Babble: Archived Puzzle for Friday, October 6, 2023

12:03 am

justafreep

an7/8 and happy flip

12:03 am

justafreep

an8 x 2

12:07 am

dizgrannie

in 7

12:08 am

justafreep

br7

12:08 am

justafreep

sa7

12:10 am

rbud

st 7/8

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:17 am

justafreep

thanks, lickety

12:19 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, sa 8 and 9

12:38 am

Lewandjoy

Phantom trombone

1:30 am

rolin

trist

1:31 am

rolin

oops sorry

1:40 am

lynxxx

am8

1:44 am

rbud

ty, I found another while hunting, so am8 x 2

3:33 am

dizgrannie

FWs

7:19 am

periwinkle

br7/8

8:12 am

Sugrraleona

anyone get the nu8?

8:19 am

mael

yes, it's from the middle row N

8:19 am

mael

it's an astronomical term, nu8/45

8:21 am

mael

ends the same way as turning around

8:21 am

Sugrraleona

I found it thank you somuch

8:22 am

mael

yw :)

8:22 am

mael

I've tried that ending on most words from that bottom corner, btw, with minimal success

8:29 am

phaeton

turning around?

8:29 am

mael

the concept of spinning, if you will

8:33 am

mael

trying not to use the ending in the clue, hah

8:37 am

phaeton

it will probably make sense when I find it...lol

8:52 am

mael

76 left, bbl

9:09 am

MollyL

I got it mael

9:21 am

mkg

is lickety list there today?

9:25 am

phaeton

yes

9:30 am

mkg

Ty

9:30 am

mkg

Any clues for the sa 8/9?

9:35 am

rururocks

like the spanish spice and a number

9:35 am

mkg

Ty.

9:36 am

mkg

Got the 9. Ty

9:36 am

mkg

Great clue rurur

9:36 am

HarryHood

I never thought of that as a spanish spice. Even though I'm just wild about it.

9:38 am

HarryHood

when I was a kid we all thought paul mccartney's wife was really wealthy cause she was the kodak guy's daughter. turned out it was a completely different family.

9:39 am

Shirlockc

spanish spice ... hmmmm

9:40 am

HarryHood

92 to go. bye!

9:42 am

phaeton

may I have more of a clue on the nu8...besides astronomical

9:50 am

Shirlockc

phantom: tomato

9:52 am

hurshy

name that proper noun! a Bullwinkle villain, or, Yeltsin

9:55 am

hurshy

phantom: nominate

9:58 am

hurshy

nu8 is like a random change in DNA but with N instead of M

9:59 am

phaeton

ty hurshy...fw

9:59 am

hurshy

ha, i'm just on the top row

10:02 am

hurshy

which i've been finding hard overall

10:02 am

MollyL

Boris

10:03 am

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!

10:07 am

HarryHood

back for more.

10:07 am

hurshy

hi harry

10:08 am

HarryHood

hello hursh

10:08 am

ursh

FW - i found this grid difficult

10:09 am

hurshy

anyone have the other left i word besides the metal?

10:09 am

HarryHood

metal + vowel

10:09 am

hurshy

oh man, why did i forget that that was a word?!?!

10:09 am

hurshy

thanks

10:09 am

HarryHood

heh

10:10 am

HarryHood

so many ways to almost spell a needle case in this grid

10:10 am

hurshy

unibr4 isn't a word :(

10:11 am

HarryHood

if you were to market a new brand of mayonnaise, you could call it tu4ma4

10:12 am

hurshy

i'll have to keep that in mind

10:12 am

HarryHood

tell Mr. Hellman

10:13 am

HarryHood

my wife is trying to quit her job buy can't get her boss on the phone

10:13 am

hurshy

lol

10:13 am

HarryHood

it's very funny

10:13 am

HarryHood

though she doesn't think so ;)

10:14 am

hurshy

it's like the opposite of "you can't fire me, i quit"

10:15 am

HarryHood

hah

10:15 am

HarryHood

I told her she can just "quiet quit" - it's quite the fashion these days

10:21 am

HarryHood

soft

10:21 am

HarryHood

sorry about that

10:22 am

hurshy

what light from yonder window breaks

10:22 am

HarryHood

heh

10:22 am

hurshy

name that proper noun! a certain tribe from Kenya

10:23 am

HarryHood

I tend to randomly blurt shakespeare words. It's a very literary type of tourette

10:23 am

HarryHood

masai

10:23 am

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!

10:24 am

HarryHood

75 to go. bye for now!

10:31 am

hurshy

phantom: anoint

10:32 am

hurshy

Us Unravelled!

11:09 am

MollyL

Literary tourettes, only Harry

11:27 am

BzznBea

I haven't seen welki in a bit.

12:31 pm

hokie carla

I emailed with welki maybe a month ago. she is probably lurking.

12:32 pm

BzznBea

thank you, carla

12:33 pm

BzznBea

lots of people disappearing and lurking. makes you wonder

12:33 pm

hokie carla

not sure what has happened to moo. haven't seen him on serpentine either.

12:34 pm

hokie carla

it does make you wonder

12:35 pm

hokie carla

PS - working on the first A. I hope these are weird and it's not just me being dumb.

12:51 pm

hokie carla

never mind that A, the top O is bad

12:51 pm

rururocks

maybe there is a babble killer bea.. killing us off one at a time

12:52 pm

BzznBea

that's my theory

12:53 pm

hokie carla

seems like they could've easily found me & knocked me off.

12:53 pm

rururocks

you move too much hokie

12:54 pm

hokie carla

I am on the road right now going to FL, and that's all I'll say!

12:54 pm

BzznBea

are you driving?

12:54 pm

hokie carla

and no, molly, I am not driving.

12:54 pm

BzznBea

LMAO

12:54 pm

hokie carla

ha!

12:57 pm

hokie carla

well, yesterday I found like 58 s's and today am struggling to get half.

12:57 pm

rururocks

i have all the s's.. not too hard really

12:57 pm

hokie carla

hmm

12:57 pm

rururocks

just the first two sa's are weird

12:58 pm

rururocks

the A's however today

12:58 pm

hokie carla

must've been on my game yesterday. once in a year is okay I guess. 🤣

1:07 pm

rururocks

some of the a's are cartoonish to me

1:09 pm

BzznBea

good clue, ru

1:09 pm

hokie carla

have those unfortunately

1:09 pm

rururocks

finally got all the T's.. ugh

1:12 pm

hokie carla

terrific

1:13 pm

mkg

Ty for the clues ruru. Got them

1:13 pm

hokie carla

finished both the u's which is unusual.

1:14 pm

rururocks

missing two

1:15 pm

hokie carla

well, you know if I got them they're not weird. well, one is weird but we have it enough.

1:16 pm

hokie carla

3 tiles I didn't get half on - upper O, lower S, lower T

1:17 pm

MollyL

I keep wanting to type snafu and Enable actually takes it if it's in a grid.

1:18 pm

hokie carla

found an S and T, now just need 2 O's

1:18 pm

hokie carla

have tried omni more than once

1:19 pm

hokie carla

found one

1:21 pm

aebmusica

sa6/21.....clue please

1:22 pm

hokie carla

which s is it from?

1:24 pm

aebmusica

I don't know ....I have tried both

1:24 pm

hokie carla

ruru said the first 2 sa words were weird

1:26 pm

aebmusica

I have the first two sa words....I need the third sa word sa6/21

1:27 pm

hokie carla

maybe he said they were sa5's. I already forgot.

1:27 pm

hokie carla

well, we're in stop and go traffic now so I gotta go before I get sick.

1:35 pm

hokie carla

I'm back. still nothing?

1:35 pm

BzznBea

ends with the first to letters of a shelled reptile.

1:36 pm

BzznBea

It is from the bottom s

1:37 pm

BzznBea

that should say first three letters...

1:38 pm

aebmusica

tyvm BzznBea

1:38 pm

BzznBea

yw

1:40 pm

aebmusica

I've always known the instrument with an I not a u

1:40 pm

hokie carla

thanks bea. should've read all your posts before I started trying stuff. 🤣

1:42 pm

hokie carla

finally found another O for HOET

1:42 pm

hokie carla

still 81 left.

1:43 pm

hokie carla

amazing how an -ing can make a much easier grid.

1:52 pm

hokie carla

almost

1:52 pm

hokie carla

nominate

1:53 pm

ChampFit

Chop off the last 2 letters

1:53 pm

hokie carla

yep, have those already

1:54 pm

cherlyq

woot woot I got a raise

1:54 pm

hokie carla

but thanks

1:54 pm

cherlyq

first time in two yers

1:54 pm

cherlyq

years sorry

1:54 pm

hokie carla

awesome

1:54 pm

BzznBea

congrats, cheryl!

1:54 pm

hokie carla

awesome

1:55 pm

cherlyq

with everything being more expensive it will really help out

1:56 pm

ChampFit

WooHOO! It's nice to be appreciated.

1:56 pm

cherlyq

Yes that is true so true

2:07 pm

hokie carla

phantom minuet

2:08 pm

hokie carla

namaste not in enable

2:11 pm

rururocks

the m's are awful

2:11 pm

rururocks

just getting nowhere with them

2:11 pm

hokie carla

still need 5 m's

2:15 pm

periwinkle

st7/8 please

2:16 pm

pcal2

endurance and plural

2:16 pm

rururocks

how much you can take in exercise St8

2:16 pm

periwinkle

ty both

2:17 pm

pcal2

yw

2:35 pm

BzznBea

cleared the eses...

2:40 pm

penquis

ooh...late start on a good-sized grid....hello all....

2:41 pm

BzznBea

hey, pen.

2:41 pm

penquis

hey, Bea...

2:59 pm

nrkii

hi all

2:59 pm

penquis

ni nrkii...

3:00 pm

nrkii

Just had a client be a complete b**ch to me on a Friday afternoon. I think I'm done working for the week.

3:00 pm

penquis

bummer....well at least it is Friday!

3:01 pm

hokie carla

rehi

3:01 pm

penquis

carla!

3:01 pm

nrkii

First pass through and I still have 44 to get.

3:01 pm

hokie carla

pen!

3:01 pm

nrkii

I could have used an easier grid today :)

3:02 pm

hokie carla

yeah, spoiled by yesterday's

3:02 pm

penquis

well you have done well on your first pass....120 left here....

3:02 pm

hokie carla

still have 58 left and I have already done 2, 3 passes. don't imagine I'll see many more.

3:04 pm

nrkii

I try to make myself get to 2 or fewer on each tile before I move to the next, so my first pass is slow... didn't work today

3:04 pm

hokie carla

pen, I got talked into playing the singles club championships

3:04 pm

penquis

nice!....do you know anything about the other players?...

3:05 pm

hokie carla

played this morning. only 4 of us. had to play the 73 yo lady who is well known as the best player in the neighborhood. of course she destroyed me, but I don't feel bad about it because I actually played well.

3:06 pm

nrkii

there's a hobbit in the grid

3:06 pm

penquis

good...my triples team won the tournament last weekend....nice because two of my teammates had never played triples (though they were tennis players)...

3:06 pm

hokie carla

well done!

3:06 pm

hokie carla

not seeing the hobbit, but not seeing many words

3:07 pm

hokie carla

oh, samwise

3:07 pm

penquis

ty...it was a lot of fun....

3:07 pm

nrkii

yep!

3:07 pm

hokie carla

what are my 2 missing t's on the bottom row?

3:08 pm

nrkii

school skipper?

3:08 pm

hokie carla

aha, thanks

3:08 pm

penquis

that was my guess...

3:08 pm

nrkii

and a little bus/trolley thingy

3:08 pm

hokie carla

have that one

3:09 pm

hokie carla

and a ballet skirt

3:09 pm

nrkii

ballerina dress?

3:09 pm

nrkii

to tease meanly

3:09 pm

hokie carla

yep, thought I had that

3:09 pm

hokie carla

5th col gray!

3:10 pm

penquis

no columns gray!

3:10 pm

nrkii

what's my missing i from the left column top?

3:10 pm

nrkii

I have the clothes presser

3:10 pm

hokie carla

ir5

3:10 pm

penquis

add a vowel...

3:11 pm

nrkii

oh dammit

3:12 pm

nrkii

unibr4 not a word?

3:12 pm

penquis

hah...

3:12 pm

nrkii

I'm missing one U from each tile

3:12 pm

hokie carla

I actually found all the u's!

3:12 pm

nrkii

and I want unibr4

3:12 pm

hokie carla

though I guess you know that since I just said I had that col gray

3:12 pm

hokie carla

un4 from top

3:13 pm

hokie carla

maybe un6 from bottom - what you might do to get static on a radio

3:14 pm

nrkii

un6 worked, thanks

3:14 pm

hokie carla

un4/6 to be specific on the 4

3:14 pm

nrkii

have that

3:15 pm

hokie carla

maybe ut4 then

3:15 pm

nrkii

have that too... once again must be missing somethign obvious

3:16 pm

hokie carla

shoelaces?

3:16 pm

hokie carla

labor org?

3:17 pm

hokie carla

I want fatman to work

3:17 pm

nrkii

shoelaces?

3:17 pm

hokie carla

what you do to them to put the shoes on or take off

3:17 pm

penquis

take them off...

3:17 pm

nrkii

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, there's the E

3:17 pm

nrkii

:)

3:18 pm

MollyL

Who un5's them to put them on?

3:18 pm

hokie carla

I do if they're too tight. I have narrow feet so have to tie them tight.

3:18 pm

BzznBea

who wears shoe that you have to un5

3:19 pm

nrkii

me... because I don't un5 them to take them off

3:19 pm

penquis

i almost always do because i don't do it when I take them off...

3:19 pm

hokie carla

I am right now, actually

3:19 pm

hokie carla

exactly, pen

3:19 pm

hokie carla

and nellie

3:20 pm

nrkii

stats for the 9 please?

3:20 pm

hokie carla

no se

3:20 pm

nrkii

no problemo, gracias

3:20 pm

BzznBea

sa9.72

3:22 pm

hokie carla

well, my turn to drive. TTFN.

3:22 pm

MollyL

I haven't worn shoes that have laces in years. My sneakers are the collapsable heel step-in kind.

3:22 pm

penquis

bye carla...

3:23 pm

BzznBea

same, molly

3:23 pm

penquis

well the sneakers i use for tennis have to have laces...

3:24 pm

nrkii

my dance shoes have laces, and my good sneakers do, but my every day shoes are slip-ons

3:24 pm

nrkii

is sa9 building off another s word?

3:24 pm

BzznBea

no.

3:24 pm

penquis

same here...except of the dance shoes... ;oP

3:25 pm

penquis

bottom S start?

3:25 pm

BzznBea

it starts life the expenssive herb/spice and end with a number

3:26 pm

BzznBea

bottom s

3:26 pm

penquis

ty...

3:26 pm

nrkii

thanks!

3:27 pm

penquis

got it...ty....

3:30 pm

BzznBea

yw

3:30 pm

periwinkle

HI all

3:30 pm

penquis

hi peri...

3:30 pm

periwinkle

I am missing a U form both of the Us

3:31 pm

nrkii

:) scroll down a bit uni

3:31 pm

periwinkle

from even

3:31 pm

nrkii

I just got a LOT Of help on those Us

3:31 pm

periwinkle

I did too

3:31 pm

periwinkle

but still mssing 2 of them

3:32 pm

nrkii

there are 5 UN words, 2 UR, and 1 UT

3:32 pm

periwinkle

just found pl of the bear

3:32 pm

periwinkle

I need the ut. stats please

3:33 pm

nrkii

ut4/5

3:33 pm

periwinkle

thank you nrkii

3:33 pm

nrkii

is it my imagination, or do we have a pocket of words today that were in yesterday's grid?

3:34 pm

nrkii

I keep thinking I tried words that I haven't tried, and I think it's because I entered them yesterday

3:34 pm

penquis

that has happened to me before...

3:38 pm

BzznBea

Sir Barks Alot got a Halloween voodoo doll yesterday. Nothing left except his head.

3:38 pm

penquis

LOL....

3:38 pm

penquis

i hope the doll did not look like anyone you know...

3:39 pm

nrkii

For 8's, I have am8, an8x2, br8, nu7 and st8

Missing 3... stats?

3:39 pm

penquis

i peeked....two am 8s.....

3:41 pm

BzznBea

sa8 goes with the sa9

3:41 pm

BzznBea

i'm srill missing an 8

3:42 pm

BzznBea

i can not see nor can i type today.

3:42 pm

penquis

i have only one 8....and 85 other words to find...

3:45 pm

nrkii

thanks for sa8 hint

3:46 pm

BzznBea

tr8.45 was my last one

3:47 pm

nrkii

nice, thank you!

3:47 pm

nrkii

one more here... not sure which is missing though

3:47 pm

penquis

do you have the two AM 8 words?

3:48 pm

nrkii

nope, will look for the missing one

3:53 pm

nrkii

I have am8/45 that is a + m7/32

3:54 pm

penquis

two AM 8/45 words...i only have the one you have...

3:57 pm

penquis

phantom: nomination....

3:58 pm

nrkii

shoot! dance class in 15 minutes... running!!!!

3:58 pm

penquis

bye, nrkii....

4:09 pm

cybernan

hello again :)

4:10 pm

penquis

hi nan....

4:13 pm

cybernan

this doesn't look very easy - only had 30 min. at it this morning and didn't get very far

4:13 pm

penquis

it's got some bite...

4:18 pm

BzznBea

the problem for me is that there are so many words that or so close to each other. you know you have already entered that word...

4:18 pm

penquis

yes....just had one of those...

4:20 pm

penquis

rut\\

4:20 pm

penquis

rut\\

4:20 pm

penquis

rut\\

4:20 pm

penquis

i just did a search for my 4s....still haven't found five of them...

4:29 pm

penquis

well i need a break....bbl to finish....bye all...

4:29 pm

BzznBea

Me too...time to make dinner for the fam...

4:32 pm

MollyL

rut\\

4:49 pm

NANCY

i need help. cannot find the sa 8,9,6 first three sa words any help would be greatly appreciated

5:06 pm

Sophie512

so sorry just got here don't even have 1/3 of the words yet

5:23 pm

NANCY

I am still working on other letters but if anyone can help me with those three s words, i still need them. thanks

5:30 pm

MollyL

The first 2 start with the first 3 of locked place where you keep valuables

5:32 pm

NANCY

Looking.....

5:34 pm

NANCY

TY Molly, got the 8 and 9, crazy words

5:35 pm

NANCY

now just the bottom sa 6 still need a clue for that one

5:45 pm

MollyL

The last sa6 ends in Aaron Spellings daughter

5:54 pm

NANCY

That is the sa 6 18 I need the one right after the sa 9

6:08 pm

MollyL

You said the bottomsa6

6:11 pm

MollyL

sa + picnic pest + pee is --ine

6:13 pm

hurshy

woot, that's Ss Slain

6:26 pm

NANCY

THANKS Molly that was the bottom sa I was missing.

6:37 pm

BzznBea

I have 12 words left. They are M's. They are not easy.

6:44 pm

MollyL

Not the bottom, but glad you found it

6:50 pm

periwinkle

sa6/21 please

6:51 pm

BzznBea

plural , peri

6:52 pm

periwinkle

it was not a plural. but got it

6:52 pm

BzznBea

sorry

6:54 pm

nrkii

am8 that isn't about writing stuff off?

6:54 pm

ChampFit

There are 2 am8's

6:55 pm

nrkii

yes, I'm looking for the one that is not about writing stuff off

6:56 pm

ChampFit

Comes before it. There's a 6/7/8.

6:56 pm

nrkii

thanks! will look

6:59 pm

tessagram

wrote

7:06 pm

hurshy

it was the bottom S, indeed it was

7:13 pm

nrkii

finally found that am7/8 combo... needed morewords

7:13 pm

nrkii

18 to go

7:13 pm

nrkii

spread out over 13 tiles

7:13 pm

nrkii

3-5-5-5

7:17 pm

penquis

nrkii....can you please clue the am 7 you just found?...

7:17 pm

nrkii

it's like the fetal fluid

7:18 pm

nrkii

but drop the ic on the end and add a vowel

7:18 pm

penquis

ok, ty....

7:18 pm

penquis

found them...ty...

7:29 pm

nrkii

down to 12... 2-1-5-4

7:29 pm

penquis

go, nrkii!

7:33 pm

rosalind230

TrAm

7:35 pm

penquis

the Bs seem neverending....hate Bs....

7:50 pm

penquis

is anyone around to clue the NU 8?

8:17 pm

penquis

i am done...some weird words in this one....goodnight all...

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