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12:10 am

da7

Clues are up

12:17 am

ty lickety!

12:18 am

clan

12:20 am

hi

12:21 am

hi jane

12:25 am

thanks for the cl word!

12:25 am

lol it was a freebie :)

12:33 am

Ta 8 called?

12:34 am

Nope

12:53 am

not liking this grid

1:14 am

al7 - the farmer's friend

1:22 am

da 7/48 not a night flower

1:55 am

FWs, this grid was hard

2:38 am

First runthrough has left me with 4 words for later.

5:37 am

Rally

5:42 am

TY, Riverdance.

Nice grid! so far...

6:02 am

I went off to play Wordle and Phrazle. Hi IG.

Good morning, Scrab

6:11 am

I am stuck after finding 60.

yada should be allowed (yada, yada, yada...)

6:13 am

Yep.

lots of little babblets here

6:15 am

And K words are usually odd ones.

I have 5 so far, pretty normal words

6:16 am

kill

thats one

6:17 am

No intention there, IG.

6:17 am

I already had it.

6:17 am

worst grid ever

6:17 am

I don't like it either, dromano.

6:23 am

Time to get ready for work. Enjoy the day.

6:36 am

name that dwarf in the grid (there are multiple acceptable answers)

6:41 am

good morning all. hope this grid is better than yesterdays

6:44 am

eh, not looking great so far

6:45 am

how are you, peri?

6:45 am

yesterdays was the worst grid.

6:45 am

I am fine mael. How are you?

6:46 am

hanging in! about to pack the kids up for camp

6:46 am

I did not finish yesterdays grid and I usualy do try to finish but it stopped being fun for me

6:53 am

help with lone i please

6:54 am

ik4.8 rug

6:55 am

0r fabric

6:55 am

ty lyn. did not know the definition

6:57 am

bl

7:52 am

hey, we have g4 and l4 in the grid

where's bea? I actually found a flower.

8:12 am

There is one that isn't hard to find since it was blurted at the flip

probably the same one. I actually fell asleep last night.

thought I just found another but it's not in the dictionary

ok, I spelled it wrong, it's not in the grid.

8:21 am

Interesting problem with Babble: Yesterday, I did the 191 words, Babble didn't show the word until I logged out and logged in again and reentered the word, but no FW's. Today, after logging in, it showed all rankings as 0. Logged out/in again, then finally showed numbers, but only added 5 points to Who's Hot. Any fixes? Start Babble all over under a different name? Just perplexed today.

8:23 am

Something is wrong on your end. Email Dr. God (the owner) dr.god@playbabble.com

I saw you had a problem yesterday too. not having anything weird like that here. certainly not a computer expert, but it sounds like maybe some kind of cookie issue on your end? did you change any of your browser settings? what OS and browser do you use?

8:24 am

TY MollyL

8:25 am

Hokie: software knowledge has slipped a3ay after retiring, but it sounds logical. We'll see what gives.

8:25 am

Hokie: software knowledge has slipped a3ay after retiring, but it sounds logical. We'll see what gives.

okay, good luck

hamily-a family of pigs LOL

8:26 am

To answer your question Carla, Bea is standing in front of the open refrigerator, eating cold chicken.

or anything else she finds

good one, luv

oh, we have a star wars actor!

hamil?

maybe hamill but I'm not sure so ✅✅✅

8:28 am

Two L's

that's what I thought but I knew you'd know or look it up 😁

phantom darling

8:30 am

I'm surprised it

8:30 am

it's not beloved considering this group

what, star wars? this group seems to be more star trek. I am really neither, but def wars over trek.

8:32 am

No, the phantom darling

don quixote in the house

8:35 am

???

the man of la ??

There are a lot of words in here but the letters are getting in the way of them.

8:37 am

lol

8:37 am

yikes, no S OR E

I'm just barely getting half on each tile before i move on. another hard grid or I'm getting stupider.

I'm finding this grid difficult too

8:38 am

Letters getting in the way of them...shades of BR

maybe it is me. still don't get molly's phantom darling comment or hurshy's no S OR E

there are no s's or e's in the grid

8:39 am

People here use the term "beloved" for their spouses. It makes me gag.

8:39 am

i'm saying there is no S tile in the grid, nor is there an E tile

thanks, luv

8:40 am

I read that as SORE too

maybe if you said S or E I would've gotten it, but the OR threw me

8:40 am

sorry, i just wanted to emphasize the word or

8:41 am

Public Service Announcement: Today's grid has a shortage of vowels due to supply chain issues.

8:41 am

fake news

8:41 am

we could only source As and Is, all outta the rest

8:41 am

No shit Harry. That "supply chain" BS annoys me.

harry's post snuck in. I was like, who is molly talking to?

8:42 am

My invisible friend

8:43 am

I got an email from a car dealer that said they can now sell us a car for msrp! no "surcharges"!

8:43 am

what criminals - everybody is taking advantage.

8:43 am

name that proper noun! Charles' wife

that's the one I tried for flower earlier

camilla

8:44 am

ding ding ding!!!

but the flower is camellia

8:44 am

and as mentioned, we have no E

8:45 am

she's no flower

wondering where to find just 2 more g's for half. btw, gila still not a word.

8:45 am

ooh I greyed out a tile!

oh, up to 9 now

I have grayed 4, harry, but they are all just 1 word. 🤣

8:46 am

I greyed the corner i

8:46 am

just began the second row

8:47 am

name that proper noun! land of the maple leaf

8:47 am

well that was a slog. All done but not too much fun. Doubt if some of these words are clueable! good luck to everyone

8:47 am

CANADA

nice, still need one there. is it hebrew or something I'll never know?

8:47 am

wtg saan

well done, saanich

8:47 am

ding ding ding!!!

8:47 am

no - they are all pretty common

8:48 am

I can thank the word list for that

well I have HOET now, but 63 left.

8:49 am

mylanta is in the grid :)

8:51 am

what's mylanta?

8:51 am

anti gas medicine - opening the door for puns, ru

like a stomach med

8:51 am

ru makes no beans about this word.

is ru in a foreign country?

8:52 am

no need to toot your own horn

8:52 am

there should be a colon on the end of that sentence harry.

8:53 am

phew - I was worried about you

8:53 am

please...no colon jokes....doing a colonoscopy prep today....hello all....

8:53 am

I've not heard of mylanta.. but then I'm and old fart now

8:53 am

oh yuch pen

8:54 am

did that 2 years ago.

8:54 am

you have intestinal fortitude pen you'll be fine

mylanta is older than you are ru

8:54 am

hope so...

8:54 am

Wondering who cut the cheese?

8:54 am

ha

google tells me 1880s

sounds fun, pen

8:55 am

i hate the prep.. it's awful but we'll know when you disappear for a while where you are pen

8:55 am

I did the procedure with no anasthesia. it was a good time.

8:55 am

If you were on Tik Tok someone would say Mylanta is the capital of Georgia.

8:56 am

name that proper noun! dwarf who accompanied Frodo

8:56 am

but I was able to stand up and take the subway home rather than get picked up.

8:56 am

Gimli

8:56 am

i always used to do it with the minimum anesthetic so I could watch the procedure....they wouldn't let me do that the last time....

8:56 am

ding ding ding!!!

8:56 am

ntpn - aleutian island

8:57 am

Pen, that is disturbing

8:57 am

wow harry.. i got picked up and went straight to bed

I like the full sleep, I love feeling so rested

8:57 am

yes - it was fun watching the video and chatting with the GI doc about what we were seeing

8:57 am

I wanted to be totally knocked out.. ugh pen

8:57 am

agreed Harry....but the anesthetic they use now is not so bad....don't wake up groggy....

8:57 am

I can only imagine the conversation. "So Doc, how far up my ass are you now?"

8:58 am

it was interesting to watch....like a scene from that old sci fi movie....

8:58 am

and now, on your left, you can see the entrance to the il5 canal

8:58 am

ugh

8:59 am

it's a procedure that they have to do an6 so this is an appropriate day for this discussion

8:59 am

ty hursh

9:00 am

exactly hurst

9:00 am

hursh

9:00 am

as long as pen's doctor doesn't poke fun

9:00 am

yes, ty, hursh...

I read that as AND. but I already had the word.

9:00 am

Suddenly, Hurshy became a shifter

9:00 am

i don't think she will, ru...

9:01 am

not even cheeky humor?

phantom tarantula

9:01 am

I'm having visions of Mother Klump talking about her colon cleanse.

9:02 am

I'm enjoying these jokes excrementally actually

9:03 am

it's really not right to make pen the butt of all our puns today

9:03 am

coming out of lurk mode to give ru a groan.. hi all

9:03 am

hi aloy...

9:03 am

why is everyone talking s**!?

9:03 am

hi aloy :)

9:03 am

Pen looks a little flushed to me

9:03 am

someone was going to take a crack at it eventually harry

9:04 am

hi pen; glad you are having your checkup.. the prep is the worst part, I agree

9:04 am

LOL aloy which one?

9:04 am

for sure...

9:04 am

excrementally !

9:04 am

You can post shit in the chat emtecee. It is in the grids all the time.

9:04 am

true...

9:05 am

oh.. that was a good one

9:05 am

Excrementally is getting to be a Princess Bride like word in this conversation

9:05 am

I like it

9:05 am

ugh you have to bring up that crappy movie?

you keep using that word.

9:06 am

Don't worry. I have "The Hours" on a loop for you so you can drown yourself in the depressive and maudilin.

9:07 am

oh I loved that movie

9:07 am

Carla, I don't think it means what they think it means.

9:07 am

Julianne Moore was incredible in that movie

9:08 am

I am not a Juilanne Moore fan. I wish they had cast someone else in that part.

9:08 am

*passes out*

I like her okay. but always think of her on as the world turns.

9:08 am

It was one of Ed Harris's best, but so damn depressing that it's hard to watch.

I have never seen that, but try to steer clear of sad and depressing.

9:09 am

he was great too.. and Streep was incredible... and Kidman had her best acting in that movie

I do not like these A's today

9:10 am

the a's suck.. for sure

9:11 am

do people have the 8 and the 7s?

one 7

9:11 am

not here

9:11 am

stats hokie?

9:11 am

not here...

da7

9:11 am

have the 7's but no 8

9:12 am

ty carla!

9:12 am

al7 was fun to find

hmm, I am working on AL right now. good to know there is a "fun" 7.

aha, it is fun

9:13 am

fun bc you will smile when you find it

not "fun"

gracias

9:13 am

no, not the def

9:14 am

third row i - is it normal?

I was thinking sarcastic fun, like it was a PITA

yes, if you're into fabric patterns

9:14 am

oh, lol

9:14 am

yeah harry

not sewing patterns, but patterns on fabric

9:14 am

no harry but it's a babblet we have sometimes

9:15 am

hah, look at our variety of normal :)

9:15 am

huh. I have hoet except for that tile.

phantom garlic

9:16 am

got it!

was thinking the same, mael. but hurshy has a lot of "normal" words that are not normal to the rest of us so I guess it goes both ways.

ik4, harry

9:16 am

I + how the Kardashians say feline

9:16 am

khat?

9:16 am

meow helps

9:17 am

<---has to be careful around feline discussions

9:17 am

ok. 73 to go on this lovely grid. going to make coffee

enjoy

hurshy has not mentioned her cat in the grid today

are you okay, hurshy?

9:19 am

no, i can't find either of these sevens

9:19 am

aHA there is the A

the D is a flower, the A is related to farmers (ish)

9:19 am

I have a cat named KitCat, thanks to my kid

9:20 am

you could look in the al7 for the location

my friend has a dog named meatloaf, thanks to her kid

9:20 am

or maybe the history of the word

9:21 am

ok thanks got 'em

9:21 am

which A does it come from?

bottom left

9:21 am

bottom left

9:21 am

top right

9:22 am

top a

ha, hurshy is right

9:22 am

eek, you are right hursh

9:22 am

phantom: malaria

I saw it from the other, but as we know, it comes from the first one

9:22 am

phantom : tarlatan

9:22 am

I didn't see it until I got to the bottom!

9:23 am

back to pen situational jokes aloy?

9:23 am

oh groan

this R is baffling me

9:24 am

i need one r and it's killing me too

I still need 5 and just spent 5 minutes looking without seeing any

9:26 am

there's another dwarf from Tolkien in the grid hursh

9:26 am

monkeyed ra4.8, surprise it is a word

oh, we've seen that before, aloy, thanks

9:27 am

yw, guess I forgot it

9:28 am

kili, ruru

when hurshy asked about the dwarf earlier, I was thinking of a different one but couldn't remember all the names

9:29 am

mael wins a set of books of LOTR

9:30 am

is your missing r the ri5.14 ru? just found it..

9:30 am

i found it a bit ago.. aloy thanks

9:30 am

I've got like three sets lying about the house already haha

9:30 am

hot dog.. r's are done

9:32 am

oh I finally found the A7

9:32 am

found my last K

9:32 am

yay mael

9:32 am

this is a tough grid

9:32 am

agree !

really tough

will probably give up soon

9:33 am

seriously

there's only so long I can try to make words and come up empty

I did just find the y6 I usually miss though

did you find the 8 yet, aloy?

9:34 am

no, not yet

9:34 am

oops.. yes

lol

9:36 am

it was an extension

that's what I was thinking, an adv?

9:36 am

yes it is

9:37 am

ah...found it....

9:37 am

ty, aloy...

9:38 am

looked it up: the base word means "damned".. well I'll be !

yeah, was thinking I must not have the root because I've been trying that on everything.

9:39 am

think of a tion ending....then it made sense to me...

9:39 am

good point pen

9:39 am

whew closed out the g.. some weird ass words there

9:39 am

Sounds like a sexual word

9:41 am

just finished the t's.. and they were trying too

9:42 am

I think I am going to have to list.. I can't find anything

9:42 am

and i have 5 fours to go too that pisses me off

thanks, all. took all the clues and got it.

I have 13-24-11

9:49 am

hi all help with the ta8 please

9:49 am

nm monkeyed it

9:50 am

good... ;o)

9:54 am

trying to get down to 50 before i list....going to be a struggle...

9:55 am

me too pen

9:55 am

86 left

9:56 am

68 here...

9:56 am

also doing laundry here

9:56 am

errands done

9:57 am

colonoscopy prep here... :o(

9:57 am

:(

48 left here, moving on for now

9:58 am

61 now...

9:59 am

"fur made from lambskin": ga6.33, newbie for me. Don't beat your head against the wall.. this grid has so many weirdo words !

9:59 am

81 now

10:04 am

if we had a V we could have Valiant and Variant

10:07 am

fw, thanks to help from A to Z words.. any clue requests before I get back to chores?

10:07 am

congrats, aloy...

10:08 am

ty pen : hopw you get an A+ report from your test..

10:08 am

ty, aloy...

10:13 am

well i am down to 54...time for a break....bbl to finish....bye all....

10:37 am

wow.. tough, tough grid.. have fun everyone

10:37 am

Agree!

10:38 am

*Shocked look* You get A+s for a colonoscopy? I don't even want to know what that means. Best bowel?

10:41 am

I just did the Cologuard thing...easy peasy! Results came in yesterday, and there was no mention of an A for my negative result. Feeling ROBBED I tell you!

10:44 am

well if they write your blood type on it, then, it could have an A+

10:44 am

That's my type, so yep! I'll take it.

10:45 am

Give that girl a cookie and a gold star

10:45 am

:)

11:11 am

morning all

11:22 am

lunch time moo

11:23 am

not here :)

11:24 am

what's with all the crappy boards lately?

11:24 am

well, I'm at a standstill here with 46 left so have been doing other things

11:24 am

62 left here

11:25 am

well, according to some people, "the game makers are making it too hard for anyone to play", even though it's random and nothing has changed since the enable list was implemented here.

11:25 am

heh

11:27 am

a lot of 4s in this one

11:28 am

12-23-11

11:29 am

To be fair, the grids have seemed a lot harder lately than they usually are.

11:29 am

I completely agree. like I said this morning, they're either harder or I'm stupider.

11:29 am

When Ru says a grid is hard, that makes me wonder.

11:30 am

but I also don't think dr. god has a nefarious plan to make us all quit playing.

11:30 am

but maybe he does so he doesn't have to run this game anymore.

11:30 am

Of course there will always be people who do the "hi all" thing. And then, "done" twenty minutes later. Believe that if you want to.

11:31 am

phantom calmly

11:32 am

I think we have just had a run of nasty grids. I don't waste my time on them when they are mostly stupid archaic words. What is the fun in that?

11:32 am

agree

11:33 am

I will look (or maybe chat) while I eat lunch and then get busy. maybe come back tonight.

11:33 am

20-16-16-2-1

11:34 am

I did find a nice downton abbey word earlier

11:34 am

believe i have that one

11:35 am

probably

11:36 am

it's a weird grid when I've found most of the k's but have barely half on some others

11:36 am

I have half of everything except the T1 down the bottom

11:37 am

and no, the downton abbey word is not a K. just rambling here as usual.

11:38 am

I have that T but don't remember what it was

11:38 am

oh, it's an easy 4

11:38 am

terrific

11:38 am

maybe you should look again

11:38 am

ah yes, thought I'd typed that already

11:38 am

good morning -- expecting kids here soon, so will be disappearing...

11:39 am

hey nan, it's not a good one in case you just got here. enjoy time with the kids.

11:39 am

hey nan

11:39 am

50 to go

11:39 am

18-13-16-2-1

11:40 am

ty for the heads up carla

11:40 am

agreed, another ugly one

11:41 am

maybe the worst of the worst based on the effort HOET took

11:41 am

heh

11:42 am

6OFOET

11:42 am

ntpn - french olympic alpine skier - Jean-Claude

11:42 am

still need 7 c's, but otherwise yes

11:42 am

no idea

11:43 am

4 C's needed

11:43 am

most of any tile I have is the A below the C

11:43 am

I need 6 of those

11:43 am

I also need 6 of that A and 6 G

11:43 am

Jean-Claude Killy

11:43 am

need 4 G's

11:44 am

was possibly before my time, but I don't know a lot of foreign alpine skiers

11:44 am

5OFOET :)

11:44 am

need 5 L's

11:45 am

4OFOET

11:45 am

five tiles with 4 on them, so this might take a little longer

11:46 am

you're going so fast I'm not even seeing words between your updates. though I did already mention I hit a wall.

11:46 am

42 to go

11:46 am

I'm just looking for 4s right now and getting nothing

11:46 am

15-10-14-2-1

11:50 am

well, found 2 G4

11:50 am

good

11:50 am

finally found a 7

11:51 am

they are surprisingly real words today

11:51 am

nice one nan

11:51 am

I just found a 6 so now 10-13-10

11:51 am

nope, 10-23-10

11:52 am

15-10-11-2-1

11:52 am

ah, found a 7

11:53 am

see, told you they were real

11:56 am

finally found another c

11:56 am

hey all

11:56 am

hey mael

11:56 am

I just got some local peaches through our CSA share and they are delicious

11:57 am

yum, I've been eating a ton of peaches lately, just finished my last one yesterday and need to go back

11:57 am

millions of peaches

11:57 am

3OFOET

11:58 am

have 7 tiles with 3 or fewer though

11:58 am

peaches are definitely my favorite fruit

11:58 am

so good fresh

11:59 am

but I love a good watermelon and a good pineapple, so it's hard for me to choose

11:59 am

grew up on an orchard, hard for me to get into store peaches

11:59 am

hello to you all!!

11:59 am

Hi Hokie!!

11:59 am

yeah, I never buy store peaches, they just aren't that good

12:00 pm

hello dolly!

12:00 pm

pretty partial to mango and passionfruit myself...one of the few things I miss about Miami, our Mango tree

12:00 pm

hey dolly, happy Woden's Day

12:00 pm

my son loves mango. I do not like mango or mango flavored stuff. not sure I've had passionfruit.

12:01 pm

problem with soft fruits in stores is that they can't be picked "tree ripened" for shipping.

12:01 pm

there are a few really big peach orchards about 45 min from my new house

12:02 pm

yeah, we have peaches growing around here too, though the commercial ones are a bit futher away...though you can get them from the farm in a month or so, special order or at the Lafayette peach festival

12:02 pm

yep, that's why the pawpaw never took off, ripened too fast for stores

12:03 pm

miami did have a lot of tropical fruit available on account of all the local orchards

12:04 pm

so you'd get lychees, rambutans, sapote, guava etc there...and the mangos were tree ripe

12:04 pm

I did manage to get queen bee yesterday too hoke, though I did check what the total point value was

12:05 pm

my SIL had an orange tree at her first house in Jax Beach, and she would send me fresh oranges that were the best ever.

12:05 pm

I got to genius today without the pangram but have since found it. need 8 words today.

12:05 pm

yeah, oranges better a bit further north than miami

12:06 pm

up to 30 words today, pangram was my first word

12:06 pm

31

12:06 pm

just couldn't make it happen today until I really thought about it

12:06 pm

32

12:07 pm

what is this queen bee you talk about? another game?

12:07 pm

spelling bee dolly

12:07 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelli\nng-bee

12:08 pm

ty Mool

12:08 pm

but remove the \n that got stuck in there

12:08 pm

33 words

12:08 pm

oh yeah...not sure why it has a newline character in there

12:09 pm

didn't know that's what it's called since I've only seen it here.

12:09 pm

34

12:09 pm

looks interesting, will check it out

12:09 pm

well, it's an old way of marking a newline, not really used for decades

12:10 pm

Dolly, there is a free version if you search for free nyt spelling bee

12:10 pm

today's board isn't as interesting because of the layout

12:10 pm

thank you Molly

12:11 pm

well, I would say that tracks for here, but I think it just started doing it in the last few years (the \n)

12:11 pm

I didn't think today's pangram was that hard to find

12:11 pm

65 on first pass and stuck already

12:11 pm

dolly, the most important thing to remember is that you can reuse letters on the same word

12:12 pm

yeah, nan, that's probably pretty good first pass

12:12 pm

It's like the spam thing. Dr. God knows about the /n thing, he is just not going to spend time fixing it.

12:12 pm

well, molly, you are a word nerd

12:12 pm

also the password problem I pointed out to him.

12:13 pm

Not really. I look at Spelling Bee once in a while and almost never see the pangrams.

12:13 pm

What password problem?

12:13 pm

is there a 7-8 combo and if so what do they begin with?

12:13 pm

no, nan

12:14 pm

the password for this website has a max limit but he doesn't tell you that. so if you go over the max it truncates it and then your password is something you don't think it is.

12:15 pm

Most people don't create passwords long enough for that to be a problem.

12:15 pm

when I figured it out I emailed him and said I think that was what was going on and he confirmed it and said he was surprised it hadn't come up before then.

12:16 pm

it's a shorter password limit than you'd think

12:17 pm

Most web sites tell you your password has to be at least 8 characters. So people get used to setting them that long.

12:18 pm

yeah and most tell you if there's a max, and a lot have an option to show it instead of the asterisks. IIRC, this one shows a set number of asterisks unrelated to your password too.

12:19 pm

They should all give you the option to show them so people can make sure there are no errors.

12:20 pm

sometimes I want to murder (not really) the people who make the streaming apps for smart tv when you type it all in and you can't show it or just having to type it all in, actually. they should all have the option to do it from a computer.

12:22 pm

bye

12:22 pm

bye nan, enjoy

12:31 pm

up to 35 at the bee, 42 left here. think I will walk winston.

1:58 pm

Hi all. Is it my imagination or is this a super hard grid? The first row is really difficult, anyway.

1:59 pm

This is a super hard grid and not much fun at all

1:59 pm

I totally agree! Back for my last 37, and definitey using morewords at this point.

1:59 pm

glad to know it's not just me!

2:00 pm

100% NOT. ;)

2:07 pm

and when I do find a word, I don't know what it means.

2:09 pm

I finally found a 7, but I can't even get near half on most of the tiles

2:10 pm

I agree. Don't think I'll be here long today. :)

2:10 pm

very odd to have a grid without any E

2:11 pm

and that annoying IG without an N!

2:13 pm

No E and no O

2:13 pm

and WAY too many As.

2:14 pm

This is the kind of grid that Dr. God should push the SHUFFLE AGAIN button

2:16 pm

The woman who delivers my letters is the MAILLADY, no?

2:20 pm

found the other 7, so at least I fell like I accomplished something

2:21 pm

Tsk tsk, we are not allowed to identify gender anymore. She is the mailperson.

2:32 pm

mailperson's not there either

2:45 pm

neither is mail carrier, alas

2:49 pm

I finally found all the As, sheesh

3:12 pm

I just found the 8 word!

3:17 pm

Care to clue it?

3:18 pm

I have 28 yet but have to leave for a meeting soon...may just quit this sucker. GAHHH!

3:20 pm

starts with ta 4 -- like a 4 letter word for ripped only with a differnt vowel. ta6 builds from that. The 8 is the ta 4 with a word for country on the same side in a war

3:21 pm

hope that works. I am off to do something useful so the whole day is not a total waste. Happy Babbling!

3:21 pm

Thanks!

3:22 pm

yw

3:22 pm

got it!

3:40 pm

help with the ca words please

3:55 pm

Ca6/24 ca + letters

3:58 pm

Postal letters

3:59 pm

Yep

4:00 pm

hi again -- had good time at the pool, then lunch with the grandkids and Now they are off to the rope walk park. Nana gets a breather :)

4:03 pm

ty Molly

4:03 pm

help with ca6/30 please

4:04 pm

not seeing the ga6/33

4:05 pm

There are 5 AL5,14s and I have only one of them. Hints for me?

4:06 pm

just found the last one, but still missing 3

4:16 pm

ok, got 'em, but if anyone has a hint for the AL6,27 that would be great

4:20 pm

need the 3rd al 5/14 and the 6/27

4:22 pm

the 3rd AL5/14 is the word for when Jews immigrate to Israel

4:22 pm

no idea, joy

4:23 pm

just found the AL6, it's an alt spelling of that AL5

4:24 pm

starts with a women's first name

4:25 pm

ok - monkeyed the 5

4:26 pm

not finding the 6 however

4:26 pm

oh - got it - add a letter

4:27 pm

ty joy

4:31 pm

back to see if I can get any of my last 31

4:34 pm

hi mool

4:34 pm

hey nan, how's your day been?

4:38 pm

busy til now - had the kids here for the morning - age 9 x2 + age 12 and soooo much engergy

4:38 pm

yeah, I have a 10 year old, so certainly understand that

4:39 pm

* thats the same as energy:)

4:40 pm

do they live relatively close?

4:40 pm

You my son are the same age -- don't know how he does it! He is very much a hands-on father.

4:41 pm

I certainly try to be

4:41 pm

no - they live in Vancouver (about 4 hours from here) but they have a condo at the local ski hill so are up here fairly often.

4:42 pm

ah, cool

4:42 pm

my parents are very distant, and my wife's mother lives in Florida...so not much grandparent time for my daughter unfortunately

4:43 pm

yes - that is a shame

4:43 pm

yeah, I grew up with grandparents on both sides in the same town

4:44 pm

I struggle to keep up with them -- my other grandchildren are all in their 20's and 30's --- had a lot more energy myself when they were younger.

4:45 pm

right

4:46 pm

anyone have a clue for the ga 6/33 please?

4:48 pm

don't have that one

4:48 pm

found it

4:49 pm

well, I know it isn't garlik

4:49 pm

slang for girl + a homophone of a monutain dwelling cow-like animal

4:49 pm

and it surprised me when it worked

4:50 pm

ty mool

4:50 pm

yw

4:50 pm

great clue, I would never have found it

4:50 pm

26 to go here

4:50 pm

yeah, it's an odd word

4:51 pm

pelt of a lamb or young goat -- had to look that one up!

4:52 pm

I'll remember that next time I'm herding sheep

4:53 pm

lol

4:53 pm

I won't :)

4:57 pm

ooh, a word

rehi moo, nan, & mael

4:58 pm

hey there!

4:58 pm

hey hoke, welcome to our early soiree

4:58 pm

down to 25 7-8-8-1-1 And I need two more at Bee

thinking mountain goat, not seeing anything that rhymes with goat

I need 5 more at bee

still 42 here

4:59 pm

hi carla

4:59 pm

think himilayas for the mountain animal carla

5:01 pm

it's a weird word, so open your mind

5:03 pm

himalayas -- spelling has gone to pot today.

5:04 pm

big mountain thingies

had the right animal but kept trying to make the end sound like it, i.e. end in K

5:10 pm

heh

5:11 pm

you have to be alliant to be in an alliance

5:11 pm

ooh, a word!

5:11 pm

need a break

5:12 pm

I'm already broken, so I'm good

5:15 pm

Thank you Mool for that Ga word. And you sure aren’t broken. Anyone who can find GA 6/33 & can clue it to us plebs is Babble Royalty.

5:16 pm

lol

5:16 pm

well the points certainly helped...there's only so many combos that added up to 33

5:17 pm

though normally wouldn't be as imaginative as that

5:17 pm

yay, greyed top row

5:19 pm

It’s 11.18pm here. I’m not in the business of looking at points. I’m just foraging for easy words. 😄

5:19 pm

heh

5:20 pm

not many easy words in this one

5:20 pm

Agreed. An unpleasant grid.

5:21 pm

yay, another word!

5:22 pm

I still have 7 4s...probably should try and knock those off

still 9 4s

5:25 pm

found 2 so far

I think I must've exhausted my vocabulary today and just don't know any other words.

5:26 pm

so many weird words in this one

5:29 pm

another 4

5:30 pm

and one more

still need 6 c's and 6 lower left A's

5:30 pm

okay, 17 to go 3-5-7-1-1

5:31 pm

Soo...could someone tell me what the first letter of the 8 is?

T

5:31 pm

terrible

5:32 pm

thanks

totally

5:32 pm

I'm back again for some more torture. I don't even know why I'm trying to finish this one. It's a nightmare

hey joy

5:33 pm

yeah, this is like doing taxes at this point

5:33 pm

carla, carla, carla. I blame you for my spelling bee addiction.

5:33 pm

well that's the 8

there's always tomorrow

5:33 pm

15 to go

how goes it today, joy? I still need 5 words, but I think moo is almost queen bee.

5:34 pm

what about the second 7 (I'm assuming here)?

5:34 pm

two words for me remaining on Bee

5:34 pm

I got queen bee, but I looked at the comments for the last word.

5:34 pm

GA 6/30 clue please, Mool now that you gave such a great clue to the 33 do you have one for the 30?

which do you have? they're both regular words (the 7).

5:35 pm

I have the farmer's one

nice, joy!

5:35 pm

it was a BO6 that I hadn't heard of

the other is D

one of the first words I found this morning 😁 (D7)

5:36 pm

nice

5:37 pm

FOUND THE 6 30

5:37 pm

AWESOME!

nice, nancy

5:38 pm

it's more like 4 30 here tho

5:38 pm

mi 6/30 please?

5:38 pm

I thought that was two words...hmm

5:39 pm

old fashioned word for addressing a woman

that's my downton abbey word, nan

5:39 pm

14 to go

5:39 pm

ty mool

5:39 pm

six of them are 6s

5:41 pm

3-5-6 - think this is going to be too much

5:41 pm

antrag- what ants clean with

5:42 pm

listed before I got to half way - that was a first

5:42 pm

antrak - public transport for ants

9-23-9

5:43 pm

that's a weird breakdown

definitely unusual

5:45 pm

C M LL G AAA R A K TT N

I have decided to list

5:45 pm

kimana - a feminine kimono?

5:46 pm

probably the sane thing to do

5:48 pm

ah finished my G's

great

5:48 pm

generally

still struggling with the a's

5:50 pm

a's are absolutely atrocious

5:50 pm

struggling with the na 5/10

5:50 pm

ends in a vowel

5:51 pm

found it -- about the only combo I hadn't tried - ty mool

5:51 pm

yw

5:52 pm

still missing an n

I just need the 5

you are missing the 6 prob

5:53 pm

odds would support that hypothesis

5:53 pm

3-4-6

5:54 pm

a lot of new and I suspect foreign words

5:55 pm

yep, I was missing the 6

5:55 pm

yeah, for sure

5:55 pm

I blame those A's

5:59 pm

bleh, found another odd t5

I'm having to skip a LOT on the list. I guess it makes me fell better that they're not easy.

6:00 pm

yeah, a fair number of new ones for me today too

6:01 pm

yes - tip for the day - try the ly suffix with everything

feels like I have been doing that all day

6:02 pm

as many as 8 newbies

6:02 pm

and I have 11 to go

6:05 pm

4 y's to go

22 left

6:07 pm

11 still

6:07 pm

3-3-5

6:07 pm

missing a k

6:07 pm

are there any k6s?

6:08 pm

oh nm, gotta go

bye

6:15 pm

anyone have the ya 6?

6:16 pm

there is one k 6

the ya6 is that word we have that rhymes with ma6 (not in this grid) that is like a motto you say over and over to yourself

6:21 pm

ty carla

6:21 pm

*!*~*!* any clues wanted?

6:22 pm

was there a clue for the GA6,30? I can't seem to find it

6:22 pm

elmer ga 6/30

6:23 pm

ty nan

6:23 pm

yw

6:25 pm

anything else?

6:26 pm

bye everyone - have a good evening :)

6:55 pm

back for more torture...

7:00 pm

There are clues all over the chat

7:11 pm

thanks, molly....

7:13 pm

THESE a words are impossible. in

7:14 pm

o\

7:14 pm

I need ar 5 please

7:14 pm

sorry....i listed and could not find al 5 and al 6....

7:15 pm

ar + the ***iban is an arab organization....

7:15 pm

those are two i need as well

7:17 pm

ty i got it. just 3 al words left al 6 27 and two al 5 14s

7:18 pm

i have one al 5/14....is like a word for your wages...just drop the first letter...

7:19 pm

a + the (court case) of the century

7:20 pm

Remove the last letter for the 5

7:20 pm

i thought she was missing AL words....

7:20 pm

You said you could not find at 5 and 6

7:21 pm

no, i said AL 5 and 6, i believe...

7:21 pm

got that one. now just need the al 6/27 and the al 514 that follows

7:21 pm

Sorry, tired eyes

7:22 pm

no problem....thanks for trying...

7:30 pm

PEN, did u find these last two yet?

7:30 pm

no...i moved on...

7:38 pm

well i went through the list and i only have four left to find...not too bad, i guess...

I still have 22!

7:40 pm

after the list?

yes

7:41 pm

wow...

7:41 pm

does anyone out there have the two al words i am missing? they are my last wo

7:41 pm

two but cannot find them

I think I have just looked too long at the letters and seen nothing, now I am babble blind

I had to skip those, nancy, sorry

7:41 pm

nancy is looking for al 5/14 and the al 6/27...

7:44 pm

found the 5....ends with a short version of yes....ends in a vowel....

7:44 pm

and the six is extended ...

7:44 pm

yes i just found them.....fireworks at last

7:45 pm

congrats...

7:45 pm

glad you have them now too

almost like the r&b singer that died in a plane crash, thanks

I still have 2 4s left I skipped, gee

7:47 pm

there were a couple odd ones...

7:48 pm

can someone please clue the ca 6/24?

one I'm currently looking for

7:48 pm

how about the ga 6/33?

7:49 pm

those are my last two...

hello buddies, diving in

save yourself, gwen

that bad?

7:49 pm

i hope you brought a life jacket...

this is the worst of the recent bad grids in my opinion

one loves a challenge

7:50 pm

at least it isn't too big...

i'm not addicted -- i can quit any time -- gulp

one what, a sadist? 😜

7:51 pm

found my G word!

7:52 pm

never seen it before...

ok, looked up the ca6 - ends in what the postal service brings

7:54 pm

ty!...i am done..

nice

7:55 pm

how did you do on the Bee?

got to genius pretty fast, 5 words left

I think I missed the c's when I went through the list first time

and that's where the 4s are

7:56 pm

nice...i did as well but i have 8 words missing....

I peeked at the word distribution and still couldn't find more

7:59 pm

i need to fix my frozen TV screen....need anything before i go?

nah, but thanks. have to clean my griddle after this soccer game is over.

8:00 pm

ok....goodbye....

bye, good night!

halfway done, already into the peanut butter stage (like wading through peanut butter)

nbt at last, 72 to go, i'm outta here

8:13 pm

slugging through this list. when I hit something like ma5/12 it makes me wonder if this is all worthwhile.

8:17 pm

No, not really. Life has finer things to offer.

8:19 pm

yeah, well, still trying to finish.

yeah this grid sucked

Hi Harry

8:22 pm

hallo IG

8:23 pm

This grid truly separated those who can't be bothered from those driven to finish no matter what.

Im both

I have disdain for my need to finish. yet I must

8:25 pm

yes - it's the whole self-loathing part of my psyche

lets not go there

unless you must

8:28 pm

no - I'm done with the couch for this evening

good. Im on the couch and fading away

8:40 pm

done. wow that was tough.

8:40 pm

clues for anybody?

8:41 pm

good night!

9:33 pm

Any clues for top row A, second column? Ty

9:37 pm

A middle eastern potentate and a Spanish freind.

9:37 pm

Not liking this grid at all.

9:37 pm

Ty wht. What is the stat please?

9:38 pm

am 4/5 and am5/16.

9:38 pm

Ty

9:38 pm

\y

9:38 pm

There is also an am4/7 which is a chemical name that sometimes comes before nitrate.

9:39 pm

Got both.

9:39 pm

I don't have the other 3

9:39 pm

Any clues for any 7s or the 8 welcome. Ty

9:40 pm

da7/48 is a plant whose blooms do not last long.

9:40 pm

Ty

9:40 pm

Any clues for the y in the last column?

9:40 pm

Ty i haqve them in m y yard.

9:41 pm

Just need the 8 to go to sleep

9:42 pm

Don't have that yet mkg. I guess you will have to stay up a little longer. :^)

10:37 pm

yi4,6

10:37 pm

Clue for the y (given earlier) sounds like a chant you say over and over

10:37 pm

it's 'sick'

10:39 pm

Sorry, mine was from the wrong y

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