Babble: Archived Puzzle for Friday, August 18, 2023

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:20 am

JoyOh

Thank you!

12:22 am

jbp

hi all. and thanks Lickety!

12:28 am

nursegladys

LM

12:29 am

origami

NOP

12:36 am

dizgrannie

re 8, nbt/nbs

12:36 am

Rainiqui

ap 7, at 8, nbt, nbs

12:49 am

ursh

re 7

12:50 am

dizgrannie

pa 8

7:15 am

HarryHood

GOOD MORNING

7:15 am

HarryHood

just wanted to wake everybody up

7:15 am

trentsnana

Good morning

7:15 am

HarryHood

:)

7:15 am

trentsnana

I wondered if the chat was working

7:15 am

HarryHood

first pass done, 44 remaining.

7:15 am

EvaNadine

phantom:
parakeet

7:16 am

HarryHood

tough As today

7:19 am

HarryHood

40 to go. gotta pack up - hagd!

7:20 am

MollyL

Aw, the week at the Connecticut coast has ended.

7:59 am

hokie carla

phantom caterpillar

8:23 am

hokie carla

premed is allowed but not prelaw

8:27 am

hokie carla

37 left and HOET after first pass. 9-16-9-1-2

8:38 am

dan2bit

1 ahead of you carla, but no 7's or 8's yet

8:38 am

hokie carla

the 8 is a regular word

8:39 am

hokie carla

the 7 I have is unrelated in meaning but just one letter off

8:42 am

mael

hello everyone

8:42 am

mael

it's pouring again, just for novelty's sake

8:43 am

hokie carla

hey mael, beautiful morning here. looks like we're back to 95 next week, though.

8:43 am

dan2bit

phantom alpaca

8:44 am

dan2bit

also found you in the grid carla

8:44 am

mael

I'm glad for today then, hokie!

8:44 am

hokie carla

ha! I got the related c word but didn't see my name.

8:47 am

mael

my c phantom is catalpa...

8:47 am

hokie carla

well, managed to gray all but the A on the top row.

8:47 am

hokie carla

I don't even know what that means, but mine was caterpillar

8:50 am

mael

etna

8:50 am

mael

oops

8:50 am

mael

as I also go across the top...

8:50 am

mael

with a cat on my keyboard

8:52 am

MollyL

Isn't it distracting to play with an animal crawling all over your keyboard?

8:53 am

dcseain

not really, one gets used to it.

9:05 am

mael

it's very distracting

9:05 am

hokie carla

it is distracting to me. while winston doesn't crawl over my keyboard, he does sometimes put his head on it and he a lot of times gets in my face. he's got the golden retriever gene of unrelenting need for attention.

9:05 am

mael

but I've worked from home for 15 years now, cats are an occupational hazard

9:17 am

hokie carla

looks like a lot of people failing connections today at my other internet place.

9:17 am

hokie carla

guess I better try that

9:19 am

mael

... i just looked at the board, carla, and yikes

9:22 am

mael

got it

9:23 am

hokie carla

well, I got purple first, LOL. still working.

9:23 am

mael

me too!

9:23 am

mael

I found that the easiest? not sure why it was the purple

9:24 am

hokie carla

I agree

9:26 am

hokie carla

ok, realized the blue (thanks babble) and finished perfect

9:27 am

mael

I went purple, yellow, blue, green

9:27 am

mael

did you do the one the other day that was just two letter words? that was fun

9:28 am

MollyL

I have no clue what you two are talking about

9:28 am

hokie carla

I did same order as you today. and yes, I thought it was fun.I did figure out what all the groups were but had my son help with the periodic and the greek

9:29 am

hokie carla

molly, NYT has a new game in beta called Connections, and it's quickly become my favorite there.

9:31 am

mael

hilariously the only one that tripped me up was the US states lol

9:32 am

hokie carla

ha. I somehow know all the postal abbreviations for the states.

9:37 am

hokie carla

ooh, top row gray

9:38 am

hokie carla

thought I had found a right side A but it was my missing one from the top

9:51 am

hokie carla

bottom row gray! 11 left 1-4-3-1-2
E K A
CCC T
AA PP
Going to walk Winston now. TTFN.

9:51 am

hokie carla

PS - I like this grid

9:53 am

hokie carla

phantom etcetera on the way out

10:00 am

hurshy

Ts Toppled!

10:01 am

hurshy

top row grey!

10:14 am

rururocks

I'm just missing an A8.. any ideas?

10:15 am

hurshy

:O

10:15 am

hurshy

i have no 8s yet

10:15 am

hurshy

will se4 it

10:16 am

rururocks

found it.. haz's friend

10:19 am

hurshy

i don't know haz's friends!

10:21 am

LuvWordGames

at sounds like the plural of a city in Georgia

10:21 am

mael

I'm back, everything flooded again

10:22 am

mael

I can't believe it, hadn't seen our driveway underwater once in ten years and now it's happened twice in less than 2 weeks

10:23 am

MollyL

Hurshy doesn't know Haz's friend? I thought she had been around here that long.

10:24 am

hurshy

ohhh i see, i just, it's not actually spelled like that

10:24 am

hurshy

so i didn't think that that was what he meant

10:24 am

hurshy

the babbler is atA____

10:24 am

hurshy

no, i do know ata. in fact i had tea with her at the Ritz in London once! and then we went to a used bookstore i think

10:25 am

MollyL

Well, I didn't think spelling had to be exact when cluing. It often isn't and people get the clues.

10:25 am

hurshy

yeah, i just, had a mental block i guess

10:26 am

hurshy

thought he might have meant a non-babbler friend

10:30 am

rururocks

I don't know haz's real friends...but I know she chattted with Vicuna and Ata and FMitch a lot when I first started,

10:35 am

hurshy

as did i :D

10:35 am

hurshy

if you had said she was one of MY babble friends i would probably have figured it out sooner lol

10:35 am

hurshy

but all's well that ends well

10:37 am

MollyL

Speaking of British people, that news story about the British nurse who killed the 7 babies is gruesome.

10:39 am

hurshy

:O

10:39 am

hurshy

i haven't seen this story :( how very sad

10:39 am

JaxH66

It’s very sad. Senior paediatricians were speaking out about their concerns and were ignored. My daughter is just about to do the 1st 6 months of her paediatric training there. I expect there to be a lot of focus on the hospital.

10:40 am

hurshy

we had a car picked up off the highway 10 feet in the air here - very unusual for southern new england!

10:40 am

hurshy

by a tornado, i meant to say, lol

10:43 am

rururocks

I was thinking aliens hursh

10:44 am

hurshy

oh well, we get THAT all the time

10:46 am

hurshy

*waiting for the laughs*

10:46 am

dan2bit

*chuckle*

10:46 am

hurshy

ty dan

10:47 am

mael

hah

10:47 am

hurshy

:D

10:47 am

mael

it's confirmed that some sort of tornado touched down in Rhode Island this morning...

10:48 am

mael

I'll take the aliens at this point

10:48 am

hurshy

yeah, the car was picked up on 295

10:48 am

hurshy

driver has been taken to the hospital with injuries

10:50 am

rururocks

off to work.. have fun everyone

10:51 am

mael

bye ru

10:51 am

hurshy

ttfn ruru

10:51 am

mael

I hope they're alright! it's unimaginable in New England...

10:52 am

hurshy

quite a story to tell for the rest of their life tho assuming they are ok

10:54 am

MollyL

Did this happen recently? The thing in Connecticut?

10:54 am

hurshy

this morning, yeah. MA/RI tornado, idk if CT also

10:55 am

MollyL

Oh you said "we" so I thought you were referring to Connecticut

10:55 am

mael

given the givens I think we need to start thinking about tornado sirens over here too

10:57 am

bichon

We get bad weather here in CT

11:02 am

hurshy

no i don't live in CT anymore

11:03 am

MollyL

Oh I thought your parents lived in Connecticut. Not living with them anymore or was I wrong about that?

11:03 am

hurshy

you were wrong about that

11:14 am

hokie carla

rehi. can't remember ata's full name.

11:14 am

hurshy

well then just think of the ocean

11:17 am

hokie carla

I remember the weapon atlatl, but that's not here

11:17 am

hurshy

OCEAN

11:18 am

hurshy

or the mythical lost civilization change i to e

11:18 am

hokie carla

yes, atlantic, but without knowing the stats of this word I'm finding it hard to get the right combo

11:19 am

hokie carla

ok, the prob was I was thinking it was a set and not trying a plural if there was no sing.

11:19 am

hurshy

yeah those always get us that way

11:19 am

hokie carla

like I said, I didn't see the stats and didn't know what I was looking for.

11:20 am

hurshy

yeah

11:20 am

hokie carla

still need one A there, which is also why I was hoping for a set

11:20 am

hurshy

ditto, and 3 on the upper right

11:21 am

hokie carla

1-4-3-1-1

11:21 am

hokie carla

I just need 1 on the upper right. will try to guess some for you.

11:21 am

hokie carla

either ak4/8 set or ar4/8 set

11:22 am

hurshy

aha, ar4/8 set

11:23 am

hurshy

oh my i just realized i have neither of the 7s either

11:23 am

hokie carla

any PT words?

11:24 am

hokie carla

there is a cr7 and cr8, unrelated, both regular words

11:24 am

hokie carla

just one letter off though

11:24 am

hurshy

mk i need both of those then

11:24 am

hokie carla

think of the moon and making something again

11:25 am

hurshy

i thought making something again was RE8

11:25 am

hokie carla

LOL. you right

11:25 am

hokie carla

I imagined cr8

11:25 am

hurshy

and i have a cr6 that is found on the moon

11:25 am

hokie carla

and apparently cr7

11:26 am

hurshy

ok lol

11:26 am

hokie carla

I was thinking of re7 and re8

11:26 am

hurshy

ok well thanks cause now i got re7!

11:26 am

hokie carla

apparently I am overheating from my walk

11:27 am

hokie carla

I knew I had one 7!

11:27 am

hurshy

either that or your imagination is just on fire and you should sit down and write a story

11:27 am

hokie carla

yeah, probably not

11:28 am

hurshy

still need 3 K words too, ick

11:29 am

hurshy

wow every K i have is a 4

11:29 am

hokie carla

I just need 1, but I made up a lot as usual

11:29 am

hokie carla

I have one KR5

11:29 am

hurshy

ty

11:29 am

hurshy

there must be another non-4

11:29 am

hurshy

cause i only need one more 4 in the whole grid

11:30 am

dan2bit

I feel like karen should be a regular noun now, like sheila

11:30 am

hokie carla

well, karet is not a word and karat is not in the grid. save you some time.

11:30 am

hokie carla

I also need only one more 4

11:30 am

hurshy

why is shelia one?

11:31 am

hokie carla

aussie

11:31 am

hurshy

what does it mean

11:31 am

dan2bit

woman

11:31 am

hokie carla

like a young woman

11:32 am

hurshy

mk good to know

11:33 am

hokie carla

haven't you ever seen crocodile dundee?

11:33 am

hurshy

no, i guess not

11:33 am

hurshy

probaby have seen a small clip here and there but that's it

11:34 am

hurshy

so if you really only have one K that is a non-4

11:34 am

hurshy

that means my last 4 IS a K

11:35 am

hokie carla

I have 3 ka and 5 ke

11:35 am

hurshy

got it!

11:35 am

hurshy

yes

11:36 am

hurshy

what's the other 8, anyone know?

11:36 am

hurshy

besides at and re

11:36 am

hokie carla

what was your k?

11:36 am

mkg

Hi all. Reading the below and very confused, but interesting.

11:36 am

hurshy

um it was the first ka4

11:37 am

hokie carla

I have that one. so how many ka do you have?

11:37 am

hurshy

i have same as you now

11:37 am

marksdolly

hokie, there is a kr, do you have that?

11:37 am

hurshy

3 ka4, 5 ke4, and kr5

11:38 am

hokie carla

I have a kr5

11:38 am

marksdolly

that would be it

11:38 am

hokie carla

that's just 9 hurshy!

11:38 am

hurshy

i know, we still need one more each

11:38 am

hurshy

probably the same one

11:39 am

hokie carla

oh, I thought you said you found your last K

11:39 am

hurshy

unless there are two kr5s and i have one and you have the other

11:39 am

hurshy

no, i found my last 4

11:39 am

hurshy

which was that K

11:39 am

hokie carla

my kr5 is similar to the ka4 in the middle

11:40 am

hokie carla

oh, I still have 1-4-3-1-1
E K A
CCC T
A PP

11:42 am

marksdolly

there is a ka5

11:42 am

hokie carla

aha, will look, thanks

11:42 am

hokie carla

I mean, look more

11:43 am

marksdolly

:)

11:45 am

hokie carla

finally!

11:46 am

mkg

Good going carla

11:46 am

hurshy

i can't fiiiiind it

11:46 am

mkg

Good going marksdolly

11:47 am

hokie carla

it's from hinduism if that helps. trying to think of a similar word with no luck

11:47 am

hokie carla

ends like the capital of honduras

11:47 am

hurshy

it might help, i mean, i have been studying various religions

11:48 am

hurshy

yay thanks!

11:49 am

marksdolly

lawn

11:50 am

hokie carla

well I am definitely stuck.

11:52 am

mkg

Me too. Trying to find the A word for third row A. One lousy word.

11:52 am

hokie carla

peeked at the flip for the 7 and 8

11:52 am

hurshy

and what did you find out

11:52 am

hokie carla

mkg, it's a 4 that looks like a woman's name

11:52 am

mkg

Carla no crime there.

11:53 am

hokie carla

ap7 and pa8

11:53 am

hokie carla

it's not parakeet, because you know I already typed that just in case

11:54 am

hurshy

got the ap! woot!

11:54 am

hokie carla

will take any and all clues

11:55 am

hurshy

ummmmm you add mr gore to the ap5

11:55 am

mkg

Carla: for the ap: add ending to word before it.

11:55 am

hokie carla

weird, thanks

11:55 am

mkg

Never heard or saw that word before.

11:56 am

mkg

Anyone have a clue for the A word third column a?????

11:56 am

hokie carla

3rd row? I just gave one

11:56 am

mkg

Ty carla. I will go look now.

11:57 am

hokie carla

and I'm not yelling at you, just want to point out that a clue referencing a "word before it" is not helpful if you're not using a list.

11:59 am

mkg

Still not getting that A 4 for middle row A. Darn. And yes i know about the clueing to a word before. Sorry.

12:00 pm

hokie carla

well I wish I could find my last 4 and then I would list

12:00 pm

BzznBea

it is al4

12:00 pm

hokie carla

it's al4/5

12:00 pm

mkg

Add Gores first name to all the ap 5s. Thats all i can suggest

12:00 pm

hokie carla

bea!

12:00 pm

mkg

Ty for stat.

12:00 pm

hokie carla

well, I found it with hurshy's clue, but thank you

12:00 pm

mkg

Got the al! Ty ty ty.

12:01 pm

BzznBea

hey, carla.

12:01 pm

BzznBea

just getting here today

12:01 pm

doseffing

do you mean the third row .... think of the latin expression that you use to refer to the college you attended

12:01 pm

hokie carla

found a C

12:01 pm

mkg

Off for the day. Ty all for clues

12:01 pm

hurshy

this isn't orderly chaos anymore, it's just chaos

12:02 pm

hokie carla

what have you got left? 1-3-2-0-1
E A CC T PP

12:02 pm

hurshy

i went to the list as i got tired of the chaos

12:03 pm

hokie carla

I reckon I'm heading there too

12:04 pm

hokie carla

my 4 was a C I should have seen

12:07 pm

hokie carla

luckily I monkeyed the P8 on first try after listing. of course there's no def.

12:07 pm

mael

it means "talking" in Italian so I'm going to assume it's a musical term

12:07 pm

hokie carla

ah, I bet so, thanks

12:08 pm

mael

talking as in "talking squirrel"

12:09 pm

BzznBea

not splooting

12:11 pm

hokie carla

ok, I'm done. the E and the T were words that I always miss.

12:11 pm

hokie carla

time for lunch. good luck, all.

12:12 pm

BzznBea

thanks for the p8

12:16 pm

cybernan

hi everyone - sitting here with one eye on the TV waiting to see if my neighbourhood will be put on evactuation notice. Fires are burning all around us, so don't know where we could go. Looks like all highways heading north and east are closed in places.

12:16 pm

mael

oh no nan, that's terrifying

12:17 pm

BzznBea

i'm so sorry, nan.

12:23 pm

hokie carla

oh nan, I'm sorry. good luck. I hope for the best.

12:32 pm

MollyL

Nan, what is your plan?

12:32 pm

cybernan

load up the car and get out of Dodge!

12:33 pm

MollyL

Do you have somewhere in mind to go? Someone to stay with?

12:39 pm

cybernan

will go to the kids in Vancouver if the highway is open

12:43 pm

dauber

Arrghh. It doesn't recognize Brooklyn accents. Didn't take "terlet."

12:43 pm

cybernan

Is there a clue for the pa 8 please?

12:48 pm

MollyL

pa8 golf term + the last 5 of a former player who was friends with Haz

12:49 pm

Good Enough

Ha that works. Thank you Molly

12:52 pm

dauber

I'm down to just the at8. Clues welcome!

12:54 pm

cybernan

Molly

12:56 pm

justafreep

Sending you good vibes, Nan!

12:57 pm

justafreep

dauber - it's like a weird plural of a city in Georgia

12:57 pm

MollyL

at8 almost all of not Pacific then add a double letter plural

12:57 pm

dauber

Oh, geeze -- didn't see that post. Yeah, nan, I hope things get better in your area and that you're able to be OK.

12:58 pm

dauber

Oh, duh...yeah, I should have caught that....seems so obvious now. Thanks, freep and molly!

12:58 pm

BzznBea

thanks, freep

12:59 pm

dauber

Now that I have FW, time to move on to Lewdle. :)

1:06 pm

MollyL

The whole "games that end in dle" thing has gotten absurd.

1:08 pm

hokie carla

absurdle

1:11 pm

cybernan

ty for the at 8. Have phone calls coming in from friends around the province asking how I am and inviting me to stay with them. So no worries there.

1:42 pm

MollyL

Good Nan. I'm glad you have a kind circle around you. Hope you and your home stay intact.

3:00 pm

dcseain

turns out at8 is the greek plural of a book of maps.

3:00 pm

NANCY

GOT the first part of pa 8 but dont remember the friends of Haz. Anymore help for the last five?

3:01 pm

NANCY

good grief got it

3:33 pm

cybernan

sort of like a major Georgia city Nancy

3:34 pm

NANCY

thanks Nan, got it right after I asked for the clue

3:47 pm

MollyL

As usual

4:22 pm

saanichcat

hey nan! so glad to hear you are OK!

4:23 pm

saanichcat

The big wigs are talking about a Provincial Emergency now

4:24 pm

MollyL

How are things where you are Saan?

4:27 pm

rururocks

glad you're safe Nan... what a relief

4:28 pm

saanichcat

Dry as a bone. All of us are anxious. There are also several arsonists on the lower Island, if you can believe that. If a fire happened in the woods where I live, my exit is the water. And to top it off, my well is dry. But this is all just a whine compared to what the Territories and the Interior are going through.

4:34 pm

Gillie

I just heard that Kelowna has declared a state of emergency - and that fire has jumped a lake in the area (didn't catch the details, unfortunately)

4:35 pm

Soodle

How worrying for you Nan. I’m glad that you have loads of support. Please stay safe. You too Saan. Praying for my lovely Canadian friends.

4:45 pm

saanichcat

thank you Soodle. Let's hope the rains come soon. I was so worried about nan and it's so good to hear she is safe.

4:48 pm

saanichcat

Gillie, the lake is huge, it is 84 miles long and about 5 kms wide so that is quite a wind they had that would blow embers over that would start more major fires

4:51 pm

dcseain

egads, some wind indeed!

4:52 pm

dcseain

and I know all of Yellowknife was evacuated due to fire there. :/

4:54 pm

dcseain

phantom raclette, alas

4:55 pm

rururocks

you could say a fondu farewell to the cheese word DC

4:55 pm

dcseain

indeed, so ru :)

4:56 pm

saanichcat

Yellowknife is in the North West Territories, over Alberta, on Great Slave Lake

4:58 pm

saanichcat

groan, ru

5:01 pm

rururocks

sorry .. I can be a muenster sometimes

5:03 pm

saanichcat

yes you are the Cheesen One

5:04 pm

rururocks

after a while my puns tend to gruyere on you

5:05 pm

saanichcat

wow that was a grate one!

5:10 pm

moolingwa

hi anyone who is out there

5:13 pm

rururocks

hi mool

5:13 pm

moolingwa

hey ru, happy friday

5:14 pm

rururocks

no kidding.. I'm more than ready for a weekend

5:14 pm

moolingwa

me too

5:29 pm

MollyL

I guess it's too late to swiss into the pun chat now, how now brown cow

5:32 pm

cybernan

oh ?my gosh - a hurricane in California? What next?

5:33 pm

saanichcat

never too late Molly

5:34 pm

rururocks

that's the problem with punning here you never know where they're coming fromage

5:35 pm

MollyL

The hurricane is expected to weaken before it reaches California

5:36 pm

rururocks

that was a gouda pun molly

5:53 pm

cybernan

r

6:41 pm

cybernan

down to 8 -- all that I'm going to get today. bye all

7:11 pm

periwinkle

hi all. help with lone A please

7:12 pm

penquis

al 4

7:13 pm

periwinkle

ty pen

7:13 pm

penquis

yw...

7:25 pm

Gillie

I guess it's not certain that fire actually jumped Okanagan lake - the blaze on the east side may have started independently

7:37 pm

72 Temple Owl

Gillie et al, praying for all of you.

7:38 pm

Gillie

I'm in Calgary, actually, well away from the fires (although we are expecting smoke). Cybernan is closer to the thick of it, and I'd just been listening to the radio reports.

7:41 pm

Gillie

But thank you anyway! I'm sending best wishes to cybernan.

7:55 pm

penquis

can't find my last word....en 6 anyone?

7:57 pm

rbud

en + Christmas paper?

7:57 pm

Gillie

envelop is a synonym

7:58 pm

penquis

ty both...i am done....

7:58 pm

rbud

congrats!

7:59 pm

penquis

ty....heading out....goodnight all...

9:50 pm

72 Temple Owl

PA 6/24 PLS

10:04 pm

72 Temple Owl

NM...GOOD NIGHT.

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