done

done with the new one already?

done as well

Hey Cade, there's nothing wrong with me!

Just with my rankings...

morning Krys :)

thanks for the Grandma Moses link yesterday... I love some of her paintings... there's one called 'Halloween', which is my birthday.. :)

I don't think i know that one - but I love her works, in general.

I'm off to bed

sleep well :)

it's late here - was just trying to find Cade before I logged off

Cade?

Cade Roux - seems really bent out of shape about the rankings problem

:)

anyway, i imagine it'll get straightened out soon enough, and I'll enjoy my 15 minutes of notoriety in the meantime. Have a good weekend, sherb!

fortune smiled on you... have a good weekend :)

or Dr_God, one way or t'other.

g

g'night

too much alcohol to type properly :)

:)

hmmm... that checkpoint is very useful :) :)

easy. done ;)

Morning all

the yesterday's puzzle is not that easy

i'm still solving it

ah well finished it ;) later all

God, todays is tedious. Where are all the 4s?

They're all green! aarrgggghhhhhh......

Morning : )

Don't tell me I am stuck already.

Mornin' All

Good morning everyone!

You mean there is something good about it? Really?

Well, it's raining here, but I figured the internet is global, so maybe it's better somewhere else...

Done... The old pin'n'blindfold did the trick again : )

:)
I am having a rather vicious morning here, just collapsed in front of the pc to recover with a sudoku. Weather is reasonably, clouded but dry. And I managed to survive the weekend shopping, so I guess you are right, something must be good.

Lol Anj... guessing again?

Sprite, there were no options and only one set of obvious pairs in the 4th left column...and tyhe brain selected the right one first time : ) ...for once : /

Cracked it finally, tada 'till tomorrow

That is called genius, Anj. WTG! You too Lamancha. I'll try and follow your example.

Sprite can you speak/read Flemish/Belgian?? Dr G needs a translation. Not sure if he's spoken to you : )

Of course, I am Dutch. I'll be happy to help.

You're a star : ) Check out http://www.playbabble.dk/ and you might get an idea. Looks like someone has jumped the bandwagon without seeking permission...

Lol Anj, that is not dutch or flemish. That's Denmark or swedish.

...a-ha! See, you're a genius : D

I'd say denmark, seeing the address ends in .dk. Not sure we have denmark babblers or sudoku players around here.

Haven't seen any : /

It rather s*cks, such a copycat.

At least it's limited to danish words/speakers for now, but who knows. It's the principle...even the the url says 'playbabble' ...

Yeah, it's no coincidence. I think Dr_God must protest this site.

He has to considering all the hoops he's had to jump thru for Hasbro to keep the game going.

Hey, looked at the Babble archives yesterday...right bcak in 2003 with the chatlog was less than 20 posts long : D

with?? when...

Exactly! It was a very different site then.

OK, i'm off. Have fun Sprite : )

I will! Have a nice day :)

You too. 'bye : )

do the archives only go back to when you joined?

I wondered about that too. I have finished all the archived sudoku's I missed and still my total is lower than that of some others. But I was one of the first to join.

yeah sprite, that can be the only explanation

off to play the new tombraider. see ya

ok it is like DEAD in here.

everybody hi

well, you all are gone now, but what is the first archive you have? mine starts on Mar. 11. sprite, maybe you have less points because there used to be 10 pt. ones and now there's not. i.e. if you did the archived 10 pt. ones now, you would only get 5 pts.

Hi!

I'm stuck...

not stuck here yet, but I just started

32 boxes to go... There's no possible move...

so many 1's and 4's are missing...

and 5's

should I guess?

looks like you're playing without checkpoints, so I say no.

there isn't a need to guess :)

Sound encouraging... thanks...:)

I knew that would draw somebody out.

Finished! Had to use x-wing to finish it off.

what is x-wing? some form of cheating?

a technique to eliminate candidates.

go to the April 13 archived puzzle and read the chat log starting at 10:20 p.m. to learn x-wing

I can't spot x-wing here...

or you can read it here, http://www.scanraid.com/AdvanStrategies.htm#X
W, x-wings help me solve this puzzle :)

(maybe I'm asking too much, but which number is x-winged?

Good morning! =)

7 got me going when i'm stuck :)

Hi Dr. God

lol

7 in r3 and r9?

sorry r2 and r9?

finished! no guessing, no x-wing (that I'm aware of)

yup :)

thanks... I have filled in 5 more boxes... and stuck again...

done... thanks... x-wing really helped!

welcome :)

wish I could get find a few 4's

what's x-wing?

I haven't checked it yet Ginger but you can find it here.. http://www.scanraid.com/AdvanStrategies.htm#X

W, x-wings help me solve this puzzle

ignore "x-wings help me solve this puzzle " that was someone else's post

ty moozey!

yw

mornin/afternoon all...
is todays medium as hard as yesterdays easy??

i just started it but so far it's moving along fairly smoothly ...

I think so, but I haven't solved it yet

well, just placed all my H's (which i guess would be 8s in numbers)

yup, got the 8s (or Hs)

i ended up benefiting from both an X-wing and pointing pairs. i wish i knew about pointing pairs earlier in the week.

done

gj, iosefi :)

well, i'm stuck

I just solved it

keep trying btwrt

ok :) did you have to do any advanced techniques? b'cause i don't know those.

I used one x-wing

d'oh.

x-wing is a really easy strategy to understand

pointing pairs??

pointing pairs??

oh goody. double posts

I'm not sure what those are

darleen, that is never a problem when it's you.... } )

thx lola!

*tackles lola*

heeeey evaN! Hows you? : D

ooh! i found the x-wing ... or at least, i THINK i did ...

good job btwrt

i slept in til 10:30 and now its raining buckets outside...
im bored, but good.
:)

thx mandi :)

well, at least you have babble and sudoku evaN : )

indeed!
havent even looked at todays babble -- any idea how big it is?

only 61...but they are sneaky little buggers!

hold on....darleen??

yay! all done :D

yay! well done bt : )

yay btwrt!

thx lola :)

oh, if only mama were here, i'd get fireworks, lol

~**~~***~~~***~~~fireworks!~~~***~~~***~~**~

yay!!

sorry, mine are not as pretty as mama's... : (

k good luck you guys, i'm off :)

done

oh no, they were VERY nice

yay rycaut!

bye bt : )

ok bye

bye

yay! well done rycaut : )

brain fell asleep!

finished!
:D

yay! well done evaN : )

thanky, thanky!

hi everyone! how medium is this medium?

yay! i'm fin too : )

hi krys...not too bad i think : )

morning everyone

there was a discussion about x-wings earlier - i got worried

hi wac : )
right, i've been on the pc all afternoon...time to get back to 'real' life! see you all later : )

see ya lola. . enjoy!

has anyone had to guess?

anyone?!?!

I am not to that point yet...

may be soon ;)

nope

oh darn

sorry

i'll admit. . i'm struggling a bit

step away for 10 min or so

I did for ages and then all of a sudden it just came together

hello everyone

hi

nise day

hello!

oh yeah! where are you at yul?

:) nice

london bridge

awesome!

i know!

cool I catch the train there some mornings

if I am running late ;o)

:)

wahoo! i'm done

too bad i finally gave up and guessed though

it is ok to guess if you want to

not really. . . but i don't really have time later to come back and try to figure it out

anyway. . i gotta run. . .good luck to you all!

buy

now finished and total 'buy'

not bad

have a great day!

hi all! how is everyone?

a bit tired, and you, blueskies?

not too bad hurshy! a little sleep and back to feed my addictions!! lol

lol

just finished. had to make one guess though - and go back to a checkpoint three times!

good job, linda!

that wasn'T that hard....

finished in under 20 minutes

hello

hi, bzi

just a check ;) i watched match point today

excellent movie, and i love scarlet more and more 8)

Scarlett, i mean

Yay! All done!

my head hurts :P but atleast i'm done

helen? mac? david mitchell?

Uh wha'?

oh just sayin hi

Hey, hurshy :)

you were the three of my friends who were online :)

only i think mac and helen just left themselves logged in, as i do

anyway, any progress on the geeky friend front?

I loaded the page much earlier and hadn't looked at it yet

Nay, not yet

I might settle for non-geeky friends

oh well you have those

A mixture of geek/non-geek is best, IMHO

helen is coming! :)

and a very fine opinion it is, diane.

waiting for helen...

let us sing her some sort of welcoming song

*welcome, helen, bienvenue, glad to be in here with you*

:)

heeeeeeeeelen.... you sure are taking your time...

hurshy, I have plenty of geeky friends and a few non-geeky friends online, but mostly neither offline

hi hurshy - sorry... i'd logged on and then the phone rang :/

hmmm... where do you live, david mitchell?

'sok mac :)

Small town, southern Virginia

Hi, mac

hmm, i don't know anyone there to introduce you to.

Hi David :)

Heh

i'm just the opposite, David... most of my friends are in real life... very few online

*hurshy blinks rapidly and smiles hopefully*

hurshy, I'm now picturing your cat icon blinking and smiling...since that's my image of you!

BTW, hello all

... and then there's hurshy ;)

hi artlady! :)

Hi, artlady

That's probably not a bad thing, mac

yay, i'm a friend i'm a friend!

a friendly group, eh? (no, I'm not Canadian)

you picture me as marty, artlady? how funny. but he's a boy!

hi artlady :)

*whispers* hi hurshy!

ATALANTE!!!!!!!!

*grins*

gee, hurshy, from the photo I can't tell!

not here really, just popping in to say hi :)

did you see babble today? did whole grid all by myself, no help of any kind!

yo yo

golly, it's a party!

how is your trip going?

woot! no, I'm refraining from looking or else I'll want to play! how many words?

61

no way, that small?

they've all been smallish since you left

luckily for me

hurshy did the grid today with no list, no clues -- woot, hurshy!!!!!!!

Atalante... you could pound out the Babble grid in a matter of minutes... especially you!

drat! I haven't been playing becuz I have too much to do. this is easier to do

hurshy, CONGRATs!

a certain friend of ours, atalante, was asked to pick an icon theme for his birthday - and had no idea there were themes - missed you then

oh, thanks all! :)

loooool I bet! what did he choose?

um, i forget now

chest hair?

hehe

eeewwww

hehe, he chose cats!

hey babs!

oh babbler is here!

hmm, guess i wasn't subtle enough.

helloooo! just updating my profile and looking for a new icon

hey guys! : D

Hi babs!

hi artlady! : ) think I sent you a message on your Last.fm page. did you get it?

haven't logged in in a while...I'll check

oh, i replied to yours, babs, but i didn't check today to see if you wrote back

so how is the trip going atalante???

I got yours, thanks, hursh. I didn't reply. : )

btw, all, i HAD to to the grid by myself today because bex said she only got one clue, and i couldn't be beat by a 14 year old, no matter how much i love her!

lol

fine!!! its lovely weather, I'm busy fussing a gorgeous kit, and we're heading off to Yosemite tomorrow!

watch out for sam

Got it Babs. We're staying in Kensington

Hah

Don't know the area, but the hotel had the right deal

WHAT an extremely wonderful surprise to get to see you ata!!!

that's a nice area. let me know whereabouts.

*sings* oh how i wish i were british, british is the thing to be

*grins* I just thought I'd say hi!

a true anglophile...

hurshy - i gotta ask -are you one person or 2? lol

oh helen, did you read my welcome song then?

well hi hi hi atalante, this really made my day! :) :)

If you come to New England, Atalante, you must let us know. It would be lovely to meet you. (I wish I was British too)

nope, i just asked cause i just left you at babble & here you are !! what is your welcome song?

well you took too long to get here, now it is off the screen

:(

since i knew you were coming i sang you a welcoming song

encore, encore

*welcome helen, bienvenue, glad to be in here with you*

(to the tune of mr. rogers' peace and quiet)

awwww, very, very nice, sorry for my bad timing

'sok helen :) :)

I wish I could come back to New England - i've only ever been to Rhode Island and I'd loooove to travel round more, and meet everyone! and hurshy dear, your day must be very boring if me coming online is a highlight! :P

well ata, there were some difficulties earlier in the day :(

& also i'm not very familiar with mr. rogers, except i know he lives in a neighborhood, wears cardigans & talks effeminately

NOT effeminately, just nicely.

lol, well being deaf, i was TOLD he speaks effeminately :)

haha helen

lol helen

more affectedly, to young children..

i don't know the sign language for 'effeminate'

mr rogers speaks the way we all should. It would be a finer world if everyone were so kind and thought of others.

true!

(wrist hangs limply in that sign)

mr. rogers makes me happy.

oh no :( is everything ok hon? wah. can't get onto aim to say hi

it's ok ata, it's a long story anyway...

the lad, hurshy?

yes, how did you guess mab

:)

ah, mr. rogers. love that show. my favorite part is when he tours a factory of some sort.

*breaking the silence*

or not

oh! there goes my concentration! ;)

haha thanks and sorry! love your icon.

thanks!!

finished yet?

yep, working on the archives...

just a few to go here...

oh snap! i have to go. sorry for breaking your concentration.......Bye!!

good luck! gotta put the kiddos to bed.

' nite

woo hoo! done!!

hi ev1

this is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hard

bye. this is tooooooooo hard. lol :) ;)

WHEW! I could NOT get this stupid thing earlier today. Just spent a couple hours banging my head on some earlier puzzles, then came back and WHAM did this one in 10 minutes. HUH?