Babble: Archived Puzzle for Sunday, April 27, 2025

12:05 am

justafreep

ta7 and happy flip

12:05 am

0471

Looks like the transfer to new server is successful.
Thank you Dr_God

12:05 am

justafreep

and yes, looks like no downtime at all!

12:06 am

cybernan

I thought the transfer was happening at noon tomorrow

12:06 am

justafreep

oh. that would be PM wouldn't it.

12:10 am

cybernan

oh was it am? Just saw the 12

12:12 am

justafreep

no, I think you're right. This is 12AM

12:13 am

justafreep

ar7

12:14 am

justafreep

fa7

12:17 am

Shellbell_o-well

ra7

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:19 am

justafreep

thanks, lickety

12:21 am

Gillie

en7

12:22 am

cybernan

ta 7

12:28 am

Shellbell_o-well

ne8

12:29 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, ne 8 zoology

12:29 am

mkg

Just missing an 8 but not seeing ne. Hmmm. Thinking

12:30 am

mkg

Zoology? Is it a synonym?

12:30 am

Rainiqui

no

12:30 am

dizgrannie

ne 8

12:31 am

dizgrannie

oops sorry ain

12:31 am

Rainiqui

np Diz

12:31 am

dizgrannie

##Rain

12:34 am

dizgrannie

atone

12:34 am

mkg

I am confused. Ne 8 has something to do with zoology and with Rain??????

12:36 am

dizgrannie

just got at 6/36

12:38 am

0471

I think it's just zoological...Rain - she was addressing Rainiqui, I guess

12:39 am

mkg

Ty.

12:39 am

mkg

Well i have no idea about the ne 8. Wish there was a meaning

12:44 am

Rainiqui

ne 8 - the retention of juvenile features in adult animals

12:45 am

mkg

Wow. Ty

12:45 am

Rainiqui

You're welcome

12:48 am

cybernan

good heavens -- are you a vet that you knew that one?

12:49 am

mkg

Neoteny is i got on google and grid doesnt have this. Trying other endings.

12:51 am

mkg

Well i give up.

12:51 am

dizgrannie

enic

12:52 am

mkg

Just got it finally. Whew. Didnâ€™t find it in google. But good luck to all.

12:52 am

0471

ty diz

12:52 am

cybernan

lol - that spelled it out :)

12:52 am

dizgrannie

np

12:52 am

mkg

There were too many ne possibilities.

12:52 am

mkg

Ooo grannie, i am so sorry i missed your clue totally.

12:53 am

cybernan

busy day tomorrow, so I'm heading out -- good night everyone

12:56 am

Rainiqui

Nan - I know a lot of veterinarian medicine and a lot of geology too- good night

12:58 am

Rainiqui

I meant zoology

2:10 am

sprite

morning babblers

2:28 am

rebelsass

morning. sprite!

2:29 am

sprite

hiya rebel :)

3:06 am

sprite

fireflies and poofing, with hugs. Have a lovely day, rebel!

3:38 am

rebelsass

bye, sprite!

4:39 am

rebelsass

is there anyone around? especially one that can help clue me the ne8, please?

4:46 am

0471

ne8 = new + a kind of medicine or what you mix with gin (change the first vowel)

4:56 am

MollyL

neovurmouth

4:58 am

rebelsass

thank you, 0471

5:27 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :)

10:43 am

hurshy

a little time of functional serverage?

10:47 am

Dr_God

Looks like the server ran out of space and went down one last time this morning, just to officially kick off Moving Day in style. :)

10:47 am

hurshy

lol

10:47 am

rururocks

what's weird doctor g is I got down to 30 words and now have to start all over again

10:48 am

hurshy

oh no ru!

10:49 am

Dr_God

Sorry about that, ruru. There was a mixup with the database. We lost some info, unfortunately.

10:52 am

hurshy

phantom: grief

10:58 am

hurshy

phantom: pfui

11:00 am

MollyL

If you are a person who signs out when you leave, save a copy of your word list. It helps if words are missing when you return.

11:01 am

hurshy

phantom: infant

11:01 am

rururocks

yeah.. should have .. i am missing words that I already put in.. what a pain in the ass

11:03 am

akazev

Why is satan not acceptable? We use the word every night whilst watching the news

11:04 am

hurshy

because it's a name, a proper noun

11:04 am

akazev

Thanks

11:05 am

hurshy

np

11:10 am

hurshy

so far F seems the hardest

11:21 am

hurshy

right col grey!

11:22 am

hurshy

left col grey!

11:22 am

rururocks

finished.. thankfully

11:23 am

hurshy

congrats ru

11:23 am

rururocks

whew.. hopefully dart missed this grid :D

11:24 am

hurshy

why?

11:26 am

MollyL

You don't know about Ru's constant quest to surpass Dart in the statistics?

11:27 am

BzznBea

Who is dart?

11:27 am

hurshy

a very very fast player

11:27 am

BzznBea

Molly, thanks for the rec on The Bear. Started watching yesterday.

11:30 am

hurshy

panda bears are actual bears but koala bears are not

11:30 am

hurshy

3-6-6-3

11:37 am

MollyL

And The Bear is a TV show, not a panda or a koala.

11:38 am

Dr_God

T-minus 23 minutes until The Move. Everyone start stowing your carry-on luggage and putting your tray tables into their upright position.

11:41 am

clg47

I set my timer!

11:46 am

welki

*stocks up the PB with fixings for brunch*

11:51 am

MollyL

*Takes a few shots from the mini bottles in the bar

11:54 am

hurshy

whew

11:54 am

hurshy

done

11:55 am

welki

just in the nick of time, hursh. i still have 25 left

11:57 am

hurshy

i went to the list just to get it done before the Big Event

11:57 am

welki

ewww - snowing here

12:00 pm

Dr_God

Here we go...

12:38 pm

BzznBea

Are we good?

12:38 pm

mrloser

after reload, I see entered words are a little further apart otherwise no issues

12:38 pm

mrloser

guan

12:39 pm

mrloser

oops

12:39 pm

BzznBea

I had to go to a browser instead of using my lickety log in

12:51 pm

SuzeeQ24

my words are showing up in my last in the wrong place

12:51 pm

SuzeeQ24

list*

12:52 pm

mrloser

new issue. I added a word, it took it but it is not in the list ???

12:52 pm

mrloser

rang

12:53 pm

mrloser

oops again, cursor is bouncing around ???

12:53 pm

SuzeeQ24

my last t word is after the u in my list

12:54 pm

mrloser

I added over 5 new words and all took but do not show in the list until I refresh the whole page ???

12:55 pm

SuzeeQ24

refresh

12:55 pm

Kallia

your lst word before the change over

12:55 pm

Kallia

oops

12:56 pm

Kallia

oops missed the beginning of that comment

12:56 pm

mrloser

I must refresh to see a newly aded word in the list

12:56 pm

mrloser

crasus

12:56 pm

Kallia

i think that all entries after the change over have started a new list after the last word you entered ealier

12:59 pm

SuzeeQ24

tone

1:00 pm

Kallia

looking at it again, seems to be random placement

1:02 pm

Kallia

I have logged in and out a couple of times and seems ok now

1:04 pm

mrloser

also there no longer any clickable urls at the bottom, for instance the lickety word size site

1:05 pm

Kallia

I have just noticed that

1:11 pm

Dr_God

If you guys need any of the links from the site footer put back, let me know

1:11 pm

rbud

Lickety!

1:21 pm

Dr_God

I'm fixing bugs as they come up. There was a bug that was causing any chat message with an apostrophe to fail. We'll see if it's fixed with this message.

1:27 pm

saanichcat

my page isn't all here , for instance the sites below the game, really need the clues list back please! Good luck with all this Dr God!

1:27 pm

mrloser

yes, plz put the lickety word size url back and no all word counts larger than 7 show zero

1:30 pm

Dr_God

What is the URL? The only Lickety URL I'm finding is a dead link.

1:31 pm

Cathyar

https://r46.me/babbleclues

1:34 pm

Dr_God

I added it back

1:41 pm

parisla

I see it and it's working. Word stat sstill look weird but working as well (eg. it indicated NaN/31 for 6-letter words). The only thing that looks different now is the length of words for which there aren't words in this grid (9 and above) have 0/0 instead of being greyed.

1:44 pm

Kallia

it's showing my last added word is true...its not in the puzzle!

1:46 pm

rbud

I typed the Lickety link in two or three times and it wouldn't let me, haha - glad I got the one word in. :D

1:47 pm

rbud

was trying to recall what else is there - maybe babbler's anonymous? But no one besides me ever looks in there any more.

1:52 pm

Dr_God

Last word added: "true" bug is fixed now I think

1:53 pm

parisla

Yes, the 9 and up are now greyed.

1:54 pm

Christa

Good Morning & thank you Dr_God

1:54 pm

parisla

Everything looks good. Thank you so much! We are so addicted to this :-)

1:54 pm

rbud

I still had to refresh for my new word to go into the grid list.

1:55 pm

Kallia

Best 5 dollars I ever spent!

1:56 pm

mrloser

farcie

1:56 pm

Dr_God

rbud- When you add a word, it's not automatically being added under My Word List?

1:57 pm

rbud

not this time. Some one else mentioned it earlier. Am still looking for another new word to try again after refreshing.

1:57 pm

parisla

It is for me. No need to refresh.

1:58 pm

Kallia

working fine for me too

1:58 pm

Christa

working fine for me too

1:59 pm

Aloyisius

have a word posted wrong alphabetically.. ut4.5 posted before tu4.8

1:59 pm

parisla

Ah yes, all the new words are being added at the bottom of the list rather than in alphabetical order. Good catch Al.

1:59 pm

daisy88

entente

1:59 pm

rbud

Yes, that's it, I found another word, and it went in at the bottom of the list.

2:00 pm

rbud

And is then in the right place after refresh.

2:00 pm

Kallia

oh yes that's happenng again...just posted 2 a's and they are under the t's

2:01 pm

Aloyisius

aha.. when I refreshed, the words were in correct order.. try that

2:01 pm

Kallia

yep that worked

2:01 pm

parisla

They are after I refresh. But if I add a new one, it still goes to the bottom of the list.

2:03 pm

Aloyisius

here too.. looks like we will be refreshing !

2:03 pm

Kallia

yes still happening, new word showing up at bottom of list

2:03 pm

parisla

And the letters without words are no longer greyed. They just say 0/0

2:03 pm

Kallia

still greyed here

2:08 pm

mrloser

they just turned grey after a refresh. but new words entered are there but do not show in the list unless you refresh after each entry

2:23 pm

mrloser

all done and all seems fixed except for words entered showing immediately

2:26 pm

Dr_God

Hmmm. I can't replicate the bug of entered words not showing up under My Word List automatically.

2:27 pm

parisla

They do get added automatically but at the bottom of the list.

2:27 pm

Aloyisius

right.. it must be a command to enter in alphabetical order that is going awry

2:32 pm

Dr_God

Oh, ok. So the word is being added, but the list isn't in alphabetical order. Hmmm. Weird.

2:32 pm

Aloyisius

you got it!

2:34 pm

Aloyisius

however, when you refresh, the added word is where it is supposed to be

2:40 pm

Aloyisius

I just entered two words, refreshed them together and they both showed up in correct positions.. so maybe I don't have to refresh with every single word? will try

2:43 pm

MollyL

Well done, thanks Dr. God. Nice to see the updated page with all the links except Lickety gone.

2:54 pm

hokie carla

doh, mine is adding words at the bottom. Do I need to hard refresh or just refresh at the end, Aloy?

2:54 pm

hokie carla

just wondering if anything changed again since you posted that at 2:40.

2:56 pm

Dr_God

Nothing has changed. I'm about to try and figure out why words are being added to the bottom of the Word List

2:56 pm

hokie carla

thanks, DG

2:57 pm

Aloyisius

hi hokie.. I just refresh after adding new words..

2:58 pm

Soodle

Collective sigh of relief from around the globe. We don’t say it frequently enough, but thank you Dr God.

3:08 pm

rururocks

Now if we could just fix Donald Trump

3:11 pm

BzznBea

There is not fix for that.

3:12 pm

Aloyisius

impossible dream

3:16 pm

periwinkle

I had entered several words earlier today but only one of them shows up now. when I retype the other words I get a message saying I already entered taht word4

3:19 pm

periwinkle

well I just might have to skip babble for today

3:21 pm

MollyL

I am more concerned about the people who voted for Trump than I am about Trump. Find a fix for that.

3:22 pm

Dr_God

periwinkle- You've entered 22 words according to the database

3:24 pm

Aloyisius

bbl.. ty Dr. G for all your fine efforts.

3:31 pm

BzznBea

Lots of weird words today.

3:42 pm

MollyL

Peri, you have to refresh a few times

3:51 pm

Soodle

Nto

3:52 pm

Soodle

Oops. Sorry

3:53 pm

Dr_God

Ok. I think words should now be added to the Word List correctly (in alphabetical order). Refresh and give it a try (if you have any more words to find).

3:58 pm

SuzeeQ24

mine just went in it's right place

4:21 pm

MollyL

It's always good when it goes in the right place

4:29 pm

BzznBea

That's what she said.

4:37 pm

MollyL

Where is Ru when you need him?

5:31 pm

BzznBea

Namaste

5:37 pm

periwinkle

I have refreshec several times.

5:38 pm

periwinkle

only one words shows up in my list

5:38 pm

periwinkle

I am getting discouraged

5:40 pm

periwinkle

do I just click on the Refresh babble tab or is there something else I should be doing?

5:42 pm

MollyL

Try CNTRL + R, that is a hard refresh.

5:42 pm

MollyL

Also try logging in again

5:43 pm

periwinkle

I have logged in several times. just tried CMTRL+R but nothing

5:45 pm

periwinkle

CNTRL even

5:49 pm

Dr_God

Are you logged into Babble using a regular web browser like Chome, Firefox, Safari, etc.? I show you as having entered 27 words. The last one was "tops" a few hours ago.

6:17 pm

tessagram

guar

6:17 pm

tessagram

anet

6:17 pm

tessagram

fata

6:17 pm

tessagram

ig

6:23 pm

MollyL

Oh Peri, I hope you are not still using Internet Explorer

6:24 pm

tessagram

sorry

6:24 pm

MollyL

Edge is not very good either

6:35 pm

joansiebone

Firefox works

6:36 pm

joansiebone

I am still getting "babble is coming" with Safari

6:43 pm

ItalianGreyhound

tone

6:43 pm

ItalianGreyhound

oops

6:55 pm

moule

A shoutout to Dr G for moving babble to a new server

6:57 pm

ItalianGreyhound

hi Moule

6:57 pm

periwinkle

I am Molly, what should I use instead

6:58 pm

periwinkle

MIcrosoft Edge is what I have

6:58 pm

moule

Hi ItalianGreyhound

6:59 pm

periwinkle

how do I change my browser

7:00 pm

hokie carla

rehi - looks like we are secure now?

7:01 pm

ItalianGreyhound

whats a browser ?

7:01 pm

hokie carla

a browser is one who walks through store aisles looking at everything, IG

7:02 pm

ItalianGreyhound

so its me

7:03 pm

periwinkle

how do I change to Chrome, Firefox or Safari?

7:04 pm

hokie carla

well, if you don't have them on your computer you'll have to go to their websites and download and install. Safari is for Mac, so rule tht one out.

7:04 pm

ItalianGreyhound

Ifeel the force, Peri

7:05 pm

periwinkle

ok too tired to do that now. will try tomorrow ty carla

7:05 pm

hokie carla

for Chrome just search in your search engine (probably google) "google chrome" and a big download button comes up.

7:05 pm

hokie carla

if I'm here tomorrow I can help you

7:06 pm

periwinkle

thanks

7:16 pm

spellit

Any clue for the ne8 p!ease?I

7:18 pm

Dr_God

Babble will work with Edge just fine. No need to switch, peri.

7:19 pm

hokie carla

I thought it should but as a long time mac user, I'm not familiar with Edge.

7:24 pm

spellit

Got it! Fireflies

7:24 pm

hokie carla

congrats!

7:24 pm

spellit

Cheers and goodnight!

7:25 pm

hokie carla

good night

7:25 pm

cybernan

my word list from last night isn't shoiwing up either

7:27 pm

cybernan

refreshing and hard boot hasn't helped -- guess I will just skip this one

7:27 pm

hokie carla

I can't remember if I played last night

7:28 pm

hokie carla

but mine is here

7:28 pm

hokie carla

possible it was early this morning that I started

7:29 pm

cybernan

nothing seems to be working -- over 100 words missing

7:29 pm

hokie carla

maybe clear your cache or reboot your whole computer?

7:39 pm

tmeses

i've been away a while. where is lickety?

7:40 pm

tmeses

or the one that lists the stats

7:40 pm

hokie carla

look at the black bar at the bottom of this page "helpful links"

7:41 pm

tmeses

thx

7:41 pm

hokie carla

no prob

8:04 pm

Petemcbride

I've got a weird thing going on where I'm only getting four points for each word = even some of my 6 and 7 letter words. Anyone else experiencing that on this strange Babble day?

8:37 pm

LuvWordGames

Yes, I have completed the grid and it shows I have a total of
720 points. The total should be 2,387.

9:40 pm

SuzeeQ24

I only have 720 too and I"m finished

9:43 pm

saanichcat

same here

10:03 pm

Dr_God

cybernan- I show you as having entered 104 words. If you entered some words earlier right before the server switch, some words may have been lost. There was a little snafu with the data.

10:04 pm

Dr_God

Petemcbride- There does seem to be something wrong with the points total at the bottom of My Word List. I'll look into it.

10:14 pm

Dr_God

Ok. I think I solved the points total bug. Refresh, and let me know if your points total is correct now.

10:14 pm

rbud

mine went up, yay!

10:19 pm

Dr_God

Hopefully, the last big hurdle will be at midnight tonight when the script that calculates scores and starts the new puzzle triggers. (fingers crossed)

10:20 pm

hokie carla

thanks for keeping us alive here!

10:20 pm

rbud

here's hoping! Thanks for all your efforts, Dr. G.

10:35 pm

rbud

Done and have the correct total points, and FW as usual, yay!

10:45 pm

Aloyisius

phew, it has been a long Babble day for us all. I finished, and so I join your hopes Dr. God that everything works right tonight.. change is always difficult.. thanks for all your help.

11:11 pm

suefrad625

love this site. ty Dr. God.

11:38 pm

72 Temple Owl

whe did the sote come back on line?

11:38 pm

72 Temple Owl

uh oh, where are the links?

12:00 am

jeanne314

fingers crossed!

12:00 am

hokie carla

well, it didn't refresh automatically on mine

12:01 am

Dr_God

Didn't for me either

12:07 am

jeanne314

On the plus side, I'm getting a few more points out of the old game...*sheepish grin*

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