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Evaluation
There are 21 rows and 21 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and no cheater squares.
The grid makes use of 23 of 26 letters, lacking JQZ.
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Common phrase size: 6.05, Scrabble rating: 612, Scrabble common: 1.58.
Puzzle has 6 fill-in-the-blank clues and 4 cross-reference clues.
This puzzle has 9 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
have been later reused:
These phrases are distinctive to the Fashionable Period however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 47 reply phrases usually are not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which typically 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
Varied 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 colour key as above
- Freshness view reveals distinctive solutions in pink (see colorized grid beneath)
With solutions
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Crosswords that share essentially the most phrases with this one:
Uncommon or lengthy phrases that seem elsewhere:
An identical grids
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Topologically related grids
Different crosswords with precisely 54 blocks, 128 phrases, 179 open squares, and a mean phrase size of 6.05:
Colorized grid for Solar Could 11, 2025
The subsequent two sections try to indicate how recent 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 so on.
| Distinctive | 1 different | 2 others | 3 others | 4 others |
Freshness Issue
Freshness rating: 57.9 – 96.9 general percentile, 99.6 Sunday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of instances phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Fashionable Period puzzles.
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The chart beneath reveals what number of instances every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, previous and fashionable together with Selection.
