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Evaluation
There are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and no cheater squares.
The grid makes use of 22 of 26 letters, lacking JQWZ.
It has diagonal symmetry.
Common phrase size: 5.44, Scrabble rating: 300, Scrabble common: 1.53.
Puzzle has 3 fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.
Duplicate clues: “Sufficient!”
This puzzle has 6 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
have been later reused:
These 33 reply phrases are usually 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
Varied thumbnail views are proven:
- Normal 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 purple (see colorized grid beneath)
With solutions
Puzzles which may be just like this one
Crosswords that share probably the most phrases with this one (excluding Sundays):
Uncommon or lengthy phrases that seem elsewhere:
Similar grids
Different puzzles with the identical block sample as this one:
Topologically comparable grids
Different crosswords with precisely 29 blocks, 72 phrases, 73 open squares, and a mean phrase size of 5.44:
Colorized grid for Sat Could 17, 2025
The subsequent two sections try to point out how contemporary 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 purple, purple overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, and so forth.
| Distinctive | 1 different | 2 others | 3 others | 4 others |
Freshness Issue
Freshness rating: 36.3 – 55.8 total percentile, 4.9 Saturday 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The chart beneath reveals what number of occasions every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and fashionable together with Selection.
