October 20, 2020
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123 total words
flip
fe8
so7
re7 x 2
ferro
not a word...sorry
fe 7
done with E, G, O, R, N. will save rest for tomorrow. :D
re7 x 2
good evening everyone :)
hi, nan
Clues are up
thanks, lickety
first 89 were easy, but...
Ones
Sots
wrong box shegran
Stend
finished
East
put your words in the add word box shegran
Meat
congrats, ru
Neat
SHEGRAN STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meat
methinks shegran is very focused. on the keyboard....loll
omg.. unless he/she has the chat turned off
at least they are words we all have!
yup.... no new on4 there
i wish Dr. God would go back to charging a fee for this game
100 and stuck
wtg, ru .. wait.. no fee?
no aloy he stopped charging a fee a long time ago.. he felt millenials wouldn't pay for it
didn't know that
so we're left with newbies all the time who usually don't stick around and then some bitter people with multiple identities who create players to stir up trouble
I guess I started before there was a fee
h'mm, well the fee was modest and I sure feel like it was worth it
there was a fee to go pro when I joined in 2005
same here nan
just realized I've been doing this almost every day for 15 years!
Gotta dash. Night all (he says as he goes and signs in as frustajeep to reek some havoc)
just checked.. 2005 for me too
I also paid to go pro
It was $10 at first, then went up to $15 I think
sleep well, freep
March 2006 for me. To y'all, I'm a newbie!
joined in 2006 -- good heavens time has flown
my son told me about it.. I stopped for a while until I retired.. too addicted, lol
good night all.. have fun
night ru
g'nite ru
night ruru - for me the day is just starting - still in PJs with 2nd cup of coffee :)
finito.. g'nite all.
congrats!
(I'm a real newbie, only here since 2009. But I did pay, though I forget itf it was $10 or $15.)
Cracking up now at freep's alter ego name, "frustajeep"! Bwahahaha!!! :D
only 2 left, but too tired to think about it anymore. See you tomorrow. Stay safe :)
tatter
TY, Anita.
oops sorry
An occasional free clue is generous.
I love how many long time babblers still play, I had no idea there isn't a fee anymore though. I am trying to get a few of my friends to join but with young kids and covid life it can be hard to make the time.
Hi, where do you all see the year you joined? LOL
It's in your profile ... upper right corner..
I remember the year I joined because it was right after my wedding :)
not in my profile bojazz - but, I think I've been playing since Dr. God created Babble LOL. I paid to play years and years ago and totally worth it.
it is, you've been a member since October 18, 2011 Sugrraleona :)
it has the be the public profile, not your account page
aha - LOL thanks Mael :)
Oh, and Happy Anniversary to me LOL
I'll be back for the last 10 after I drop eldest off at school, bye all!
Babble started in 2003
morning all
howdy y'all
as some of you know I've been reading the chat archives some. I think peri is the earliest playing current chatter.
also when he first added the rankings it was very competitive, not cooperative like today. and they would have definitely accused moo of being a cheater.
the players had no idea until the next day how many total words there were, much less the stats as we know them today.
And Peri's sister, Marigold, although she rarely chats.
And anyone who plays at the flip knows that there is still some "competitive" here. : D
there was another name I recognized but I'm drawing a blank right now. but even when Peri started the game had changed more to current status.
those people mean business for sure
and I just found the 8 without trying. love it when that happens. :D
Morning, friends.
Great info, Carla.
they also considered trial and error cheating, and at one point Dr. God talked about putting a cap on the number of wrong entries
hi bea!
ooh, F finished!
I'm glad he did do that.
I would definitely hit that cap daily
Most of us would.
'morning
Hello, welki.
Don't kill the monkeys!
he also started with scrabble dictionary but it only had max 8 letter words, so he was looking for another dictionary, oh, here's this enable list, I'll try that. hehehe.
hey welki
hey sam
Aha! So that's how we got the crazy enable. Interesting
hey hokie, et el
hi sam
bea, I thought for a minute we had your fish
For the record, I joined in 2005 and paid $14 to go pro.
I joined the day after you and I thought I paid $10
but I thought we'd been playing a little while before he added the pro option
i'm a latecomer, joined in 2009 and paid $14.95 USD
I also joined his iron sudoku, maybe that was $10
I love how you can remember the exact amount, welki. what was the exchange rate? ;)
How long has Expert been around?
I joined in 2006 and was sponsored by Atalante (I believe) to go pro because I didn't have a credit card. Or money, really, ha. A long time ago!
I don't know anything about expert. I think someone else made that.
ah yes, atalante was the earliest current chatter I saw!
I just need 1 T to finish top row! this one is going pretty fast for a small one.
Not sure exactly when Lickety made Expert, but I spend quite a bit of time helping him beta test it. In fact, it's my recollection that I convinced him to do it in the first place, but that might be ego talking.
I do remember when Lickety introduced his list how awesome that was.
yeah, not sure why i remember the exact amount - but it would have come out to something like $784.34 CD
hahaha
I was frustrated having to put each word in Lickety separately, so I browbeat him into the Bulk Add thing. Expert naturally followed.
I cleared the bottom row T, Carla, but not that top row. We probably need the same word.
yeah, I remember the bulk add came later. thank you for browbeating him!
probably, bea
still, even with all the complaining i hear, it's been good bang for the buck
Expert was very helpful for me learning babblets and finishing grids.
well, I bet some of the complainers didn't pay anything. is pro even still an option?
I found my last top T. It was ta4.8
thank you, bea. top row gray!
now just one T to finish 2nd row...
not tanmen...
ta5.18
Ooh, I found the 8! Maybe I am getting back into the swing of things.
thanks again, bea
2nd row gray!
3rd row didn't go as well...moving on!
ooh, finished the 7s!
Interesting that Dr. God thought of putting a limit on trial and error entries. When you think about it, randomly typing combinations over and over again is not really "finding" words.
yeah, everyone at the time really had a problem with people doing that, that if they didn't actually know the word they were cheating
phantom sneak
Was it the K or the A causing trouble in the third row, Carla?
Technically, any word you don't find on your own is "cheating". The whole point of the game, as described, is "find as many words as YOU can..."
yep
it was about a year in before someone said "this isn't a competition" and chastised someone else for not being kumbayah enough
there was a list before lickety. a player from canada, brandy jack, created it
I feel very much that anyone should play the game with whatever restrictions or assistance they desire. I;m a fan of assistance for myself, though I set some rules sometimes. I have finished very few grids without some sort of help.
yeah, someone before brandyjack wrote a script that gave the words and they posted it in the chat and people reposted throughout the day. then that player kinda disappeared and brandyjack started doing it.
I think there are very few people playing that can finish the grid without help sometime or another.
I agree, play however you want, I'm just reporting on how the game started out.
the origin story :D
I don't remember the pre brandy jack stuff, I was around regularly from 2006-2010 but not much in the last decade.
This used to be 'chat room' of choice. Many fond memories. Sometimes chatting for hours and entering no words.I used to love cluing and getting really clever clues.
yeah, I quit for quite a few years, uniquity ,and just came back a year or two ago.
Sorry, MY chat room of choice, ha. My typing errors remain. Maybe worse after so long using my cell phone.
I had to have a bit of help from Lickety to complete this one today.
I have 12 left, bea. will do my zoom workout and see what shook loose. oh, I complained on instagram that they didn't post the announcement about removing the 9:30 so then they added it back.
ooh, 10!
Carla, have you seriously read over years of old chat?
Greetings, Babblers.
Hi Judi
hello all
Well, the snake that I had to extricate twice from the screened in patio has returned and is now in the garage. Good thing hubby isn't home right now. Not sure if I'll be able to catch it.
Hi all. Just saw the conversation you all were having about Babble history. It is great how many people have been playing for years--or who have been in and out for years.
I joined in 2003 and for a while was really active in chat, then left for a several years and am now playing again, but not really chatting.
forn
forns
Sorrry sorrry sorrry
I have played off and on for a lot of years. Not sure when I joined
2008 according to your profile, aslindy
2005. You rookies.
I started a while ago, but then left for several years too Natasha
Interesting... I can't see that info on my profile.
I think it is only on the public profile
how about that. oh gee, totally forgot I had pics on flickr! ha!
Could someone explain what a babblet I, please.
I remember I used to play Tangleword, similar to this but standard games were 2 minutes. My fave was the 30 second games.
Sorry “isâ€
Babblet is a word that is kind of weird, but common in Babble. ie: Etna, nene, etc.
So they are real words
Yes, Fr/cat.
every acceptable word in the game is a real word
Are they always 4 letters?
No, they are all different length.
Thanks all of you.
Bah. Work intrudes. 34 left.
I can see my join date when I look at my own profile. Top right corner in green.
yes, but not if you are looking at My Account. only if you click on your pic to see your public profile.
any clues for either se6,18 please?
branch of the government
of course, how did I miss that?
Molly, to answer your earlier question...not exactly. chat started early Oct. '03. it wasn't as" happening" early on as it is now. some days were just a couple of comments. most days it all fit on one screen. when it started getting busier, I did a lot of scrolling/skimming to see if Dr. God said anything because I was trying to find when he added the stats.and I only got through to end of Aug. '05.
wow, I still couldn't see that se6 but just typed it anyway
bottom and left done. ha
9 left here. nothing shook loose in my workout.
if only bea were still here to guess my missing words. she was 2/2 earlier.
a clue for the fr5 please?
it's kind of a babblet. fr + mineral
-ish
thank you, never would have guessed it
np
I always try the tolkien trees (though they would be angry I called them that)
wow, just saw my last s, easy one of course
and of course the last 2 t's, darn british spellings!
hi all. I joined Babble in the summer of 2004
8 left and stuck. do not want to use the list
Peri is a Grand Dame of Babble : D
6 now here
and you have to pronounce it grahnd dahm :D
two of my 8's are 6 letters
a clue for the an6 please
thatis one I am missing
two 8's are 6 letters? count me cornfused
I do not have an6. looking now. I still need 2 a's
hokie, 8 left, 2 have 6 letters
I have 8 words left to find. two of them are 6 letters long
oh, now I get it
missing two of the K words
I have only 1 6, the an6
also missing 2 k's, so they have to be 4 and/or 5 letters
still missing 7 of the k's
I just made up a lot of 4's with the K and they took
I have 6 ka and 3 ke
I have 5 of each
ok them missing two ke
then I need one of each
no, wait
your math is showing you have 9
I have 4 ke sorry. may need to go to list.
the an6 is the an5 after it, but with a squiggly letter added before the end
ty aslindy
all 4 edges done
6
Why isn't "nake" allowed? It's a legitimate word. Sigh
Lots of legitimate words are not included in the Enable Word List. Their criteria for inclusion makes no sense whatsoever.
4 left, all k's
5 left and I'm pretty stuck
morning all
yay, fw!
need a clue, mael?
have a good day, all!
As far as I know, the criteria for inclusion is that it appears in one of the six us collegiate dictionaries...though they may extend beyond that. So it would come down to what does the dictionary publisher use as criteria, and it probably varies a little between each one.
The problem is that the Enable List has not been updated in 20 years.
greetings, babblings!
hey hursh
Well Enable has been updated, but this site has not been updated
hey moo
just got 6 left
i did 20% of the grid at the flip, but just started for the rest
yeah, it's gone pretty smoothly for me so far
i'm finding the second row T a little Tricky
Why have I read that Enable has not been updated since 2000?
ooh i got another of those, just one of those now
well you may have read it, but, not everything one reads is true, the writer you read may have been mistaken
i have no information on the status of Enable, myself, that came from anywhere other than the babble chog
"The initial version of ENABLE was released in the fall of 1997, and was updated with a "millennium edition" in April 2000."
but does that necessarily mean it has NOT been updated again?
or is this one of those things where 2000 doesn't feel like 20 years ago to moo? (same here)
Yeah, I was told that it had been updated since then, but looks like you're right Molly
Ts Toppled!
Moolingwa, we have had this exact conversation before.
Possibly :)
we live on a conversational merry go round here
nothing is really new
there is nothing new under the sun
therefore eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we all may die
what about over the sun?
I assume that means Hurshy is on the kitty kat horsey
i have no information about over the sun
well apparently there is some thicker space out there...at least according to the Voyager craft
name that fictional noun! a kind of person in the Dune series who has excellent persuasive powers
(how's that for obscure) :D
good morning everyone
morning cnan
I'm too far removed from my reading of Dune to recall that
it's "mentat"
There were two houses right Hakkadia (or something like that), can't remember the other
2 left
ty for the an 6 clue, lindy
12 Ks is too many. 10 is enough, really, i think! (since that is how many i have)
*!*~*!* just had 2 left when my brain quit last night :)
K's almost always give me trouble
congrats nan
sprite hates Ks
I have a 4 and a 5 left
yeah - my last was ke 4
and they should be guessable
have all my k's
oh, there's one
just a 4 to go
ok i got one more K now
they are 4's and 5's and the 5's are all plurals
there we go, fw
'grats, cnan and moo!!!
^5 mool
my last one was a table top mountain
and the one before that was a t5
well i have all Ts and the tabletop mtn
but i do need one other m
any clues wanted before I leave?
perhaps it's the brain group :)
are all K 4s and 5s? and i have 5 KA, 6 KE, which do i need another of?
nope have the brain group too moo
yes, all the ks are 4s and 5s
the only other odd one would be the masculine vowel
aaaaaaaack my phobia is in the grid
6 ke, 6 ka
otherwise, I'd review the words you have because you might have missed one
masculine ... vowel...
ty knight
you're afraid of kats?
oh i think i know what you mean by masculine vowel, i always think of that one as figure skater Jenny Me4, her skating partner was Todd Sands
no, not kats
still missing an m, hurshy?
well then your missing m is an easy one, perhaps the pt one
sn5 (usually i don't even say that word, i just call them BCs (bad creatures))
yes, cnan
fe 7/44, pls
then I won't be posting the pic of my daughter when she was 8 holding a 15 foot burmese python by herself
my missing M was the dune word i did, minus the last letter!
do you have the high IQ group? then change one of the letters for another me 5?
that last one was it cnan, the change the letter one
your daughter must be brave moo :D
well she's not scared of animals...she'll hold most anything, tarantulas, crayfish, lizards, snakes
and i woke up to facebook news having a story about a woman who woke up to a giant sn5 trying to eat her. i said "please tell me this is australia" and luckily it was.
fe 7: add yeast to grains and let it sit for awhile to turn into booze
ty for the 7 and 8
Sound bogus then
it was not bogus!
there's no snakes in australia that are even close to being big enough to eating a child, let alone an adult
ty nan
29 left.
it was 12 ft, and it was TRYING, doesn't mean it was succeeding
In southeast asia, the Burmese Python can eat goats, and perhaps a small person, and the Green Anaconda in South America would be capable of doing so also
yeah, a 12 foot snake would eat rabbits, not people
on my way -- getting my flu shot in 1/2 hour. hagd everyone and stay safe.
The good news, any snake that tried to eat you wouldn't be venomous :)
will get my flu shot today also.
moo, here is the story: https://tinyurl.com/y3m2smbg
Bad Creatures!
ok so i have one ka5 to find, and 4 S words which are 3 6s and a 7
got so6/7 pair!
got legislative body!
ka was just a plural i missed!
1 S6 left! eeeeeek!
also a plural i missed! huzzah, i am done!
Wait, wait, I just got told not to believe everything I read but a story about a giant woman eating snake on Facebook is not bogus? That is hysterical.
still wondering why natate in not in enable - and things were going so swimmingly
it's from Newsweek, molly
anyway it was only trying, it wouldn't have been able to eat her successfully, it made a mistake in trying
just read it and see fer yerself! lol
i wondered the same think knight
cause it takes natation, so you'd think...
i saw the story in the News portion of the FB app, which aggregates stories from various online publications, and this one was from Newsweek
so it was on facebook but facebook wasn't really the "source" if you see what i mean
fw
I only have 55 left, all the number tiles have at leats 2 (except for the 8 which has one) (so does that mean NBS or NBT, I can never get them straight)? But I don't have a single A from the middle of the last column. Help!
nbt is "no blank tiles" - if you have at least one word from every tile under "Tile Stats" (except for 0/0 tiles) nbs is "no blank stats" - if you have at least one word from every number under "Word Stats" (except for 0/0 numbers)
OK, No one answered me so I took desperate measures. I looked in Morewords for the 1st 3. Hanging my head in shame.
Thanks Dan. Don't know why I keep getting it mixed up but your explanation finally clears it up. The confusion came because they are both "Stats". Technically we should say NBT and NBW.
all the A words in the puzzle today are an words
Thanks Dan, I'd figured that out.
cool. I have nbt but I'm still missing the 8.
Last word RE 6. The 1st one is dodging me. Clues, please.?
nm Found it!
Clue before I run?
Okay then, see you all tomorrow.
I agree about NBT and NBW. I have no idea how it became NBS.
I always think of nbs as no blank sizes.
rehi!
internet went out and then I went to dentist and grocery store. internet still out so I'm resorting to tethering to phone.
stil 6 words left!
5!
GO CARLA GO!
unfortunately that's it
fireworks! very friendly one today. off to yardwork
huh?
well done
I could only find one, still have 5 left. have tried everything.
i love it when no list or clues are needed.
there are some well hidden ones. and i had overlooked a couple of plurals.
it definitely went fast until the last 6
must run errands before it gets dark. my eye is still healing and does not like driving then
yep, get everything done!
see you later
bye
ooh, there's one!
i was down to 7 when i just logged on. 6 of those were overlooked words.
see? fresh eyes help
I'm working through those at the moment TO, down to 18
somewhat
wow, last m finally. certainly not a group that would have me as a member. LOL
hi wendrie!
how are you Carla?
good, how are you?
starting a second set of antibiotics - but much better than I was ;) Not COVID honest.
oh no, hopefully these will do the job
hope so
well, there was a pl. I missed
2 left!
and there's a latin plural
Fw!!
well done!
Woot! WTG :)
wtg Une
Woot - FW here, was a final set of re words :)
any clues before I head off?
well done! I still have the an6 left. if you could just tell me the point total...
an 6/18
ok, thanks. and I hope you are better soon!
np - have a good day :)
And that an6/18 was my last word.
finally got it. I feel like this word has caused trouble before
wtg Carla
clue for the a6?
a + bird home with an extra consonant in the middle
ty FW
woo hoo hoyamd!
firewords here too! no lickety today - fundame5l was my last - thanks all cluers
an 6/18, pls
nm
se 6/18, second one, pls
plural of the college in New Jersey, Se5 Hall
ah ty FT - 14 left here
28 left here
do you have the 8 ?
yes
stats please?
making beer. or spoiled apple juice
That was my second word after the 7!
thank you!
yes mine too jax :)
10 to go!
my wife did undergrad at se5 hall
I used to listen to their station: WSHU pirate radio
Not often I see the longest words first
7
4 to go
need to list my last 3.
all done.
hagd!
congrats!
1st se 6 ... any hints?
nm
hi all, diving in
fw, bye all
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