Babble: Archived Puzzle for Saturday, August 30, 2025

12:02 am

Rainiqui

tr 7

12:07 am

dcseain

TIL that the sv has a vowel at the end.

12:09 am

dcseain

found the 8

12:13 am

dcseain

found a a male name starting with DA that i didn’t expecti it to take, plus plural

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:17 am

dcseain

thanks, lickety!

12:24 am

cybernan

what does the 8 begin with seain?

12:24 am

Rainiqui

wa

12:25 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs

12:26 am

Rainiqui

It's the plural of wa 7

12:26 am

cybernan

ty -- nbt, nbs and crashing. Good night Seain and Rain

12:26 am

Rainiqui

Night Nan

12:27 am

dcseain

nbt/nbs also now

12:27 am

dcseain

sleep well, nan

12:30 am

sprite

morning babbler

12:30 am

sprite

+ s

12:30 am

dcseain

good morning sprite

12:30 am

dcseain

i hope you and hubby are as well as may be

12:30 am

dcseain

rent

12:30 am

dcseain

oops. sorry, cat in face

12:31 am

sprite

thanks seain, we are doing okay. Very much looking forward to moving. Or, to be more precise, to having moved, lol, the moving itself is taxing. How are you doing?

12:31 am

sprite

where is ru? I want to repun with him :D

12:32 am

dcseain

he’s in California. 9h mehind you. it’s 22:30 Friday there now. roughly

12:33 am

sprite

I know. I still wanna repun with him :D

12:33 am

dcseain

i have food in rice cooker, which smells really promising.

12:33 am

sprite

nice!

12:34 am

dcseain

oh, yeah, moving is taxing. ARe yall downsizing?

12:34 am

dcseain

i’m well, thank you.

12:35 am

dcseain

my cat managed to smpill my water. The area rug soaked most of it up. Sigh.

12:35 am

sprite

we moved from a family home to a caravan. We did most of our downsizing back then. Now we are finally moving to a place of our own again. Will need to buy some things like fridge and washing machine etc. And cupboards. Lots of cupboards, the house has none.

12:35 am

dcseain

oh, is NL like DE in that kitchen moves with one?

12:35 am

sprite

bad kitty. I am sure she blames you, though, knowing cats

12:36 am

dcseain

i’m sure he does. LOL

12:37 am

sprite

it depends. This rental house has a kitchen already, but no fridge.

12:37 am

dcseain

Boston Massachusetts rentlals often do not come with a frigde. I found that weird as here in the DC area, full kitchen comes with renteals.

12:38 am

sprite

here it is up to the rental agency or the owners of the place.

12:39 am

dcseain

that makes sense. Boston is like that too. I did manage to fiend one and the lease specified the fridge belongs to landlord.

12:40 am

sprite

ks killed. Ugly ones today.

12:41 am

dcseain

i’ve only gotten three from there. all KN words

12:41 am

sprite

I am incredibly happy we found this new home. It will be lovely to live there. Don't mind having to buy my own fridge.

12:41 am

dcseain

staying in the same general area you were in before?

12:42 am

sprite

no, we are moving out ahead of our daughter and her partner. THey will go live in the area of Arnhem in about a year or so. Our new home is in that area too.

12:42 am

dcseain

oh, cool! it’ll be nice having them near.

12:44 am

dcseain

huh. I’m down to missing 1 word on several letters.

12:44 am

sprite

her partner is handicapped and they need a little more support than most children. We have been providing that a lot the last year or so. But now, Juno has their electric wheelchair and has made great strides in becoming more independent, so we aren't as needed anymore and can move

12:44 am

dcseain

oh, how wonderful!

12:45 am

sprite

yes, they are amazing. Such courage and power.

12:46 am

dcseain

Having gone around in Rotterdam with a friend in ia wheelchair, i declared she should use the bike lane, as it’s level, unlike the sidewald.Turned out that was correct.

12:46 am

sprite

yes, although it is not without risk. Some people are horrible and only think of themselves

12:47 am

dcseain

True. Happily, it was often around sunset and into the early evening. And Koep van suid is not as busy bike-wise as some other parts of Rotterdam.

12:49 am

sprite

cities with universities are the worst, bike wise. Silly students, lol.

12:49 am

dcseain

true that!

12:49 am

dcseain

oooh, rice maker done. BRB

12:50 am

sprite

enjoy!

12:52 am

dcseain

the touch of vinegar really made it bright!

12:52 am

dcseain

needs to cool a bit though. Very hot.

12:52 am

sprite

sounds good

12:53 am

dcseain

an onion, a carrot, a cup of Jasmine rice, some Better THan Bullion bases: no chicken and mushroom, some herbs, a couple spices, and a packet of vinaigrette. Turned out suprisingly nice.

12:54 am

sprite

lovely. Bon appetit!

1:00 am

dcseain

oh, threw in some olvive oil to bloom the herbs and spices. Forgot about that. extra tasty where it browned on the bottom.

1:01 am

sprite

yes, that is nice

1:01 am

sprite

ah, right, it is lwei and hwan. No wonder lwan did not work. ohhh those babblets!

1:02 am

dcseain

heh, yes the babblets can be something

1:02 am

sprite

:D

1:03 am

dcseain

one bowl was enough. Just wanted a bit to help the evening meds digest.

1:03 am

sprite

good man

1:04 am

dcseain

How is elven not in the dictionary!

1:05 am

sprite

amen! Tried it three times before accepting that... well... enable

1:05 am

dcseain

same.

1:07 am

dcseain

S’lev is how my friends and i shortened 7-Eleven

1:09 am

dcseain

and the tired side effect of my diuretic is kicking in. So i’m heading toward bed. Happy Babbling yall!

1:09 am

sprite

I am rather proud of finding the sv unprompted

1:09 am

dcseain

nice!

1:25 am

sprite

fireflies and poofing. *hugs* seain!

1:25 am

grannyrose

cooee and g'day

1:26 am

sprite

lol there she is. Hi and bye, sweetie. Big hugs.

1:26 am

grannyrose

laptop had a gazillion updates and wouldn't allow me on.

1:26 am

sprite

so irritating when that happens.

1:27 am

grannyrose

if you're in a hurry to go, i'll catch you later.

5:43 am

Christa

Good Morning

6:31 am

MollyL

You have to laugh at a grid that has ho5 and po4 in it.
: D

6:51 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :)

6:55 am

Scrabbler

Hi Crossy. I just turned my furnace on. Earliest day ever.

6:56 am

swmbo

Good morning form the east coast of Canada

6:56 am

Scrabbler

How cold is it there, swmbo? 40F here.

6:58 am

swmbo

Currently 16C which is 61F. 40F is a bit chilly I admit. Where are you?

6:59 am

Scrabbler

Southeast of Buffalo.

7:00 am

swmbo

ah. Well, I think the worst of the summer heat is over for us here in NS. Still have some bad fires burning though, so rain, rain, rain would be nice. It rained overnight, but not much.

7:01 am

Scrabbler

We are on day 2 of 5 sunny, but not hot, days. I will take the sun.

7:02 am

swmbo

We have had a summer with almost no rain, unusual for us. Everything is bone dry.

7:02 am

Scrabbler

Same here. Lawns are yellow-brown.

7:03 am

swmbo

A sign of things to come I fear.

7:04 am

Scrabbler

Yes. Climate change and COVID will cause the collapse of civilization.

7:06 am

Scrabbler

I wonder if any past grid has had sv6/27?

7:06 am

swmbo

Sadly, I agree. Climate change is already such a big factor. I used to worry that climate change would bring about our destruction via drowning as in the rise of the oceans. Now I think we may burn up, either literally or by desiccation.

7:06 am

Deeha

ty scrabbler I would never have tried that

7:07 am

Scrabbler

YW, Deeha.

7:07 am

swmbo

svelte

7:07 am

swmbo

oh, sorry!

7:07 am

Scrabbler

That's it, swmbo!

7:08 am

swmbo

One reason I seldom chat, I get my boxes mixed up LOL

7:08 am

Deeha

e've has a very dry summer but two days ago we had some heavy showers and more forecast for today

7:08 am

Scrabbler

This COVID surge is a bad one and will push many into Long COVID. By the end of 2028 it is predicted that 99% of people will have LC. Cumulative infections are bad.

7:08 am

crosshair

12c here and we have our first frost warning for Sudbury tonight.

7:08 am

Scrabbler

Me too, swmbo.

7:09 am

Scrabbler

Brr, Crossy.

7:10 am

crosshair

Lord save me from working another covid surge.

7:11 am

swmbo

We are not having a COVID surge here, but measles are a worry. My sister has CLL and is severely immunocomprimised so I am constantly on measles alert.

7:12 am

swmbo

And both COVID surge and measles worry SO unnecessary!

7:13 am

Scrabbler

Yes, I know about the measles outbreaks in Ontario.

7:15 am

swmbo

Not too bad right now in eastern Canada, but the problem is they spread so easily and so fast. we have a family wedding next weekend with family flying in from across Canada. Not sure she'll be able to risk it.

7:15 am

Scrabbler

I know a few Ontario pediatricians who are seeing many cases of measles.

7:15 am

swmbo

Alberta has a lot of measles too

7:16 am

crosshair

Since my job was an esential service, I worked all through year one of covid. Nothing like working at a big box store that averages 3000 per day, yet you do not know the vaccination status of any of them. I am old enough that I can remember measle parties, yet I have never had it.

7:16 am

Scrabbler

She shouldn't. A N99 mask helps but one-way masking is not as effective as rwo-way.

7:16 am

Scrabbler

Trust no one, Crossy.

7:17 am

swmbo

She probably won't Scrabbler, she is very careful as you can imagine.

7:18 am

crosshair

Too many anti-vaxxers still about. She must take great care.

7:19 am

Scrabbler

Good for her, swmbo.

7:21 am

swmbo

Fear makes you very careful. We are a large family and I have 4 siblings living in my town. We are careful with our interactions so as not put her in danger

7:22 am

Scrabbler

You are wise to protect her. We are in year 6 of this pandemic due to carelessness and selfishness.

7:23 am

MollyL

Don't forget laziness. People who just can't be bothered putting on a mask.

7:24 am

Scrabbler

Public health officials have failed to educate people about how dangerous this virus is. It is crucial to fear this virus.

7:25 am

crosshair

It burn my arse that as a food worker I get each and every shot as it becomes available, yet some people willingly go around trying to infect everyone just because they are young and healthy, and do not have at-risk conditions, so they do not vaccinate.

7:25 am

swmbo

Scrabbler you are singing to the choir. I am a retired nurse who came out or retirement in 2021 to help with mass immunization. I have seen he gamut of vaccine information/misinformation/stupidity and fear. It is a sad time when we believe people with no education or direct knowledge over people who make it their life work to protect us.

7:25 am

Scrabbler

There are too many pseudoscience influencers. RFK, Jr is one.

7:27 am

Scrabbler

I am a doc and I retired early, almost 2 years ago, when colleagues voted to end the mask mandate in our office. I couldn't stay there.

7:28 am

swmbo

RFK jr fried his brain long ago and now has the power of life and death decisions over millions. Unconscionable. I knew you were a doc Scrabbler and I don't blame you a bit. We do what we can as professionals but that doesn't mean we necessarily risk our lives to do it.

7:28 am

crosshair

We live in a under-serviced area as fars as doctors go, so the ones we have work far oast retirement age, though new blood is finally starting to choose to practice here.

7:29 am

crosshair

Past*

7:29 am

swmbo

Crossy our system is also experiencing low doctor/ health professional providers.

7:30 am

crosshair

Our eye speciallist worked until he was 77years of age.

7:30 am

Scrabbler

Without the backing of PH, educating people on the dangers of SARS-2, what I say seems unbelievable. As you know, SARS-2 damages the brain, causes blood clots, damages the heart, and causes cancer...

7:32 am

Scrabbler

About 1/3 of health care providers have Long COVID and can no longer work.

7:32 am

crosshair

I do not blame you for retiring early, Scrabby.

7:32 am

swmbo

I know Scrabbler. and sometimes I shudder to think what will happen when another COVID comes along. No way will people quarantine, or follow vaccine quidelines or most precautions.

7:32 am

crosshair

My brothers wife also retired early after several burout episodes.

7:32 am

crosshair

Burnout*

7:32 am

MollyL

Only one of my doctors still has a "you must wear a mask in this office" rule.

7:33 am

Scrabbler

If bird flu mutates a just a bit we will have another pandemic. COVID causes immunosuppression so mortality will be high.

7:34 am

swmbo

Well, enough of this doomsday talk this morning, although I have enjoyed chatting with you! Off t6o shop for groceries and drop in to visit my sister and give her her neupogen shot haha. I may be retied but I am still a nurse.

7:34 am

crosshair

Fortunately this years dhot--like orevious ones will be available at pharmacies as well as popup clinics and doctors offices at no cost.

7:35 am

crosshair

Shot*

7:35 am

swmbo

Yes Crossy, I am all vacced up too.

7:36 am

crosshair

I have too many compromised loved ones(including myself) to

7:36 am

crosshair

Miss a sht

7:36 am

crosshair

Shot

7:36 am

frogface

shot is very evasive today

7:36 am

Scrabbler

Bye swmbo. Be safe.

7:37 am

swmbo

you too!

7:37 am

crosshair

My typing skills are evasive today. :)

7:37 am

frogface

mine are most days cross

7:37 am

Scrabbler

Crossy, you make us decipher your messages. It's fun.

7:37 am

crosshair

Lol

7:38 am

crosshair

A puzzle within a puzzle. :)

7:38 am

Scrabbler

I get to be a codebreaker.

7:38 am

Scrabbler

nave

7:39 am

Scrabbler

Free clue. No deciphering required.

7:39 am

crosshair

..wrapped up in an enigma, and tied up with a conundrom.

7:39 am

crosshair

I like your clues better, scrabby. :)

7:39 am

Scrabbler

There's nothing cryptic about my clues.

7:41 am

crosshair

I do not think we have had the sv word in a grid in a very long time.

7:42 am

Scrabbler

I don't recall ever seeing it.

7:43 am

Scrabbler

84 left and I am done. My rabbits need clean litter boxes.

7:43 am

crosshair

Tc, scrabby. Have a great day.

7:44 am

crosshair

I am trying to convince Dr. G to make us a 10x10 weekly grid with 1000-1500 words. :)

7:47 am

Scrabbler

Whoa, Crossy.

7:47 am

crosshair

Works out to 150-200 words per day

7:49 am

crosshair

Would certainly refreshen Babble!

7:51 am

crosshair

If you finish the daily in an hour you can just pop over to the weekly. I think it would work very well.

7:55 am

crosshair

Either that or this place will slowly empty out as us old farts move onwards.

7:57 am

crosshair

It is doubtful that we average more than two or three new players per year at the moment.

7:59 am

rastapopolous

author or "treasure of the sierra madre" is in here lol.

7:59 am

crosshair

Cool. :)

8:01 am

periwinkle

hi all. help with wa7/8 please

8:04 am

rastapopolous

little wa4s.

8:05 am

periwinkle

ty should have seen them. had the base word

8:07 am

crosshair

Ty for the wa 4/7/8

8:08 am

hurshy

good morning

8:08 am

periwinkle

hi hursh

8:08 am

crosshair

Morning, Hurshy. :)

8:08 am

hurshy

oh crossy why are you talking about such a depressing thing

8:09 am

crosshair

A weekly grid? I think it would be a bit of une.

8:09 am

crosshair

Fun

8:11 am

crosshair

Would keep ruru busy since he finds the dailies too easy. :)

8:16 am

hurshy

no not that, the thing about how babble will slowly die

8:21 am

hurshy

why do i get such a mental block trying to find the last word from a tile

8:26 am

hurshy

sometimes more of course but at least one

8:46 am

rururocks

i have that same problem most days hursh

8:46 am

hurshy

that's what i don't get about the super fast finishers

8:46 am

hurshy

they don't seem to have that problem

8:47 am

phaeton

you only have their word that they have finished.

8:48 am

hurshy

well i know sprite is for real

8:49 am

hurshy

phantom: leopard

8:50 am

hurshy

right col grey, woohoo!

9:05 am

rururocks

chuggaboom was the fastest of all time

9:06 am

hurshy

what about dart

9:07 am

rururocks

dart is super fast chuggaboom was ten times faster

9:07 am

rururocks

he'd bang out a 200 word grid in minutes

9:07 am

hurshy

i do not know if i ever met this chuggaboom

9:08 am

rururocks

he finished one grid in 3 minutes leading Nan to accuse him of cheating

9:10 am

hurshy

idk why but i've never been one to care much about cheating, unless, you know, i was the teacher and it was my job to care

9:11 am

hurshy

when i was a student i didn't really feel anything about the idea of other students cheating

9:11 am

hurshy

someone else cheating didn't stop me from getting 100 on the test honestly, so, i just didn't care

9:12 am

rururocks

i got graded on a curve so it would have affected me

9:12 am

rururocks

I was never a good student either

9:12 am

hurshy

we had one teacher who liked to curve but

9:13 am

hurshy

he liked to have "a chunk" of people getting an A

9:13 am

hurshy

which meant my grades ended up being ridiculous things like in the 120s and 130s

9:13 am

hurshy

that was chemistry, 10th grade

9:13 am

hurshy

and *i* didn't feel like i really understood it well so i can't imagine how everyone else felt!

9:14 am

rururocks

I got mostly B's in high school and had more fun in college and got A's all the time. IT was more stimulating to me I guess

9:15 am

hurshy

the thing about chemistry was there were too many exceptions. i liked the math of balancing equations for chemical reactions, but then when i would do one and think it made sense, then the teacher would be like, well, yeah, you'd think that it would be like that, but actually, with that chemical, it doesn't do that

9:15 am

hurshy

and i was like well how do you people get this secret library memorized of all the exceptions

9:18 am

hurshy

4-4-3

9:18 am

hurshy

ooh got one of the fours, top row grey!

9:21 am

hurshy

name that proper noun! Geordi LaForge and Kunta Kinte and host of Reading Rainbow

9:23 am

rururocks

finished

9:24 am

rururocks

<---keeps the pressure on Dart :D

9:24 am

hurshy

well then you have had less mental blockage than i, lol

9:24 am

hurshy

8 left here

9:24 am

phaeton

7

9:26 am

hurshy

got another one.
i need 2 each P and V, and one each K, L, S

9:26 am

MollyL

As obsessed as Ru is with overtaking Dart, I bet Dart never gives a thought to Ru : D

9:27 am

MollyL

The answer is...Levar

9:27 am

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!

9:27 am

phaeton

fw

9:27 am

MollyL

Not many people your age know Roots

9:28 am

hurshy

i never actually watched the whole thing, but i'm aware of it

9:28 am

hurshy

heck, i'm aware of a lot of things that i've never seen or heard

9:29 am

hurshy

one time in college some friends and i were playing "Taboo", and my friend gave the clue "Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be _____" and i blurted out "cowboys!" and i had NO idea how i knew that. never heard the actual song but must have heard the phrase at some point and there it stayed in my brain, awaiting that moment

9:30 am

hurshy

and none of our other friends knew it at all, they were like what the heck is that

9:30 am

rururocks

oh you can bet dart pays attention to it. otherwise I'd be past him

9:30 am

hurshy

lol ruru

9:31 am

hurshy

dart may be competing against himself rather than you

9:31 am

MollyL

It probably helps that you have an eidetic memory

9:31 am

hurshy

only semi-eidetic

9:31 am

hurshy

not truly eidetic

9:31 am

rururocks

I have a photographic memory of wine and phone numbers

9:31 am

hurshy

i don't remember everything i've seen like that guy on Suits. just, a fair amount.

9:31 am

MollyL

You only remember part of what you have seen and heard?

9:32 am

hurshy

basically, yeah. it's just a bigger part than most people i guess.

9:34 am

MollyL

Well we know the entire script of The Princess Bride is in the yes column

9:34 am

MollyL

Ru is so happy about that

9:34 am

hurshy

most of it, anyway, lol

9:34 am

MollyL

Now he will make an Anne Hathaway comment

9:35 am

rururocks

ah you beat me to it molly :D

9:35 am

hurshy

but then, i put unusual time into that one. i once sat in front of the tv for three days going through it slowly so i could make a typed copy of the script myself (because, you know, this was before you could find such things easily on the internet)

9:35 am

MollyL

That is a little odd

9:36 am

hurshy

i should probably do that again now because i don't still have that file. that was my old pre-windows laptop which stupidly got destroyed when i packed it in a backpack with a bottle of laundry detergent. those are the sorts of things that make me wonder how i can be so smart yet so dumb.

9:37 am

hurshy

sod it, i'm getting the list, i cannot see these last 7

9:39 am

hurshy

ok first one i just thought i had put in but guess i must have mistyped

9:41 am

hurshy

ok done

10:33 am

crosshair

I have known and worked with a few very smart people, and in many cases their bug brains tend to have a very narrow focus. I knew one fella who used to design jets for a living, but he had no idea how to cook or d

10:33 am

crosshair

..or do laundry

10:34 am

crosshair

Big brains*

10:40 am

MollyL

Book smart, no walkin' around sense. That is my oldest.

10:53 am

hurshy

well luckily i can manage to cook and do laundry. but then people have traditionally expected those skills less from men

10:54 am

hurshy

speaking of laundry, time to do that

11:45 am

MollyL

Which is dumb. Men have just as much need to eat and have clean clothes as women

12:17 pm

cybernan

good morning/afternoon everyone :)

12:18 pm

momof5

FW! Last two words: no6 & no7, not related other than the prefix

12:27 pm

cybernan

ty mom5

12:30 pm

momof5

Yw

12:33 pm

mkg

Hi all. Clue for the 8 please. Ty.

12:34 pm

cybernan

a normal word to do with water

12:36 pm

momof5

Tiny ocean ripple, pl

12:38 pm

mkg

I have the up and down word, wa. But dont have anything else. Ty for clues.

12:41 pm

mkg

Got the 8. Great clue. Ty. Who would guess this is a real word!

1:12 pm

cybernan

still missing most of the 7's - not really seeing anything

1:12 pm

cybernan

there has to be more than one re 7 I'm thinking

1:28 pm

MollyL

Only one

1:37 pm

cybernan

ok - ty

2:03 pm

cybernan

first un 6 please?

2:03 pm

BzznBea

closed

2:04 pm

cybernan

ty bea - must have made a typo when I tried that

2:09 pm

cybernan

done - hagd everyone :)

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