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Evaluation
There are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and a couple of cheater squares (marked with “+” within the colorized grid under.)
The grid makes use of 23 of 26 letters, lacking JQZ.
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Common phrase size: 4.92, Scrabble rating: 305, Scrabble common: 1.63.
Puzzle has 7 fill-in-the-blank clues and 1 cross-reference clue.
This puzzle has 6 distinctive reply phrases.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
had been later reused:
These phrases are distinctive to the Fashionable Period however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 29 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 every 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:
- 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 under)
With solutions
Puzzles that could be much 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 38 blocks, 76 phrases, 66 open squares, and a median phrase size of 4.92:
Colorized grid for Wed Apr 16, 2025
The subsequent two sections try to indicate 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.
Cheater squares are indicated with a + signal.
| Distinctive | 1 different | 2 others | 3 others | 4 others |
Freshness Issue
Freshness rating: 31.8 – 40.2 general percentile, 64.7 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 under reveals what number of occasions every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, previous and trendy together with Selection.
