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Evaluation
There are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and 10 cheater squares (marked with “+” within the colorized grid under.)
The grid makes use of 21 of 26 letters, lacking FJQXZ.
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Common phrase size: 4.97, Scrabble rating: 281, Scrabble common: 1.53.
Puzzle has 5 fill-in-the-blank clues and a couple of cross-reference clues.
This puzzle has 4 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
had been later reused:
These 36 reply phrases usually are not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which generally means they’re fascinating:
Day of week comparisons
Rebus puzzles are ignored when calculating averages.
The inexperienced highlighted squares present which day by 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 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 under)
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 41 blocks, 74 phrases, 60 open squares, and a median phrase size of 4.97:
Colorized grid for Wed Oct 8, 2025
The subsequent two sections try to indicate how contemporary 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: 23.9 – 15.8 total percentile, 22.5 Wednesday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of instances phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Fashionable Period puzzles.
Click on right here for an evidence.
The chart under reveals what number of instances every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and fashionable together with Selection.
