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August 19, 2004

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E 1
E 1
F 4
R 1
A 1
U 2
D 2
R 1
D 2
C 2
E 1
F 4
E 1
B 3
I 1
S 1
S 1
U 2
U 2
O 1
I 1
N 1
R 1
E 1
M 2

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Total score 0 pts.
1 2,059
2 2,059
3 2,032
4 2,022
5 1,980
6 1,970
7 1,957
8 1,940
9 1,934
10 1,904
11 1,899
12 1,884
13 1,875
14 1,874
15 1,845
16 1,778
17 1,699
18 1,682
19 1,635
20 1,621
21 1,621
22 1,573
23 1,557
24 1,554
25 1,540
26 1,537
27 1,530
28 1,454
29 1,440
30 1,397
31 1,382
32 1,360
33 1,345
34 1,333
35 1,322
36 1,278
37 1,252
38 1,245
39 1,235
40 1,229
41 1,226
42 1,223
43 1,217
44 1,209
45 1,207
46 1,204
47 1,194
48 1,166
49 1,157
50 1,143
51 1,135
52 1,106
53 1,077
54 1,075
55 1,071
56 1,068
57 1,044
58 1,042
59 1,040
60 1,029
61 1,019
62 1,015
63 1,014
64 999
65 978
66 970
67 965
68 955
69 930
70 920
71 914
72 911
73 891
74 878
75 870
76 870
77 865
78 839
79 835
80 831
81 825
82 822
83 819
84 803
85 802
86 802
87 797
88 763
89 763
90 761
91 755
92 741
93 729
94 711
95 688
96 683
97 682
98 681
99 671
100 665
101 653
102 634
103 624
104 616
105 614
106 589
107 587
108 579
109 541
110 534
111 533
112 511
113 508
114 484
115 482
116 464
117 448
118 445
119 445
120 444
121 434
122 426
123 415
124 412
125 411
126 407
127 400
128 384
129 383
130 383
131 372
132 370
133 359
134 357
135 353
136 344
137 341
138 340
139 339
140 329
141 292
142 291
143 263
144 259
145 255
146 251
147 213
148 206
149 201
150 186
151 177
152 174
153 161
154 157
155 153
156 125
157 117
158 112
159 101
160 99
161 96
162 68
163 65
164 53
165 50
166 39
167 32
168 32
169 28
170 27
171 26
172 17

145 total words

This puzzle is making me go cross-eyed...

12:15 am

I take a few days off & come back to this?

12:28 am

Lots of 6's and 7's

12:30 am

yeah, I don't know why anyone's complaining... 28/5.11/464 so far.

12:35 am

not as bad as I thought 46 words 4.93 665

12:35 am

39 4.79 506

50/4.82/709

12:44 am

60/4.93/917 g'night

12:46 am

68 words 4.74 810

12:47 am

actually, 62/5.00/1001 NOW goodnight.

1:20 am

Lots of 7's? Damn, I only have 2.

1:21 am

32/5.81/773

1:21 am

i have 2 also

1:23 am

I have 4 7's and 16 6's.

1:25 am

I have 5 7s (3xr, 2xd). For me, that's a lot!

1:29 am

68, 1015, I can go to bed now. :-)

1:42 am

70 words 4.91 1020

84 words 1210 Night all!

7:39 am

91 words 4.89 1272 by lots of 7s do you mean more than 5? Because that is how many I have.... and 17 6s...

7:40 am

And they just keep coming.. 87 for 1242.., and that's 5/7s and 20/6s... so many 'almost' words.... ah well, I'll try again, later.

86/1176

9:06 am

I'm way behind today :{ 56 words 639

90/1239 and thats enuf for now

9:32 am

I'm getting closer to the posted totals so far (77 words 1087). Does anyone know the total count?

i dont know but i have 91 for 1246

10:02 am

I have 116 so far

10:17 am

I have 118 so far 1xA 21xB 9xC 11xD 1xE 19xF 5xi 3xM 4xN 3xO 26xR 13xS 2xU Don't know the final count, but I'm guessing there are quite a few more today.

10:18 am

I only have 5 7's, but there are at least 26 6's

10:18 am

claws - I have 6xi, 4xo, 4xu Solver says 143 words 7x7, 30x6, 50x5, 56x4 but it's been pretty wrong lately. A couple days ago it was missing an 8-letter word and a couple of smaller ones for something like 65 points. So, use with caution!

10:19 am

I have 6 7's 48,44,36,36,44,40.

10:22 am

Ooo! Make that 5 by O!

10:24 am

Sorry, I meant 5 by U!

21 B's!!! Blimey

10:38 am

I have a 7 letter that starts with a "b" for 36 points (plural of a 6 letter for 24). 117 words 1565 I need to take a break - I keep swearing to only do puzzles with lt 100 words. Sigh!

10:39 am

OK, just got jmdobie's B, so that gives me 22 B's.

10:45 am

Oh, and I have 5xM.

11:19 am

Cool! 23 b's

11:28 am

My 6's are 24, 24, 27, 27, 30, 30, 30, 30, 33, 30, 18, 24, 21, 18, 18, 27, 24, 27, 18, 21, 18.

11:37 am

I think with so many the order may not help much, but here are my 6s: 24,24,27,27,27,30,27,30,30,30,33,30,18,21,18,24,21,21,18,24,27,21,18,21

12:00 pm

i have 16XS

12:23 pm

I just spent 10 minutes checking all my words to see if I tried plurals of all of them and I got quite a few I had missed. I now have 139 words for 1934 pts. 1xA 25xB 10xC 10xD (missing at least 1 "d" I see) 3xE 19xF 6xi 7xM 4xN 5xO 28xR 15xS 6xU I think I may just stop in a few minutes.

12:31 pm

"cardio" is such a tease!

12:41 pm

"rubic," too!

12:57 pm

and 'imbue.'

i'm stuck on 1128. Does anyone have an 'm' that doesn't begin 'mou..'?

1:04 pm

res, one, but I'm still missing 2 M's

1:04 pm

I have 1 MU

1:04 pm

there are two m's like that.

1:04 pm

i mean, like mou...

1:05 pm

well, plus plurals.

i can't find the 'mu..', thought i saw muesli for a sec :/

1:11 pm

Okay - I stopped but then I ran a solver. The totals I got are : 2xA 25xB 10xC 11xD 4xE 20xF 6xi 7xM 4xN 5xO 29xR 16xS 6xU 145 words 7 X 7 30 X 6 50 X 5 58 X 4 Good luck all!!

hmm i sorta like "acidfree"

1:34 pm

but babble isn't a scrapbooker so it doesn't worry about acidfree..

1:42 pm

if you are still looking for non-mo M's, try thinking of animal sounds.

i have 4 mou's and one mu now..but def can't find two more.Stuck on 8 c's now

1:58 pm

I'm looking for an A word and think I should be able to use "arfed". Doesn't babble have dogs?

2:07 pm

Oooh - I just found 3 R words by a typo! I was trying a random combo for an E word, but somehow got the letters out of order. It accepted it, but my E word was not there. It took some searching to find the R word that I had typed and it had accepted, LOL! But then was able to get two other forms of the word as well. Yay!

2:09 pm

An update on the 6s. I now have 27: 24,24,27,24,27,27,30,27,30,30,30,33,30,18,21,18,24,21,21,18,24,27,18,21,18,21,18 And know I'm missing a 27 somewhere.

Whisper what it was, hehe

2:12 pm

It's an archaic verb meaning to counsel.

2:21 pm

I finally got all 6 i words.

2:24 pm

Does anyone have clues for the A's or E's? I have one of each. A - a chemical term E - sea eagles

one of the e's is also chemical, its elementary my dear watson

2:35 pm

the other A isn't very English. It's a 5/16.

2:40 pm

Thanks! Very helpful, both of you. Happy to trade knowledge if you need anything. ;)

5.62 bushels = 198 liters; thats a hint

D/7 = 36 meaning what we all did this morning before leaving the house. Any other big word hints? Please and thanks.

2:44 pm

jennbee - You hope we did, anyway. ;) There's a combo of 4 words, 7 letters each. Two start with 1 letter, and two start with another. They have very similar patterns. So, there are two prefixes, each used twice. Then, 4 letters that are the same among all four words (and a 4-letter word for 7 points) Then there are 2 different ending letters (making different verb forms) each used twice.

2:53 pm

Anybody have all six u's? I am missing one. I have 3xur and 2xus

2:55 pm

You're missing a UR. There is a 6-letter UR that is the plural of the second UR. If you're not missing that one, think ashes.

2:55 pm

I'm an idiot, nevermind. The three US words are all different forms of the same word. Two are verb forms and one is a noun.

2:57 pm

heh, I'm an idiot, too. After I'd already been through my list looking for plurals! Thanks muchly.

yay got all the u's thanks to those hints. what's the not-very-english second letter? a..

3:11 pm

I'm still missing 2 U words. I have all 3 US words but think I am missing 2 UR words. The UR word I do have is the plural of a container used for funeral ashes. What are the other 2?

minski i would never have got it without consulting a dictionary!!

3:15 pm

There's a 4 UR for 4 points and it's 6-letter plural for 18, meaning an extinct ox. Found them by random noodling.

3:15 pm

Britneysdead - There are very few combinations of letters that can make the A word. It shouldn't take long to stumble across it if you do the math.

thanks jlm_mi, although i tend to be better at the meaning hints rather than the technical ones. Also - it took the word for ritual passover meal despite rejecting my yiddish. Who knew?

3:28 pm

my third E is in the alphabet. Pretty stuck on the fourth, though.

my brain must have given up because i still can't get the a word

3:30 pm

the A sort of sounds like a star name, although that's not actually what it means.

3:31 pm

Your third E is actually the 4th E. The third E has one more letter than that one, added into the second position.

3:47 pm

Thanks, jlm! Now, i am having a math problem witht he 6s. I have 29, like so: 24,27,24,27,27,30,27,30,30,30,30,33,30,18,21,18,27,24,*,21,18,18,27,24,27,18,21,18,21,18. where the star is a 21 you seem to have that I don't. Problem is if yours are alphabetical, and I have not screwed up, it means the solver is wrong for whatever letter that 21 starts with. I think?

3:48 pm

(sorry to squish the word list like that.)

4:00 pm

and i just found the first 24, so it definitely seems like there may be 31 6s, not 30.

4:01 pm

Parsec, I hope this comes out right. The top row of 6's is mine. The bottom row is yours. It should help us both figure out what we're missing. I'm up to 29 as well. 24,24,27,24,27,27,30,27,30,30,30,30,33,30,18,21,18,24,21,21,18,**,27,24,27,18,21,18,21,18 24,**,27,24,27,27,30,27,30,30,30,30,33,30,18,21,18,27,24,21,18,18,27,24,27,18,21,18,21,18 27,24,27,18,21,18,21,18

4:01 pm

OK, ignore that 3rd line of numbers. Something got screwed up when I pasted. So, now, I'm just missing that 18 and you've got them all.

4:03 pm

Wait scratch that completely. I put one of them wrong on my list. Gotta figure out where. Doh!

4:05 pm

OK, here we go. I think you said you found that first 24, but this based on the list below: 24,24,27,24,27,27,30,27,30,30,30,30,33,30,18,21,18,**,24,21,18,18,27,24,27,18,21,18,21,18 **,24,27,24,27,27,30,27,30,30,30,30,33,30,18,21,18,27,24,21,18,18,27,24,27,18,21,18,21,18 I'm missing a 27.

4:14 pm

great. I was worried I'd have to revisit the second half of the alphabet. again. =)

4:17 pm

for the 27, babble may not have dogs (so much for "arfed") but it has other animals.

4:18 pm

Yes, I got it finally. I knew what it started with, and that it contained a D somewhere. And there was the animal sounds clue earlier. But really, what does it actually mean??? I can't find it in a dictionary.

4:21 pm

I don't know. There are a lot of words that seem to be babble-ese.

4:22 pm

whoever put me on to A2Z wordfinder...bless you. It is helpful.

4:45 pm

OK, if anyone wants to help me reach closer to getting them all, I'd love it. :D I'm missing 4 5-letter words and 1 4-letter word. I'm missing 1xB, 2xF, 1xR, 1xS I have 140 words for 1986 points. I'm not sure how you can help. Maybe if there is one of those words that is most rare, point me in the right direction? Or, if you also have in the vicinity of 140 words, how many points? I'll keep hunting for 30 minutes till I have to go.

4:48 pm

Can someone give me a clue for the B7

4:49 pm

It's the plural of a B6. Think stock exchange.

4:52 pm

Found a 5-letter S. So, still looking for 3x5 and 1x4.

5:16 pm

OK, I'm quitting at 142/2022. Checked the solver for my 3 missing words. The max possible score for this puzzle should be 145/2059.

5:48 pm

how do you folks know how many words are in a puzzle and how many letters in a word?

6:34 pm

You can plug the letters from the grid into an online puzzle solver, that will give you the stats, (and the answers), if you wanted them.

6:50 pm

I have three 7 letter words, d/36, d/48 and r/44. Would someone please tell me what the other 7 letter words start with, please?

6:54 pm

I know one starts with B. But I can't find it. At least not yet. :(

6:54 pm

there is an r7 that is only one letter different from the r7 that you have im missing the d48 that you have how about a clue for that

6:55 pm

Found the 7 letter B word.

6:58 pm

a1axelady, The d for 48 is similar to one of your 7 letter r words but with a different first letter.

7:01 pm

thanks got it thought i had already tried that looking at letters wayyyy to long here :)

7:02 pm

I am now missing only one 7 letter word. I have B/36, D/48, D/44, D/36, R/44 and R/40. What am I missing?

7:03 pm

Your welcome, Can you tell me which letter begins the 7 letter word I do not have?

7:06 pm

I cant help you there i dont have the b7 and am missing the other 7 also

7:09 pm

R 7 for 36 ..

Periwinkle, can you give me a hint on the b-36, d-44, or r-40? I've had sad luck with the sevens today.

7:13 pm

runningforhome, The clue for the B word was stockmarket. I looked up stockmarket in a dictionary and got the answer. The d/44 abd r/40 are the same except for the first letter. A clue for the r/40: when you don't accept something. you r-------- it.

7:14 pm

runningforhome, another clue for the R word . Another word for trash.

7:16 pm

marigold, are you here?

periwinkle, I think you mean the d-48 and the r-44. Those are almost the same and fit your clues...

Found the r-40; can't believe I forgot to enter it before.

7:25 pm

Will any one help me with the last 7 letter word?

Starts with an r, and builds on a plural form of transportation (though the definition is unrelated).

7:38 pm

Thanks, I got it.

7:39 pm

Thanks me too

8:24 pm

It must be staring me in the face, but I can't see the b/7 even with the stock market clue. Is it a common word?

8:31 pm

no--it's definition in the dictionary is "A stock exchange, especially one in a continental European city"

8:41 pm

thanks Teddy. I just got it by using A2z wordfinder. Whew. That makes 6 7 letter words. Is that it?

I have seven, but I don't know if there are any more.

9:18 pm

Ok, what am I missing. I have 3 d's, 2 r's and a b

An r. Check my 7:30 post for a clue.

11:33 pm

we have shops [here in philly] in a building by the name of the b-7, but i'd completely forgotten about it.

11:39 pm

i am not getting that last R7

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