Babble: Archived Puzzle for Sunday, August 27, 2023

12:02 am

Gillie

tr7

12:05 am

Gillie

in7

12:06 am

cybernan

hello everyone

12:07 am

Gillie

hi nan

12:13 am

dizgrannie

got the Ps

12:15 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:19 am

justafreep

thanks, lickety. (stuck with 1 left! a j5 I cannot seem to figure out)

12:19 am

Gillie

I need an M and a C

12:20 am

broll

plural, freep

12:20 am

justafreep

fw. a plural!!!! eeps.

12:20 am

justafreep

thanks, broll. I am sheepish.

12:23 am

broll

that's my "favorite" trick, not doing the plurals!

12:24 am

Gillie

Well, I'm done to an M

12:25 am

Gillie

fw!

12:27 am

dizgrannie

FWs

12:36 am

justafreep

An early night of colorful sky displays, apparently!

3:10 am

worzel

Why can't we have chai?

3:21 am

lynxxx

spelling?

4:22 am

player girl

NOt getting the M. I need that for NBT NBS

4:23 am

player girl

NM FOund it

6:36 am

sukee

I don't even know where to start with the p words

6:38 am

Sugrraleona

anyone have a clue for the last tr6?

6:41 am

sukee

well, got one p

6:43 am

sukee

two

6:44 am

sukee

got them

6:45 am

sukee

My monkeys are working well today so far

6:50 am

periwinkle

good morning help with the tr7. trijoin did not work

6:56 am

MollyL

Ends in epic poems

6:56 am

periwinkle

ty Molly

6:57 am

periwinkle

the p words all have the same 4 letters

6:58 am

periwinkle

all start with the same 4 letters is what I meant

6:58 am

sukee

yes, i figured that out :)

6:58 am

mkg

Stumped by the sevens. Darn. Any further clues welcome.

7:01 am

mkg

Just got the tr 7. Ty for epic poems clue

7:01 am

sukee

I have that ending but can't get the beginning

7:03 am

mkg

Got both sevens now. Ty for clues

7:06 am

sukee

got it, was looking the wrong way

7:07 am

sukee

Both 7s down

7:08 am

mkg

Those ps words are weird.

7:09 am

sukee

18 left, time for a break

7:11 am

mkg

Great sukee

7:32 am

hokie carla

surprised admin is not in enable

7:32 am

hokie carla

11 left after first pass

7:33 am

mkg

Great carla. I am at 22 and stuck.

7:34 am

hokie carla

just found a plural condiment. have to remind myself to look in all directions.

7:36 am

mkg

Ty for the clue. Will look.

7:37 am

mkg

Oh do you mean the sauce? Have sing and plural.

7:37 am

worzel

Yay FWs! Something of a rarity for me, even on small grids!

7:37 am

hokie carla

well done!

7:37 am

hokie carla

5 left here 2 4s and 3 5s, so I like my chances

7:40 am

mkg

Go carla!

7:47 am

hokie carla

now 2 and I am a bit stumped

7:50 am

dan2bit

morning all! corners done

7:56 am

hokie carla

splendid, dan!

7:56 am

hokie carla

you are ahead of me since one of my last 2 is an M in the corner

7:57 am

dan2bit

go go carla

7:57 am

dan2bit

the T is in the wrong place - I keep trying ight words that don't exist...

7:58 am

hokie carla

name that actress/sometimes jeopardy host!

7:58 am

HarryHood

mayim

7:58 am

hokie carla

✅✅✅ Harry wins a bucket hat with a flower on it

7:58 am

bichon

She's gone

7:59 am

hokie carla

like, she died?

7:59 am

HarryHood

name that okie family moving to california with a daughter named rose of sharon

7:59 am

dan2bit

14 left - 5-5-3-1

7:59 am

bichon

no, Ken Jennings is now the permanent host

7:59 am

hokie carla

1-1 M S here

7:59 am

hokie carla

oh, I don't know that, harry

8:00 am

hokie carla

well, that's why I said sometimes host, because she had been sometimes

8:01 am

bichon

Yes, she had been. We didn't care for her

8:01 am

hokie carla

I liked her

8:01 am

HarryHood

I haven't watched jeopardy in years. certainly not since trebek

8:02 am

HarryHood

but I liked her on big bang

8:02 am

hokie carla

she was great on that

8:04 am

HarryHood

I never watched blossom, but I heard she was good there as well.

8:05 am

hokie carla

well, I liked and watched blossom back when it was on but don't remember specifics.

8:06 am

HarryHood

20 here

8:06 am

hokie carla

still 2

8:06 am

HarryHood

time to start driving kids places. have a fun day

8:06 am

hokie carla

you too

8:07 am

dan2bit

6 left - Y G CC R T 3-2-1

8:07 am

hokie carla

so you have all mine and I have all yours, dan

8:07 am

mael

the Ys are all 4s

8:07 am

mael

the Gs are also all 4s plus a plural

8:08 am

dan2bit

thanks! do you have si5 greek letter?

8:08 am

hokie carla

nope! always miss those, thanks

8:08 am

mael

there's a ch6 that's weird

8:08 am

hokie carla

so now m4, presumably ma4. I have the one similar to mael's name

8:09 am

mael

and the misspelling of the italian hello :)

8:09 am

dan2bit

thanks mael!

8:09 am

hokie carla

those were my last 2 c's, I was just typing stuff.

8:09 am

mael

the ch6 adds a vowel to a gorge :)

8:09 am

mael

I just started, still 16 left here but I cleared those columns!

8:10 am

hokie carla

finally done! this was a very easy one today.

8:10 am

mael

yay!

8:10 am

dan2bit

woo hoo carla!

8:10 am

MollyL

Good clue mael

8:11 am

mael

thanks Molly, 10 left after first pass. Hmm.

8:12 am

mael

6 left, hadn't seen some lower plurals

8:12 am

CalsHoneybee

You all must be very good with you vocabulary and spelling, I just started playing and I’m struggling to get any more than 18 4 letter words and 3 5 letter words.

8:13 am

mael

a lot of it is practice at babble, the babblets come easier after 12 years or so

8:13 am

dan2bit

it takes years of practice, CH. the dictionary behind this game is not like any other dictionary out there.

8:13 am

dan2bit

what mael said :-)

8:13 am

mael

:)

8:14 am

dan2bit

knowing some Latin helps

8:14 am

CalsHoneybee

is there anywhere you can get more hints?

8:15 am

CalsHoneybee

I only started 3 days ago.

8:15 am

dan2bit

the link that says "Lickety's Babble Clues" below the grid will show you a list. it will show you the first two letters of every word in the grid, the number of letters in the word and the total points

8:15 am

mael

Lickety has a very helpufl list, it's linked below the grid!

8:16 am

mael

dan and I are on the same frequency today :)

8:16 am

CalsHoneybee

Thanks Dan2

8:16 am

dan2bit

it is kind of a "spoiler" but there if you need it. when people in chat ask for "the stats" they are asking for what lickety's list shows - ch5/14 would be a five letter word starting with ch that's worth 14 points

8:17 am

mael

is the other & also a plural? and given my remaining letters would have to be a T7? I have the I6-7 combo

8:18 am

hokie carla

yes, TR7 pl

8:18 am

mael

thanks hokie, that narrows it down considerably!

8:18 am

dan2bit

my last missing word is a c5 - I have the ones mael clued and the tableware

8:18 am

mael

duh thanks, got it, I had the other tr6

8:19 am

mael

something used to tie people up :)

8:19 am

mael

last word is an m4...

8:20 am

mael

or, dan, I guess it could be the plural of a very green pet

8:20 am

hokie carla

my m4 was a plural - name of the actor that played hannibal

8:20 am

hokie carla

but there's another similar to your name

8:20 am

mael

oh duh, it was a very normal m4, he was the m4 character

8:20 am

mael

FW!

8:21 am

hokie carla

ha. well done

8:22 am

dan2bit

woo hoo mael. I have the green pet with extra vowel and in plural, still missing a 4th c5

8:22 am

dan2bit

oh duh it was the tie up

8:22 am

dan2bit

ty mael and all cluers - firewords!

8:23 am

mael

quick work today

8:23 am

dan2bit

rhymed with mael's last

8:24 am

mael

I guess we were all blind to that corner

8:25 am

mkg

since when is the shortened word for mayonaise in the dictionary??????

8:26 am

mael

since a long time ago, mkg. That one I don't dispute! and yet no admin, haha

8:27 am

mkg

Missing last tr word. A six. Any clues? Last one on lickety

8:27 am

mael

change the ending for the tr6 that is pluralized for the 7

8:28 am

mkg

TY GOT IT.

8:29 am

mkg

Three to go.

8:29 am

hokie carla

go mkg!

8:30 am

mkg

Ty. Two to go. Both S words.

8:38 am

mkg

One last word and i cant find it with monkeys. Si 5. Darn. Any clues welcome. Ty

8:39 am

mael

greek letter?

8:39 am

Kaplan the Magne

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8:39 am

mkg

Got it. Ty all cluers. Last was greek letter. Ty.

8:39 am

mkg

Ty mael

8:40 am

Kaplan the Magne

aich

8:40 am

Kaplan the Magne

trim

8:40 am

Kaplan the Magne

trins

8:40 am

Kaplan the Magne

tins

8:40 am

Kaplan the Magne

mins

8:40 am

Kaplan the Magne

oh sorry

8:42 am

Kaplan the Magne

what a nice start- a long link and then words in the wrong box

8:44 am

MollyL

oh

8:44 am

MollyL

well

8:44 am

MollyL

we

8:44 am

MollyL

can

8:44 am

MollyL

flush

8:44 am

MollyL

the

8:44 am

MollyL

long

8:44 am

MollyL

link

8:45 am

MollyL

out

8:45 am

MollyL

while

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

Flushing!

8:45 am

MollyL

reminding

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

is

8:45 am

MollyL

people

8:45 am

MollyL

to

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

what

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

the

8:45 am

MollyL

use

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

book

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

is

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

about

8:45 am

MollyL

tinyurl.com

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

it's

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

my

8:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

memoir

8:45 am

MollyL

for

8:45 am

MollyL

all

8:45 am

MollyL

links

8:46 am

MollyL

no

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

you

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

can

8:46 am

MollyL

matter

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

order

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

it

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

on

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

amazon

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

if

8:46 am

MollyL

how

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

you

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

would

8:46 am

MollyL

short

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

like

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

to

8:46 am

MollyL

they

8:46 am

MollyL

are

8:46 am

MollyL

don't

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

are

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

we

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

there

8:46 am

Kaplan the Magne

yet

8:46 am

MollyL

be lazy

8:47 am

MollyL

done

8:47 am

Kaplan the Magne

I'm

8:47 am

Kaplan the Magne

trying

8:47 am

Kaplan the Magne

Not

8:47 am

Kaplan the Magne

Lazy

8:49 am

MollyL

Oh, you are hustling your own book

8:52 am

MollyL

Self-published

8:54 am

Kaplan the Magne

If you want to make it sound sleazy.

8:54 am

Kaplan the Magne

I'm not hustling.

8:55 am

Kaplan the Magne

Most authors self-publish these days, and there are many venues for doing so.

8:56 am

Kaplan the Magne

If I were Leonard and Virginia Woolf I would have set up a printing press in the basement and published TS Eliot.

8:58 am

Kaplan the Magne

I would like people to know that I do write in addition to paint, and I spent a year about a book about when and where I grew up. It is about midcentury culture- that is last century, assimilation, and memory, and I hope you find your way to it. But my name is not Kaplan on it.

9:00 am

MollyL

Hustle is just another word for promoting in my world. Sleazy wasn't intended.

9:01 am

Kaplan the Magne

The Hustler? Paul Newman and I think Jackie Gleason.

9:01 am

Kaplan the Magne

Promoting is better.

9:01 am

rururocks

Hustler magazine is sleazy.. hustling isn't

9:01 am

MollyL

Is it expensive to self -publish?

9:02 am

Kaplan the Magne

Imagine calling "Hustler" magazine "Promotion." Would never have sold a copy.

9:04 am

Kaplan the Magne

It depends on the company. For me this is a one and done. I first went through a friend from the soul who is a professional writer/editor and she helped me organize it. I paid her her friends rate. Then I looked up companies,

9:05 am

MollyL

Like I said, in my world, hustle = sell or promote. I have a friend who says he hustles solar panels.

9:05 am

Kaplan the Magne

shul

9:07 am

Kaplan the Magne

If I used it I would feel it was a little self-denigrating, and something I might say to be ironic. I hustle my paintings. I am Harold Hill and I hustle musical instruments that don't exist (Music Man).

9:09 am

Kaplan the Magne

When my cousin self-published an awful book years ago, I denigrated it (to myself.) There are also Vanity Presses that are different from Self-publishing presses. I worked with a team who updated me every day, and I proofread their proofreading, and amended the document. I used illustrations as well. I don't think I will make a red cent from this, (what is a red cent), but it was a labor of love.

9:12 am

Kaplan the Magne

One and done. My 8th grade English teacher--from 1968--encouraged me.

9:14 am

Kaplan the Magne

I published it to get it out there to my family and friends, and it expanded to neighbors, old-time acquaintances, Flushing and Queens Boomers (I hate that word), schoolmates, Queens historians.

9:15 am

MollyL

The instruments existed. The musical knowledge to teach the students didn't. (Music Man)

9:17 am

Kaplan the Magne

I know, I was just being hasty. The point being that Professor Harold Hill was a Hustler, gone straight till he met the sadder and wiser Marian, Librarian. Of course one wonders what happened after they got married. Movies never tell you that.

9:20 am

Kaplan the Magne

Did he stop chasing women? Did he get bored in Ioway? There is a theory that the little boy was really Marian's son, not brother, and that was the secret she was hiding. Conspiracy theories about Music Man!

9:23 am

MollyL

He was the mayor's son. Secret affair with Marion. That is why all the town women (led by the mayor's wife) hated Marion.

9:24 am

Kaplan the Magne

No- it was old man what's his name who she visited often and who donated the library. she was dedicated to. She would not have had an affair with the mayor. Totally wrong.

9:25 am

Kaplan the Magne

They hated her for her relationship with the old man, not the mayor. Watch your phraseology!

9:26 am

Kaplan the Magne

The mayor had low standards of literacy and the library guy was educated.

9:30 am

Kaplan the Magne

He was the town miser who donated the library, and it was he Marian Paroo visited.

9:30 am

Kaplan the Magne

I forget his name but everything in the town was named for him

10:07 am

HarryHood

last word is a c5

10:17 am

HarryHood

got it.

10:19 am

penquis

sorry, Harry...thought you were saying that a c5 was the last word you found...

10:19 am

penquis

that's probably my missing C anyway... ;o)

10:21 am

BzznBea

probably the ch seed with an extra vowel

10:21 am

penquis

ah, found it...

10:21 am

penquis

down to 3...

10:22 am

penquis

apparently it is a chinese coin usually spelled with J....

10:24 am

hurshy

oh no, not another little one!

10:24 am

penquis

yes....drat!

10:30 am

hurshy

3 left...

10:32 am

hurshy

1...

10:32 am

hurshy

done

10:32 am

penquis

you found 75 words in 8 minutes??...

10:33 am

penquis

amazing....i am stuck with an A 5 word....

10:33 am

hurshy

75 in 6, 78 in 8

10:33 am

hurshy

i mean, we'd find that many in a big grid too

10:33 am

hurshy

there are two a5 that are plurals

10:33 am

hurshy

and one that is an ordinary word

10:33 am

penquis

yes, but that is much easier, I think...

10:33 am

penquis

i have two plurals...

10:34 am

hurshy

then you need the ordinary word

10:34 am

penquis

hmmm....

10:34 am

hurshy

my dad always said the first step is to ad5 the pain

10:34 am

penquis

that was it....done....

10:35 am

hurshy

^5

10:35 am

penquis

congrats to you, too....

10:35 am

penquis

heading out....bye all....

11:24 am

MollyL

Hurshy, you used the past tense. Did your father pass? If so, I'm sorry.

1:02 pm

cybernan

anyone here? - stats for the bottom i please?

1:03 pm

doseffing

in6/21 7/32

1:04 pm

cybernan

ty dos - looking

1:06 pm

doseffing

and done ... and as a high school math teacher for 15 years I miss the tr4/6 for the last one ... ... I don't know if I should offer any clues after that slip ...

1:06 pm

cybernan

ty, and me a sewer!

1:06 pm

cybernan

grats

1:07 pm

cybernan

don't really consider that tr 4 as a word

1:08 pm

cybernan

*as being a word

1:08 pm

doseffing

... walk into a high school math class and you will ... ... and I'm sure that you meant "seamstress"

1:09 pm

cybernan

down to 4 here: g c r t, 2 4's and 2 6's

1:09 pm

cybernan

yes, but didn't want to use that word :)

1:10 pm

doseffing

... yeah ... I thought of that as I was typing it .... .... did you get any rain for the fires this weekend? ...

1:10 pm

hokie carla

I like sewist so it doesn't seem like a sewer

1:11 pm

cybernan

not a drop :(

1:11 pm

cybernan

are there any ta's?

1:11 pm

hokie carla

no

1:12 pm

hokie carla

how many t's do you need?

1:12 pm

doseffing

... nope ... one ti and the rest are tr

1:12 pm

hokie carla

oh, just saw your list

1:12 pm

hokie carla

prob tr6/18

1:13 pm

cybernan

that would be the one - looking

1:13 pm

hokie carla

c is either ch5/14 or ch6/27

1:13 pm

cybernan

ty carla

1:13 pm

hokie carla

g may be gh4

1:13 pm

cybernan

looking for the ch 6/27

1:14 pm

hokie carla

oh, just saw you don't need a 5

1:14 pm

hokie carla

ri4/7

1:15 pm

cybernan

got the ch, ty

1:16 pm

cybernan

just a g 4 now

1:16 pm

hokie carla

did you see my guess?

1:17 pm

cybernan

*!*~*!*

1:17 pm

hokie carla

congrats

1:17 pm

cybernan

I do now and it was correct

1:17 pm

cybernan

hagd everyone :)

1:18 pm

doseffing

... must be off ... good luck to all who continue the struggle

2:01 pm

MollyL

Ah, the dramatic farewell

2:27 pm

hurshy

no, my dad is alive and well, idk why i used the past tense

4:15 pm

LeslieAnn

missing one 6? have ch, in, ri, tr, tr

4:17 pm

LeslieAnn

ah, ma

4:22 pm

MollyL

da pa

4:57 pm

MollyL

ooo la la

9:30 pm

melonheadjujube

ps? aha! modern dance warmup memories!

9:44 pm

melonheadjujube

NBT, NBS, all ≥ 7s, and ≥ halfway. Mediocrity attained!

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