Analyzing…
Evaluation
There are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and a couple of cheater squares (marked with “+” within the colorized grid beneath.)
The grid makes use of 23 of 26 letters, lacking JQZ.
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Common phrase size: 5.11, Scrabble rating: 303, Scrabble common: 1.60.
Puzzle has 4 fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.
Duplicate clues: Fragment
This puzzle has 5 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
had been later reused:
These 25 reply phrases usually are not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which typically means they’re fascinating:
Day of week comparisons
Rebus puzzles are ignored when calculating averages.
The inexperienced highlighted squares present which each day puzzle common is closest to this puzzle for every statistical class.
Distribution of reply phrases by size
Letter distribution
| Scrabble Rating: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 10 |
Thumbnails
Numerous 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 colour key as above
- Freshness view exhibits distinctive solutions in crimson (see colorized grid beneath)
With solutions
Puzzles that could be just like this one
Crosswords that share probably 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 comparable grids
Different crosswords with precisely 36 blocks, 74 phrases, 74 open squares, and a mean phrase size of 5.11:
Colorized grid for Wed Might 21, 2025
The subsequent two sections try to point out how recent the grid entries are.
On this view, uncommon solutions are coloured relying on how typically they’ve appeared in different puzzles.
Distinctive solutions are in crimson, crimson overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, and so forth.
Cheater squares are indicated with a + signal.
| Distinctive | 1 different | 2 others | 3 others | 4 others |
Freshness Issue
Freshness rating: 37.0 – 58.0 total percentile, 88.1 Wednesday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of occasions phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Fashionable Period puzzles.
Click on right here for an evidence.
The chart beneath exhibits what number of occasions every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and trendy together with Selection.

