Babble: Archived Puzzle for Monday, January 26, 2026

12:00 am

ursh

hello all

12:00 am

MetFan

Howdy all

12:00 am

Rainiqui

Hi everyone

12:01 am

rururocks

En7

12:01 am

Rainiqui

Hi Ru

12:01 am

rururocks

Hiya rain

12:03 am

Rainiqui

pe 7

12:03 am

rururocks

Ba7

12:04 am

JoyOh

Te7

12:05 am

Robespierre

Good morning! Te7 x 2

12:10 am

hurshy

anyone else ever put in a word you know will not work, just for laughs? i just did "bonous"

12:11 am

MetFan

I do it sometimes when the annoying little window comes up with words I have already put in, and it blocks the grid.

12:11 am

hurshy

that makes sense

12:11 am

hurshy

too much sense for someone as silly as me

12:17 am

Gillie

te7 x 2

12:17 am

Gillie

oh - called already

12:17 am

justafreep

pe7 x 2

12:18 am

justafreep

an7

12:18 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:19 am

Gillie

et7

12:19 am

justafreep

pa7

12:20 am

justafreep

thanks, lickety

12:20 am

hurshy

it is pretty creepy when all your cats just stare at you judging you for staying up too late, so, night all!!

12:21 am

MetFan

Night hurshy

12:22 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, ey 8

12:22 am

justafreep

night, hurshy. <stares at your cats for judging you>

12:24 am

Rainiqui

seat

12:37 am

MetFan

Thanks Rainiqui - I just figured what the ey8 was

12:37 am

Rainiqui

You're welcome MetFan

12:37 am

Rainiqui

notes

12:38 am

MetFan

You're whoops-ing again

12:39 am

Rainiqui

can't help it - I'm higher than a kite on pain meds

12:40 am

MetFan

Sorry

12:40 am

Rainiqui

not a problem, at least they are starting to work

12:41 am

MetFan

And just because I was clearing out that "annoying little window" so I could see the grid, I stumbled onto en7

12:42 am

Rainiqui

and just because you said that, I found the en 7

12:43 am

MetFan

Kewl

1:09 am

MetFan

OK Half done time for bed. 'Night all.

6:39 am

ChampFit

I thought about that ey8 but didn't try it because I didn't think it was a word.

6:40 am

ChampFit

Down to 40. Back in a bit.

6:43 am

FrenchToast

I just got that ey8, so weird

7:02 am

FrenchToast

phantom sentence

8:24 am

godthaab

Name that Proper Noun: Highland Malt

8:25 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :)

8:42 am

periwinkle

hi crossy hello all

8:42 am

periwinkle

just paid someone to clear out my car

9:05 am

BzznBea

Hope you didn't pay them until they finished the job.

9:08 am

periwinkle

I waited til they finished

9:17 am

rururocks

why is that bea?

9:21 am

welki

'morning, babblers

9:21 am

rururocks

hi welks

9:25 am

welki

i need to find a persimmon supplier - i know they're past season now, but was only able to buy one bag (from our fruit guy) this year before the season ended. i love 'em

9:26 am

rururocks

the fuyu (sp>?) or the regular persimmons?

9:26 am

welki

fuyu - the others take too long to ripen

9:26 am

welki

besides, fuyu is just fun to say :D

9:26 am

rururocks

oh.. I need to send you a salad recipe for them that is amazing

9:27 am

ChampFit

I feel like you're cursing each other. fuyu! ;)

9:27 am

welki

i never see them up north, so i go on a frenzy when i find them

9:28 am

rururocks

I get them from my old neighbors they have a tree and gladly give them away

9:28 am

rururocks

come on down

9:28 am

welki

champ! yep, i can hear ru and me - fuyu! well fuYU!

9:28 am

ChampFit

HA!

9:28 am

rururocks

fuyu and the horse you rode in on :D

9:29 am

welki

be right there - *everyone in the car!! ru has persimmons!*

9:31 am

welki

one of our neighbors has a friend who has pomelo trees - the tree owner just wanted them gone, so we've been lucky to have some of them

9:32 am

rururocks

I have a peach, a plum, cara cara orange, and meyer lemon tree ...and a asexual apricot tree

9:33 am

welki

mmmm...those oranges are my fave! never understood the attraction of meyer lemons, although i suppose they're tasty in a marmalade

9:34 am

rururocks

meyers are the best

9:34 am

rururocks

mine are particularly excellent. I give them to local restaurants and they love them.

9:35 am

welki

heh - of course they are, but not sure i want to know why

9:35 am

rururocks

just luck.. i got a great tree at the nursery

9:37 am

BzznBea

note

9:38 am

BzznBea

darnit

9:38 am

welki

hi, bea

9:38 am

BzznBea

hello

9:38 am

BzznBea

I have some persimmons in my freezer.

9:51 am

welki

do you freeze them whole, sliced, pureed?

9:52 am

BzznBea

I froze them whole after I cored them.

9:53 am

welki

please tell me what you'll do with them (and if they're the little fuyus or big hachiyas)

9:54 am

BzznBea

They are hachiyas. I will use them in bread.

9:56 am

welki

i bought a few of them - couldn't get them to ripen up enough to get rid of the astringency. (tried the apple in a pot with them, since leaving them on the counter didn't work - but even after becoming soft, they were mouth puckering)

9:57 am

welki

persimmon bread sounds yummy!

10:06 am

hurshy

snow day - Newhart marathon!

10:17 am

cybernan

good morning - 17F here - cold enough to keep me indoors

10:17 am

penquis

12 degrees here....still snowing a little....looks like about 15 inches fell....

10:18 am

penquis

i will have to go out to deal with my car soon....but the landlord got someone with a snow blower to blow a path to my car from the lot, so that was a nice surprise....

10:18 am

penquis

means less shoveling for me!

10:19 am

penquis

and hello all... ;o)

10:22 am

welki

hi, pen - that was nice of your landlord- you'd be exhausted from shoveling a path before you even got to your car

10:23 am

penquis

hi welki...only have to shovel enough in front of my car to get it out into the plowed lot....and clean off the car, of course...

10:32 am

welki

there was just a post on the Babble FB page asking if anyone's heard from seain - i checked the archives and saw that, although he signed in on the 22nd, he's not posted since the 20th.

so, if anyone's engaged with him between then and now, please let the poster on the page know.

10:34 am

ChampFit

Just saw that welki. He's been coming on at the flip.

10:35 am

welki

(there was a thread he started that indicates he posted a reply three days ago)

10:38 am

cybernan

lucky ru with meyer lemons. They appear in Costco here for one week every year - earlier than usual this year so I missed them

10:45 am

hurshy

found the ey8, anyone got the other 8?

10:47 am

BzznBea

se8

10:48 am

hurshy

weird or normal?

10:48 am

BzznBea

weird

10:48 am

cybernan

compound?

10:48 am

BzznBea

no

10:49 am

hurshy

will you clue it for us? :)

10:49 am

BzznBea

se + person who rents

10:49 am

hurshy

thanks!

10:50 am

hurshy

it is nice when a word is weird but easy to clue

10:50 am

cybernan

ty bea

10:51 am

cybernan

struggling with the s - only have 13 so far also don't have that bottom e

10:52 am

hurshy

the e is just ea4/4

10:52 am

hurshy

i think

10:52 am

cybernan

ty - babble blindness

10:59 am

cybernan

time for breakfast - bbl

11:00 am

cybernan

(fur baby is also asking for some attention)

11:00 am

ChampFit

The eses have been a slog for me too nan

11:01 am

hurshy

yes, they are the hardest tile of the day

11:01 am

ChampFit

2 days in a row for me. Usually the P's are more trouble for me.

11:40 am

Book Doctor Gwen

I pause, I dive (hi all)

11:46 am

ChampFit

Welcome!

11:57 am

BzznBea

I thought the fruit was a phantom.

12:30 pm

welki

(just received word that seain's okay, just without internet and phone temporarily)

12:31 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

(!)

12:36 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

75 to go, BBL if i can

12:46 pm

BzznBea

Good to hear dc is okay.

1:08 pm

penquis

back...

1:09 pm

penquis

going to take a whack at my last 50...can't shovel yet...still snowing....

1:15 pm

rbud

Oh! Thanks for the word on Seain, I'd wondered about him, as we have four games open in Lexolous on FB right now, and he'd not been in for a few days. I was already sad because the other person I was playing against was Jillyjill Deppel, and she passed away the other day. Then the game took her off the gameplay list, and our whole 4 or 5 year history seems to be gone. :

1:16 pm

rbud

Anyone else on FB who might want to play Lexolous? It's a Scrabble-like game.

1:16 pm

penquis

sorry, i don't do Facebook...

1:17 pm

rbud

I'm not mush on it either, but I dash in to play the game and try to avoid getting sucked into the rest if possible.

1:18 pm

rbud

*much

1:18 pm

penquis

good plan...

1:18 pm

penquis

carla is now playing the new game at the NY Times...i think it's available via an app....forgot the name of it...but it's like Scrabble...

2:04 pm

penquis

stalled at 26....bye all...

2:48 pm

BzznBea

Anyone have a clue for ne7?

2:50 pm

BzznBea

goy iy

2:51 pm

BzznBea

got it

2:51 pm

hokie carla

howdy folks, power and internet back!

2:58 pm

BzznBea

How long was it out?

2:59 pm

hokie carla

from 4pm yesterday to 1pm today

2:59 pm

hokie carla

I had a hotel booked for tonight and we were getting ready to leave.

3:00 pm

penquis

Glad your power is back… no ice here, but still snowing…

3:01 pm

hokie carla

house was 55 this morning and it's supposed to get down to 19 tonight. we are slowly warming up.

3:02 pm

penquis

18 here. That will be the high at least through tomorrow night. But I do have power.

3:03 pm

hokie carla

hope you keep it!

3:04 pm

penquis

Me, too! My buildings wires are underground, so that helps. But who knows what will happen.

3:04 pm

hokie carla

yeah, our neighborhood lines are all buried, but that doesn't help for down the line.

3:05 pm

hokie carla

still haven't unpacked my bag for the hotel, just in case. I don't expect it to go out again though.

3:06 pm

penquis

That’s good.

3:07 pm

penquis

I have no energy to look for my last 26.

3:07 pm

hokie carla

178 left here

3:08 pm

hokie carla

I didn'

3:08 pm

hokie carla

I don't think I finished last night. I didn't have the energy to look on my phone.

3:09 pm

BzznBea

How about the en7?

3:09 pm

penquis

I won’t play on a phone. I am now on my iPad but I will probably switch to my laptop to play.

3:09 pm

BzznBea

nm

3:09 pm

penquis

I have two.

3:10 pm

penquis

Can you please clue the ne 7?

3:10 pm

hokie carla

yeah, plus my phone is the iphone mini so it's turrible. I will play on my ipad mini but prefer the laptop.

3:10 pm

penquis

Correction… only have one en 7

3:12 pm

BzznBea

ne7 is new prefix + more than nine with a sometimes vowel at the end

3:12 pm

BzznBea

I got the en7.

3:12 pm

penquis

Ty…new one for me.

3:13 pm

penquis

Good

3:16 pm

BzznBea

I'm done. See you all tomorrow.

3:16 pm

hokie carla

bye bea!

3:17 pm

penquis

Congrats and bye.

3:20 pm

hokie carla

phantom haboob

3:26 pm

penquis

Hading out for now. Bye!

3:26 pm

hokie carla

bye pen!

3:26 pm

Atalante

I'm slightly surprised enable doesn't know about cyanose

3:27 pm

hokie carla

enable never surprises me anymore

3:27 pm

penquis

There is a cy 7. Really going now.

3:28 pm

hokie carla

are you more or less surprised that I don't know about cyanose? I'm going to guess it's either related to cyanide or describing someone whose skin is blue.

3:28 pm

Atalante

more surprised :D yes, blue skin

3:29 pm

hokie carla

I think I usually see the form cyanosis

3:30 pm

hokie carla

so it was a real leap for me to suss that out ;)

3:36 pm

periwinkle

not doing well with 7s. help with with pe7 please

3:37 pm

Atalante

:D :D

3:38 pm

periwinkle

or either te7 pls

3:38 pm

periwinkle

I have one te7 those who rent

3:39 pm

periwinkle

just checked the list and there is only one pe7 and I found it

3:39 pm

hokie carla

the other is the state of being those people, peri

3:40 pm

periwinkle

ty carla

3:40 pm

periwinkle

I only hae 6 of the 7s

3:43 pm

Atalante

I only have 7!

3:43 pm

hokie carla

only 5 here

3:43 pm

periwinkle

there is an An7 and Pa7 which I do not have

3:46 pm

periwinkle

an7 : woman's name and picnic****

3:46 pm

periwinkle

an7 : woman's name and picnic****

3:46 pm

periwinkle

help with E in right column please

3:47 pm

periwinkle

found an et6

3:47 pm

periwinkle

bbl

3:50 pm

Atalante

and the plural, peri

4:27 pm

periwinkle

ty Ata

5:14 pm

FrenchToast

Back to find my last 48

5:15 pm

FrenchToast

I don't have any SO's

6:41 pm

cybernan

hi everyone

6:41 pm

FrenchToast

hi nan

6:41 pm

cybernan

cy 7 please?

6:42 pm

cybernan

or the pa 7?

6:42 pm

FrenchToast

first 4 letter is a word for blue + past tense of consume

6:43 pm

FrenchToast

pa7 is a word for friend in Italian

6:43 pm

cybernan

ty - thought I'd tried that cy

6:44 pm

cybernan

no idea on the italian

6:44 pm

FrenchToast

add vowel to the end of the pa6

6:45 pm

cybernan

don't have a pa 6

6:48 pm

FrenchToast

pa + vowel + kids play in the ***dbox

6:48 pm

cybernan

ty for both

6:49 pm

cybernan

did you find the so?

6:49 pm

penquis

i have an so 7...

6:49 pm

penquis

and an so 6...

6:50 pm

cybernan

so 4 babblet, broth and compass point - don't have the 7

6:50 pm

cybernan

oh and extend the broth

6:50 pm

penquis

there is so 7 that is a priest's outfit...french word....

6:51 pm

FrenchToast

pen do you have the first se6

6:51 pm

penquis

starts like the broth....aneds with the end of a stick you use to walk....

6:51 pm

cybernan

ty pen -- knew the word but not the meaning

6:51 pm

penquis

i have the se 6 that is a ceremony conducted by a mystic....

6:51 pm

FrenchToast

Oh thank you

6:52 pm

FrenchToast

yes that was it

6:52 pm

penquis

yw...

6:52 pm

cybernan

yes have that one

6:52 pm

penquis

French didn't have the french word... ;o)

6:52 pm

penquis

oh...meant to say she didn't have the se 6...

6:52 pm

penquis

i still have 26 to find...

6:53 pm

cybernan

you are way ahead of me

6:53 pm

FrenchToast

lol I am not French

6:53 pm

penquis

:oD

6:53 pm

cybernan

still missing 4 7's and 10 6's

6:53 pm

FrenchToast

I just like French Toast hahaaaaaaaa

6:53 pm

penquis

i grew up in a fench speaking home...english too...

6:54 pm

penquis

well i am missing 5 sevens....and 5 sixes...

6:54 pm

FrenchToast

I took French in college

6:54 pm

cybernan

I can manage enough French to get by in most circumstances, but that is about it - grammar is probably horrible and don't know the gender of most things

6:54 pm

penquis

i had french in school through grade 10...

6:56 pm

cybernan

me too -- brushed up on it when I had a French d-i-l and improved some after several trips to France, but that was almost 20 years ago now.

6:57 pm

FrenchToast

I have a French Canadian friend, and we speak "frog-lish" with each other. lol

6:57 pm

cybernan

and Quebec and Acadian French is quite a bit different from that spoken in most of France.

6:58 pm

FrenchToast

Yes, she is Quebecois. It's def different than the textbook French.

6:59 pm

FrenchToast

When I was in Paris on vaycay, I spoke French to the cabbie and shopkeepers, etc., and they all understood me but would answer me in English.

6:59 pm

FrenchToast

oh well

7:00 pm

cybernan

Quebecois french is more like old Norman Fench which make sense as the orgininal settlers in "New France" were from Normandy

7:01 pm

penquis

i had textbook french in school...Parents spoke more Quebecois...

7:01 pm

penquis

all my grandparents were born in the province of Quebec...

7:02 pm

cybernan

and that is somewhat anglicized now -- or at least in the Montreal area it is

7:02 pm

penquis

yes..."le weekend"... ;o)

7:02 pm

cybernan

yes and "changez les tires"

7:04 pm

penquis

never liked the word pneu...

7:04 pm

FrenchToast

I learned a lot of useful French while playing the card game Mille Bornes

7:04 pm

cybernan

anyway -- loved the French countryside - had some great times there and wonderful memories

7:05 pm

penquis

i used to like that game...

7:05 pm

cybernan

anyone want to guess what my re remaining p words might be?

7:07 pm

penquis

still missing three...

7:07 pm

cybernan

yeah - me too

7:08 pm

penquis

other than the 6/7 mentioned here a little while ago, the pa words are all ordinary....

7:08 pm

penquis

except for the first one...pa 5...just listed...

7:08 pm

penquis

it's ordinary., but not commonly used...

7:09 pm

penquis

there is a pu 5 that i didn't know...rhymes with the wood framed couch you can turn into a bed...

7:09 pm

cybernan

points?

7:10 pm

penquis

pe words look ordinary...

7:10 pm

penquis

which one?

7:10 pm

cybernan

the first pa 5

7:10 pm

penquis

pa 5/12 and pu 5/14

7:11 pm

cybernan

song of praise is the first one I have

7:11 pm

penquis

that is the first one...

7:11 pm

penquis

did you have the pu 5?

7:12 pm

cybernan

found the pu 5, ty

7:12 pm

penquis

yw...still missing some Ps?

7:13 pm

cybernan

was just wondering the same thing

7:14 pm

penquis

well you can see on the stats...

7:15 pm

cybernan

online family game night in 45 minutes, so better go and make some supper. Will have to finish this later tonight if at all. Good chatting, Pen and French :)

7:16 pm

penquis

what do you play online?

7:16 pm

FrenchToast

Nice to see you nan !

7:17 pm

cybernan

a lot of the games on board game arena - depends on the ages of those who show up

7:17 pm

penquis

so board game arena is a website?

7:17 pm

cybernan

yes

7:17 pm

penquis

cool, thanks...have fun...

7:17 pm

cybernan

my daughter has the membership

7:18 pm

penquis

nice...

7:20 pm

FrenchToast

That sounds fun

7:20 pm

FrenchToast

I love board games

7:21 pm

penquis

yes...my brother and i play gin through an app....it's fun but we can't chat while we play...

7:23 pm

penquis

anyone have the first hy 6/27?

7:26 pm

FrenchToast

yes pen, it's the animal but with an extra vowel after the Y

7:26 pm

penquis

ah, ty....

7:35 pm

penquis

vsm

7:35 pm

penquis

sorry...

7:35 pm

penquis

can't find my last two words....us 6 and ya 5...

7:36 pm

hokie carla

pen!

7:36 pm

penquis

carla!

7:36 pm

hokie carla

wish I could help you

7:36 pm

penquis

found it...

7:36 pm

hokie carla

noice

7:37 pm

FrenchToast

my last word is na5

7:37 pm

penquis

the last part is like the ending for several other words in the grid...like the mystic ceremony...

7:37 pm

FrenchToast

Fireworks!

7:37 pm

penquis

congrats...do you have ya 5?

7:38 pm

FrenchToast

yes

7:38 pm

penquis

can you please clue it?

7:39 pm

FrenchToast

do you need it? look at my email address in my profile

7:39 pm

FrenchToast

ya5.com

7:39 pm

penquis

oh duh...ty...

7:40 pm

penquis

i am done...

7:40 pm

FrenchToast

Yay! Congrats pen

7:41 pm

penquis

i got lucky with my car....someone took off the 15 inches of snow from my car AND shoveled the snowbank left by the plow. ... As my brother said, "C'est un miracle!"...

7:41 pm

penquis

ty...

7:42 pm

FrenchToast

Bien sur!

7:42 pm

penquis

now i will have to brush off the 3 inches falling tonight...and move the car...not bad!

7:44 pm

FrenchToast

Where in Maine are you

7:45 pm

penquis

midcoast...

7:46 pm

FrenchToast

The snowstorm was not too bad here. I'm on the coast of Virginia, near Norfolk.

7:47 pm

penquis

it started during the night and will end in the wee hours, i think....light snow because it's so darn cold...

7:50 pm

FrenchToast

Have a good night, stay warm & safe!

7:50 pm

penquis

you, too...

7:54 pm

hokie carla

nice you have a good samaritan neighbor

7:54 pm

penquis

yes...don't know who did it...i suspect it was the man who lives upstairs....he is a young guy....only talked to him once....

7:56 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

evening all

7:56 pm

penquis

hi gwen...

7:56 pm

hokie carla

hey gwen

7:57 pm

penquis

anyone need anything before i go?

7:57 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

only 75 clues /s

7:57 pm

penquis

:oD

7:57 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

the lone E, bottom row?

7:58 pm

rururocks

a couple thousand bucks pen?

7:58 pm

penquis

ea 4...

7:58 pm

penquis

nice try, ru...

7:58 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

can't be es4, it don't have an s

7:58 pm

rururocks

well.... you asked didn't you?

7:58 pm

penquis

EA...

7:59 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

oh, geez, ea4/7?

7:59 pm

penquis

ea 4/4...

7:59 pm

penquis

you're not the only one who had trouble seeing that word...

7:59 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

FISH ME thanks

8:00 pm

hokie carla

64 left here and I'm thinking of just calling it.

8:00 pm

penquis

probably a good idea...

8:00 pm

penquis

unless you want to list now....but it''s a long process...

8:00 pm

penquis

heading out....goodnight all...

8:05 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

at the rate i'm going i'll be dome in 6 hours

8:06 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

*done

11:13 pm

cybernan

hi again

11:53 pm

cybernan

3 left, us 6, cy 5 and ba 6

11:54 pm

cybernan

found the tree

11:55 pm

justafreep

the cy builds off the 4, I believe (there might be more than one, of course)

11:55 pm

cybernan

ty freep, got it

11:56 pm

cybernan

just need the us 6 now

11:56 pm

justafreep

and I have no idea what the us6/24 means

11:56 pm

ursh

us 6 sounds like the ending of a N word to describe something or somebody that is being irritating

11:56 pm

justafreep

nice, ursh.

11:57 pm

cybernan

ty ursh - done in the nick of time. There are a lot of words I have no idea of the meanings, freep!

11:58 pm

justafreep

they all mean needle case, I think.

11:58 pm

cybernan

lol - some kind of mountain goat

11:58 pm

ursh

or foreign money

11:58 pm

justafreep

ha. or foreign currency or a plant.

11:59 pm

cybernan

or a fungus

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