Babble: Archived Puzzle for Tuesday, January 2, 2024

12:01 am

Gillie

he7

12:01 am

justafreep

ri9 and happy flip and happy new year

12:01 am

justafreep

ti9

12:04 am

Gillie

ap7

12:09 am

Rainiqui

he 7

12:10 am

Rainiqui

sine

12:10 am

justafreep

va8

12:11 am

justafreep

pa8

12:11 am

justafreep

(and... huh... hard to imagine using that)

12:12 am

Gillie

yep

12:14 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:17 am

justafreep

thanks, lickety

12:17 am

Gillie

ty lickety

12:35 am

justafreep

fw

12:36 am

justafreep

definitely feels like my monkeys got good sleep to start the year....

1:33 am

Atbeat

Neist

1:34 am

Atbeat

Oops!

1:35 am

JoyOh

Vasp

1:35 am

JoyOh

Neist

1:36 am

JoyOh

Double oops

4:15 am

Nachesgirl

Anes

4:16 am

Nachesgirl

Spegfs

6:19 am

sukee

Happy New Year! I know, I'm a day late.

7:01 am

dauber

Meh, year is still new....not even a day and a half old.

8:01 am

MollyL

How would you like to be that person in Michigan who won $842 million in Powerball? What a way to start the New Year.

8:02 am

bichon

I think I would donate most of it

8:05 am

bichon

Seriously, at my age, what would I do with it. I'd give some of it to my grandchildren

8:14 am

Sunrise

Happy New year to all you Babblers. With more peace and kindness in the world.

8:18 am

phaeton

Damn...wish I still lived in Michigan!

8:31 am

MollyL

Indiana has the most Powerball winners. I would have guessed California or New York.

8:44 am

rururocks

almost hashish in the grid

8:45 am

hokie carla

getting a lot of use from the -gh- today

8:46 am

MollyL

Almost hashish, is that like near beer?

8:48 am

rururocks

well the idea went up in smoke anyways

8:55 am

hokie carla

well, 31 left for later. no HOET thanks to the 5th col

8:55 am

hokie carla

ooh, just found an 8 from there though

8:56 am

hokie carla

29 now - 14-8-4-0-1-2 TTFN

8:57 am

phaeton

he6/24 has no definition

8:58 am

phaeton

FW...some really weird ones

9:00 am

MollyL

he6/24 is a shell. If there is no definition here, you need to look it up

9:01 am

phaeton

I did...dictionary.com

9:02 am

phaeton

That's what I got when I clicked on the word

9:04 am

MollyL

No, I mean do a Google search

9:04 am

MollyL

There are a lot of words allowed here that have no definition on dictionary.com

9:18 am

mkg

yes molly i find this problematic too.

9:19 am

mkg

if i won the powerball i would divide half it among my kids so they can prosper, and then use the rest to buy properties to rent out.

9:20 am

mkg

need clues for the 8s and 9s. help welcome

9:26 am

mkg

got the 8s. on to the 9s.

9:27 am

mkg

got one 9. so no clues needed. ty

9:43 am

BzznBea

thanks for the he6

9:43 am

BzznBea

salutations

9:56 am

mkg

hi all. i am stumped. the third column H is blank, but i have the word hi4 that can only be from that H. so confused.

9:57 am

BzznBea

refresh

9:58 am

mkg

ty bea. it worked.

9:58 am

BzznBea

yw

10:21 am

BzznBea

nice grid

10:28 am

BzznBea

namaste

10:39 am

MollyL

Salutamaste

10:43 am

cybernan

good morning. We get a lot of words here that aren't in the scrabble dictionary either -- found that out over Christmas!

10:46 am

bichon

sh 5/14, pls

10:48 am

cybernan

sh + not the beginning

10:50 am

cybernan

missing one t from the top -- any guesses?

10:50 am

cybernan

*have the te 5-6 babblet

10:53 am

bichon

ty nan

10:53 am

cybernan

yw

11:03 am

cybernan

stuck at 19. Back this afternoon sometime. Hagd :)

11:25 am

moolingwa

morning all...

11:31 am

hurshy

greetings babblers

11:32 am

hurshy

found a 9!

11:32 am

hurshy

found the other 9!

11:33 am

moolingwa

hey hursh, yeah relatively easier 9s today :)

11:33 am

moolingwa

down to 17

11:33 am

hurshy

always enjoyable when it happens

11:33 am

moolingwa

8-3-2-0-1

11:34 am

moolingwa

nm, found the other 8

11:34 am

hurshy

top row grey!

11:35 am

moolingwa

woot

11:41 am

moolingwa

6 to go

11:41 am

hurshy

go mool!!!

11:46 am

hurshy

is there more than 1 ph word?

11:47 am

moolingwa

I have 1 p remaining, and only one ph

11:48 am

hurshy

found an 8!

11:48 am

hurshy

found the other 8!

11:48 am

moolingwa

similar track to me :)

11:49 am

hurshy

except i need TWO p words lol

11:49 am

moolingwa

pfft :)

11:49 am

moolingwa

5 to go

11:50 am

hurshy

10 here

11:50 am

moolingwa

HH S P V

11:50 am

moolingwa

2-1-2

11:50 am

hurshy

yeah missing same stuff but more

11:51 am

hurshy

ok got the V, va6/30, dunno why i thought of that

11:51 am

DS927

moolingwa what does it mean when someone writes like you did 2-1-2?

11:52 am

hurshy

he needs 2 four letter words, 1 five letter word, and 2 six letter words to finish

11:52 am

moolingwa

2 4 letter words
1 5 letter word
2 6 letter words

remaining

11:52 am

moolingwa

it's also known as hurshian notation :)

11:52 am

hurshy

whereas i need 4-2-2

11:52 am

DS927

oh duh. That makes so much sense. I'm not sure why I didn't think of it.

11:53 am

DS927

hursh - love your kitty icon

11:58 am

moolingwa

only makes sense once you know...otherwise pretty obscure :)

12:00 pm

hurshy

thank you. she is an angel who happens to look like a cat. her name is Rilla.

12:00 pm

hurshy

(she never does anything naughty, hence not a cat)

12:01 pm

moolingwa

ah, found an h

12:01 pm

hurshy

which S are you missing from, mool? I need one from each!

12:01 pm

moolingwa

4th column s

12:01 pm

hurshy

and you got the not-happy-fellow?

12:03 pm

moolingwa

oh duh on the v

12:03 pm

hurshy

really? you're calling a duh on that one??

12:04 pm

moolingwa

yeah, because I always think of it as an alternate of the w...

12:04 pm

hurshy

well apparently it IS, so well done

12:04 pm

hurshy

i hadn't connected the two

12:04 pm

moolingwa

yeah, though I had to look that up

12:05 pm

moolingwa

if you mean the hebrew letter, then yes I have that

12:05 pm

moolingwa

2-0-1

12:05 pm

moolingwa

H S P

12:05 pm

hurshy

uh, yeah, that's what i mean

12:05 pm

nrkii

10 to go here, and hi all!

12:05 pm

hurshy

hi nrkii

12:05 pm

hurshy

i'm stuck on all 8 of mine

12:05 pm

moolingwa

hey nrk...well done to get to 10

12:06 pm

moolingwa

found my s

12:06 pm

nrkii

stats on that v that's like a w?

12:06 pm

moolingwa

shoulda got that earlier too

12:07 pm

moolingwa

va6/30

12:08 pm

hurshy

ooh i got my left S words

12:08 pm

hurshy

2-2-2 now

12:08 pm

moolingwa

super!

12:08 pm

nrkii

I'm at 4, 4, 2

12:08 pm

nrkii

and apparently va6/30 is one of my 2

12:08 pm

moolingwa

nice

12:09 pm

nrkii

got it!!

12:09 pm

moolingwa

woot

12:09 pm

nrkii

pegs

12:09 pm

nrkii

shoot

12:09 pm

moolingwa

bang

12:10 pm

hurshy

lol

12:10 pm

moolingwa

got my last p

12:10 pm

moolingwa

so just the h to go

12:10 pm

nrkii

I had that already... I am randomly trying 4-letter words on my last 7 tiles

12:10 pm

hurshy

perhaps if it was weird you can clue it

12:10 pm

moolingwa

not the worst strategy

12:10 pm

moolingwa

p4 :)

12:10 pm

nrkii

Hawaiian word

12:11 pm

moolingwa

she means the p

12:11 pm

nrkii

2-4-1

12:11 pm

moolingwa

good chance it's the one you need

12:11 pm

nrkii

oh, didn't get the last p yet

12:11 pm

hurshy

well, one of the ones i need, yeah

12:11 pm

hurshy

ok i think i got that one you meant, no vowels

12:11 pm

hurshy

but still need one other one

12:12 pm

hurshy

at least i know it's not a ph

12:12 pm

nrkii

oh, I forgot to look up

12:12 pm

moolingwa

then all the others are easy

12:12 pm

moolingwa

one is an odd word but comes up frequently

12:12 pm

nrkii

1-4-1

12:12 pm

moolingwa

check plurals too :)

12:13 pm

hurshy

hmmmmmmmmmm

12:13 pm

hurshy

i have two plurals

12:13 pm

hurshy

i mean not counting plural 4s

12:13 pm

moolingwa

right, then p4

12:13 pm

moolingwa

and there's 4 p3 plurals

12:14 pm

hurshy

yeah i have a pa, pe, ph for those

12:14 pm

moolingwa

:)

12:15 pm

hurshy

ohhh pee ESSSSSS

12:15 pm

hurshy

forgot to think about that

12:15 pm

nrkii

yes!

12:15 pm

moolingwa

yep

12:15 pm

hurshy

ok, that leaves 3 H and an S

12:15 pm

moolingwa

that was my second guess

12:16 pm

hurshy

and 0-2-2

12:16 pm

nrkii

I'm missing one A from right side... 4, 5 or 6

12:16 pm

moolingwa

interesting

12:16 pm

moolingwa

0-0-1

12:16 pm

hurshy

probably you miss ap5/14 nrkii

12:16 pm

hurshy

no wait that is left

12:16 pm

moolingwa

yeah, that's an odd one

12:17 pm

nrkii

got it!

12:17 pm

nrkii

it was from the right, hursh, thank you

12:17 pm

nrkii

down to H2, S2
1-2-1

12:17 pm

hurshy

oh yeah it is, nvm, my brain just blipped

12:18 pm

hurshy

ok got some odd hi words, 5 and 6 pair

12:19 pm

hurshy

one more H and one more S

12:19 pm

moolingwa

not if you're bad at spelling :)

12:19 pm

hurshy

lol

12:19 pm

hurshy

but i'm not

12:19 pm

moolingwa

true

12:20 pm

nrkii

oh shoot, I already had those

12:20 pm

nrkii

missing some other h 5/6 pair, or h4/5 pair I fear

12:20 pm

hurshy

is your last one H or S, mool?

12:21 pm

moolingwa

H

12:22 pm

nrkii

okay, down to 2 H, 5 and 6

12:22 pm

moolingwa

I suspect your s is s5

12:22 pm

moolingwa

perhaps the turkish military unit

12:22 pm

hurshy

if we are missing the same H then that would be correct mool

12:22 pm

moolingwa

we might all end up with the h6 as last

12:22 pm

hurshy

turkish military unit???? ack

12:22 pm

moolingwa

yeah

12:23 pm

nrkii

turkish thing comes up a lot --- greeting at a massage parlor

12:23 pm

hurshy

ty nrkii

12:23 pm

moolingwa

hah

12:23 pm

hurshy

i shall have to try to put that in my mind near the sa5

12:23 pm

moolingwa

I got the two back to back, so works for me

12:23 pm

hurshy

if it would just take a plural for that odd he5...

12:24 pm

nrkii

I always look for both together

12:24 pm

nrkii

what is the odd he5???

12:24 pm

hurshy

how tall you are, minus last letter

12:24 pm

nrkii

oh, have it...

12:24 pm

moolingwa

well I think that's an exclamation, so that would be odd

12:24 pm

nrkii

I was hoping for an o at the end

12:24 pm

moolingwa

yep, it is

12:24 pm

hurshy

but there's no o in the grid

12:25 pm

hurshy

AHA EUREKA

12:25 pm

nrkii

more's the pity

12:25 pm

hurshy

it looks japanese

12:25 pm

hurshy

he6/24

12:25 pm

moolingwa

woot!

12:26 pm

hurshy

looks japanese but not - small disc- or tube-shaped beads made of organic shells or ground and polished stones. They come from the Kewa Pueblo people of New Mexico, before the use of metals in jewelry by that people.

12:26 pm

moolingwa

ah, the japanese did it for me

12:26 pm

moolingwa

tx hursh...fw pour moi too

12:26 pm

hurshy

:D woot woot

12:26 pm

nrkii

not me :(

12:26 pm

hurshy

not far to go though for you either right?

12:27 pm

nrkii

still have h5 and h6 to go...

12:27 pm

hurshy

do you have ha5/14

12:27 pm

nrkii

no

12:27 pm

hurshy

and then the one i just found and clued? or another 6 besides that?

12:28 pm

nrkii

the one you just clued + ha 5/14 are my last 2

12:28 pm

hurshy

ok cool

12:28 pm

nrkii

found ha5

12:28 pm

hurshy

ha5 is like shakespearey or king jamesy

12:28 pm

nrkii

twisty

12:29 pm

nrkii

found he6! fw!

12:30 pm

nrkii

he6 ends like japanese raw fish ... that was a good clue earlier, but I was trying to be too cute with it

12:30 pm

nrkii

Thanks so much. Back to work. Have a great day all.

12:35 pm

hurshy

triple fw is extra lucky

12:41 pm

hurshy

(i just made that up but it sounds good)

12:45 pm

penquis

glad I dropped in in time to see that he 6 clue....hello all....

12:55 pm

caps

Hast

12:55 pm

caps

Hast

12:55 pm

penquis

wrong box...

12:58 pm

MollyL

Shakespeary? King Jamesy? Maybe Old Testamenty too.

12:58 pm

penquis

old english...

1:25 pm

MollyL

Just old

1:40 pm

penquis

stalled at 20...bbl...bye all....

1:43 pm

hokie carla

rehi - recaulked the bathroom because the stuff mr. homie used when we remodeled was terrible. then I started taking the ugly wallpaper down in another bathroom. what a PITA. I said I'd never move into a house with wallpaper on the walls and yet here we are.

1:48 pm

MollyL

Whoever thought wallpaper was a good decorating idea should be put in the stockade.

2:02 pm

hokie carla

these people also had very questionable paint color tastes. if you recall, I've had to paint all the walls and trim in here.

2:24 pm

hokie carla

finally HOET!

2:27 pm

hokie carla

found the 2nd 8. seems a little questionable.

2:31 pm

hokie carla

well, back to work. 12 left. 5-3-2-0-0-2

3:46 pm

Zadit

I'm hoping someone can help me. Got a Mac laptop for Christmas but don't know how to transfer Babble Expert to it. Can anyone help please?

3:58 pm

KnightTime

@zadit - If I remember correctly it only works in windows. Lickety did not have a compiler for apple os. Not sure if it will work with a win os emulator on a mac.

3:59 pm

Zadit

thank you Knight, that makes me so sad if that's true. I've been playing this game for years but always on my PC which I was hoping to get rid of.....

4:02 pm

KnightTime

catch lickety at the flip and ask him

4:26 pm

MollyL

Lickety is not at the flip, "Clues are up" is an automated message. Email him at: licketySplitAUS
@gmail.com. But Expert is never working on Macintosh computers.

5:23 pm

KnightTime

what would we do without you?

5:59 pm

cybernan

hello again if anyone is still here

6:04 pm

cybernan

one more reason not to buy a mac :)

6:07 pm

MollyL

I've never liked Macintosh products

6:10 pm

cybernan

so many new words added to the dictionary -- maybe it is time to drop the middle english?

6:20 pm

cybernan

va 6 please?

6:24 pm

cybernan

Done - back at the flip if I'm still awake :)

6:42 pm

hokie carla

the "clues are up" is automated, but sometimes lickety is at the flip. however, as a long time mac user, I can tell you there is no babble expert for it. you just copy your list and paste it into lickety's sheet. no big deal.

6:44 pm

hokie carla

I'm on my second Mac since 2012 and would never go back to Windows.

6:48 pm

Zadit

I've been dragging my heels at getting a mac but my husband insisted this would be the year to make a convert out of me, lol.

6:49 pm

Zadit

He keeps sayng I'll LOVE it once I get used to it <keeping my fingers crossed>

6:51 pm

hokie carla

I assume he has one and loves it?

6:52 pm

Zadit

Ok, so I did the bulk add/grab after opening the link that says Lickety's Babble Clues and it worked, but there is no chat there :( So I would have to keep flipping back and forth between two tabs , ugh

6:52 pm

Zadit

Oh, yeah, he's Apple all the way lol

6:55 pm

hokie carla

I just play here until I find as many as I can or get tired of looking, then paste into lickety's sheet.

7:06 pm

hokie carla

was just thinking. 2012 was when I got my first macbook. just realized I have been mac way longer, with an imac and then a mac mini.

7:41 pm

72 Temple Owl

CARLA?

7:52 pm

welki

Open a new window for Lickety’s list and split your screen - the list (for me) goes on the right side, about 1/4 the size of the babble screen, depending on how many long words there are.

AND HEY! OWL!

7:57 pm

72 Temple Owl

HEY WELK!

8:02 pm

72 Temple Owl

see you later

8:03 pm

Shellbell_o-well

lurker fireworks! tyvm! ahoj!

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