Babble: Archived Puzzle for Wednesday, May 28, 2025

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:17 am

0471

ty lickety

12:17 am

Robespierre

Thanks!

12:25 am

cybernan

can't find that corner o

12:27 am

ursh

same here nan

12:28 am

Gillie

op6

12:30 am

ursh

tx Gillie

12:31 am

Gillie

yw

12:31 am

cybernan

ty gillie

12:36 am

justafreep

re7, I say as I claim the tiara!

12:37 am

cybernan

4 left including the 7, but crashing - - good night

12:40 am

0471

ty justafreep
part of your name is in the grid :)

12:43 am

justafreep

yw. and yes. freep represents!

1:13 am

sprite

morning babblers

1:32 am

sprite

fireflies and poofing

5:37 am

Atalante

re7 comes from an unexpected R, if that helps anyone

5:40 am

ChampFit

Not a bad grid! Hagd!

6:12 am

periwinkle

hi al. nene was one of the answer in Jeopardy Masters last night

6:58 am

bichon

Victoria Groce is beating Yogesh Rout

6:58 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :) I think I have tried the word Freon a dozen times now :/

7:28 am

MollyL

What I learned today...it is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. Say what?

7:29 am

dan2bit

9 left, mostly P's

7:30 am

MollyL

Bichon is that really you? Or the person that was posting as you the other night?

7:37 am

dan2bit

finito -thanks Atalante and all cluers

7:40 am

Sugrraleona

that re7 has me stumped

7:41 am

MollyL

It is not a word most people use

7:41 am

leighprefect

I wish it wasn't illegal, but I do appreciate NOT having to get out of the car to pump my own gas.

7:42 am

MollyL

I think it would be nice to still have it as an option. Especially for seniors and the disabled.

7:44 am

MollyL

I remember when gas stations had SELF SERVE and FULL SERVE options.

7:44 am

dan2bit

if you have all the 5-letter words you can find the re7, Sugrraleona

7:45 am

dan2bit

it's capitalism - when it gets too expensive to support that labor force unless you make not having it illegal, those Full Serve options disappear

7:46 am

Sugrraleona

found it - thank you so much

7:50 am

hokie carla

top row gray!

7:51 am

hokie carla

but hit the brakes on the R

8:09 am

hokie carla

well, 5 left. will take an eye break.

8:11 am

rururocks

five here too all r's

8:11 am

leighprefect

one re 6 left here

8:11 am

hokie carla

well, I flew through wordle and am back. I have R PP O R left

8:12 am

hokie carla

from which R, leigh?

8:14 am

leighprefect

it's the re 6/21, in that upper left corner. and i'm probably just overlooking something

8:14 am

hokie carla

yes, what you might do with a door, unless there is another I don't have.

8:14 am

leighprefect

OH FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE

8:15 am

rururocks

thats it hookie

8:15 am

leighprefect

bahaha, thank you, hokie!

8:15 am

hokie carla

congrats

8:15 am

hokie carla

I found a P

8:16 am

rururocks

found my missing r's

8:16 am

montreal13

your O hokie must be the OP6/21

8:16 am

montreal13

gm all

8:16 am

rururocks

no weird words in this grid other than a zillion babblets

8:16 am

hokie carla

yeah, I saw it was op6 from the flipchat but not seeing the word

8:16 am

rururocks

hi monty

8:17 am

hokie carla

I keep typing opener

8:17 am

rururocks

I realize we have lost your recaps on scores Monty

8:17 am

hokie carla

found my bottom R. it was a phantom from the top R.

8:18 am

montreal13

well, i've been negligent on those stats, sorry...but i'm not done with them...

8:18 am

montreal13

hey ru, i follwed you in the 15 million club !

8:19 am

rururocks

congrats

8:19 am

rururocks

you and I will get ahead of Dart someday :D

8:20 am

montreal13

eventually yes !

8:20 am

montreal13

i'm sure that dr God will reinstate links to my stats if i ask

8:22 am

rururocks

oh.. but you haven't updated them in a while. Life gets in the way I think no?

8:23 am

montreal13

exactly ru...

8:23 am

rururocks

I do like being in the fifteen million club though

8:23 am

hokie carla

got the O!

8:24 am

rururocks

LOL hokie... woo hoo

8:24 am

hokie carla

now just R P 5 and 6

8:25 am

montreal13

as do i ru, it''s an exclusive club ...smug...

8:25 am

rururocks

HAH

8:26 am

montreal13

9 left, Rs and Ps ...and 1 N - bbl - have a great day ru and hokie

8:26 am

hokie carla

well, I had a many year hiatus so I'm in the 6 million club. and I am not smug.

8:26 am

hokie carla

bye monty

8:27 am

montreal13

my hiatus has been in the iron sudoku....

8:27 am

montreal13

bye for now - "poof"

8:27 am

hokie carla

yeah, I have only played that a handful of times in the last 15 years

8:28 am

MollyL

The really high scores in the rankings are unbeatable. Those people play and finish every day. The only way to get ahead of them is if they quit playing or die.

8:36 am

rururocks

yeah.. or get kidnapped by the taliban or something

8:50 am

MollyL

Weird that Bichon never responded this morning. I hope she is alright.

8:54 am

hokie carla

yeah, I don't know what's going on there

9:07 am

hokie carla

ooh, found the P. now just an R6 left.

9:08 am

hokie carla

got it!

9:18 am

cybernan

good morning everyone :)

9:19 am

cybernan

p 4 x2, u 4 and re 7

9:23 am

cybernan

any clues for the re 7 please?

9:23 am

Sugrraleona

I have 3 left and I give up - have a great day eveeryone

9:27 am

cybernan

got it. Done. hagd everyone :)

9:31 am

Sugrraleona

palou

9:31 am

Sugrraleona

oops

9:35 am

Sugrraleona

cyber - when you lose electric and it you want it to come back up you re . . . . . (po5)

9:39 am

Sugrraleona

pa5 anyone? last one i need

9:40 am

hokie carla

a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.

9:40 am

welki

pa + a long time

9:41 am

hokie carla

basically a consonant/vowel sandwich

9:41 am

Sugrraleona

ty - fireworks

9:41 am

Sugrraleona

anyone need a clue before i leave?

9:42 am

bichon

po 5/820, pls

9:44 am

welki

solar, wind, nuclear

9:46 am

hurshy

phantom: hoopoe

9:52 am

bichon

tyvm welki

9:55 am

rururocks

bichon has someone been on your computer and posing as you?

10:00 am

hurshy

i always find it funny that pr**(aration) counts but pe**(etrator) doesn't

10:03 am

hurshy

done

11:07 am

bichon

re 7/48, pls

11:09 am

crosshair

To turn the juice back on.

11:10 am

crosshair

Sorry about blatant clue, feeling too off today to be cute with cluing.

11:10 am

bichon

ty crossy

11:22 am

MollyL

Bichon did you see Ru's question for you below?

11:24 am

bichon

I'm wondering about that

11:26 am

bichon

Yesterday someone posted on my account

11:28 am

MollyL

How could someone be posting on your account?

11:28 am

bichon

That's what I want to know

11:30 am

MollyL

Are you talking about Sunday when the Inna Gadda Da Vita conversation was going on?

11:31 am

bichon

No, this was yesterday

11:31 am

hokie carla

so what was yesterday's post that wasn't you?

11:32 am

MollyL

There are no posts from you yesterday

11:33 am

bichon

re 6/21, pls

11:33 am

MollyL

According to the archives you have not posted since Sunday

11:34 am

bichon

Okay, maybe it was Sunday

11:34 am

therealblah

opposite of to close, again

11:35 am

MollyL

Does anyone have access to your computer? Family members? Grandkids?

11:35 am

Sandraf

Any clue please for th o 6.21 please

11:35 am

hokie carla

so was there someone in your house or is mr. bichon a fan of inna godda da vita?

11:36 am

hokie carla

ends in a preposition, sandra

11:36 am

bichon

No way! Who is inna godda da vita

11:37 am

hokie carla

or sandra, last three letters are reagan's nickname (I see you're not american but maybe you'll get it)

11:38 am

hokie carla

bichon, it is a song from the 60s or 70s. I think the post was like a piece of trivia, and I know mr. bichon knows trivia with his jeopardy skills.

11:38 am

hokie carla

are you sure it wasn't him?

11:38 am

Sandraf

Many thanks Hokie carla

11:40 am

bichon

Mystery solved. Mr. B posted it without my knowledge

11:40 am

bichon

re 6/21, pls

11:40 am

therealblah

i clued it...opposite of to close again

11:41 am

bichon

tyvm blah

11:41 am

therealblah

yvw

11:41 am

crosshair

Iron Butterfly. :) we used to play that song to death back in the day. :)

11:43 am

hokie carla

I knew it had to be him

11:45 am

EvaNadine

heyo babblers!
hints for the R in the right-hand column?

11:45 am

bichon

Indian princess

11:45 am

hokie carla

ra5, has another sp ra4 (not in grid)

11:46 am

bichon

re 6/18, pls

11:46 am

EvaNadine

TY

11:46 am

Sandraf

Na 4.4 please I’ve tried everything!

11:47 am

crosshair

Inna-gadda-da-vita (sp), by Iron Butterfly, Vincent, by Don McLean, and Paradice by the Dashboard light, by Meatloaf. :) just those three songs back to back meant that you didn't have to reload the turntable for at least and hour if you had all three records on there. :)

11:47 am

ch1212

crossy, did you work in radio too?

11:48 am

rolotom

n + 3 vowels Sandraf

11:49 am

hokie carla

sandra, that's a greek architecture babblet, very vowelly

11:49 am

EvaNadine

oh man. my friends band still covers Paradise by the Dashboard light.
and its one of my friends' favorit ekaraoke song.
lol

11:49 am

crosshair

Once, a long time ago, I used to be a bit of an audiophile--back before ,y beloved made me get rid of all those milk crates of "dusty old records."

11:49 am

Sandraf

Ty

11:49 am

hokie carla

I just got a new record player and have been adding albums

11:50 am

Sandraf

I tried every combination but obviously not the right one! 3 to go…..

11:52 am

crosshair

Ty for the na4

11:52 am

crosshair

Never would have seen that one.

11:56 am

Sandraf

Re 6.18 please

11:56 am

hokie carla

sandra, there's another form of that word that replaces the last letter with s. I think that's the singular and this is the plural. just fyi for the future.

11:56 am

crosshair

Many will disagree, but records(unscratched ones) have a warmth that does not exist in digital recordings--especially the LP's they used to make for "quad" systems.

11:56 am

hokie carla

re6 is to get a paycheck again

11:58 am

hokie carla

we have a new sound system and mr. homie just keeps going on about how the records sound better than our streaming music. I agree, that's why I have records still. And my oldest is a big fan, too, so we look for things for each other at record stores.

12:00 pm

crosshair

He is right; Fire up Pink Floyd's The Wall record on a quad system and there is nothing else like it.

12:01 pm

Sandraf

No sorry cannot get it

12:02 pm

hokie carla

you **** a living by going to work

12:02 pm

crosshair

Ty, hokie

12:02 pm

bichon

ty carla

12:03 pm

EvaNadine

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*FIREBIRDS*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

12:03 pm

hokie carla

congrats!

12:04 pm

hokie carla

yeah, I need to get some Pink Floyd albums.

12:04 pm

crosshair

Yaa for Eva!

12:04 pm

crosshair

The Wall, and Dark Side of the Moon are a must.

12:05 pm

EvaNadine

i dont even bother trying to finish most days anymore, but it was within reach so i listed for the last few.

12:05 pm

Sandraf

Thanks for all your help but that word fails me. I’ve got the 1 before and 1 after

12:05 pm

hokie carla

yeah, I had both those on CD. also a huge fan of wish you were here.

12:06 pm

hokie carla

re + e4

12:07 pm

crosshair

Then Bat out of Hell, Supertramp, Boston, Third Stage, Queen, News of the World, basically anything from 1971, like Carol Kings Tapestry,

12:07 pm

Sandraf

Great, thanks. 2 to go

12:08 pm

hokie carla

huge Queen fan. the others I'm okay with. don't really know tapestry but have heard of it.

12:09 pm

crosshair

Tapestry was huge at the time--that and Simon And Garfunkles Bridge over Troubled Waters album.

12:10 pm

hokie carla

I actually have the S&G one, bought it at a thrift store or flea mkt

12:10 pm

crosshair

Oh, also Get Kind of Blue, by Miles Davis. :)

12:10 pm

crosshair

Some Otis Redding as well.

12:10 pm

hokie carla

did you know new albums are like $32USD? crazy

12:10 pm

crosshair

!!!!

12:11 pm

hokie carla

we were cleaning out our parents house last weekend and found a box of 8-tracks. nobody wanted those. LOL

12:12 pm

crosshair

Stampeders Steaming album as well.

12:12 pm

Sandraf

Fireworks!!,

12:12 pm

hokie carla

well done

12:13 pm

crosshair

Lol. I can still hear the "Ker-CHUNK" sould of an 8-track changing tracks. :)

12:13 pm

crosshair

Sound

12:13 pm

hokie carla

my mom's big boat of a car that I sometimes drove in high school had an 8-track player so I had to get an adapter to play my cassettes.

12:14 pm

crosshair

My 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix had a factory 8-track. :)

12:14 pm

hokie carla

this was an early 80s caprice classic or something

12:14 pm

crosshair

Had to buy a cassette tape adaptor for it.

12:15 pm

hokie carla

well thank goodness someone came up with the adapter

12:15 pm

crosshair

They certainly were boats!

12:15 pm

hokie carla

I think it was bigger than mr. homie's current pickup truck

12:15 pm

crosshair

Funny thing is I cannot remember ever worrying about buying gas for it.

12:16 pm

crosshair

It must have had a swimming pool for a gas tank.

12:17 pm

hokie carla

yeah, I don't remember putting gas in it

12:18 pm

hokie carla

I was so happy when my dad got a lumina for his company car and he let me drive it, it was the first model year for it, and they looked completely different than later models.

12:18 pm

hokie carla

but it was so sporty and smaller!

12:18 pm

crosshair

Seems we were $1.19/ gallon at the time.

12:19 pm

crosshair

My pay back then was $3.25/hour.

12:20 pm

hokie carla

earliest gas price I can remember was when I was in college, .98/gal. not sure what the exchange rate was back then, but this was early 90s.

12:32 pm

periwinkle

hi all.help with lone O please

12:33 pm

periwinkle

NM

1:33 pm

rururocks

i remember when gas was 29 cents per gallon

1:52 pm

sandr

Please can someone clue the 7? Thanks

2:05 pm

crosshair

Turn the juice back on.

2:07 pm

crosshair

Cheapest gas that I remember was 55 cents a gallon right before we went metric.

2:08 pm

sandr

Thanks

2:09 pm

crosshair

Np. :)

2:13 pm

MollyL

I remember the gas station sign across from my university. Gas: 55 cents a gallon. Cigarettes: 55 cents a pack.

2:14 pm

hokie carla

don't use them at the same time

2:15 pm

hokie carla

just saw ruru's 29 cents. dang, son!

2:17 pm

MollyL

Back in those days, all my best friend and I had to do was pool our weekend money for a case of Natty Boh and we were set. Ah youth. Although my taste in beer hasn't improved much.

2:20 pm

crosshair

We used to chip in a dollar each, put five dollars of gas in my friends 1976 Toyota Celica, and go "booze cruising" on the back roads all afternoon. Try that now and a cop will just shoot you to save on oaperwork. :)

2:20 pm

crosshair

Paperwork.

2:21 pm

MollyL

That's not much booze considering the size of a Celica

2:22 pm

crosshair

Five of us used to squeeze in there.

2:22 pm

hokie carla

we had a regular cruising loop in my high school town. my good friends & I never drank. I don't recall seeing other people I jumped in cars with drinking, but I know they did at parties.

2:23 pm

crosshair

Honestly, we are lucky to have survived that nonsense.

2:24 pm

hokie carla

one of my friends had a car with no back seat. can't rem. if it was his Honda CR-X or his Mazda RX-7, but he drove me to school a lot and sometimes he'd pick up his cousin so I'd have to sit on the console/gear shifter. I remember him getting up to like 80mph once on the short drive to school.

2:24 pm

hokie carla

You're right, lucky to have survived.

2:25 pm

crosshair

Lol, who shifted, him ir you?

2:25 pm

MollyL

Back then, there wasn't a shit ton of bad drivers on the road. I have a friend who is a police officer and he says about half the people they pull over don't even have a license, let alone insurance.

2:25 pm

hokie carla

LOL, now that you mention it I think he would yell, shift! and I would do it.

2:26 pm

crosshair

Insurance was cheap then--not so much now.

2:27 pm

hokie carla

btw, did anyone else see oeuvre today? first word I saw only I thought it was ouvre.

2:28 pm

MollyL

No Carla, just you

2:29 pm

hokie carla

odd, it's right there!

2:35 pm

rururocks

that comment is a work of art really

2:39 pm

MollyL

Now museum now you don't

2:39 pm

hokie carla

well this is abstract

4:41 pm

periwinkle

my last two words and the last two pr5. are they regular words?

4:42 pm

periwinkle

I found one of them

4:42 pm

periwinkle

and I found the other..

4:54 pm

MollyL

Ding and ding

5:26 pm

MollyL

Saanich, love the new profile picture. More anything else and less cats!

5:35 pm

saanichcat

many thanks Molly!

5:37 pm

dcseain

pe4y is so a word!

7:23 pm

rururocks

<---note to self post some kitty pictures

8:04 pm

rururocks

*note he said KITTY(

10:50 pm

mkg

hi all. clue for the R last column please. ty

11:36 pm

ursh

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