.
9:11 pm
wht
And fireworks.