Babble: Archived Puzzle for Tuesday, February 22, 2005

12:15 am

sprite

N7/28

1:20 am

Krys10

'nother small one today - around 52 (53?) words.
Xanika, there are a few different online boggle solvers, and people run the puzzles through in order to get statistics. The Wordracer one has the word count at the bottom so it's easier to see how big the puzzle is, but the Tangelword solver uses the same dictionary as Babble so it's more accurate (and harder to use without seeing the words in the list!)

1:22 am

sprite

I just don't dare to look up those solvers! Tried it once with a grid from the archives and couldn't find a way to copy the words without seeing at least some of them. Wish I was smart enough to make a solver that only gave us what we wanted: stats! ;)

4:28 am

baggo

I had a secretary get the stats:
7-1
6-1
5-13
4-37

4:33 am

baggo

here are the rest...hope they are right....

a-6
d-3
e-7
f-9
i-1
l-3
n-4
0-6
p-4
s-1
t-5
y-1

she's missing 2 going back to find them

4:37 am

baggo

g-2

7:31 am

sprite

Great, baggo! That makes 52 words, 4.37, 561 points then.

A friend of mine just made me a script that gives stats for any textfile with words, separated by colons. I guess if I can copy the words from a solver while holding a sheet of paper over the actual words, I could paste them into a document with same fontcolor as backgroundcolor, replace the spaces with colons and save it as a .txt file. This script should do the rest then. I'll try and put it on my website - if it works, I'll let you know!

7:53 am

Treble99

can anyone help me with the missing 2As I have A4x4.Thanks

8:07 am

bumblebee

A4x5, A5x1
52 words, 4.37, 561 points
4 x 36
5 x 14

8:25 am

Treble99

Can you give a clue for the A5 please.

8:43 am

inbonlee

The A5 is one of the A4's with an e at the end.

8:51 am

Treble99

Thanks

12:06 pm

fit1

anyone with a clue for the n8?

12:09 pm

Krys10

You mean the N7? It's a science word.. part of an atom.

12:11 pm

fit1

yes, I did mean that. Thanks Kris. Don't think I'll find it though. I'm awful at science words

12:14 pm

fit1

I lied. I found it. :) Didn't realize it would be so easy. Thanks Krys

12:16 pm

Krys10

No problem. Perhaps I could get some help on F's? I'm stuck on 7... so far FEx4, FOx2, FUx1

12:22 pm

parsec

there are 2xFu, but I'm missing the last F as well.

12:40 pm

tourmalinity

do you have the fu/5?

12:40 pm

Atalante

there's FOx3

2:12 pm

Atalante

Blech - didn't like this one today

2:48 pm

fit1

I am missing 1 t, 1a and 3 e's. I have te4,to4, tr4, tr5: 1a. I have: ac4, au4, ax4s2, ax5: I have ea4, en5, et5, ex5. Any help would be sooooo greatly appreciated.

2:53 pm

fit1

I found the e's. Now it's just an a and a t

3:36 pm

Michelle

you need another to4

3:37 pm

Michelle

and another ax4

3:55 pm

fit1

Michelle, thank you so much. I am now offiicially done for today.

4:14 pm

Gail

What letter does the 6 start with?

4:27 pm

sprite

The 6 starts with E, it is a 5-6 combo.

4:37 pm

Gail

Thanks, those are the two e's I am missing, then.

7:06 pm

dicktrickle

a second to4?! i can't find it for the life of me....also, i'm missing two o's....of5, on4, ox4 and ox5

7:20 pm

periwinkle

try making the ox4 plural.

7:21 pm

periwinkle

or add an e to the ox 4.

7:24 pm

dicktrickle

thanks peri

7:29 pm

dicktrickle

i hate looking for words that aren't words....but i did find them all, thanks to everyone's help

7:30 pm

periwinkle

your're welcome, glad I could help

11:09 pm

boatierra

Ah, won't accept -pnea.

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