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Evaluation
There are 15 rows and 16 columns, with 14 shaded squares, 0 rebus squares, and 6 cheater squares (marked with “+” within the colorized grid under.)
The grid makes use of 24 of 26 letters, lacking JQ.
It has mirror symmetry.
Common phrase size: 4.96, Scrabble rating: 325, Scrabble common: 1.66.
Puzzle has 6 fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.
This puzzle has 2 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
had been later reused:
These phrases are distinctive to the Trendy Period however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 30 reply phrases are usually not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which generally means they’re attention-grabbing:
Day of week comparisons
Rebus puzzles are ignored when calculating averages.
Distribution of reply phrases by size
Letter distribution
| Scrabble Rating: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 10 |
Thumbnails
Numerous thumbnail views are proven:
- Commonplace view reveals the grid sample most clearly
- Open Squares (these which do not contact any block, even diagonally) are blue
- Vowel distribution
- Scrabble rating makes use of the identical shade key as above
- Freshness view reveals distinctive solutions in pink (see colorized grid under)
With solutions
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Crosswords that share essentially the most phrases with this one (excluding Sundays):
Uncommon or lengthy phrases that seem elsewhere:
An identical grids
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Topologically related grids
Different crosswords with precisely 44 blocks, 79 phrases, 70 open squares, and a mean phrase size of 4.96:
Colorized grid for Tue Apr 29, 2025
The following two sections try to point out how contemporary the grid entries are.
On this view, uncommon solutions are coloured relying on how usually they’ve appeared in different puzzles.
Distinctive solutions are in pink, pink overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, and many others.
Cheater squares are indicated with a + signal.
| Distinctive | 1 different | 2 others | 3 others | 4 others |
Freshness Issue
Freshness rating: 32.7 – 43.5 total percentile, 81.0 Tuesday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of occasions phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Trendy Period puzzles.
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The chart under reveals what number of occasions every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and trendy together with Selection.
