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Evaluation
There are 15 rows and 16 columns, with 18 circles, 0 rebus squares, and no cheater squares.
The grid makes use of 21 of 26 letters, lacking JQWXZ.
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Common phrase size: 5.05, Scrabble rating: 318, Scrabble common: 1.57.
Puzzle has 5 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
have been later reused:
These phrases are distinctive to the Fashionable Period however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 32 reply phrases will not be 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 shade key as above
- Freshness view reveals distinctive solutions in crimson (see colorized grid beneath)
With solutions
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Crosswords that share probably the most phrases with this one (excluding Sundays):
Uncommon or lengthy phrases that seem elsewhere:
An identical grids
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Topologically comparable grids
Different crosswords with precisely 38 blocks, 80 phrases, 76 open squares, and a mean phrase size of 5.05:
Colorized grid for Tue Could 6, 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 crimson, crimson overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, and so forth.
| Distinctive | 1 different | 2 others | 3 others | 4 others |
Freshness Issue
Freshness rating: 32.2 – 41.9 general percentile, 78.4 Tuesday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of occasions phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Fashionable Period puzzles.
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The chart beneath reveals what number of occasions every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and fashionable together with Selection.
