Babble: Archived Puzzle for Friday, July 30, 2004

12:06 am

boatierra

I don't know which is worse, this puzzle, or the last one...nnnnnnnnnnnn
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

12:11 am

Tolinya

this one way sucks more than yesterdays

12:11 am

mellowmasher

I take it all back the is really faeces

12:12 am

majenwen

well, so far I found 2 5's

12:12 am

nutkin

i think there must be only like 5 words in this puzzle

12:13 am

boatierra

The two 5's I have are for 22 and 16, in alphabetical order.

12:13 am

Tolinya

you can't even put neato in this puzzle

12:13 am

majenwen

same here :)

12:13 am

majenwen

27 words so far

12:14 am

boatierra

Another 5 for 14, before the other two.

12:16 am

pat

a 5 for 16

12:16 am

Tolinya

cuss words i love it!!!

12:16 am

boatierra

Oo oo, dirty four letter word, and its accepted ;)'

12:17 am

Tolinya

anyone else get the lacking worldly experience word?

12:20 am

boatierra

Come again?

12:20 am

Tolinya

poof night

12:20 am

majenwen

found a 4 for 11 meaning informer

12:21 am

Tolinya

there's a word i found..random typing with that definition...bizarro looking word it's a 5 for 16

12:21 am

Tolinya

maj that'd be frank burns from MASH

12:22 am

boatierra

Got the informer word.

12:22 am

Tolinya

16/129

really poof this weeble butt needs to go to bed...

12:23 am

majenwen

MASH is before my time :)

12:23 am

runningforhome

Bah, tankini IS a word, it's a type of bathing suit.

12:25 am

boatierra

This weeble gotta go as well. Hasta manana a todos. 19/159

12:27 am

pat

25/198

12:30 am

runningforhome

Apparently there are 75 words today.

12:33 am

mellowmasher

Are you sure (big grin)

12:33 am

Christine

D'you think we could get some of those EEEEEs from yesterday's grid??

12:33 am

pat

how do you know how many words there are?

12:34 am

runningforhome

Haha, yes, I double-checked.

12:34 am

runningforhome

I went to a solver and just looked at the count without checking the word list.

12:43 am

elphaba

Got five 5s, but none for 14. Humph.

12:43 am

majenwen

5 5's so far

12:43 am

Christine

RFH - 75 words, huh??
Well, I have 12, and there's about 23 hours left, for me to find 63 - then I rule the world.

12:46 am

majenwen

found a 6 for 27

12:49 am

majenwen

Sure it isn't 46, cause I have 46 now :)

1:04 am

jeff

slang for faeces

1:10 am

majenwen

ooh, a 7!

1:13 am

jeff

three sevens

1:19 am

jeff

two of the sevens are biological terms that bear a strong resemblance to a girls best friend

1:19 am

jeff

the third should help block skin cancer

1:22 am

Christine

Only 27 words, and the highest is 5/22... but I'm gonna make a cuppa with a teabag I begged from a neighbour.... then I'll be back.
Four 7s, so far, right??

1:24 am

jeff

I've got three I don't know if there is four sevens

1:27 am

jeff

remember carats are a girl's best friend

1:29 am

majenwen

I have the 2 similar 7s, need to find the skin cancer one now...

1:30 am

jeff

think about how you get skin cancer. you also cure leather in the same way

1:34 am

majenwen

got it thanks!

1:38 am

majenwen

3x6's, 8x5's, and 3x7's so far
57 in all

2:00 am

Christine

I have the two Ts 6 & 7, 'cos I drink tea - and it's amazing what you can get when you noodle lettes (D6), but thanks for the two D&s.
34 words -- over halfway... don't you just looove these tough little grids - all vowels, or no vowels.

2:03 am

Christine

Okay, had I put down my teacup, my last post would say ... noodle letters.... and two D7s.
Oh well...

2:14 am

Mal

Morning Christine

2:17 am

mellowmasher

Morning Chistine how did your visit to the docs go

2:32 am

Christine

Morning Marianne & Mellow - the results of the heart monitor test won't be available for 10 days - but I've horrible welts, on 'me bosom' from what the technician assured me was 'non-irritant' tape - right!
If I'm lost, in the next week, I can be identified by said welts.

2:36 am

mellowmasher

Well be sure to let us know the results hope your not too sore in the meantime

2:47 am

majenwen

68 words out of 75

9xA
4xD
7xF
2xH
5xH
5xI
6xK
14xM
5xN
6x5
10xT

What am I missing?

2:53 am

mellowmasher

Do you have 2xh or 5xh

2:55 am

majenwen

2, so I'm missing H's?

2:56 am

mellowmasher

lol not that I know of you have far more than me

2:58 am

majenwen

oh, I see the typo now :)

3:03 am

ConXshun

Any S's majowen? I've got 5, but nothing like as many others as you.

3:04 am

ConXshun

unless 6x5 means 6xS?

3:05 am

majenwen

6xS

3:28 am

majenwen

found another a, it's 10xA

4:42 am

ConXshun

58 / 597words and stuck. Time for a break.
dont know how you do it majawen! Huge vocab and systematic brain?

6:03 am

mellowmasher

65 and for the life of me cant see any more

6:54 am

Jimbo

5/68

7:50 am

Minski

Got a 7 for 40 and a 5 for 22.

Just got started though.

Back later.

7:51 am

Jimbo

11/116

7:55 am

jlm_mi

So, majenwen - Is it 2xH or 5xH?

8:17 am

fixitfmly

oftan/ofttan -- one who frequents tanning salons ;-)
Keep seeing 'defiant' and 'infant' and 'infinite'
And hearing the Dave Clark 5 -- Shananana, Shananana, hey, hey, goodbye! ;-D nnnnnnnnnnn

8:18 am

stevedallas

is nimfo with a f or ph lol

8:19 am

jlm_mi

sorry, steve, it's with a ph and a Y. ;) No nymphos here, LOL.

8:19 am

Jimbo

17/184

8:22 am

Minski

Not a nice puzzle today.

18/171

8:25 am

fixitfmly

I love when I learn a new word in a grid and then it shows up in another one - the serf is back today! ;-)

8:26 am

Minski

Make that 20 for 218 and 4 of them I didn't even know were words.

2 7s for 40 each

8:39 am

fixitfmly

thanks to Jeff for the 7 hints -- I wouldn't have entered the nitrogen compounds w/o the 'e'

8:42 am

sweets

I'n newish (third puzzle today)..does the full word list from past puzzles get posted anywhere?

8:43 am

jlm_mi

No, but if you click "yesterday's puzzle" near the top of this screen you can then click on any username and get their full list of words.

Yesterday, many people got all the words. Quite often, the top scorer has all the possible words, but you can't know for sure.

8:50 am

stevedallas

how about IKEA the Swedish store

8:51 am

jlm_mi

I thought it should take nike. It has taken other mythological gods.

9:03 am

stevedallas

48 and 451 must be brain dead this morning

9:06 am

Cruella

Christine....I have had to wear that same heart monitor and also had giant red, itchy welts....I feel for you!! Why did you have to wear it??

9:06 am

Cruella

I only have one 7 so far....wine related.

9:07 am

jlm_mi

Any help on the 6s? I have a 27 and an 18 that are both also 7s and have been mentioned already in the chat log.

9:09 am

Cruella

one of the 6's is also wine related

9:12 am

stevedallas

luck of the draw found the three sevens

9:13 am

stevedallas

52 and 564 brain must have come alive again

9:15 am

jlm_mi

Cruella - That's the 18 I have, unless there are two.

9:16 am

Cruella

oh yeah....that's the one I have

9:19 am

Cruella

I got one more....a complete fluke...had no idea what it meant....related to muscles.

9:20 am

Jimbo

22/222

10:12 am

jlm_mi

11xA
4xD
7xF
2xH
5xI
6xK
14xM
6xN
6xS
9xT

I know I'm missing a T. Not sure if there are more Hs from the earlier post????? Where do you have more?

Also 3x7, 3x6, 15x5, 49x4

10:13 am

anniem

is it killing anyone else that diminish isn't in there?

10:15 am

jlm_mi

It probably will now. ;)

10:16 am

anniem

sorry about that, but i had to share my agony :)

10:16 am

Jimbo

29/274

10:18 am

Jimbo

9 T's

10:32 am

StÃ©

jlm_mi, I have one K more than you (so 7xK)...

11:07 am

runningforhome

I have 10 Ts.

11:21 am

StÃ©

47/515 and I stop now... my brain is going to explode!

11:29 am

Jimbo

33-320

11:31 am

Tolinya

if i see knife one more time

11:44 am

jmbdobie

53 words 527

OW! I need a break - out to lunch.

11:49 am

claws

I have 7xI ("Eye")

11:53 am

boatierra

I'm too lazy to scroll thru all 105 messages, so does anyone have any words longer than 5 letters?

12:08 pm

Jimbo

41-4.41-396

12:26 pm

jlm_mi

mulhermujer - check out my 10:12 post. There are clues to the longer words around. I'm fairly certain, also, that there is a 4th 6.

How many H's does anyone have?

12:37 pm

majenwen

2 H's

12:47 pm

majenwen

4x6, 14x5 but still short 5 words

1:03 pm

boatierra

Won't take iman. I know, its a proper noun.

1:16 pm

Jimbo

i am stuck with 13 M's. 3 ma + 10 mi. Anyone think they could help me out without actually giving me their word list.

Looking for one more "M" word

1:17 pm

majenwen

I have 11 mi words, 2 of which are 5 letters

1:19 pm

jlm_mi

Jimbo - You're missing an MI word, but no idea which one. There are two 4-letter words that I was surprised I was able to add an E to the end of . . .

Majenwen - Can you offer a clue for the missing 6?

1) chemical compound, similar to girl's best friend (27)
2) relating to muscles (30)
3) red wine related (18)

1:19 pm

jlm_mi

Oh, and majenwen - I have 16 5 letter words, but believe there are 18. I think you have all the 6s. Do you have the 3 7s?

1:22 pm

majenwen

I'm short one I word...
I have 4 that are similiar to A words, and 2 common ones...
2 5-ltr, and 4 4-ltr words

Any clues on the 7th I word?

1:25 pm

jmbdobie

11 A
4 D
7 F
2 H
7 I
6 K
14 M
6 N
6 S
10 T

73 words 4.44 764

Anyone know what I am missing ?

1:26 pm

majenwen

4 6's: 27, 27, 30, 18
I think you're missing the first 27, it's another chem word... Add 2 letters to the end of a 4 for 7

1:29 pm

jlm_mi

majenwen - You're missing a 4-letter I word. I have 1 that is very similar to an A word. One that is a (very obscure) type of dolphin. Three are very common words. One of those 3 is a plural of a 3-letter word. The other two differ from each other by only 1 letter.

jmdobie - You're missing a K. There may be another one, but I don't know what it is. boggle solver indicates 75 words, but I only have starting letter counts for 74 of them. boggle solver is not perfect, so there may or may not be a 75th word.

1:29 pm

majenwen

I have the 3 7's :)
Looks like I'm missing an i and n word

1:31 pm

jlm_mi

Thank you thank you thank you! That was the 6 I was missing. :)

And that means that there are at least 75 words in this puzzle.

12xA
4xD
7xF
2xH
7xI
7xK
14xM
6xN
6xS
10xT

1:32 pm

Jimbo

48-4.46-512 Thanks jlm_mi! I have 14 M's

1:32 pm

jlm_mi

So, jmdobie, you're also missing an A word.

1:37 pm

ConXshun

Is Nike a mythological god then? ;)

1:39 pm

jlm_mi

She's the roman goddess of victory.

1:43 pm

majenwen

Missing an A, K, and N
A - 6x 4, 4x 5, 1x 6
K- 4x 4, 1x 5, 1x 6
N- 4x 4

Clues?

1:45 pm

jmbdobie

Thanks jlm_mi. I got it!

1:46 pm

majenwen

Found the A

1:47 pm

jlm_mi

You're missing a 5 letter A. One is the plural of a 4. The others are two pairs of words - the words in each pair are very closely related in spelling.

You're probably missing the same K word I am. >: | Would love a hint from someone.

There are 6 Ns. One of them is 5 letters, plural of a 4.

1:53 pm

jlm_mi

So, can anyone offer clues for me too?!

I'm missing a 5 letter K and a 5 letter T. I have the 5 letter K that is also a 6. I have 2 5 letter Ts. One is the plural of a 4 and the other means shy.

1:53 pm

majenwen

K words
All my 4s are worth 8 points
Do you have the same?

1:54 pm

jlm_mi

Yes, I have the same. Plus the 5/6 letter combo of words.

You're missing a 5 letter K word, I think.

1:54 pm

majenwen

5-letter T: Do you have the ringworm one?

1:56 pm

jmbdobie

There are two 5 letter k words. I think the one you are missing is a fiber from a plant.

Finally got the 6 letter a word too. It's amazing that it is a real word. I just kept adding endings.

75 words 815

Bye all!

1:56 pm

jlm_mi

Eeewww! No, but I'll be looking for that now.

1:57 pm

majenwen

Just found it - 75 words!
Thanks!

1:58 pm

jlm_mi

75/815

Thanks for the help!

2:49 pm

Christine

Cruella -- I wore the monitor for only 24 hours; I'm scheduled for surgery, and am a little worried by irregular heartbeat, when lying down to sleep (not when loafing/reading).
Probably it's nothing - sort of a monster in the closet, goes away in the light - but I'd feel better being reasurred.
But, oh those bloomin' welts - still looking good'n'red.

2:59 pm

majenwen

Clues for the 3 7's:

1 and 2: are very similar to the same 6- letter word... think of a girl's best friend

3: is a 6/7 combo ... think of how you get skin cancer

3:02 pm

majenwen

I found the 12 A words most difficult, but maybe the points would help:

5, 4, 6, 7, 27, 16, 6, 6, 14, 14, 14, 14

3:10 pm

Jimbo

Help!!! stuck on 1 "D" and it rhymes with hint, which is what I need for the other "D's"

3:12 pm

majenwen

I ("eye") words:
- 3 common words (1 is a plural of a 3-letter, the other 2 are different by 1 letter)
- 3 are similar to A words (2 are 5-letters)
- type of dolphin

3:14 pm

majenwen

D words: one 4, one 6, two 7's

3:27 pm

runningforhome

Missing 5 words -
one i (one of the three common ones)
one k (5 letters, if there are two 5-letter k-words)
one m
one n
one s

3:31 pm

Jimbo

Thanks majenwen! That should help

3:45 pm

ladyles2763

Jiminy Crickets that was a hard. Finally got the last i word.

75/4.47/815

Thanks majenwen!

4:03 pm

jlm_mi

RFH - Clues for the K5 and 3 common Is are at 1:56pm and 1:29pm.

4:03 pm

majenwen

runningforhome -
You're probably missing the 4 letter I word for 7 ... it's similar to the 4 for 4, it took me a while to see it too :)

K words - there are 2 5-letters... you're probably missing the 5 for 24

M- there are 3 5-letters

N - 1 5-letter

S - they are all fairly "common" words, at least I didn't have to look up the meanings... 2 5-letters

4:24 pm

runningforhome

Thanks majenwen, just looking for the m and n now.

4:44 pm

periwinkle

I can't find either of the H words:(

4:49 pm

babbled

If you need a hint to find an "H" word you are in trouble.

4:54 pm

runningforhome

And I'm done.

4:54 pm

dimwit

Can anyone explain why it won't accept
nato - which is an acronym, when it accepts so many I have never heard of ?

I can only get 3 k words, are the others
common words as I have not managed to see anything that makes sense :(

5:00 pm

babbled

DW I got 4 K's. One by guessing. All 4 letter words.

5:03 pm

dimwit

your guesses must be better than mine.... I just got an h word :) are they both 4 letter ?

5:35 pm

periwinkle

babbled, I found the obvious H word

5:36 pm

GeneralVanya

i got 2 h-words, both 4 letter... any others about?

5:42 pm

majenwen

Only 2 H words

5:43 pm

majenwen

both 4 letters

5:43 pm

dimwit

I have both h words now, hurray! Still cannot work out a 6 a and 3 14s though, seem to have tried every which way. Any clues for any of them ?

5:45 pm

periwinkle

Is the 2nd H word an obvious one? If not may I please have a clue?

5:52 pm

Tolinya

similar to the obvious one but with a different letter on the end

5:53 pm

dimwit

It is like the other one but with a different last letter. And move sort of in the opposite direction

5:54 pm

periwinkle

Thank, Tolinya, I will keep looking.

5:54 pm

majenwen

K words

4 4-letters ...Only 2 I would call common, 2 more are similar to one of the common 4-letters

1 5/6 letter combo ... related to smooth muscles ... root word is the common 3 letter word

another 5-letter: fibers from a plant, type of hemp

5:56 pm

patty

dimwitt. your clue is the h word is worth less than 8 points and it is made up of 4 indiviual letters. no repeating vowels or consonants.

5:56 pm

periwinkle

Tolinya, Thanks, I found it!

5:59 pm

majenwen

8 A words begin the same way

6:09 pm

periwinkle

dimwit, forgot to thank you too.

6:10 pm

dimwit

thanks, I have the 8 a's of a kind, 2 more a's to go. Still only 44 words though, won't have time to finish today (sigh)

6:12 pm

Atalante

4 more words to find - 2 m's 2 n's *tears hair out*

6:16 pm

periwinkle

I'm stuck at 54.I only have 7 A's. A words are hard for me to find.:(

6:17 pm

dimwit

are all the 14 point a's 5 letter words ?

6:19 pm

majenwen

yes

6:21 pm

periwinkle

I have a 5 letter A word for 16

6:25 pm

periwinkle

majenwen, Thanks for your help. I found two i (eye) words.

6:30 pm

dimwit

do either begin with an or at, and do either use the bottom a ?

6:34 pm

periwinkle

My 16 point A word begins with am

6:37 pm

majenwen

There are 2 similar an words

6:41 pm

dimwit

Lovely! got all the a's ! (small war dance)

Still puzzling over the muscle and hemp k's - brain a bit tired after a long day's work I suppose.

6:50 pm

periwinkle

Do the an words start with the bottom A or the middle A. This is driving me crazy.

6:51 pm

Atalante

bottom A ...

6:52 pm

periwinkle

Thank you Atalante, I will keep trying.

6:55 pm

dimwit

whew, went googling for muscle fibre, didn't find the answer but got led into a scientific test on whethere peoples smiles were real or fake. I go 19 out of 20 right ! Well chuffed!

6:57 pm

periwinkle

Have 9 A words. Can't find the an ones though.

6:58 pm

dimwit

I have 10 m's all 4 letters. Are there any longer ones ?

6:59 pm

periwinkle

I have 12 M's. One is a plural of a four letter one.

7:02 pm

dimwit

I have 12 m's now. There are at least 4 fishy answers in the puzzle!

7:03 pm

majenwen

There are 3 5-letter Ms

7:24 pm

Atalante

I'm sure these last 2 Ns don't exist!!

8:05 pm

Cruella

Christine - I have the same thing.....happens though sometimes during the day too. Unerving. I did 2 holters....nothing. Cardiologist said it was fine....told me to try Fish Oil supplements as it can quiet down those funny beats. I guess they are actually pretty common.

8:13 pm

dimwit

why cant we have otnid ? sounds a great word to me !

8:17 pm

dimwit

I have 2 5 letter ms - have you a clue for the third anyone ? I have the females and the fishy

8:20 pm

jlm_mi

Two of the 5 letter Ms are plural (though one does not use an S). The third adds an E to an animal.

8:58 pm

Pleonastic 1

The game takes the m animal word with an e on the end, but the dictionary link has no definition for it. ???? Is that word the plural of those animal? I never heard of it before. Interesting

9:18 pm

fixitfmly

Pleonastic 1 --
I think some of these words come from Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther movies -- 'you have a nasty bimp on your head' and in this case, 'there was a man with a m---e on his shoulder' ;-D

9:20 pm

fixitfmly

I still have 12 words to go but I am celebrating -- I have found all the As thanks to some hints. As are always hardest for me . . . so maybe I'll get the rest too. Whoohoo! ;-)

9:31 pm

jlm_mi

There are definitely words in the babble dictionary that are not at dictionary.com, but there are also definitely real words (like stent) that the babble grid will not accept. It's finicky!

9:41 pm

fixitfmly

someone willing to give a point value for the dolphin 'i' word? I even went to google to look up dolphins and came up with irrawaddy as a dolphin type but it just doesn't work ;)

9:45 pm

Christine

MArianne - are you here? You have email.....

9:47 pm

fixitfmly

duh! just found a very obvious but quiet T word . . . 3 Ts and 1i to go . . .

9:49 pm

majenwen

dolphin is 4 points

9:55 pm

Christine

I was rather concerned, when I saw the word HOLTER, and wondered if you can trust someone who can't spell HALTER, then saw it printed on apublished wall chart, and decided to believe in her...
I'll ask my doctor about the Fish Oil Supplements. Thanks for the hint.
Now to decide if I want to stay on the board - only 43 words, so far, and I have a really good book calling me...

9:59 pm

Christine

This bloomin' dolphin word is driving me dotty -- I can't fit MAHI-MAHI or even MAHI on the grid....

10:02 pm

fixitfmly

majenwen --
Thanks! *finally* found it. I could have sworn I'd entered that combo before . . . now just 1 T left . ..

10:05 pm

fixitfmly

Christine:
dolphin word begins with 'i' -- can start from any of 3 of the 4 'i's and has 3 vowels. According to def. this dolphin has a hairy snout! ;-)

10:15 pm

fixitfmly

Help?! These are my Ts
4, 8, 18, 28, 16, 4, 10, 4, 7
What am I missing??

10:22 pm

majenwen

You're missing a 10, it should be the second word

10:29 pm

Christine

fixit -- thanks... I'm sure I tried every combination, finally it took... thanks, honey.
I have another fish - it's a rodent-y little animal with an E added.... found it as I noodled words. There's no def. in the dictionary, but a google found the definition for me... what's with this dictionary??
I'm too tired, I'm giving up at 45 words.
G'night, y'all.

10:31 pm

fixitfmly

majenwen --
Thank you again! *smacking self on head* I was sure I had entered that before also.
Now I can go to bed with happy dreams -- the second time I've gotten all the words ;-D Have a great weekend all!

11:20 pm

boatierra

Bummer, won't take nimh, as in The Secret Of...

11:50 pm

boatierra

I'm missing the T's for 18 and 28. Any hints as to the subjects of either? Please?

11:54 pm

majenwen

That's the 6/7 combo...
Think of how you get skin cancer

11:56 pm

boatierra

Tanning too much, but I can't seem to make the words.

11:58 pm

majenwen

you are so close...

11:59 pm

boatierra

Ya, I'm not going to get it by the end. But Thanks for the help.

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