Babble: Archived Puzzle for Sunday, October 10, 2004

12:05 am

Krys10

Stats Lite:
92 words, no eights, 2 sevens, 10 sixes.

1:02 am

shortseer

Slightly heavier stats:

4 ... 51
5 ... 32
6 ... 10
7 .... 3
8 .... 1
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total 97
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A ... 1
C .. 13
D .. 11
E ... 9
F ... 6
H ... 5
i ... 1
O ... 5
Q ... 7
S .. 19
T .. 20

1:43 am

fnurt

Are there really 7 Q's?!

1:46 am

inaniloquent

My thoughts exactly. I have four Q's so far. And are there really 9 E's?

1:48 am

fnurt

I have 6 E's so far (4/9, 4/9, 6/33, 4/7, 4/4, 5/10)

1:51 am

inaniloquent

I only have one E, so that's helpful, thanks. My Q's are 5/18, 6/30, 5/18, 6/30

1:57 am

shortseer

Yeah ... i have a problem with the q's too.
I keep trying to enter quit, quite and quits.
That would make 7 words.
I've gone back and looked at the solver i used and it says:
"The solver ignores non-letters, and always assumes a square board. It takes the 'q' you enter as the 'qu' combination, which can be used in each word as either 'q' or 'qu'."

so that sounds like it IS counting the quit, quits and quite words.
I don't want to look at the actual word list to find out

1:58 am

inaniloquent

never occurred to me to think of the Qu as just a Q.. too bad it doesn't work :)

2:11 am

shortseer

If i'm right, then my stats may have other errors ... the solver will have counted any words containing the letters _qui_

And moving on to another problem (for me anyway!) ... i've only found 18 out of 20 T's
Can anybody point me towards the last 2?
I have:
2x TA4
1x TE4
9x TO4
5x TO5
1x TU4

2:12 am

inaniloquent

i don't have any sevens or eights, and most of the words I'm missing are C's. I will look on the solver tomorrow and try to figure out the Q discrepancy if it hasn't been worked out by then. G'night.

2:13 am

inaniloquent

You know, that would make sense, since the Lite stats came from the wordracer solver, which uses different characters to distinguish between Q and Qu.

2:17 am

fnurt

There is another TE4.

2:20 am

inaniloquent

I went to the Wordracer solver and did a breakdown by letter:
A - 1
C - 11
D - 11
E - 9
F - 6
H - 5
I - 1
O - 5
Q - 4
S - 19
T - 20

I would bet that the discrepancies in the C's are valid and the Q's are not, so we are actually looking for 94 words, 4 Q's.

2:21 am

inaniloquent

(and 13 C's, for those of you who haven't scrolled down)

2:23 am

shortseer

thanks!

2:24 am

fnurt

Does anyone have more E's than the 6 I listed below?

2:25 am

inaniloquent

I have all the T's. The last one was a TO5.

2:26 am

inaniloquent

I have seven: ECx4, EFx1, ETx2

2:27 am

inaniloquent

(fnurt, i think one of your 4/9's has a plural you've overlooked)

2:31 am

fnurt

Well, I didn't want to be greedy.

2:33 am

shortseer

for not-accepted C's i can come up with coquito and coquitos.
So that rules out one 7 and one 8 from my stats

2:35 am

inaniloquent

After taking out all the bad Q words, that makes the lengths
4.. 50
5..30
6..10
7..2

Ok! enough! going to bed now.

6:07 am

Atalante

Here's a breakdown of the Es ...
EC 4x2, 5x1 6x1
EF 4x1
ES 5x1 6x1
ET 4x1 5x1

8:53 am

periwinkle

what does the 8 start with?

9:09 am

Milly

I'm pretty sure there isn't an 8. The discrepancy with the Qs mentioned earlier on the log made it look like there would be 2x8 and 3x7 in this grid in the initial stats.

There are just 2x7 and no 8s at all.

9:15 am

fnurt

I have 92/4.61/1015. If anyone comes up with a higher total, say something! :)

9:16 am

inaniloquent

i think you've got 'em all. will you share hints about your sevens?

9:19 am

Atalante

These TOs are bugging me ...

9:19 am

fnurt

There is a S7/48 that goes with a 6/33. I don't know what it means but at least to my ear, it sounds like a C5/6.

There is also a S7/28 that goes with a 6/18 and is a combination of 2 smaller words.

9:24 am

inaniloquent

there's no such thing as a C5/6 - did you mean 16?

9:24 am

fnurt

I meant a C5/6 combo.

9:24 am

inaniloquent

oh! i get it

9:33 am

Atalante

As far as I can see from looking around on Google its just a Dutch word for boat ....

9:41 am

inaniloquent

I'm trying to wrap up my sixes. So far I have C6, D6, E6x2, Q6x2, S6x2.

10:03 am

Atalante

theres another C6 and S6

10:53 am

Treble99

could someone put a list of the 6s and 7s so I know how many there are.Thanks

12:11 pm

Atalante

Damn these TOs ... I just cannot find them

1:18 pm

fit1

I'm down to my last to. It's to5

1:28 pm

fit1

I found two more tos, and that doesn't complete my ts. I have ta4x2, te/4 x2, to4 x8, to5 x6, tu4 x1. What am I missing.

1:32 pm

Milly

You're missing a to4.

1:49 pm

fit1

Thanks Millie. I had just found it when I read your note. I have 89 words. I think I need 5 more. Siggghhhhh

2:00 pm

Atalante

Why isn't toto allowed? *sigh*

2:23 pm

runningforhome

Awww, 'cheetos' isn't a word. :(

2:33 pm

fit1

yeah but Cheetos is a great snack...for some :)

2:52 pm

fit1

I'm down to 1 H and 1 C. it's buggin' me

3:08 pm

inaniloquent

fit1, I believe we figured out that there are only 92 words, not 94. Two of the words appeared to be there because th enable solver did not know how to handle the QuU properly.

3:10 pm

Krys10

CE4x2
CE5
CH5x2
CH6x2
CO4x2
CO5x2

HE4
HO4x2
HO5
HU4

3:11 pm

fit1

oops. that's two c's. I have ce4x2, ce5 x1, ch5x1, ch6 x1, co4x2, co5x2
he4 x2, ho4 x2 hu4 x1. Can anyone help me......please!!!!!!!!!1

3:13 pm

fit1

thanks Kris. We wrote about the sae time. I appreciate your help. Now I'll hunt :)

3:25 pm

fit1

Oh boy. When I saw the H word I missed, i kicked myself. I seem to have all the C's you mention. But that would give me a total of 92 words with only 11 c's. I thought there are 94. But I recounted my C's and I have 11

3:32 pm

Atalante

Any help on a missing S? I have:
SC 4x1 5x2 6x2 7x1
SE 4x2 5x1 6x1 7x1
SI 4x1 5x1
SO 4x2
ST 4x2 5x1

3:50 pm

fit1

there are 2 stx5

3:58 pm

bumblebee

If there are only 92 words, it's 92/1015.

4:04 pm

fit1

Bumble. That's what I have. Thanks :) I hope that's all, because I just can't find any more words :)

4:39 pm

Atalante

I have that now too ...

4:41 pm

runningforhome

92/4.61/1015
:)

4:44 pm

fit1

YAHOOOOOO I'm done. Thanks running :)

5:05 pm

Krys10

Wait, TWO HE4s?

5:08 pm

runningforhome

I think that's a typo; I only have one.

5:48 pm

lfaerie

Could someone give a clue for the s7/28?

8:12 pm

Krys10

the S7-28 is a compound word; it's also the plural of an S6-18.

10:08 pm

onyx

are there really 97 words in this one

10:26 pm

onyx

so i got 92 words .... did i finaly finish a grid?

11:36 pm

Krys10

There are only 92, we think. One of the solvers misinterpreted the Qu as just a Q, so words like Quuit and Quuite were counted as real words.

11:43 pm

fixitfmly

I keep wanting 'tostada' to be in the upper corner! ;-)

11:58 pm

fixitfmly

still missing 3 . . . not going to make it!

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