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Evaluation
There are 15 rows and 16 columns, with 11 shaded squares, 0 rebus squares, and 4 cheater squares (marked with “+” within the colorized grid beneath.)
The grid makes use of 22 of 26 letters, lacking FJQZ.
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Common phrase size: 5.06, Scrabble rating: 307, Scrabble common: 1.53.
Puzzle has 2 fill-in-the-blank clues and 1 cross-reference clue.
This puzzle has 11 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
had been later reused:
These 33 reply phrases will not be authorized Scrabble™ entries, which typically means they’re fascinating:
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:
- Customary view exhibits 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 coloration key as above
- Freshness view exhibits distinctive solutions in purple (see colorized grid beneath)
With solutions
Puzzles which may be much like this one
Crosswords that share essentially the most phrases with this one (excluding Sundays):
Uncommon or lengthy phrases that seem elsewhere:
An identical grids
Different puzzles with the identical block sample as this one:
Topologically related grids
Different crosswords with precisely 40 blocks, 79 phrases, 64 open squares, and a median phrase size of 5.06:
Colorized grid for Wed Might 14, 2025
The following 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 purple, purple 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: 33.3 – 45.6 total percentile, 72.7 Wednesday 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The chart beneath exhibits what number of instances every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and trendy together with Selection.
