Babble: Archived Puzzle for Saturday, January 17, 2026

12:00 am

MetFan

Howdy all

12:00 am

Rainiqui

Hi everyone

12:00 am

ursh

hello all

12:01 am

cybernan

hello everyone

12:05 am

dofith

G'Day

12:09 am

cybernan

5 minutes in and already not liking this

12:09 am

MetFan

Join the club Nan

12:09 am

ursh

me neither

12:10 am

Rainiqui

amen sister

12:15 am

dcseain

this one is tough

12:16 am

jeanne314

49 words in and the brakes slammed big time. UGH.

12:16 am

dcseain

i’m 41 in, and yeah.

12:16 am

cybernan

not beating my head against the wall tonight - see you tomorrow :)

12:16 am

jeanne314

ap7 is my only decent 'get'

12:17 am

cybernan

nothing over a 5 here

12:17 am

MetFan

I got a ph6

12:17 am

ursh

ditto nan

12:18 am

dcseain

greyed the lower P

12:18 am

jeanne314

my 7 is related to that, MetFan

12:18 am

cybernan

got the ph

12:18 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:18 am

cybernan

and the ap - ty

12:18 am

MetFan

Thanks Jeanne

12:18 am

dcseain

and yeah, i’m hooked on ph6

12:18 am

dcseain

thanks, lickety

12:19 am

jeanne314

lol, dc!

12:19 am

ursh

thank heavens lickety

12:19 am

MetFan

Good one Seain - I'm hooked on classics

12:20 am

dcseain

yay classics!

12:20 am

cybernan

oh - that is an oldie

12:21 am

MetFan

More like classic rock - I'm listening to Todd Rundgren right now

12:22 am

dcseain

nice!

12:22 am

dcseain

i recently rediscovered Aztec Camera

12:24 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, se 8

12:24 am

jeanne314

22 left. still struggling.

12:25 am

jeanne314

thanks, Rain!

12:25 am

Rainiqui

the se 8 is a compound word

12:25 am

Rainiqui

yw Jeanne !

12:26 am

MetFan

Now that the list is up, I can't believe the 4 letter words and babblets I am missing!! This is ONE confusing grid.

12:27 am

dcseain

found an ap5 bug

12:27 am

dcseain

and finally got the top 0, babblet indeed.

12:33 am

jeanne314

monkeying brings rewards...just learned the word for a deep-sea fishing area (if you live off the Orkneys). Learn something new every day.

12:34 am

jeanne314

it is an ha4/5

12:36 am

jeanne314

18 left. Will come back tomorrow. Thank you all (and Lickety!) and g'night!

12:38 am

MetFan

33 left here, my brain just can't keep up right now. Good night all

12:42 am

sprite

morning, babblers

12:43 am

dcseain

morning, sprinte. i’m going to sleep. 28 for after sleep.

12:43 am

sprite

sleep well, seain

1:00 am

sprite

fireflies and poofing

7:16 am

Atalante

I dislike the concept of a gu word

7:20 am

periwinkle

hello all.

7:23 am

periwinkle

help with lone A in2nd column please

7:30 am

ChampFit

an4/4

7:33 am

ChampFit

Got the 8!

7:40 am

periwinkle

sheesh ty Champ

7:40 am

ChampFit

The a? Took me a while too.

7:41 am

periwinkle

thanks I don't feel so bad now

7:41 am

periwinkle

25 left

7:43 am

ChampFit

I'm down to 5. I have ap7. do you know the stats for the other one?

7:44 am

periwinkle

ap7/36 and ap7/40 very similar words.

7:44 am

ChampFit

thx!

7:44 am

periwinkle

yw

7:51 am

ChampFit

FW! Need anything?

7:55 am

phaeton

fe8?

7:55 am

phaeton

sorry...fe4

7:56 am

ChampFit

fe4/8. babblet

7:56 am

phaeton

ty

7:56 am

ChampFit

Sure thing. Have a great day all!

9:16 am

bichon

ap 7/36, pls

9:19 am

BzznBea

ends in two vowels

9:20 am

hurshy

oh no, small grid

9:21 am

bichon

ty Bea

9:21 am

penquis

a disappointingly small grid....hello all...

9:21 am

hurshy

hi pen

9:22 am

penquis

hi hursh..., bichon....bea...

9:24 am

bichon

hi pen. Snowing in Maine? We got a dusting

9:26 am

penquis

yes...expecting a dusting but it might turn to rain....slow snowstorm...

9:27 am

penquis

very fine light snow...

9:28 am

hurshy

yay for snow

9:29 am

hurshy

phantom: gauche

9:36 am

hurshy

anyone have the E?

9:37 am

penquis

i do...

9:37 am

hurshy

oh me too!

9:37 am

penquis

french word....ends in a high point letter....

9:37 am

hurshy

i mean i just pulled a peri

9:37 am

penquis

hah!

9:40 am

penquis

the Gs are being a pain today....

9:41 am

hurshy

i've got 5 of them

9:41 am

penquis

more than me....

9:42 am

penquis

is there more tan one GU word?

9:42 am

hurshy

idk, i haven't got even one

9:42 am

penquis

lol....i have gu 5/18....

9:42 am

hurshy

because guac didn't count

9:42 am

hurshy

ah thanks

9:43 am

hurshy

well that means there can't be more than 2 then

9:43 am

penquis

but you only have one?

9:43 am

hurshy

i only have the one you just gave me, yes

9:43 am

hurshy

and i only need one more G

9:43 am

penquis

ok..

9:45 am

hurshy

and now i have all three 6s so it can't be a 6

9:45 am

hurshy

that i'm missing

9:45 am

hurshy

i do have one ge6 already

9:46 am

penquis

i am down to 8.....3 - 3 - 2....

9:47 am

hurshy

i am down to 3, 2-1

9:48 am

penquis

P D A GGG S....

9:48 am

hurshy

all the top A are normal

9:48 am

hurshy

what's the third one from the A that has the two 7s?

9:48 am

penquis

found a G...

9:48 am

Sugrraleona

any clues for the ap7s?

9:49 am

penquis

found my A...

9:49 am

hurshy

a + hooked on ph6s

9:49 am

hurshy

for the other one change the last letter to a vowel

9:49 am

Sugrraleona

ty so much

9:50 am

hurshy

the D words are all 4s except for two fives that are plurals of two of the fours

9:50 am

penquis

found a G....

9:51 am

hurshy

pen what's the other A from the A with the 7s?

9:51 am

penquis

the insect?

9:51 am

hurshy

ah thanks

9:51 am

hurshy

ok so the last G is a 4

9:52 am

hurshy

got it

9:52 am

hurshy

and one more C4

9:52 am

hurshy

done

9:52 am

penquis

Cs are ordinarly for babble....

9:52 am

penquis

congrats!

9:53 am

hurshy

pen have you got pi6, it's a lot like ph6

9:53 am

penquis

no...will look...

9:54 am

BzznBea

Thanks for the pi.

9:56 am

penquis

got it....down to 3...should be able to find those....

9:58 am

penquis

down to 1...

10:02 am

penquis

dstracted by "Lucky Dog"...

10:03 am

hurshy

what's that

10:03 am

penquis

TV show....guy who trains rescue dogs and finds homes for them....there is also an Australian version...

10:04 am

penquis

CBS Saturday morning shows...

10:04 am

penquis

is there an odd se 5 word?...it's my last one...

10:06 am

hurshy

there's only one S5 and it is sa and it is normal

10:07 am

penquis

don't know if i should feel better or worse, lol....ty....

10:07 am

hurshy

yw!

10:08 am

penquis

oh duh....done!

10:11 am

hurshy

congrats!

10:11 am

mkg

ty for sa 5 clue.

10:11 am

mkg

any clues for the 7s or 8? ty

10:12 am

penquis

ty...

10:12 am

penquis

the SE 8 is a compound word....normal word just not used all that often....

10:13 am

mkg

ty. i will try to find it.

10:13 am

mkg

i so far have only 4 and 5 letter words. ugh.

10:14 am

hurshy

what else can you call the carpool lane besides the carpool lane

10:14 am

mkg

got the 8! ty so much. great clue.

10:15 am

mkg

carpool lane? what word is this for hurshy?

10:15 am

hurshy

it's not a babble question

10:15 am

hurshy

it's an unrelated question

10:16 am

penquis

ha....i thought it was a clue i didn't understand...

10:17 am

mkg

oh.........another word for carpool lane then? hmmm. not sure there is another word. maybe pickup lane?

10:17 am

hurshy

aha i got it, it's the HOV lane (high occupancy vehicle)

10:17 am

hurshy

you definitely cannot pick people up in the carpool lane - talking about on the highway

10:17 am

mkg

yeah! are you doing a crossword?

10:18 am

hurshy

no i was doing Brackets

10:18 am

penquis

well i am off.....bye all....

10:18 am

mkg

oh i was thinking to pick up from school

10:18 am

hurshy

it's on the atlantic's website

10:18 am

mkg

got it.

10:20 am

mkg

are the ap 7s extensions of the ap 5?

10:21 am

penquis

hursh...do you have to be a subscriber to play?

10:21 am

penquis

no, mkg....more like the ph word....

10:21 am

hurshy

no, you don't

10:21 am

mkg

ty.

10:22 am

penquis

one just types in random words??

10:22 am

hurshy

well not random, no

10:22 am

hurshy

you have to figure out what the clue means

10:22 am

penquis

i see a blank box with a word entry box below....don't see a clue...

10:22 am

hurshy

are you looking at it?

10:22 am

hurshy

oh then you must either need to refresh or

10:23 am

hurshy

you may have some kind of issue where certain kinds of things don't show up on your screen?

10:23 am

mkg

ty got one of the ap words. ty.

10:23 am

hurshy

what you should be seeing is a block of text with a lot of brackets in it and some of the bits are highlighted

10:23 am

mkg

still missing three tiles. wow.

10:24 am

penquis

ty, hursh...i refreshed and now it shows the gobbledygook you are referring to...

10:26 am

hurshy

so you figure out a highlighted clue and it replaces that bit with the answer

10:26 am

hurshy

and then something else may get highlighted and you figure out that one

10:26 am

hurshy

until you have gotten them all and you end up with something that happened on this day in history

10:28 am

mkg

have any of you ever seen or used the ea word??????? cant believe that is a real word

10:28 am

hurshy

it's french

10:28 am

hurshy

for "waters"

10:29 am

hurshy

many waters cannot quench your love
rivers cannot overwhelm it

10:30 am

mkg

i hate when they use foreign words. not fair in my opinion. unless they are used in english it is not right.

10:31 am

mkg

ohio

10:31 am

mkg

ooops sorry

10:32 am

hurshy

well at some point people were presumably using it in english and it got put in the dictionary as a result and then people kinda stopped using it

10:34 am

hurshy

that's my best guess anyway

10:35 am

mkg

yup. guess so.

11:55 am

Trifioso

hello friends

12:27 pm

Trifioso

6 left, listing

12:33 pm

Trifioso

fireworks, tra la la

12:33 pm

Trifioso

woot woot

2:36 pm

bichon

au 5/14, pls

2:46 pm

MollyL

Not video

2:47 pm

mkg

TV is visual, records are au***. sound only

2:57 pm

bichon

tyvm mkg, Molly

3:59 pm

bichon

ge 5/16, pls

4:00 pm

mkg

dont have it sorry

4:05 pm

periwinkle

bchon first 3 of the ge6 and they ask for ** when you go into a bar

4:12 pm

bichon

tyvm, peri

4:13 pm

periwinkle

yvw

4:18 pm

bichon

one word left

4:18 pm

periwinkle

5 here

4:18 pm

periwinkle

io5 please

4:20 pm

bichon

last 2 letters what you pour in a glass to make it cold

4:20 pm

bichon

sa 5/14, pls

4:22 pm

periwinkle

don't have it bichon

4:24 pm

periwinkle

ty for io5

4:26 pm

bichon

yvw

4:27 pm

periwinkle

sa5/14 tomato sa5 is used a lot in Italian dishes

4:31 pm

bichon

ty peri Firewords!!

4:31 pm

periwinkle

fireworks!!

4:31 pm

periwinkle

yw

5:00 pm

Sugrraleona

fireworks - whoop!

6:05 pm

felicitas

please help on the se 8

6:06 pm

felicitas

secodic

6:20 pm

felicitas

pls pls clue for se 8 for fw

6:35 pm

sajarn

combination word: person + young lady who meets a furry family

6:53 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

greetings all, long day, diving in

7:47 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

argh, stuck with 15 to go, nighty night

8:26 pm

Gillie

I've got the se8 and sajarn's clue still baffles me. The only "young lady who meets a furry family" I could think of was Goldilocks, but maybe she's thinking of the young lady who meets a wolf?

8:27 pm

Gillie

(the se8 ends in the last part of her name)

10:49 pm

cybernan

nothing making sense on the se 8 and don't have the ge 6

10:52 pm

parisla

se8 is a compound. state of being an individual

10:53 pm

cybernan

ty - a new one for me

10:53 pm

parisla

ge6 is the adjective for the rock containing crystals (not in the grid)

10:59 pm

cybernan

ty again

11:08 pm

cybernan

pi 6 please?

11:11 pm

cybernan

done :)

11:33 pm

ursh

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