Babble: Archived Puzzle for Friday, May 22, 2026

12:00 am

Rainiqui

Hi everyone

12:00 am

dofith

G'day folks

12:00 am

MetFan

Howdy all

12:00 am

MetFan

maes

12:00 am

MetFan

sorry

12:00 am

hurshy

i feel like the flip needs a theme song

12:01 am

hurshy

just like the beginning of a tv show

12:01 am

MetFan

I'm listening to Neil Diamond....

12:01 am

hurshy

and i mean like a good classic one, not the minimalist modern ones

12:01 am

ursh

hello all

12:02 am

hurshy

bottom row grey!

12:04 am

hurshy

phantom: exceed

12:05 am

hurshy

and exempt and expert

12:15 am

hokie carla

And emcee

12:16 am

Robespierre

one of those isn’t a phantom!

12:16 am

hurshy

oh yeah sorry

12:16 am

hurshy

i meant to say except

12:16 am

hurshy

but then my brain mixed up the one i had just gotten with the one i meant to say

12:17 am

Robespierre

No worries—I’m still working on my first cup of coffee myself

12:17 am

hurshy

it is that it is very LATE for me and thus there are hazards

12:17 am

hokie carla

Exactly

12:18 am

hurshy

i think my two missing Es must be weird tho

12:18 am

hokie carla

I only found 2 from there

12:18 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:19 am

MetFan

ty lickety

12:19 am

hokie carla

PSA empyre is not an alt sp

12:20 am

hurshy

half an hour ago i saw the word bassinet and was struck by how weird it is that it is not an instrument somewhere between a bassoon and a clarinet

12:20 am

hurshy

not in a grid, i mean, someone used it in a sentence

12:21 am

hurshy

also i think we should start calling pimps sexecs

12:23 am

Robespierre

I was once testing a fourth grader and asked him what “transparent” meant. He thought for a moment, and then said, “it’s when one parent goes away and you get another one.” I really wish I could have given him some points for that, because it really does make more sense than the real meaning.

9:41 am

hurshy

did nobody

9:41 am

hurshy

email doc

9:41 am

hurshy

all that time

9:41 am

hurshy

until i did

9:42 am

rururocks

I emailed him

9:43 am

rururocks

I think he gets up about this time of day

9:43 am

hurshy

ah ok

9:53 am

origami

Yay

9:53 am

hurshy

hi origami

9:53 am

origami

Hi there

9:55 am

ChampFit

agree ruru. seems we're usually back up between 9:30 and 10 a.m. CST. he must get up then.

9:55 am

hurshy

oh i forgot to call the things i found

9:55 am

hurshy

cr7

9:55 am

hurshy

re7

9:56 am

rururocks

when you're doctor god you need your rest I guess

10:01 am

hurshy

everybody needs rest!

10:10 am

MollyL

I have emailed Dr. God early before. Ru is right, he doesn't check his email until mid-morning.

10:11 am

Shirlockc

i emailed DG. i think he needs to change his server or something -- been happening more often

10:12 am

MollyL

He said he was going to switch servers months ago but it never happened.

10:12 am

periwinkle

hi all help with bottom M please

10:13 am

ChampFit

ma4

10:13 am

periwinkle

sheesh ty Champ

10:13 am

ChampFit

np

10:16 am

rururocks

nice grid. Have a good day everyone.

10:16 am

ChampFit

you too!

10:17 am

hurshy

what can "British capital" be other than London or B ??

10:18 am

hurshy

oh nvm

10:18 am

hurshy

peri'd it :D

10:18 am

ChampFit

it's a thing!

10:20 am

hurshy

and i love how it works for pretty much everything, not just babble

10:41 am

hokie carla

howdy folks

10:42 am

hokie carla

I entered a lot of Fs last night that didn't take so it's still showing flatulence

10:44 am

hokie carla

phantom federate

10:45 am

saanichcat

hi there carla !

10:47 am

hokie carla

hey saan!

10:48 am

ChampFit

I just found a very obvious F that I missed earlier.

10:48 am

hokie carla

still need 5 F

10:49 am

ChampFit

I'm done to finished that godforsaken bottom e.

10:49 am

ChampFit

down

10:50 am

hokie carla

I only found 2 in that E last night so I knew they must be weird

10:51 am

ChampFit

omg...just found the em

10:51 am

hokie carla

how many letters?

10:51 am

hokie carla

oh, the regular 5?

10:51 am

ChampFit

5

10:52 am

hokie carla

that's one of the 2 I have

10:52 am

ChampFit

ok smarty pants!

10:52 am

hokie carla

lotta good it does me

10:52 am

ChampFit

the last 2 are ex so....

10:52 am

hokie carla

I have em5 and ex5

10:54 am

parisla

there's a normal ex4/10 abbreviation but I don't see the other two

10:54 am

ChampFit

I have 4, 5,5 from that oen

10:54 am

ChampFit

one....good grief!

10:54 am

ChampFit

Apparently I'm missing a 6 and 7

10:55 am

hokie carla

thanks, paris. I always forget that is allowed

10:55 am

hokie carla

but exed isn't

10:56 am

hokie carla

I have an ex6 but from the upper one

10:56 am

hokie carla

so maybe I need those

10:56 am

ChampFit

There's another one

10:56 am

hokie carla

also need one S on 4th row

10:56 am

hokie carla

nm, found the S

10:58 am

parisla

ex6/36 and Greek plural

10:59 am

hokie carla

ok, that helps me stop trying to make the s work, thanks

10:59 am

ChampFit

That's FW for me...thank you parisla!

10:59 am

ChampFit

Hints before I go?

11:00 am

parisla

Congratulations. Still 23 to find sometime today!

11:00 am

hokie carla

well, I might need another hint for that

11:00 am

hokie carla

and congrats

11:00 am

parisla

ends in a

11:00 am

hokie carla

figured that with the greek plural :D

11:01 am

ChampFit

It's an architectural term. We've had it before, but it's twisty here. hagd!

11:01 am

parisla

Well then you just need to put 3 1-pt tiles and one 2-pt in order :-)

11:01 am

hokie carla

have a good one!

11:02 am

parisla

I don't think the definition would help - it wouldn't for me. But just in case: A hollow space inside something

11:03 am

parisla

Sound-wise think of what the biggest churches are called

11:06 am

hokie carla

thanks, I will let think about things over golf (not really but maybe they'll pop out when I get back). still 52 left.

11:07 am

hokie carla

baffled by the other last col M. there's not really a lot of ways to go there.

11:08 am

parisla

both me4. One normal. The other is a Hebrew letter.

11:09 am

parisla

stay in the corner

11:10 am

hokie carla

don't think I've seen that before but I swear I thought I tried it. I bet I did last night when it stopped working.

11:10 am

hokie carla

thanks

11:15 am

bichon

ty parisa

11:19 am

hokie carla

well, made it 30. TTFN

12:01 pm

bichon

em 5/18, pls

12:01 pm

Speedie

not full

12:02 pm

bichon

ty Speedle

12:58 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

welcome back, babble (hi all)

1:00 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

nbt woot

2:03 pm

moolingwa

afternoon

2:32 pm

periwinkle

hey mool

2:32 pm

periwinkle

hello all

2:59 pm

moolingwa

hey peri

4:07 pm

periwinkle

re7 pr ce7 pleae

4:07 pm

periwinkle

please even

4:08 pm

periwinkle

I meant cr7

4:08 pm

mael

to have made

4:10 pm

periwinkle

sheesh ty and I already had present tense

4:12 pm

mael

it happens to the best of us :)

7:22 pm

rururocks

um.. that never happens to me :D

7:29 pm

MollyL

Because you are the best of the best : D

7:54 pm

rururocks

:D

7:58 pm

72 Temple Owl

good evening...may i please havre sa hint for re7/40?

8:01 pm

rururocks

re plus not back

8:01 pm

72 Temple Owl

sheesh ty

9:33 pm

mkg

not seeing not back in grid......front is not back. not there. what am i missing?

9:33 pm

dcseain

opposite of the back of something

9:33 pm

mkg

ooops got it. darn. i am so stupid. so sorry

9:34 pm

dcseain

all good

11:56 pm

hurshy

well i made the browser switch to vivaldi!!

11:56 pm

hurshy

and set noai.duckduckgo as my default search engine

11:57 pm

hurshy

will these changes help me to make other positive changes, in REAL life? stay tuned

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