Babble: Archived Puzzle for Saturday, August 22, 2026

12:01 am

MetFan

Howdy all

12:01 am

ursh

hello all

12:08 am

saanichcat

hello!

12:11 am

cybernan

hi everyone

12:12 am

Rainiqui

sa 7

12:12 am

cybernan

le 7

12:13 am

Gillie

ra7 (odd one)

12:16 am

cybernan

ne 7

12:19 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:19 am

MetFan

ty lickety

12:22 am

dizgrannie

hi all, nbt/nbs, ce 7/8

12:22 am

marksdolly

et 6/7

12:25 am

marksdolly

so 6/7

12:26 am

cybernan

ce 8

12:26 am

cybernan

oh - diz called it - sorry

12:26 am

marksdolly

en7

12:27 am

cybernan

*lol - meant ce not this

12:27 am

cybernan

thats a ne 7 trick, mark - no i

12:29 am

cybernan

ne 4 I mean

12:30 am

cybernan

obviously too tired to be doing this -- good night

12:37 am

dizgrannie

Vs vanquished, all normal Babble words

12:49 am

Gillie

an7

1:16 am

sugar

n

1:16 am

sugar

Flans

1:16 am

sugar

Foes

1:17 am

sugar

Apologies!

1:17 am

MetFan

No need - although it IS common courtesy to do so - We all do that on occasion

1:19 am

MetFan

dalton

1:19 am

MetFan

daltons

1:19 am

SummerBreeze44

Hahaha you talked yourself into it!

1:20 am

MetFan

Sure F***** Up that time!!

1:21 am

MetFan

Sometimes when I'm switching back & forth etween the grid and the clues, my cursor disappears. I should check more often to see that I'm not on the chog!!

1:55 am

dizgrannie

FWs...wasn't too bad a grid

2:32 am

worzel

Roxy Music song in the grid

5:29 am

ivesyj

clue for the ce 7 plz

5:31 am

lbdawger

pottery with a pale green glaze, Ivesyj

5:32 am

ivesyj

ok i will work on that ty

5:32 am

ChampFit

It's a color.

5:32 am

FrenchToast

And plural for ce8

5:32 am

ivesyj

ty ty both!!

7:00 am

bichon

ty dawg

8:33 am

maccafixx

ne 6/18?

8:34 am

maccafixx

nodals

8:34 am

maccafixx

oops

8:48 am

hurshy

morning folks

8:48 am

ChampFit

morning hursh

9:16 am

hurshy

finally greyed a tile

9:17 am

rururocks

It's hard to grey tiles in this one

9:17 am

hurshy

mine was the left N

9:17 am

ChampFit

I have the first column gray, 2 in the 2nd, and 1 in the 3rd.

9:18 am

hurshy

very good champ!

9:18 am

ChampFit

Only one 8 though. The ce that was called earlier.

9:19 am

hurshy

oooh, i'll have to look for that then

9:19 am

ChampFit

It's a 7/8.

9:19 am

hurshy

yes, got i!

9:19 am

hurshy

it!

9:19 am

ChampFit

woohoo!

9:20 am

ChampFit

we need en, no and tr. Peeked at the list.

9:20 am

penquis

i have two .... hello all....

9:20 am

hurshy

phantom: senate

9:20 am

ChampFit

Whatcha got, pen?

9:21 am

penquis

no 8...

9:21 am

hurshy

looking...

9:21 am

hurshy

is it a compound?

9:22 am

penquis

not exactly....it is a shortened version of a compound...i only tried it because it's also the name of a living history center here in Maine...

9:23 am

hurshy

oh! that's the estate from Sense & Sensibility!

9:23 am

hurshy

thanks

9:23 am

hurshy

that should help all the Austenites

9:23 am

penquis

yes...

9:24 am

ChampFit

still wouldn't have remembered it...thx!

9:24 am

penquis

me either...

9:24 am

hurshy

i think i actually remember it more because of watching it in movie form, i feel like my memory of it is more auditory

9:25 am

hurshy

dang, so close to having svelte

9:25 am

ChampFit

tried it anyway!

9:25 am

penquis

i think i read that 50 years ago and saw the movie 30 years ago, lol....

9:26 am

hurshy

there's a very nice 2008 version that i highly recommend

9:26 am

penquis

good to know, ty....

9:27 am

hurshy

and a new one this year but i haven't seen that

9:28 am

BzznBea

found the tr8

9:28 am

hurshy

the way they keep remaking things, you'd think there were hardly any books available to draw source material for films from

9:28 am

ChampFit

Hint please Bea!

9:28 am

hurshy

is it weird or normal, bea?

9:30 am

BzznBea

Its sciency. ends with areas of ground

9:30 am

penquis

new word for me...ty...

9:30 am

ChampFit

Thanks...new for me too

9:31 am

rururocks

have all the 8's now

9:31 am

ChampFit

hint for the en?

9:31 am

rururocks

part of a book

9:32 am

rururocks

in the back

9:32 am

ChampFit

just got it

9:32 am

ChampFit

thx!

9:33 am

penquis

ty, ru...

9:35 am

hurshy

yay for 8s

9:39 am

hurshy

phantom: aorta

9:50 am

ChampFit

Back in a few...

10:02 am

Gitel

Seton

10:02 am

Gitel

Sorry

10:02 am

MollyL

Mother...blessesself

10:05 am

Book Doctor Gwen

thunderstorms in my area, might lose connection, gonna babble while i can (hi all)

10:06 am

penquis

hi gwen....

10:09 am

Book Doctor Gwen

hi penquis! and nbt woot

10:11 am

hurshy

i learned a tip recently that the best way to keep mosquitos away from you if you're sitting outside is just to have a regular old oscillating fan near you! why didn't somebody tell me that ages ago??

10:15 am

Book Doctor Gwen

mosquitos keep that fact very secret!!

10:15 am

penquis

makes sense....i live close to the ocean and we often have a breeze....don't have any trouble with mosquitoes here....

10:16 am

Book Doctor Gwen

nbs woot

10:21 am

penquis

i am down to 37 and have only grayed 5 tiles...

10:21 am

penquis

make that 6...

10:21 am

hurshy

ooh i need to catch up, i'm on 38 and 4

10:22 am

hurshy

ok there's 37 and 5...

10:22 am

hurshy

36 and 6!

10:22 am

hurshy

36 is my favorite number

10:22 am

Book Doctor Gwen

go go go hurshy !!!

10:22 am

penquis

it's like playing with mool... ;o)

10:23 am

penquis

35 and 6, lol....

10:23 am

hurshy

i really wanted AVAST to be here

10:23 am

hurshy

can't beat pirate words

10:24 am

hurshy

do we have an ae word, anyone know?

10:24 am

penquis

i don't have one...

10:26 am

penquis

phantom I can't get away from: advance...

10:27 am

hurshy

we are also very close to having evanesce

10:28 am

penquis

good one...

10:29 am

hurshy

left col & bottom row grey!

10:30 am

penquis

go hursh...

10:34 am

hurshy

geez we seem to have a whole squadron flying over the house

10:34 am

hurshy

making the house shake

10:35 am

penquis

odd...

10:35 am

hurshy

and unpleasant

10:37 am

hurshy

name that proper noun! Rivendell elf

10:39 am

penquis

no idea...not good at remembering names...

10:39 am

hurshy

it's ok, if it gets answered it does, if not no biggie

10:43 am

ChampFit

Back for last 19. Getting nitpicky now

10:44 am

Book Doctor Gwen

Elrond !!!

10:44 am

ChampFit

that's it!!!

10:45 am

penquis

well i am stalled at 29...taking a break....bye all...

10:45 am

ChampFit

bye pen

10:46 am

Book Doctor Gwen

still working toward half of every tile

10:46 am

ChampFit

You can do it Gwen. It's really not a bad grid.

10:47 am

Book Doctor Gwen

five tiles to go

10:49 am

LuvWordGames

NTPN Samantha's mother's name in Bewitched

10:50 am

Book Doctor Gwen

now you are just trying to stump me lol

10:51 am

Book Doctor Gwen

agnes moorehead? hmmmm

10:51 am

ChampFit

Endora!

10:51 am

LuvWordGames

Ding!ding!

10:52 am

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!

10:52 am

hurshy

lol

10:52 am

hurshy

sorry, i went to put in my laundry

10:53 am

Book Doctor Gwen

(i cheated and looked it up)

10:54 am

hurshy

elrond or endora?

10:55 am

ChampFit

I got Endora.

10:55 am

hurshy

oh right

10:56 am

hurshy

phantom: sandal

10:56 am

Book Doctor Gwen

a German name than no one like (is in the grid)

10:56 am

ChampFit

phantom: advent

10:56 am

hurshy

adolf

10:56 am

hurshy

it's too bad

10:57 am

hurshy

imagine being so awful that you ruin your name for (at least) a century after your lifetime

10:59 am

Book Doctor Gwen

phantom: aldolfo

10:59 am

hurshy

and alencon

10:59 am

hurshy

if we're doing obscure ones :D

10:59 am

Book Doctor Gwen

at some point there will be no babies named donald (unless the parents are horrible)

11:00 am

hurshy

i do wonder if the scales will fall from their eyes once he's dead, or what

11:00 am

ChampFit

My name is Susan and they aren't naming babies that anymore. I promise i'm not a serial killer or anything!

11:01 am

MollyL

Names come and go. A lot of names popular long ago are popular again.

11:01 am

Book Doctor Gwen

some will never change but I suspect most of them will turn on him. every year more and more give up the cult. usually when his decisions hurt them personally

11:01 am

bichon

My name is Ilana, very few of them in the US

11:01 am

hurshy

i went to school with a Susan. she was Filipino, and her older sister had a Filipino name. when Susan was born they let the sister name her, and she didn't like how hard it was to deal with having an unusual name, so she picked Susan for her sister, and then of course Susan disliked having a "boring" name, lol

11:01 am

ChampFit

Agree bihon

11:02 am

ChampFit

Ha! It's just old fashioned now. Lots of them over 60 though.

11:02 am

Book Doctor Gwen

Gwen has never been popular but I once saw a collection of the top 100 baby names in the US over a long span of years and I made the top 100 for one year lol

11:02 am

ChampFit

I have a friend who named her daughter Gwen...she's early 20's now.

11:03 am

Book Doctor Gwen

hooray! more Gwens!

11:03 am

ChampFit

The more the merrier!

11:03 am

hurshy

i assume it's originally a Welsh name?

11:03 am

Book Doctor Gwen

def. Welsh

11:03 am

ChampFit

So far today the D is giving me the most trouble.

11:04 am

hurshy

oh really? for me it's the Ss and the V

11:04 am

hurshy

need 4 from each of those tiles

11:04 am

Book Doctor Gwen

my mom said she got the name from her penpal in Wales who was reading a book with a character named Gwyneth. Quintessential Welsh name

11:04 am

hurshy

da5/18 rhymes with a popular Poe poem

11:04 am

ChampFit

I like that, but it would be a lot to deal with as a little kid.

11:04 am

ChampFit

I have that hursh. monkeys.

11:04 am

hurshy

how's that for a phrase, "popular Poe poem", alliteration and more

11:05 am

ChampFit

Couldn't say it 3 times fast

11:05 am

hurshy

oh well i have only 2 D missing and all my others are usual suspects

11:05 am

ChampFit

same. Someone gave a free clue earlier but I didn't think it was a word so didn't use it till now. Looks like a man's name.

11:06 am

hurshy

well there's dave and da4/4...

11:06 am

Book Doctor Gwen

(stealing popular Poe poem for my tongue twister collection!)

11:06 am

hurshy

:D

11:07 am

ChampFit

I need that 4/4 apparently. Mine are all 4/5

11:07 am

hurshy

no no, of course it is 4/5

11:07 am

hurshy

you can't have a d4/4

11:07 am

hurshy

i just wasn't thinking or looking

11:07 am

ChampFit

gotcha

11:07 am

hurshy

silly me

11:07 am

hurshy

then there's, the orange one

11:07 am

ChampFit

it's all a blur now

11:07 am

hurshy

plural

11:08 am

hurshy

and quayle plural but that doesn't count

11:08 am

ChampFit

Orange?

11:08 am

hurshy

we got TOO MANY men's names here

11:08 am

hurshy

yes, the orange one in the white house

11:08 am

ChampFit

have that

11:08 am

hurshy

so i am just not sure which man's name you mean

11:08 am

hurshy

what if it is one i don't have

11:09 am

hurshy

aHA

11:09 am

hurshy

got them

11:09 am

hurshy

were you talking about the 6/7

11:09 am

ChampFit

da6/21. And only because I have a friend who named her son that. It also was a bookstore....way back!

11:09 am

ChampFit

Yes

11:09 am

hurshy

yes yay

11:09 am

hurshy

Ds Done!

11:10 am

hurshy

well the rest of the Ds are all short

11:10 am

ChampFit

HELP ME OH WISE ONE!

11:10 am

ChampFit

I need 3 4/s so that makes sense. Will keep plugging

11:10 am

hurshy

you should just look at what you have and back and forth at the grid, i find that often helps

11:11 am

hurshy

i find things i missed or thought i put or plurals or whatever

11:12 am

ChampFit

Phantom: Savannah

11:12 am

hurshy

speaking of names

11:13 am

ChampFit

exactly

11:13 am

hurshy

<--- this is Rilla, and sometimes people at the vet or whatever who don't know will pronounce it rye-la. and i'm like, do you not know the rules? you never have a long vowel before two consonants!

11:14 am

hurshy

at least people who think it might be spanish and say "ree-ya" make SENSE

11:14 am

ChampFit

I'm constantly amazed at people that mispronounce things.

11:14 am

ChampFit

My last name is Cline. Sometimes I get "cleen". Really? On what planet is that your first guess.

11:14 am

hurshy

ha

11:15 am

ChampFit

Gotta go, Back for last 14. Good luck!~

11:15 am

hurshy

i forgive them though as soon as they start gushing about how cute she is

11:15 am

hurshy

ttfn champ

11:16 am

hurshy

anybody have a guess for a missing upper E?

11:16 am

Book Doctor Gwen

avalon (is not a word)

11:18 am

LuvWordGames

Is is en 7/40?

11:19 am

Book Doctor Gwen

hoet at last, woot

11:25 am

Book Doctor Gwen

time for a snack, later y'all

11:26 am

hurshy

yes, i believe it is, luv!

11:26 am

hurshy

hmm, not envelop

11:27 am

hurshy

aHA

11:27 am

hurshy

got it

11:27 am

LuvWordGames

:-)

11:27 am

hurshy

that just leaves two more middle As to vanquish the vowels

11:27 am

hurshy

phantom: antler

11:30 am

hurshy

and adnate

11:45 am

hokie carla

howdy anyone here

11:48 am

bichon

yup, for a while. Going out to celebrate daughter's 48th bday

11:50 am

hokie carla

nice, HB to your daughter

11:50 am

bichon

ty carla

11:51 am

hurshy

i'm here too

11:52 am

hokie carla

hidey ho

11:52 am

hurshy

just been like taking breaks do do various chorse

11:52 am

hurshy

chores

11:52 am

hurshy

21 left

11:52 am

hurshy

word, not chores

11:52 am

hurshy

i haven't counted the chores

11:53 am

hokie carla

I played tennis this morning. nice and cloudy today, but still muggy.

11:53 am

hokie carla

LOL

11:53 am

hokie carla

I prefer not to count my chores left

11:53 am

hurshy

yes it's best

11:53 am

hokie carla

188 left here

11:54 am

hurshy

you must be in great shape

11:54 am

hurshy

always golfing and playing tennis and things

11:54 am

hokie carla

I wish, but I'm about 20-25 lbs heavy. You would think I have sweated so much it would help, but it doesn't.

11:55 am

hurshy

well there's different kinds of in shape. i was thinking of like, heart and lung health

11:55 am

worzel

thicko here can't see the wood for the trees - can somebody clue me either of the an7's please? I'm kinda guessing if I find one I'll find the other

11:55 am

welki

hi, everyone

11:55 am

hurshy

i have one, it's a musical term

11:56 am

hokie carla

hey welki! sorry, worzel, I don't have any.

11:56 am

hurshy

the other must be one of my 2 last As!

11:56 am

worzel

thank you hurshy

11:56 am

welki

i have the musical one, too - will look with you

11:57 am

hurshy

it has to come from the middle A

11:57 am

hurshy

aHA

11:57 am

hurshy

that one is more of a sciencey one

11:57 am

hokie carla

I'm just on the 2nd row, so that explains why I don't have it. bwahahaha

11:57 am

hurshy

metastable mineral form of titanium dioxide with a tetragonal crystal structure

11:58 am

hokie carla

oh, that ole thing?

11:58 am

hurshy

sadly not part of a pair :(

11:58 am

hurshy

the ending made me think it was an enzyme until i looked it up

11:58 am

hurshy

if that helps

11:58 am

welki

thanks - got it

11:58 am

hokie carla

that does help, thanks

11:58 am

worzel

piece of p"ss when you give a clue like that haha!!!

11:59 am

hurshy

teehee

11:59 am

hurshy

oHO i found an S

12:01 pm

hurshy

oHO i found another one

12:03 pm

hurshy

4-3-7-3

12:04 pm

hurshy

does anyone have MORE than 4 SN words?

12:04 pm

hokie carla

haven't really done the S

12:04 pm

welki

haha - i have two

12:04 pm

hokie carla

hung up on the left N

12:04 pm

hurshy

that's funny, that was my first grey tile

12:04 pm

hokie carla

oh, there's some

12:04 pm

hokie carla

ha, of course

12:05 pm

hokie carla

I have only grayed both O's

12:05 pm

hurshy

woot, found a pair of SO

12:06 pm

hurshy

and a T! now i'm down to 2 or fewer per tile!

12:09 pm

hurshy

300 words! Rs Routed!

12:13 pm

hurshy

Ls Lambasted!

12:17 pm

hurshy

think i'll get the list

12:18 pm

hokie carla

still grinding it out here

12:19 pm

hurshy

just feel pretty stuck at 11

12:19 pm

hokie carla

97 left here

12:21 pm

hokie carla

almost svelte

12:21 pm

hokie carla

ugh, have just noticed 25 v's

12:22 pm

hurshy

they're not TOO terrible really

12:25 pm

hokie carla

found 18 but moving on

12:26 pm

hurshy

ok of my 11, only 3 were fishy. one babblet, one plural, one i thought i'd entered.

12:26 pm

hokie carla

well done

12:30 pm

hokie carla

well, going to lunch. 64 for later.

12:30 pm

hokie carla

63, had to look briefly at the bottom L for HOET. :D

1:22 pm

mrloser

vaes

1:48 pm

mkg

hi all. any clues for 7s or 8s welcome. ty

1:50 pm

ChampFit

Mkg, no offense, but way too many 7's to clue. ;) 8's are ce7-8, en7-8, no7-8, tr7-8

1:50 pm

ivesyj

any clue for no 7 plz

1:51 pm

mkg

champ just one or two are fine. but ty for the stats.

1:51 pm

ivesyj

oops just found it.

1:51 pm

ChampFit

The estate in a Jane Austen novel.

1:51 pm

BzznBea

There are clues for the 7/8s scattered in the chat as usual.

1:52 pm

ChampFit

Hi bea! Just found that my last 2 D's were those I KNEW I'd typed. Moron!

1:54 pm

ChampFit

Calling bull@#$% on the fl7

2:02 pm

ChampFit

Done! Last word va5 rhymes with not truth. Enjoy!

2:23 pm

MollyL

I'll call straight up bullshit on the fl7

2:26 pm

BzznBea

Champ agrees

3:02 pm

hokie carla

lol, what is that, a cruise ship? thx for stat. rehi!

3:02 pm

BzznBea

a a floating hotel

3:04 pm

ChampFit

Ha! Just came back online and babble was up....Molly and I are in agreement.

3:04 pm

ChampFit

Re-bye!

3:09 pm

Trifioso

hello friends.

3:09 pm

Trifioso

so much to love about a big grid on a rainy saturday afternoon!

3:10 pm

hokie carla

so...a cruise ship

3:10 pm

hokie carla

definitely a portmanteau I've never actually heard used, like elhi

3:10 pm

hokie carla

hey trif

3:10 pm

hokie carla

hi/bye, champ. hi, bea!

3:11 pm

Trifioso

hello hokie. I agree, that is a silly word indeed

3:18 pm

hokie carla

I wonder if people thought motel was silly and how long it took to catch on

3:19 pm

Trifioso

I finally took a cruise last year, kicking and fussing....had an absolute blast! Would love to do an Alaskan cruise sometime

3:29 pm

hokie carla

would also like to do that

3:29 pm

hokie carla

have been on 2 in caribbean.

4:08 pm

hokie carla

well, I have 38 left and only one 4, so I think this grid is too hard for me.

4:34 pm

BzznBea

I have 75 left. Another day of not finishing.

4:39 pm

clg47

On a fl 7 now, headed to Reykjavik. It’s been fun.

5:06 pm

MetFan

I have an S word that's not registering on "MY Word List"-any suggestions?

5:07 pm

MetFan

It keeps telling me I've already added it, yet the S box is not greying

5:07 pm

MetFan

I've refreshed and all is well

5:08 pm

MetFan

valos

8:23 pm

rururocks

valos to you too

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