Babble: Archived Puzzle for Wednesday, September 30, 2026

12:01 am

MetFan

Howdy all

12:03 am

ursh

hello all

12:04 am

Rainiqui

Hi everyone

12:04 am

dizgrannie

hi all

12:07 am

dizgrannie

dh 5

12:08 am

cybernan

hello everyone

12:08 am

Gillie

hi - di7

12:11 am

Rainiqui

da 7, ra 7

12:18 am

Gillie

hu7

12:19 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:19 am

MetFan

TY Lickety

12:23 am

Gillie

I'm just realizing that I called di7 when I meant to call da7

12:28 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, re 8

12:28 am

dizgrannie

nbt/nbs, thanx Rain

12:28 am

cybernan

that dh has me stumped

12:29 am

Rainiqui

yw Diz

12:30 am

cybernan

re 7

12:32 am

justafreep

nan - think of 'do your civic ____"

12:33 am

cybernan

ty freep -- sounds like an Indian language to me

12:33 am

momof5

Cu7

12:33 am

justafreep

a garment. in India, in fact.

12:38 am

dcseain

ra7

12:38 am

Robespierre

Good morning! Tu 7

12:52 am

cybernan

finally found that 8 -- good night everyone

4:55 am

anike

I am having trouble with the fu 6/33. Can anyone help?

5:07 am

MollyL

Not the past

8:27 am

hokie carla

you should go to a psychic

8:27 am

hokie carla

and thank you freep. glad your hint was still in the window.

8:34 am

hokie carla

phantom itch

8:39 am

hokie carla

don't they rekeg all the time at frat parties?

8:55 am

hokie carla

well, just made up 2 F's to gray it so that was nice

9:02 am

hokie carla

well, another tough grid. 35 left and nowhere near HOET. guess I will empty the dishwasher.

9:52 am

hokie carla

oh, 2 tu7s, maybe more

9:56 am

hokie carla

name that 90s sitcom character with the catchphrase "did I do that?"

9:57 am

marksdolly

Steve Erkel

9:57 am

hokie carla

so close, but erkel is not in grid and not the right spelling

9:58 am

hokie carla

I almost gave you the dings. hello dolly!

9:58 am

marksdolly

LOL good morning my sweet friend!!

9:59 am

maccafixx

du 6/24?

9:59 am

hokie carla

I can't find the O or the A. am I just blind? down to 20 and this grid is really tough.

10:00 am

hokie carla

hmm, don't have that one, mac

10:01 am

hokie carla

ends in charged particle

10:01 am

maccafixx

the o is going ahead

10:02 am

hokie carla

argh, thanks

10:02 am

hokie carla

got the similar i

10:02 am

hokie carla

ok, need 8 4s so I guess I will concentrate on that

10:03 am

maccafixx

I'm also missing the tu 7?

10:04 am

hokie carla

there's 2 - one kinda looks like a windmill without the mill but change a cons. the other is a pt of a teenage mutant ninja

10:08 am

BzznBea

Those clues had my head spinning. LOL

10:09 am

marksdolly

the mutant turtle is throwing me way off lol

10:09 am

maccafixx

hint on the du 6/24 please!

10:10 am

hokie carla

did you see my one and not get it? i.e. do I need to go a different route?

10:10 am

BzznBea

dolly, you used the word in your post. just make it pt.

10:10 am

hokie carla

dolly, obviously you know the teenage mutant ninja is a tu6!

10:11 am

marksdolly

I'll look.. thx Hokie

10:11 am

maccafixx

got the tu now need the du! lol

10:12 am

marksdolly

oooh duh me!! lol

10:12 am

BzznBea

du6 ends with tiny particle

10:12 am

marksdolly

got it

10:13 am

hokie carla

well, I was referring to my clue at 10:01 for the du6

10:14 am

hokie carla

oh, tiara for ruru today

10:14 am

BzznBea

He will look smashing in it!

10:14 am

marksdolly

lol

10:14 am

maccafixx

got it thanks!

10:16 am

hokie carla

dolly, you never amended your NTPN answer! I have another one. name that 80s/90s band that you double a word in the grid...

10:17 am

BzznBea

DuranDuran

10:17 am

hokie carla

ding ding ding!

10:17 am

marksdolly

vn Bea!

10:19 am

marksdolly

Hokie, I just remember Erkel..nothing more than that, just that that's what he always said, and had his jeans pulled clear up with his suspenders :)

10:20 am

hokie carla

ok, it's Urkel

10:20 am

marksdolly

ahhhh

10:20 am

hokie carla

one ding

10:21 am

marksdolly

whoohoo!!

10:21 am

hokie carla

:D

10:22 am

hokie carla

well, found some 4s but still 3 left. 3-2-3-4

10:22 am

hokie carla

C H RR U DDD T W A D

10:23 am

hokie carla

dolly, do you ever see moo at serpentine? I think he's Julius Fish there. he has disappeared again and I know you both play the hard room.

10:23 am

hokie carla

found my W, I swear I thought I tried that

10:31 am

marksdolly

haven't seen Moo forever

10:32 am

marksdolly

and there's another game that has started up, Letterskelter.. I've not seen him forever

10:33 am

hokie carla

will have to check that out. just google that word? and thanks

10:41 am

marksdolly

yw :) you will a lot of the Serp players there, some have their same name, others don't.. I'm tiggersgirl there

10:50 am

rururocks

he does vanish from time to time for extended periods

10:50 am

marksdolly

it's been a long while this time

10:51 am

rururocks

i get the sense that he has a pretty demanding job some of the time

10:51 am

marksdolly

don't want you to vanish like that Ruru... where would the entertainment here be?

10:52 am

rururocks

aw thanks. that balances the list of people who'd love to see me gone

10:53 am

marksdolly

LOLOL

10:53 am

rururocks

fortunately

10:53 am

rururocks

I have outlasted a lot of them here

10:54 am

marksdolly

I don't say much here, but if you only knew how much I chuckle

10:54 am

rururocks

oh that's nice to know.. I usually just get a lot of grief for trying to lighten the mood here.

10:55 am

marksdolly

humor is the spice of life

10:55 am

rururocks

so very true

10:58 am

welki

i wouldn't know the first thing about humor :D

10:58 am

marksdolly

hi Welk!

10:58 am

rururocks

OH PULEEEASE

10:59 am

welki

'morning, everyone

10:59 am

origami

Good morning

10:59 am

rururocks

hi ori

11:00 am

welki

nice to 'see' you, dolly - both ruru and ori can confirm that, if you want a laugh, i am not the person you want sitting at your table

11:00 am

marksdolly

lol oh welki,, I'm sure you have it

11:01 am

origami

Nonsense, welki

11:01 am

welki

well hells bells marks, i thought you knew me better than that

11:01 am

marksdolly

lol

11:02 am

welki

tried that new word game - like serp, but i haven't checked the rules

11:02 am

marksdolly

keep with it... it trains your eyes to look for bigger words

11:04 am

origami

What is that new word game?

11:04 am

marksdolly

LetterSkelter

11:06 am

welki

ntpn - first name of great dominican baseball player

11:06 am

hokie carla

well I want to say andruw jones but he is from curacao

11:06 am

hokie carla

rehi, peeps

11:07 am

welki

he's coaching now

11:07 am

origami

Hi hokie

11:07 am

hokie carla

hey ori

11:09 am

hokie carla

moved my sewing machine outside. beautiful day here.

11:10 am

Book Doctor Gwen

greetings, here to get my Nerd on

11:10 am

hokie carla

hey gwen

11:15 am

Book Doctor Gwen

urkel is in the house

11:19 am

Book Doctor Gwen

stuck on the D in the top corner. can anyone give the stats?

11:20 am

hokie carla

dh5/16

11:20 am

Book Doctor Gwen

tv carla, hunting. how do you sew shile boggling? 8 - )

11:21 am

BzznBea

Ru's arch nemesis is in the grid. =)

11:21 am

hokie carla

well, my instructions are on my computer, so I have it open and just have this page up in between steps

11:26 am

Book Doctor Gwen

got the D, adding it to my collection fo weird words for babble

11:27 am

clg47

struggling with last DU, read the chat. Thanks for the clue hokie carla

11:30 am

mkg

tough grid. stuck at 58 words.

11:32 am

hokie carla

np, clg. it is a tough one, mkg.

11:34 am

mkg

up to 61 words. ugh.

11:42 am

mkg

any clues for the 8 welcome. ty.

11:43 am

BzznBea

8 is re8.55

11:43 am

mkg

ty

11:48 am

Book Doctor Gwen

nbt at last, woot

11:54 am

hokie carla

finally found the A!

11:54 am

hokie carla

3-1-2-4

11:55 am

BzznBea

Looks like you need a few 7's

11:55 am

hokie carla

lol, if it's not the 6s it's the 7s that trip me up

11:55 am

hokie carla

40%!

12:01 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

81 to go, loosing m grip, good luck y'all, see la later

12:06 pm

hurshy

hiya folks

12:06 pm

Trifioso

hello friends

12:08 pm

hokie carla

howdy hurshy and trif

12:08 pm

Trifioso

hello - nasty grid today

12:09 pm

hokie carla

yep

12:09 pm

hurshy

it pains me when people say such things

12:09 pm

Trifioso

sorry hurshy.

12:10 pm

hokie carla

well, if it makes you feel better I am at 10 left. but it was slow going to get here.

12:10 pm

Trifioso

ill be happy enough to hit nbt at the rate I am going

12:10 pm

hokie carla

nbt took me a LONG time

12:11 pm

hurshy

phantom: curdle

12:11 pm

Trifioso

Phantom for me is the "lady exercise" - or do men have to do those too?

12:11 pm

hurshy

i don't think men can...

12:12 pm

Trifioso

sigh. figures.

12:12 pm

BzznBea

Men can do them.

12:12 pm

hokie carla

well, kegel is not actually a phantom, it's here. just not on enable.

12:12 pm

hurshy

really? fascinating

12:13 pm

hokie carla

and I think I've heard men can do them too

12:13 pm

BzznBea

It helps with pelvic floor and bladder control just like for women

12:13 pm

hurshy

then i must have misunderstood what they are and how you do them

12:13 pm

Trifioso

huh. live and learn!

12:14 pm

hokie carla

bea and trif, I decided to just order another set of bias tape makers. :D thank goodness for Amazon.

12:15 pm

BzznBea

That will make life easier. When is the event?

12:15 pm

hokie carla

also, I'm all in on using my serger for gathering stitches. so much easier.

12:16 pm

hurshy

reduct really seems like it should be a word. in fact it did not get a red underline here when i typed it.

12:16 pm

hokie carla

it's a week from tomorrow but we're going camping Sun - Wed, so I need to get it done before then. Doing everything else that doesn't need bias tape now.

12:17 pm

hokie carla

I think I've mastered the french seams on the blouse, but the dress is calling for flat-felled so I've watched a video on that.

12:17 pm

hokie carla

I definitely tried reduct

12:18 pm

hokie carla

was hoping redwine was a word. I know some people named redwine.

12:18 pm

BzznBea

That's an awful lot of work for a costume.

12:18 pm

hurshy

i tried redwine too

12:18 pm

hokie carla

I know, I have thought about just using pinking shears

12:18 pm

hurshy

but i didn't really expect it to work

12:18 pm

hokie carla

with regular seams

12:18 pm

hokie carla

same, hurshy

12:19 pm

Trifioso

flat seams aren't soooo bad, but man are they tedious.

12:19 pm

hurshy

i'm more of a messy hand sewer myself

12:19 pm

hurshy

but i did make Rilla a little hood to wear in lieu of a cone this week

12:19 pm

hokie carla

my bodice fabric is cotton lawn, so not really heavy duty enough for needing flat felled IMO

12:20 pm

Trifioso

do you have a serger, hokie?

12:20 pm

BzznBea

Why does Rilla need a cone?

12:20 pm

hokie carla

yes. I usually only sew with knits, which is way easier with a serger.

12:20 pm

hurshy

she had a little lump removed from her ear last thursday and they didn't want her to scratch her stitches

12:21 pm

hurshy

they said cone for 10-12 DAYS and i was like, um, that is unreasonable. so i made her a hood.

12:21 pm

hurshy

she looks like a little babushka

12:21 pm

hokie carla

and she wears that?

12:21 pm

hurshy

she can't get it off

12:21 pm

hurshy

so yeah

12:21 pm

hokie carla

winston would be pulling it off in like 30 seconds. or trying to.

12:22 pm

hurshy

i secured with substantial pieces of velcro

12:23 pm

hokie carla

I avoid hand sewing things at all cost. In fact, this blouse said to whipstitch a placket on and I just sewed it on with my machine. It's fine!

12:23 pm

hurshy

last time i did something on my mom's machine, i was even worse at machine sewing than at hand sewing

12:24 pm

hurshy

i need to re-learn how to use it

12:24 pm

BzznBea

I love to hand sew.

12:25 pm

hokie carla

I used to like to cross stitch when I was a teenager, but I just feel like every hand sewing I do on clothes or quilts looks terrible.

12:25 pm

hurshy

name that proper noun! character famous for saying "did i do that?"

12:25 pm

hokie carla

9:56

12:25 pm

BzznBea

Late to the party, hurshy.

12:25 pm

hurshy

ah

12:26 pm

hokie carla

dolly spelled it erkel and then I told her that's spelled wrong and not even in the grid but then she wouldn't make another guess. ;)

12:26 pm

BzznBea

I do hand embroidery and EPP.

12:26 pm

hokie carla

I started one of those wooble crochet kits and need to finish it.

12:27 pm

BzznBea

I want to do sashiko

12:27 pm

hokie carla

I have done some EPP but with machine

12:27 pm

hurshy

ok then how about: when doubled, a british band

12:27 pm

hokie carla

10:16 ;P

12:27 pm

hurshy

man

12:27 pm

hokie carla

but those are the only 2 I've done

12:28 pm

hurshy

is there just one DW word today?

12:29 pm

BzznBea

yes

12:29 pm

hurshy

no, i just found a second one

12:29 pm

hurshy

but hopefully just 2

12:29 pm

BzznBea

sorry.

12:29 pm

BzznBea

just two

12:29 pm

hurshy

yay

12:32 pm

hurshy

of course that makes it even more mysterious what my missing D words can be

12:33 pm

BzznBea

du6

12:33 pm

hurshy

ok thanks

12:34 pm

BzznBea

dh5

12:34 pm

hurshy

yeah have that

12:35 pm

hokie carla

I need 3 + 1 D

12:39 pm

hurshy

same

12:39 pm

hurshy

oh got the lower one

12:39 pm

hurshy

do you have da5/14

12:39 pm

hokie carla

yes

12:39 pm

hurshy

how about da5/12

12:40 pm

hokie carla

yes

12:40 pm

hurshy

my last was a do4/5 babblet

12:40 pm

hokie carla

have one of those too

12:40 pm

hurshy

da6, da7

12:41 pm

hokie carla

have em

12:41 pm

hurshy

3 da4

12:41 pm

hurshy

do5/12

12:42 pm

hokie carla

looks like da4 then

12:42 pm

hokie carla

oh yeah, thx

12:43 pm

hokie carla

2-1-2-4

12:44 pm

hurshy

phantom: fraud

12:46 pm

hokie carla

I did make up 2 F's I've never seen

12:47 pm

hokie carla

if you want the stats

12:47 pm

hurshy

yes please

12:47 pm

hokie carla

fu5 looks like the aforementioned british band, then add a vowel for fu6

12:47 pm

hurshy

chat says there is a di7 btw

12:48 pm

hurshy

thanks

12:48 pm

hokie carla

yeah, but I think she corrected saying she was calling da7

12:48 pm

hurshy

oh ok

12:49 pm

hurshy

also cu7

12:49 pm

hurshy

got that one now

12:50 pm

hokie carla

I missed that one

12:50 pm

hokie carla

got it, thx

12:50 pm

hokie carla

H RR U DDD T

12:51 pm

hurshy

bottom row grey!

12:51 pm

hokie carla

will try 4s again

12:52 pm

hurshy

i assume you have the 8

12:53 pm

hokie carla

yes

12:53 pm

hurshy

not sure what Rs you'd miss

12:53 pm

hokie carla

2-1-2-3

12:53 pm

hurshy

ra5/18 perhaps?

12:53 pm

hurshy

two ra5/12s

12:53 pm

hokie carla

no, have that

12:53 pm

hurshy

no wait it's the other R

12:53 pm

hokie carla

correct, upper R

12:53 pm

hurshy

they are all normal or short

12:54 pm

hurshy

do you have the 6/7 combo

12:54 pm

hokie carla

no

12:54 pm

hurshy

pretty normal words

12:54 pm

hokie carla

re?

12:54 pm

hurshy

yeah

12:55 pm

hokie carla

ah, I see

12:55 pm

hokie carla

thx

12:55 pm

hurshy

i need a C

12:55 pm

hurshy

oh i found it

12:56 pm

hurshy

otherwise i just need more Ts than you

12:56 pm

hurshy

one upper, two lower for me

12:56 pm

hokie carla

did you get both tu7?

12:56 pm

hurshy

ooh found one of the lower ones, it was a second tu7 indeed

12:57 pm

hurshy

i'm still missing TWO sevens after that tho

12:57 pm

hurshy

so i suppose you are also?

12:57 pm

hokie carla

nothing on the upper that we don't have here (not gonna say they're not weird)

12:57 pm

hokie carla

yes, still need 2 7

12:57 pm

hurshy

for upper i have all 4s and 5s

12:58 pm

hurshy

aha it was another 5

12:59 pm

hokie carla

I just can't figure out how I can't find 2 4s in 4 tiles

12:59 pm

hurshy

i bet at least one of the 7s is D then, if not both

12:59 pm

hokie carla

found a di5 thought I'd tried

12:59 pm

hurshy

aHA just found 2 di5s

12:59 pm

hurshy

so i guess the 7s cannot both be D

1:00 pm

hokie carla

found a d4

1:00 pm

hurshy

me too!!

1:00 pm

hokie carla

phantom hurdle

1:00 pm

hokie carla

oh, now 1-0-1-2 didn't notice I finished the 5

1:00 pm

hurshy

so no more D7 after all

1:01 pm

hurshy

both d5s i found were di

1:01 pm

hurshy

oh tu6 for soup

1:01 pm

hurshy

so H7, U7

1:02 pm

hokie carla

yep, needed that T

1:02 pm

hokie carla

so my other D is a 4 then

1:02 pm

hurshy

got the U7!

1:03 pm

hokie carla

nice

1:03 pm

pcal2

hi all, can I get a clue for the re 8. Last word and it's eluding me completely!

1:03 pm

hokie carla

UR?

1:03 pm

hurshy

yes

1:03 pm

hokie carla

like maybe there was a problem with the hall of fame, so they had to re8 someone, pcal

1:04 pm

pcal2

tks much, i'll work on it

1:04 pm

hurshy

like they kicked you out and then you were found innocent

1:04 pm

BzznBea

re8 - do be added to the hall of fame again

1:04 pm

hokie carla

finally got the d4

1:04 pm

pcal2

tks bea

1:04 pm

BzznBea

yw

1:04 pm

hokie carla

wow. LOL

1:05 pm

hurshy

used list and MW to get hi7/40

1:05 pm

pcal2

Got it! Tks to both of you.

1:06 pm

hurshy

ttfn! :D

1:06 pm

hokie carla

think I will look up both these 7s. adios

1:10 pm

hokie carla

okay, both incredibly weird and sciency

1:25 pm

MollyL

Who discusses a naturally occurring peptide in the saliva of blood sucking leeches?

1:30 pm

cybernan

good morning/afternoon everyone

1:47 pm

cybernan

always miss that el 4

1:51 pm

cybernan

ty molly

2:00 pm

cybernan

surprised turdier isnt a word!

2:32 pm

rururocks

no shit nan.. I agree

2:50 pm

MollyL

Scatologists!

2:56 pm

rururocks

oh a blast from the past. I sure don't miss that old asshole

4:15 pm

ivesyj

clue for the last th5 plz

4:22 pm

MollyL

Sounds like what you do to your hair with a roller

4:22 pm

montreal13

thanks Molly !

4:36 pm

ivesyj

thurled

4:36 pm

ivesyj

oops

4:36 pm

ivesyj

not it anyway lol

4:40 pm

montreal13

...if you chop off the past tense...

4:40 pm

montreal13

FW !

4:41 pm

montreal13

see you all demain - "poof"

4:59 pm

ivesyj

ty!

5:11 pm

ivesyj

clue for the re 8 plz.

5:14 pm

MollyL

What you lead a horse by + the all purpose silver "fix it" tape

5:40 pm

ivesyj

ty molly

6:58 pm

rururocks

BRIDLEDUCT

6:58 pm

rururocks

damn it

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