Babble: Archived Puzzle for Tuesday, March 31, 2026

12:00 am

Rainiqui

Hi everyone

12:00 am

MetFan

Howdy all

12:00 am

Robespierre

Hello!

12:00 am

ursh

hello all

12:04 am

dofith

G'day folks

12:05 am

cybernan

too big to start tonight -- back tomorrow afternoon

12:11 am

justafreep

my icon is in the grid!

12:12 am

Gillie

fe7

12:16 am

Gillie

ar8

12:19 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:19 am

MetFan

Thanks Lickety

12:19 am

Gillie

Hard to believe there are another 11 7's

12:22 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs

12:53 am

mkg

i have no 7s yet.

7:24 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :)

7:27 am

Scrabbler

Hi Crossy.

7:48 am

EvaNadine

mornin Crossy.
hello Dr Scrabs!

7:51 am

EvaNadine

lila

7:51 am

EvaNadine

oopies.

8:08 am

Atalante

catio is clearly a word

8:14 am

saanichcat

I tried that one too

8:17 am

Norma

T

8:18 am

Scrabbler

I am back after a texting session.

8:19 am

bichon

Hi Scrabs et al

8:19 am

periwinkle

Hello all

8:19 am

Scrabbler

Hi Peri

8:24 am

periwinkle

phantom aromatic

8:29 am

Scrabbler

I thought I had typed in 70-80 words. Nope, 44.

8:30 am

periwinkle

this is an interesting grid. usuallly with one this size I an find lots of words early on

8:33 am

periwinkle

nbt/nbs bbl

8:59 am

crosshair

Does the ar8 add to the ar 7/32?

9:01 am

mkg

any clues for the ar 7 welcome. ty.

9:02 am

phaeton

ar8 comes after the metal protection

9:03 am

phaeton

ar7/32x2

9:03 am

mkg

metal protection? hmm. ty.

9:04 am

crosshair

Ty for the ar 8, phae. :)

9:04 am

mkg

got the 8. ty

9:04 am

phaeton

yw...now clue it because I don't have it :)

9:06 am

Scrabbler

I found ar7 but not ar8 yet

9:06 am

crosshair

Appendage+ vowel+ri 4/4

9:06 am

mkg

ok: so it comes from that same base of the ar 5/12. in the old days warriors had ar*** that consisted of helmets and shields. this was it. now add other endings to it........this ending is not anything i have seen before.

9:07 am

Scrabbler

TY, Crossy.

9:07 am

crosshair

:)

9:07 am

Scrabbler

New word for me.

9:07 am

crosshair

For me as well.

9:07 am

crosshair

Still loking for the other ar7

9:09 am

mkg

i onlly have one of them so far too cross.

9:10 am

mkg

but i am done for now.

9:11 am

crosshair

Am already grinding here with only 68 words found. :/

9:24 am

Scrabbler

81 for me

9:31 am

moolingwa

219 for me

9:33 am

hokie carla

219 for me as well

9:33 am

moolingwa

morning hoke :)

9:33 am

Atalante

134 for me

9:33 am

hokie carla

but you're probably down to 103 by now

9:34 am

moolingwa

not even close, 186

9:35 am

Atalante

my geeky marine phantom today is octocoral

9:36 am

hokie carla

totally see that

9:36 am

moolingwa

found an 8 at least

9:38 am

hokie carla

the F seems troublesome

9:38 am

Atalante

and the T and the M

9:38 am

moolingwa

well, seems like a sticky board in general

9:39 am

hokie carla

yeah

9:42 am

moolingwa

and agree with Ata on the M

9:42 am

hokie carla

just started it but kinda stalled after 6

9:43 am

hokie carla

there are too many i's

9:43 am

hokie carla

hard to see anything

9:43 am

moolingwa

ironic

9:43 am

moolingwa

too many "i's" so I can't see

9:43 am

hokie carla

exactly

9:44 am

moolingwa

so many 4s

9:44 am

hokie carla

you would think militia would be in there somewhere

9:45 am

moolingwa

indeed

9:45 am

Atalante

and location

9:45 am

moolingwa

and million

9:45 am

hokie carla

well, found 15 M's so moving on

9:46 am

moolingwa

yeah, I only got to 21 on my first pass

9:46 am

moolingwa

having fun with the T now

9:46 am

moolingwa

I think the challenge is, there's lots of individual words, rather than groups of them

9:47 am

saanichcat

here is a hint ma7/36 aussie song, Waltzing Ma

9:47 am

saanichcat

here is a hint ma7/36 aussie song, Waltzing Ma

9:47 am

hokie carla

thanks

9:48 am

saanichcat

and another ma - spanish bull torturer

9:49 am

saanichcat

ma7 that is

9:49 am

saanichcat

bye for now

9:49 am

hokie carla

found a fish, ata. always reminds me of a jimmy buffet song

9:49 am

hokie carla

bye saan

9:55 am

moolingwa

well, first pass done and still 53 - 7OFOET

10:01 am

hokie carla

doing a rush job because I have an exercise class at 11:30. not getting HOET on first pass.

10:06 am

hokie carla

well, 77 left for later.

10:06 am

Scrabbler

Good work.

10:07 am

Atalante

a fish? ooo *looks*

10:08 am

72 Temple Owl

hi folks

10:51 am

hurshy

top row grey!

10:55 am

BzznBea

The A's are brutal today.

10:56 am

penquis

hello all...

10:56 am

BzznBea

Hi, pen.

10:57 am

penquis

heh, Bea...

10:57 am

penquis

sorry....was supposed to be hey, not heh....

11:06 am

hurshy

i always think a + ro4 (lion sound) should count

11:06 am

hurshy

the crowd was ar5 when she scored the goal at the last second...

11:07 am

penquis

me, too!...

11:10 am

hurshy

stretch phantom: armadillo

11:11 am

penquis

sometimes i just type a word that might be there and it is....very satisfying... ;o)

11:11 am

hurshy

yes :)

11:11 am

hurshy

<--- my angel kitten is in the grid!

11:12 am

penquis

cool...

11:12 am

hurshy

her name is Rilla, short for Marilla

11:12 am

penquis

cute name...

11:12 am

hurshy

she is named for Anne Shirley Blythe's youngest daughter

11:13 am

penquis

ah, ok....

11:13 am

hurshy

:)

11:14 am

hurshy

Rilla Blythe's full name being Bertha Marilla Blythe, named after Anne's birth mother and adoptive mother

11:14 am

hurshy

every one of Anne's kids is named after people in Anne's life/family, not a single one from Gilbert's side. it's kinda funny.

11:15 am

penquis

i don't know how you remember all these things....

11:15 am

hurshy

well i've read the books quite a lot of times

11:15 am

penquis

i can't reread....i get distracted...

11:15 am

hurshy

to me the characters are like friends, and i want to visit them

11:16 am

penquis

that's sweet...

11:16 am

hurshy

and if no new books are coming out because the author is gone the only option is to re-read :)

11:17 am

penquis

i suppose...

11:17 am

penquis

too many Os and Is in this one...

11:18 am

BzznBea

I finally greyed the A's.

11:18 am

penquis

too many of those, too.... ;o)

11:18 am

Guernseygirl 2

Hurshy, I’m with hou on the Anne books, and also want to visit PEH

11:24 am

penquis

PEH?

11:24 am

Guernseygirl 2

Prince Edward Island. PEI typo

11:25 am

penquis

ah, ok....i

11:26 am

hurshy

and are you really from Guernsey?? do you still live there?

11:32 am

Guernseygirl 2

Yes, from Guernsey but now living near Birmingham. Still go back a lot.

11:32 am

hurshy

cool

11:32 am

hurshy

i liked the literary and potato peel pie society

11:32 am

Atalante

guernsey is the setting for some of my favourite childhood books

11:33 am

hurshy

nice

11:34 am

Guernseygirl 2

Not very true to Guernsey but a good story. The author had never been

11:35 am

hurshy

well that's silly. if i were going to write about a place i would want to go there first

11:35 am

Guernseygirl 2

Which books were those, atalante?

11:36 am

Guernseygirl 2

I think she got stuck at Gatwick because of fog, but not sure if that’s true.

11:36 am

Atalante

Elinor Brent-Dyer - some of the chalet school / most of the La Rochelle series

11:37 am

Atalante

now I want gache

11:37 am

Guernseygirl 2

Oh yes, I’d forgotten about those. I must try and find them

11:37 am

Guernseygirl 2

Go to the kiosk at Portelet for a coffee and gache.

11:38 am

hurshy

what is gache

11:38 am

Guernseygirl 2

It’s a sort of currant bread. Very nice

11:38 am

Atalante

its deeeelicious

11:39 am

Guernseygirl 2

2 other local dishes are bean jar and ormers.

11:39 am

hurshy

pb! lol

11:40 am

Guernseygirl 2

Oh no. Is it still stocked with coffee and cake?

11:41 am

hurshy

i'm sure

11:42 am

penquis

maybe even gache... ;o)

11:42 am

hurshy

gosh bea thought the As were bad but how about the Ms

11:43 am

Guernseygirl 2

I might be there for quite some time. Atalante, have you been to Guernsey often?

11:43 am

Atalante

only really on the way to and from Sark!

11:43 am

Guernseygirl 2

Oh, Sark! My favourite island

11:44 am

Atalante

I have friends there, and have been diving there

11:44 am

hurshy

(ata does a lot of diving bc she's a marine biologist)

11:45 am

Guernseygirl 2

Great. Been in the guliot caves? My brother was a zoologist/ ecologist. You might have come across him.

11:46 am

Atalante

just about to say the Guiliot caves are amazing

11:47 am

Guernseygirl 2

My mother had a cottage in Sark when I was young. We had great times there.

11:48 am

Atalante

I love Sark. its just gorgeous. Hurshy, you must remember Lizsark?

11:48 am

hurshy

yes

11:49 am

Atalante

she moved away from Sark, but her ex-husband still lives there. But he's the one from Sark originally

11:49 am

hurshy

i wish i were from somewhere cool

11:49 am

hurshy

(guernsey girl, my flag is aspirational/admirational only, i'm really in the US)

11:51 am

Guernseygirl 2

Up until recent events in the US, I thought the US was cool.

11:52 am

hurshy

nah, we were always terrible to other countries, trump is just more inclined to flaunt it

11:52 am

hurshy

others tried to hide it

11:53 am

hurshy

name that proper noun! the creature who speaks for the trees

11:53 am

Guernseygirl 2

What part of the US are you from?

11:53 am

penquis

lorax

11:53 am

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!

11:53 am

hurshy

i'm from new england

11:53 am

penquis

Maine here....

11:54 am

hurshy

you can tell with pen from the lobster :D

11:55 am

Guernseygirl 2

Never been to New England, but have been to NY and parts of the midwest. Would love to see more of the States.

11:55 am

hurshy

utah is gorgeous

11:55 am

hurshy

i didn't even know that for most of my life but then i drove through and found out

11:56 am

hurshy

and driving the pacific coast highway is also an excellent thing

11:56 am

hurshy

new england, come in the fall for the foliage :)

11:57 am

Guernseygirl 2

Id like to go to the parts of the South West where Georgia O’ Keeffe painted and definitely to Nes England. Not sure if I’ll ever going to be able to do that now.

11:57 am

hurshy

i keep wanting to make -oid words

11:57 am

Guernseygirl 2

Why isn’t emory a word?

11:58 am

hurshy

because emery is an emery board, Emory is a university

11:58 am

Guernseygirl 2

Oh, of course. Emery isn’t there either.

11:58 am

hurshy

right

11:59 am

hurshy

i can't believe doula doesn't count

12:00 pm

Guernseygirl 2

Nice chat. Got to go now.

12:00 pm

hurshy

ttfn GG!

12:00 pm

Guernseygirl 2

Bye

12:01 pm

hurshy

name that proper noun! dude whose portrait aged in his stead

12:02 pm

bichon

dorian

12:02 pm

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!

12:03 pm

hurshy

phantoms: million, cotillion

12:05 pm

Atalante

and trillion

12:05 pm

hurshy

yes, that too

12:07 pm

Atalante

and marillion

12:07 pm

hurshy

sometimes rilly is silly and i call her my silmaril

12:07 pm

hurshy

:D

12:14 pm

Atalante

awwwwww :)

12:16 pm

hurshy

one more L to grey the left col

12:16 pm

hurshy

oh!

12:17 pm

hurshy

it's my favorite smelling flower

12:18 pm

Atalante

oh nice!

12:19 pm

Atalante

mine is heliotrope

12:20 pm

hurshy

i don't know if i have ever smelled those

12:20 pm

hurshy

says they are toxic to dogs, cats, and humans

12:20 pm

hurshy

yikes

12:22 pm

hurshy

do you have both 8s? i just have ar8

12:22 pm

penquis

i just peeked....the other is Mi....

12:23 pm

hurshy

well that's good i guess, M is what i need the most of

12:25 pm

Atalante

they smell of cherry pie, its heliotrope

12:25 pm

penquis

found it....mi 8/55....new word for me...

12:25 pm

hurshy

clue?

12:25 pm

penquis

has a lot of letters similar to a word relating to a country's armies and such...

12:26 pm

hurshy

ah ty

12:26 pm

hurshy

can alt sp it for 7 also, i see

12:26 pm

Atalante

phantom millinery

12:28 pm

penquis

yes...

12:28 pm

hurshy

phantom: ar5tic

12:30 pm

hurshy

post-lunch lethargy is kicking in

12:48 pm

penquis

taking a break...bye all...

12:50 pm

periwinkle

this is a tough grid for me

12:51 pm

periwinkle

looking for the mi8 saw the clue but not seeing it

12:51 pm

sajarn

think of an army of hat makers....;)

12:53 pm

periwinkle

hm

12:53 pm

periwinkle

found an mi7/40

12:54 pm

periwinkle

got the mi8 ty

12:56 pm

sajarn

yvw--I knew you'd get there!

12:56 pm

periwinkle

glorious day here degrees

12:56 pm

periwinkle

79 degrees

1:10 pm

hokie carla

75 and beautiful here

1:27 pm

hurshy

phantom: matrix

1:28 pm

hurshy

i've reached the "a word! i found a word!" stage of the grid

1:33 pm

Gillie

rarely has a grid had so many words ending in "ia"

1:42 pm

Shirlockc

stats for the lone i in the left column pls?

1:42 pm

Shirlockc

and nm, think it and i got it

2:05 pm

Atalante

how many left smurshy?

2:32 pm

hurshy

sorry i was working

2:32 pm

hurshy

24 left at the mo

2:32 pm

hokie carla

lol, smurshy

2:33 pm

hurshy

yes ata calls me hurshy smurshy :D

2:34 pm

hokie carla

I think I should just type things I think might be here. worked for my last N. just too many directions.

2:34 pm

hurshy

idk i have been doing that but without much luck

2:35 pm

hokie carla

doesn't always work. see: feral

2:35 pm

hurshy

4 Ms, particularly intractable. well, 6 A, but they look less bad bc it's 2 per A

2:35 pm

hokie carla

any guess for my F? and I hve that 5.

2:36 pm

hurshy

do you have the fe7 that is a music symbol

2:37 pm

hurshy

it's like a sideways parenthesis with a dot underneath it

2:37 pm

hokie carla

I have an fe7 but it's been a long time since I read music and the one I have is bone related

2:37 pm

hurshy

yes no this is a second one, same points tho

2:37 pm

hurshy

music vocab may be the only thing i'm grateful for about my 2 years of piano lessons lol

2:37 pm

hurshy

i do love knowing words

2:38 pm

hurshy

it comes before Enrico

2:38 pm

hurshy

and ends like my short nickname for the babbler who calls me smurshy

2:38 pm

hokie carla

googled and then got to read through all of them in wiki

2:39 pm

hokie carla

definitely familiar with that symbol from my 5th-12th grade flute playing, but didn't remember the name.

2:40 pm

hokie carla

ok, top row gray at least

2:40 pm

hurshy

Bertie Wooster: "the two big Fs stand for Freddie Flowerdew. i'm not sure what the little fs mean."
Jeeves: "possibly they would indicate fortissimo, sir."

2:41 pm

hurshy

"possibly, Jeeves, possibly."

2:41 pm

hokie carla

just typed in the condiment - knew all the letters were there

2:41 pm

hurshy

:)

2:41 pm

hokie carla

and made up a weird a5

2:41 pm

hurshy

clue it?

2:42 pm

hokie carla

looks a lot like al5/10 regular word but diff last letter and 5/12

2:43 pm

hurshy

thanks!!

2:43 pm

hokie carla

sure

2:44 pm

hurshy

3-6-7-6

2:44 pm

hurshy

blech

2:44 pm

hurshy

guess i'll list

2:44 pm

hokie carla

stat for the U? P&TY

2:44 pm

hokie carla

nm

2:44 pm

hokie carla

just have to ask and it pops out

2:44 pm

hurshy

yep

2:44 pm

hokie carla

and there's my left L. first column gray!

2:45 pm

hurshy

woot woot

2:45 pm

hokie carla

very strong phantom orator

2:47 pm

hurshy

well most of my As were weird so that's good

2:47 pm

hokie carla

good to know

2:48 pm

hokie carla

found some more m's, still 6 left

2:48 pm

hokie carla

oh 5

2:51 pm

hokie carla

well, leaving 57 for later. TTFN.

2:51 pm

hurshy

ttfn

2:55 pm

hurshy

phew. sheesh, definitely a good number of weird ones today.

3:34 pm

godthaab

Name that proper noun: crooner!

3:53 pm

BzznBea

Mel Torme.

3:57 pm

scubadiver

Some anatomy terms,,,

4:03 pm

BzznBea

always

4:04 pm

ursh

many "use it in a sentence" words today

4:42 pm

cybernan

good afternoon everyone

5:19 pm

mich_pdx

hi Nan, hi all

5:21 pm

ch1212

Hi Nan, how did you change your flag to Canadian?

5:22 pm

ch1212

(or anyone else who changed their flag icon)

5:31 pm

ch1212

Anyone?

5:50 pm

penquis

she is canadian...

6:00 pm

sajarn

phantom: catamaran

6:01 pm

MollyL

To change your flag...go to MY ACCOUNT and select the appropriate country

6:01 pm

Kamanjah

Change United States to whatever country's flag you want.

6:26 pm

moolingwa

rehi

6:26 pm

penquis

hi mool...

6:27 pm

moolingwa

hey pen, happy Tuesday

6:27 pm

penquis

same to you...

6:33 pm

moolingwa

tx

6:49 pm

moolingwa

oh, found my 2nd 8

6:49 pm

hokie carla

rehi

6:51 pm

penquis

carla!

6:51 pm

hokie carla

ha, just found a very regular word 75% the same as a babblet I found on first pass.

6:51 pm

hokie carla

pen!

6:52 pm

penquis

just finished...had to look up some weird words....

6:52 pm

hokie carla

yeah, hurshy said there were a bunch.

6:52 pm

hokie carla

still 50 left.

6:53 pm

hokie carla

17-15-10-6-2

6:53 pm

penquis

i listed around 50...didn't want to spend all evening searching for weird words...

6:54 pm

hokie carla

congrats

6:54 pm

penquis

ty....need anything before i go?

6:54 pm

hokie carla

what is my missing i on the 2nd row?

6:55 pm

moolingwa

7-11-10-8

6:55 pm

penquis

do you have il 4?

6:55 pm

hokie carla

I have one from the upper i

6:55 pm

hokie carla

but I have io4 from 3rd row

6:55 pm

penquis

i think it is in 5/12....

6:56 pm

penquis

no...that is from the top....

6:56 pm

moolingwa

il 4 on the second row

6:56 pm

hokie carla

no N next to that i

6:56 pm

penquis

there is il 4 and 5...

6:56 pm

hokie carla

okay, I do not have a 5

6:56 pm

moolingwa

il5 is off the third row

6:57 pm

hokie carla

gracias both

6:57 pm

penquis

yw...

7:02 pm

hokie carla

phantom colloid

7:02 pm

Christa

My high school is in the grid - ORME

7:03 pm

hokie carla

it made me think of Ormewood in Will Trent

7:05 pm

hokie carla

man I still have a lot of words A2 O2 M5 R5 A5 L5 O T8 D3 A3 C7

7:06 pm

moolingwa

yeah, I'm still at 6OFOET

7:06 pm

moolingwa

the M has 6 on it, the next highest I have is A, L D and C with 4

7:07 pm

hokie carla

found a T6 so I've got that going for me

7:08 pm

hokie carla

found an amphibian :D

7:08 pm

moolingwa

trific

7:08 pm

hokie carla

but I had a ton of babblets

7:15 pm

moolingwa

I found a word

7:18 pm

hokie carla

awesomesauce

7:18 pm

hokie carla

I'm not sure I'm looking

7:19 pm

moolingwa

2 more words

7:19 pm

hokie carla

oh, found an A on the bottom. and yes, it was normal.

7:19 pm

moolingwa

yeah, I found 2 C's

7:20 pm

hokie carla

cool cool

7:20 pm

hokie carla

oh, I found 1 c

7:21 pm

moolingwa

crazy

7:32 pm

penquis

got distracted....heading out...goodnight all...

7:34 pm

moolingwa

33 left here - 6-9-10-8

7:34 pm

moolingwa

Lot of longer words left

7:37 pm

hokie carla

I still have 14 4's I could look for

7:37 pm

moolingwa

down to three 4s :)

7:38 pm

moolingwa

first column greyed

7:38 pm

hokie carla

I have first col and first row gray

7:38 pm

moolingwa

I need 2 Fs

7:39 pm

hokie carla

"only" need 5 A's for last col

7:40 pm

hokie carla

only one of the f's I was not familiar with

7:46 pm

moolingwa

5OFOET

7:56 pm

scubadiver

I have not played for quite some time, and there are new phrases here being used for hints. So, what is FOET? And also PHANTOM?

7:58 pm

hokie carla

phantom is something you really see in the grid but isn't actually there

7:58 pm

hokie carla

HOET is half on every tile

7:59 pm

hokie carla

numberOFOET is like 5 or fewer on every tile

7:59 pm

hokie carla

5 being the one moo just used

8:02 pm

scubadiver

Thanks. Is the 5 (or other number) referring to the number of points on a tile?

8:02 pm

hokie carla

and then there's the hurshian code for how many words you have left. I'm currently at 12-9-9-6-2, which refers to the word lengths. like I have 12 4 letter words left, 9 5 letters, etc

8:04 pm

hokie carla

no the number is how many left on a tile, for example, there are 30 M's here. If he is saying 5OFOET, that means he has no more than 5 M's left.

8:06 pm

scubadiver

OK.

8:19 pm

hokie carla

have made it to 29 left! still haven't seen an 8.

8:52 pm

moolingwa

27 left, yeah the 2 eights are not regular words, I just kind of tried things I thought were words

9:11 pm

gemini_J13

a

9:42 pm

72 Temple Owl

2nf ma7/32 pls?

11:29 pm

cybernan

ma 7 arts? judo, etc

11:30 pm

cybernan

ps - I like my fish baked with a little dill and lemon slices to season

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