its this easy for a hard, or have i just not hit the hard part yet?

it does seem pretty easy tonight

wow - easier than some of the 'easy' puzzles we've had of late

It's so easy its hard?

it's so hard, it imploded on itself and became easy

haha

how are ya texel?

a bit stressed

finals?

sort of... the final projects for my masters coursework are due in two days

wow, ya, that would do it

the sad thing is i am in the library, playing sudoku, instead of studying

gahhhhhhhhhhhh browser crash

nothing wrong with a little sudoku

gets the mind going

ya, i started at 9 PM yesterday studying, and its 1:30 AM in my time zone

i just left the computer labs 30 minutes ago (1 am) and i had been there since noon... thats right 13 hrs

nice

u do exist!

not for long, ive got a paper due in 10 hrs that i havent started and then as soon as i turn it in, i head back to the labs until noon... on friday

thats ridiculous

and done in 14 minutes

my record for a hard

nice

night all

g'night

andy, i will be back to the land of the living on saturday, call me then

aight

then off to GNC at that point

that one wasn't bad at all

nope, it was a beautiful study break

not so bad

have a great night everyone

Morning all

A whole box in no time at all... nice hard one :)

Not so hard I did it in about 15 mins!

Good job! I am never that fast, but I have a whole box and a whole row and more coming up.

first thing in the morning, did it on 'Auto' ....

.... now for a strong coffee!

Well that was easy...

morning

sprite, you here??

Morning All

MrP, I was at the babble site. Wazzup? :)

are you on IM sprite??

No, I am not. You wanna talk? You can always email me, address is in my profile at babble's, just leave out the spaces.

ok am doing now

Sprite, it is going to you now... thanks!!

good morning!

Howdy folk! =) Hard one today!

Answer on its way, mrP :)

Well, not too hard actually, Puppy :)

Lol that's starting to become apparent. Does it get a bit sticky at the end?

Nope, not really. Just stay away from false logic, I had to go back a few steps once because I reasoned out something NOT true ;)

it all fell after a couple of locked pairs :-)

Yep two sets of pairs did it for me

finished!

Done it!

Yayayayyy!

Hmm. Will go check out Bablbe now, I think.

stuck in the mud!!

Easy - hard one, goodnight all :-)

yes, easy hard one - once you see the relationships everything falls into place (didn't need to make any guesses at all)

hie all

hi all

done

hey

hey Mark

hi

hi kneestabber

Done. A nice easy "hard". Have a good day everyone.

Finally! It took a while to shake the cobwebs this morning.

indeed

indeed yourself!

or.. something :)

mornin'

although its late (relatively) at night for me

Good day, everyone :) ... trying my first medium puzzle (from the archives)

wow, going on holiday really trashed my rankings ;-)

This one doesn't deserve the hard rating.

mmm holidays affected my brain...this seems hard to me

I must be really stupid today.... i finished today puzzle in about 30 mins and I'm now going back to ones that i have missed and its taken me nearly 2 hours to do an easy!!!! something seriously wrong here lol

computerized rankings aren't the best thing, todays was closer to an easy probably

i think so... well the 4th April's one is expert lol

test

i had to restart this one.. things were rolling along nicely until I ended up with two nines in one column.. maybe things will go better by the light of day

i can't even find any xwings to do

i have all these 8's

ah. found a matched pair that solved everything. =)

yeah, mine finished up pretty quickly too. off to start my day!

hiya

Hello everyone

mornin'

Hey.

hey question for u guys... is it safe to use my credit card to upgrade to pro without using paypal? any opinions?

I've never had an issue with Babble or this...

i used to have paypal but i don't remember my acct info to log in .... i'd really like to be able to do old puzzles and have that checkpoint feature ya know?

Talk - I couldn't live w/o checkpoints!! : )

Talk I used by cc for both babble and this...absolutely fine no problem

oops...my cc I meant :)

thanks guys... i think i'll upgrade tonight or tomorrow, gotta run!

man i'm kinda stuck

I thought it was easier than a hard

I did it got to go now bye all

I dont think that deserves to be ranked hard

hi everyone. grace are you gone sista?

that was a nice 3 points!

afternoon

hello

'eya. =)

oh dear

this one's tuff!

hello all and gl!

Hi all

yo

this is a real barn-burner

done

Congrats!

im a little stuck at the moment...

nvr mind!

hey there scribbledy dibbledy

hey hursh! this one seems really easy.

the numbers seem really easy to find....i hope it lasts.

it did for me.

yes it was easy

for a bit there i thought i woudn't need greens at all

but i did use a few

i have 2 boxes filled in so far.

scribble,

hello.

well howdy.....

dont push enter till youre done typing

ty

not

what was that for?

hello?

lol

nothing, I am done with Babble

come here and help me

lo

i need 12 words

l

work for it

ive looked till im crosseyed

paw cut his finger at work.

Stop that, you cost to much $$$$ to fix

and he does too

it doesnt look that bad.

OK I'll be up in a little

there are some weird words today...

*whispers* i'll help, scribble

NOOOOOO

whats wrong with you?

no help for you!!

i can't into babble anymore from work *sighs*

if you wont help me, ive got to get it from somewhere! i dont have 9+ hrs to work on it like you.

silent - i whispered so you wouldn't hear :)

silent...you sound like the sudoku nazi.......scribble, come back one year!!!

you mean babble nazi

Im a mom I know everything

i'm a mom of 3 cats... i know lots about meowing.

lol

my kitty is very vocal...it's like a 3yr olds "why?" stage! lol

Oh I was talking about my cat too, Oh and the human child

<-- yeah you should hear this guy

mom that reminded me of the "food nazi"

he has the most pathetic meow in the world, and yet he is really the happiest cat ever

how do you know im human?

if you heard Jazmyn, you'd swear i was beating her...most times she's just meowing until you sit and make her a lap@

*!

??? are you???

maybe......

does it matter? let's not be speciesist.

lol

I'll talk to you later......please let me work so I can go get something to eat.

k bye
*ok hursh im ready for clues*

ok whatcha need?

the last three fo words

the last is easy... soldiers in a battle did this...

oh...*duh*...

and perhaps during the battle they had to make a fo5 into enemy territory

so they fo7

hmm...

you might not know the word.

do you know a kind of eel that starts with m?

thanks hursh found it!!!

what else?

fa 5/24

it's a shakespeare word

it's mostly the same letters as what you do when something is funny

moray?

yes israel :)

are you babbling too?

got that one too!!! TY!

however I don't know the context of the question (was finishing up today's puzzle)

i live to serve, scribbledy

israel, scribble is babbling - this chatroom is quieter - was helping her get foray

Aaaah.

how bout the al 7s?

hi israel!

do you have al6?

yup

they are alt spellings of it

you stick a letter in before the d for each of them

hi scribble

hursh you are really good at clues. TY!

:)

ok last 4...
al5/14 (first one)
ca4/5
pi6/24
pi5/12

al5 stick a letter into ac4

ca 4/5 is a man's name... the dad on family matters? have you seen that?

do you watch star trek, scribble?

think its the other al5....no i havent seen family matters...and i dont watch star trek, but my mom does

the other al5 sounds like a singer who i think died

a black woman... she died very young... and not long ago

assuming i am right that she died

i might be mixing her up with someone else

let's see what we have today...

did you get that al scribble?

nope

got it thks!!!

hey scribble

how are you

hey kristi!

did you get the ca?

now just the pi's...got the ca

im fine kris and how are you?

how well do you know your explorers?

im good

magellan, de soto, etc?

kinna tired but good

pretty well, hursh

kristi having any luck with this one?

just started so im doing ok

do you know the one that starts with pi? if you change the s in his name to a c you'll get the pi6

can you tell me what he discovered? its been 2 years...

i don't know what he discovered :)

it's been a lot more than 2 years for me :)

well just google the name of the captain of enterpriseD

and change the last letter of his name to a vowel

oh!!! francisco pisaro!!! he conquered the aztecs.

aztecs...right.

didn't they think he was a god?

yeah cuz he had like horses and stuff.

so just pi 5/12

yup.

you don't happen to have read the 4:50 from paddington i suppose

i think she was in that one... no wait, it was another one

ok forget that, it's like a column, but drop one of the double consonant in the middle

YAY!! finished hursh!!! thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!

yw scribbledy :)

btw do you have AIM?

nope...

not to be a stickler but pi6 wiped out the incas

oh INCAS

we like sticklers.

we wish to know correct information.

cortes wiped out the aztecs

ty, blueskies!

no, ty hursh

oops sorry. we learned a whole bunch of names, and they get confusing. TY blueskies!

for what?

reading a book, called "the stolen continents" on all these guys...but from the natives perspective. very enlightning viewpoint if anyone is interested in that sort of thing....

for welcoming the info.... some people do not like corrections, well intended or not..

i know. those are the people we call dumb.

:)

~grins~

im gonna go. thanks a million hursh!! c-ya

bye scribble! :)

bye scribble!

ugh! hit that point where i feel i'm just staring at little green numbers......

really, blue?

most of them are pairs or triples

i know i'm just glossing over something obvious...... i'm just not focusing i guess

~rolls her eyes~ there we go......staring at the key the whole time!

hello everyone

hi yul

3s worked out nicely

all the 4s...

now it's hard

finished

good job yul!

is dr. god on?

I wanted to elliminate impossible variants but i started from one place and puzzle completed itself. I guess i guessed

oh well, just wondering what will happen when everyone finishes archives, then the only advantage to being a pro is checkpoints

maybe he will change the ranking system? make archives (say after may 1st or something) worth less?

of course, i was grateful for a checkpoint today! lol

is, you could have some suggestions how to make the site more interesting and send a message to dr god. There is a button at the bottom of the page

that's cool if you're interested in rankings, but maybe open more archives? was the site up before 3/1?

yul, i'll send him something

hi y'all

Hi UDbmas

How are you tonighta/

oops...tonight?

done YAY!!

wow, that went really smoothly. Only took like 10 minutes???

yeah im workin now and it seems pretty easy.

what's wrong with me then? I'm stuck

i have 3 boxes done but am at a standstill.

me too. i have the upper right, and both lower corner boxes

same.

and some odd ones here and there.

hmmmm

got all the 3's, 4's, and 5's,

its the darn 8s

yep

they're green and everywhere just staring at me, taunting me

i should subscript now.

TP 17, did you have to guess at all?

Quick: have you found the 7 in the 2nd column? just saw that.

you mean the one in the first box, first row? Yes

oh ok

did you find the 7 in box 6, last column?

I can't find the 7s for box 2 or box 8 though

those are the 2 i dont have

of course, great minds....

were so smart.

:P

lol! If only it were true, we wouldn't be struggling so

do you have a 6 narrowed down for box 2?

should we guess on the 7s in boxes 2 and 8?

we could - but I usually get into trouble when I guess

not sure about the 6. has to go in 1 of 2 places though.

yep, got that

I wish I could save checkpoints. Then I'd guess

yeah me too.

ok i guessed and its workin out so for....*so far*

great!

which way did you guess?

dont say that yet...

lol

i put the 7 in box 2 in 6th column 2nd row...

gotcha

but i may be misleading you.

i understand - enter at my own rish

risk

whoops...screwed up somewhere. not sure if it was the 7 or something else.

bummer

any luck yet?

I tried the opposite guess - still ran into trouble

trying to backtrack now

I hate that!

i wonder if it would help to copy it onto paper and work it out like that. thats helped me on a few.

good idea

off to try that

good luck!

you too

I find a screen image works really well for backtracking.

'llo, folks

I'm getting here late today

Been here for a little bit, though

Whee. :)

hi david mitchell...i'm going to bed but you looked lonely so i thought i would say hi :)

Hey, hurshy, thanks!

Sleep tight. :)

no problem, and you too, and enjoy the sudokuing :)

Oh, I did. Big fat X-Wing broke it for me, quickly.

I played in Simple Sudoku (without hints) to speed it up a bit, though.

I need to get some work done before bed but I wanted to play..

Good night, folks!

wow, that was an easy hard, wasn't it?

i'm almost there and i think so too, bt... but i'm still waiting to get stuck :)

woot! didn't get stuck, got done. very quickly, too

yeah i thought it was going to easily and i must have made a mistake

but nope, it was just a quickie :)

blah, onto the endless assortment of archived puzzles ...

well congrats to us. have a good night!

g'night :)