12:00 am
justafreep
st8 (woot!) and happy flip
12:02 am
ursh
sp 7 and good morning
12:12 am
Rainiqui
nbt, nbs
12:13 am
mkg
No such word as st 8. Not proper english. Period.
12:14 am
justafreep
According to Merriam Webster - both superlatives "are real words in good standing."
12:15 am
hokie carla
but maxed is not allowed
12:15 am
mkg
Bizarre dictionary
12:15 am
justafreep
I mean sp7 x 2
12:15 am
justafreep
And yeah, bizarre dictionary is fair
12:17 am
licketySplitAUS
Clues are up
12:18 am
justafreep
thanks, lickety
12:22 am
hokie carla
hu7 not allowed
12:22 am
mkg
Yes carla. Very weird.
12:27 am
hokie carla
HOET
12:45 am
hokie carla
well, 32 left for me. good night!
6:38 am
aslindy
I updated my profile pic to the dogs outside. I wonder how long it will take to actually show up?
6:44 am
sukee
I just see a blank picture
6:46 am
aslindy
I've changed it 3 different ways. I see the blank, too. why is it so difficult
6:53 am
aslindy
ok, I resized the image and uploaded it again. I can see it now.
6:53 am
sukee
I see it now
6:53 am
aslindy
oh good. thanks!
6:54 am
aslindy
thank you. Lavender looks so goofy with her tongue hanging out!
8:46 am
mael
phantom: spermicide
8:49 am
mael
damn that last missing E
8:50 am
mael
how is everyone?
8:50 am
rururocks
sounds like spermicide is hard to come by
8:50 am
welki
'morning, everyone - beautiful day here
8:51 am
rururocks
it's looking good here too
8:51 am
rururocks
Love spring and early summer here
8:51 am
hokie carla
we got almost 3" of rain yesterday
8:52 am
welki
going to play golf today, it's opening day. i should actually say, going to pretend to play golf today; i really stink at it
8:52 am
hokie carla
😁 have fun at least
8:53 am
hokie carla
are you back in canada?
8:53 am
welki
fun and a couple of robax after :)
8:53 am
welki
yes, we got home mid february
8:53 am
welki
...and i keep seeing aphid in the grid
8:53 am
hokie carla
is robax a painkiller?
8:54 am
hokie carla
I keep seeing suprema
8:54 am
hokie carla
I mean supreme. because suprema really is there
8:54 am
welki
yep - and muscle relaxer (ibuprofen and methocarbamol)
8:55 am
hokie carla
I could use some of that sometimes for my neck
8:55 am
welki
neighbors are having a barbecue and fire afterwards
8:55 am
mael
hah, just found the te6/27
8:55 am
welki
i'll bring some down for you next season :D
8:56 am
hokie carla
<----quickly looked for tenrec (I know, not 27 pts)
8:56 am
mael
always look for tenrec! lol
8:56 am
rururocks
thanks mael
8:57 am
rururocks
it was getting tiresome trying to find that one
8:57 am
hokie carla
hmm. and that is obviously my missing T.
8:57 am
welki
i have the six, but not the seven
8:57 am
welki
oh wait, i misread - no seven
8:58 am
hokie carla
I have no T's left and can confirm no 7
8:59 am
hokie carla
now if someone would just blurt my missing L
9:02 am
rururocks
i know what it is hokie
9:02 am
mael
add a consonant to a hurt horse
9:03 am
hokie carla
well, thanks mael for being more helpful than ruru. 😜. will look.
9:03 am
rururocks
gimpy + acronym for dear husband
9:03 am
hokie carla
thanks both. funny ruru would use an acronym in a clue.
9:04 am
hokie carla
and is it just me or is that a dumb word?
9:04 am
hokie carla
and how did you all find that?
9:04 am
rururocks
with the points
9:04 am
hokie carla
ooh, just found my A on the bottom too to make that row gray.
9:04 am
mael
point total and tacking on random letters :)
9:07 am
hokie carla
phantom medium
9:07 am
BzznBea
hebrew letter similar to the greek
9:09 am
hokie carla
25 left - 7-6-7-5
9:09 am
BzznBea
change the last letter of that phantom, carla
9:10 am
hokie carla
yeah, already grayed the M, but thanks. normally I would not get that. 😜
9:11 am
MollyL
I used to think DH stood for dickhead. I think in some cases, it does.
9:12 am
marksdolly
good morning all!
9:13 am
hokie carla
hello dolly!
9:13 am
marksdolly
hi Hokie!
9:13 am
mael
hah I just found the hi7 too, good word
9:13 am
hokie carla
is that from the bottom because I cannot find another H there
9:13 am
rururocks
found my missing s
9:14 am
mael
I'm missing one H from the bottom too
9:14 am
hokie carla
I still need 4 s's because I am st6
9:14 am
welki
groovy, carla
9:14 am
mael
oh got it, it's a hu4 babblet
9:14 am
marksdolly
hi welk
9:14 am
hokie carla
think I have the hu4 babblet
9:15 am
hokie carla
I can't even believe enable knew hi7 in the early 2000s. thanks for the help, welki.
9:15 am
mael
the other two are hu5s, related
9:15 am
hokie carla
thanks, I swear I tried that. 4th row gray!
9:16 am
mael
I think modern hi7s were labeled with an older word :)
9:17 am
hokie carla
phantom remix
9:17 am
welki
was very different being a hi7 from one whose moniker ended with ie
9:17 am
hokie carla
ooh, found my R
9:18 am
BzznBea
i alwas thought hepcat was funny
9:18 am
hokie carla
me too
9:18 am
welki
*snaps fingers in a beatnik sort of way*
9:19 am
hokie carla
well done. down to 20 here. 6-5-5-4
9:21 am
hokie carla
18 now, just noticed the 6 c's I have left.
9:26 am
hokie carla
uhoh, just found a slur
9:29 am
hokie carla
finally found a c. but going back to other things for now. 15 left for later. TTFN.
10:23 am
hurshy
g'morning
10:24 am
hurshy
woohoo, got the 8!
10:28 am
hurshy
ooh man we are so close to having sp7ide
10:29 am
phaeton
clue for me6/27 pls
10:31 am
hokie carla
rehi - it's like between small and large but a diff last letter
10:31 am
hokie carla
you know when someone is giving you the finger, flipping the bird, etc., that's what they're using.
10:32 am
phaeton
ty carla
10:34 am
hurshy
see, you're so knowledgable!
10:34 am
hokie carla
well, I just took a stab earlier and it took
10:34 am
hokie carla
well done, phae
10:34 am
phaeton
ty ... hagd
10:37 am
hokie carla
ooh, found a word finally
10:40 am
hokie carla
and another - 4's ending in the same letter. one I knew and one I made up
10:41 am
hokie carla
ok, the made up one is so dumb
10:44 am
hokie carla
and there goes the 4's. 12 left - 0-4-5-3. freaking 6's.
10:45 am
hokie carla
SSS A P HH D CCCC
10:45 am
hokie carla
ooh, found a good c7
10:46 am
Sophie512
you'll get them! I just got here, found 53 and will probably poop out soon quite a bit to do here today
10:47 am
hokie carla
yeah, I need to get busy. got one roman shade finished and hung, now I hope I can duplicate the other without too much trouble.
10:51 am
periwinkle
hello all. help with either ch7 please
10:51 am
Sophie512
sorry don't have
10:51 am
hurshy
ch7 by the dozen
10:51 am
periwinkle
found the one in a book. still need the other please
10:52 am
periwinkle
ty got that one
10:52 am
periwinkle
not I did not. thank you hurshy
10:52 am
Sophie512
thanks for that one
10:53 am
hokie carla
there are 3 ch7 at least
10:55 am
hurshy
would you clue the one that we didn't say?
10:56 am
hokie carla
it's like a noun slang of something that doesn't cost much
10:57 am
Sophie512
and thank again
11:20 am
cherlyq
got an sp
11:21 am
cherlyq
sorry should be sp 7 36
11:30 am
Kaplan the Magne
One racial/ethnic slur.
11:30 am
Kaplan the Magne
t
11:30 am
Kaplan the Magne
midi
11:30 am
Kaplan the Magne
maid
11:30 am
Kaplan the Magne
medic
11:30 am
Kaplan the Magne
pedi
11:30 am
Kaplan the Magne
OH SORRY
11:31 am
Kaplan the Magne
It came up in the right place, but also in the cat- how did that happen that I could enter the word and still be in chat?
11:47 am
cherlyq
st8 things have happened Kaplan not sure
11:59 am
hokie carla
I believe I have reached the point of being incapable of seeing new words.
12:05 pm
moolingwa
I believe I've reached the point of starting this board
12:06 pm
hokie carla
got down to 11. 0-4-5-2
12:06 pm
moolingwa
I'm down to 149
64-48-28-8-1
12:07 pm
hokie carla
went to list, skipped 1st one. found 2nd one but never seen it before.
12:07 pm
moolingwa
oh, found the 8 at least
12:07 pm
hokie carla
yeah, was one of my first words
12:09 pm
hokie carla
okay, these are just ridiculous. I'm very glad I went to the list.
12:10 pm
hokie carla
oh, a bedbug
12:13 pm
moolingwa
okay, first quick pass done...40 to go
7-13-14-6
12:14 pm
moolingwa
5OFOET
12:14 pm
hokie carla
still 6 left here. found one PT that I know I entered.
12:16 pm
cherlyq
I have 57 left lol
12:16 pm
moolingwa
27 now :)
12:17 pm
hokie carla
finally one on the list that is a regular word I should have gotten.
12:19 pm
hokie carla
okay, 3 left that I have no idea. S A H
12:19 pm
moolingwa
almost epidemic
12:21 pm
hokie carla
did you play squaredle today? I've found today's and yesterday's the hardest yet.
12:21 pm
moolingwa
not yet
12:22 pm
hokie carla
and just amazing at the bee though I did make genius yesterday
12:22 pm
moolingwa
I kind of forgot about it yesterday, but almost finished it
12:22 pm
moolingwa
I missed one word yesterday: biff of all things
12:22 pm
moolingwa
just amazing so far today
12:23 pm
hokie carla
just looked up my A. ridic.
12:23 pm
moolingwa
20 to go
12:23 pm
moolingwa
2-5-8-5
12:24 pm
moolingwa
I have one a left, from the top
12:24 pm
hokie carla
yep, that's it
12:25 pm
hokie carla
you've prob seen it before but I hadn't
12:25 pm
hokie carla
ah geez, looked up my S, and it's a regular word
12:27 pm
hokie carla
got the H without looking it up. not a regular word but at least I've seen it before. so 2/11 of my last ones weren't ridiculous.
12:27 pm
moolingwa
I have 1 H left
12:30 pm
cybernan
there is a ch 6/27 following the foliage growing pet that I cannot find - any hints?
12:31 pm
hokie carla
add my country to the end
12:31 pm
hokie carla
one of the ridiculous foreign ones today
12:32 pm
cybernan
ty carla
12:34 pm
cybernan
I'm at the point where I've lost interest in looking up the defs.
12:39 pm
hokie carla
yeah, no need
1:03 pm
hurshy
phew, finally hit 90%
1:05 pm
moolingwa
I have 15 left, and am being distracted :)
1:09 pm
hokie carla
well you have to at least get to 11.
1:09 pm
cybernan
dh 5 and hi 6 - don't think I'm going to find them
1:09 pm
hokie carla
maybe 14, I think I got help on 3
1:10 pm
hurshy
dh5 rhymes with it's your du4 (not in grid) to help someone in an emergency
1:10 pm
hokie carla
dh5 looks like it would rhyme with your obligation to do something
1:10 pm
hokie carla
hi6 means winter
1:10 pm
hurshy
not even just rhyme, be a homophone of
1:12 pm
cybernan
found the dh, ty - only hi I word I know that means winter is hiver and that is french
1:12 pm
hurshy
pr7? (phantom: predict)
1:12 pm
hokie carla
so, you are saying a rhyme would be like booty, but this sounds exactly like it and a rhyme doesn't?
1:13 pm
hokie carla
it's an adj type word, nan.
1:13 pm
hurshy
yes, that is what i am saying, hokie
1:13 pm
hurshy
(of course that's assuming it's even pronounced the way we think it is...)
1:14 pm
hokie carla
ok, just wondering what the nuance was
1:14 pm
cybernan
are you asking for a pr 7 clue?
1:14 pm
cybernan
use the old fashioned telephone ahead of time
1:15 pm
hurshy
thank you!
1:15 pm
hokie carla
hi6 - hi + spelling of letter of the alphabet + mr. gore
1:15 pm
hokie carla
I didn't even see that, was wondering who nan was talking to about the pr7.
1:16 pm
moolingwa
14 to go :)
1:16 pm
cybernan
done 2 :) hagd everyone
1:16 pm
moolingwa
oh, another 7...finding 7s now it seems
1:22 pm
moolingwa
10 to go, but did see that there was pr7 and an hi6...so that helped me get those
1:23 pm
hokie carla
what's left?
1:24 pm
moolingwa
S A
T
D C4
M
L
1:24 pm
moolingwa
1-3-5-2
1:24 pm
moolingwa
found a c7
1:25 pm
moolingwa
almost chimera
1:26 pm
hokie carla
yep, I tried it just in case
1:29 pm
moolingwa
found an m4...which finishes my m's and my 4s :)
1:30 pm
moolingwa
laicide - to kill a church congregation?
1:30 pm
hokie carla
see, if you'd posted that earlier I wouldn't have had to look up su7
1:30 pm
moolingwa
lamedia - what MAGA supporters call left leaning media
1:31 pm
hokie carla
pretty close to your last L
1:31 pm
moolingwa
oh, duh...I had missed that :)
1:31 pm
moolingwa
that completes my 7s
1:31 pm
moolingwa
so 2 5s and 5 6s remaining
1:31 pm
hokie carla
oh, the S not the L
1:32 pm
moolingwa
that was my last s
1:32 pm
periwinkle
help with either sp7 please
1:32 pm
hokie carla
your L is close to your fake L
1:33 pm
hokie carla
those nachos are sp7 than regular chips
1:33 pm
periwinkle
ty carla
1:33 pm
hokie carla
the other relates to what males send out in search of eggs
1:34 pm
periwinkle
ty got it
1:34 pm
moolingwa
tx, got the l
1:34 pm
moolingwa
A T D CCC
1:35 pm
hokie carla
the a and the c's are all ridiculous
1:36 pm
moolingwa
ah, well
1:36 pm
hokie carla
the d is prob the one hurshy & I were talking about with nan but you were ignoring or on a call
1:36 pm
hokie carla
the T is prob a real 6 that you just don't see
1:38 pm
hokie carla
do the words "an augur of ancient rome" mean anything to you?
1:40 pm
hokie carla
then I've given nothing away!
1:41 pm
moolingwa
yeah...
1:41 pm
hokie carla
do you know your bedbugs?
1:42 pm
hokie carla
how about ottoman empire officials or turkish sergeants?
1:42 pm
hokie carla
or weird alt words for the thing on your house the smoke goes through?
1:44 pm
hokie carla
well, you're screwed
1:45 pm
hokie carla
don't let the T6 set in though
1:47 pm
moolingwa
I do have a t6 off that second row t
1:47 pm
dcseain
so do I :)
1:48 pm
moolingwa
hey seain
1:48 pm
hokie carla
hey seain
1:48 pm
hokie carla
there are 2 from that one
1:48 pm
dcseain
shortly, I'm going to start on bread and vacuum.
1:48 pm
dcseain
consecutively.
1:48 pm
hokie carla
but sounds like you have the one I thought you didn't
1:49 pm
moolingwa
normally would see it with "in" in front of it
1:49 pm
hokie carla
making bread or eating bread? because I would wait to vacuum until eating the bread.
1:49 pm
hokie carla
hmm, so you have both T6 from that T?
1:49 pm
dcseain
make: flour, salt, sugar, water, yeast.
1:49 pm
moolingwa
no, just one off that one
1:49 pm
MollyL
Oh I thought he was opening a Bread & Vacuum, a new take on Bed & Breakfast
1:50 pm
moolingwa
think I'm going to go do some squaredle
1:51 pm
hokie carla
LOL, I like the bread and vacuum idea
1:52 pm
MollyL
It's clean and tastes good. Butter and jam are extra though.
1:52 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Maxed isn't a word? Tell that to the authorities when I have maxed out my credit cards.
1:57 pm
hokie carla
I know, big oversight. you know maxed out was in use when enable was made.
2:00 pm
dcseain
agreed, Kaplan
2:01 pm
dcseain
well, off to go get going on the bread. might BBL
2:08 pm
hokie carla
now I want to make bread
5:00 pm
moolingwa
well, found two of the c's
5:07 pm
moolingwa
and the t, that was boring for sure
5:12 pm
Scrabbler
Hi Moo. I am trying to get to halfway. I didn't get there this morning.
5:15 pm
moolingwa
yeah, a good number of tough words today
5:15 pm
moolingwa
good luck
5:25 pm
NANCY
CLUE for te 6 27 please
5:25 pm
moolingwa
I can give you a boring clue
5:27 pm
NANCY
ty again today for the clue. got it.
5:28 pm
MollyL
te6/27 a state of boredom
6:29 pm
periwinkle
help with 3rd ch7 please
6:35 pm
MollyL
Slang for something inexpensive
6:37 pm
periwinkle
thanks Molly
6:37 pm
periwinkle
22 left may not finish
7:20 pm
Jain
Some strange c words today.
7:54 pm
Gillie
I'd never wondered before what the singular of aupices was
8:08 pm
Gillie
OK, pr4/10 definitely deserves to be retired from the dictionary
9:16 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
hi all, 8 squares greyed out, woot! (diving in)
9:18 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
left column done, woo hoo
9:20 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
st8
9:22 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
nbt nbs
9:33 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
60 to go, getting stuck now
9:40 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
hoet and 48 to go, that's it for me, bye ntill next ti4