I found today’s to be somewhat difficult, even though I nailed a pangram right out of the starting gate.
I am one word short of QB. Grrrr….
Today was an interesting one but I got the G. The V center is an interesting challenge
QB. My eighth one, apparently.
It’s interesting there was a puzzle with this high a score, because a while ago I was thinking about how people sometimes complain about games with ED or ING or TION. So I went to SBsolver.com to see what a puzzle using ONLY those letters would be like. (Coincidentally, there are exactly seven: DEGINOT.)
Depending on which letter is the center, the total points range from 583 (O), with 106 words, to 952 (N), 165 words. The latter is, of course, ridiculous, and I assumed that the former was likewise way too high to ever be considered.
But obviously not so completely out of the realm of possibility as I first thought.
Here’s the link, if you want to look at them.
Fun! Thanks.
There should be a name for words you would slap your head for missing, not because they’re necessarily easy to get, but because they add insult to injury … like MORON or IDIOT, or even PANGRAM. (It would be better example if PANGRAM was actually pangram though.)
I was thinking of that because today has LOGOPHILE and yesterday had AGGRAVATING .
I knew it wouldn’t be accepted but I still had to try POOPHOLE
I managed to get this, but had to imply it from one of Steve’s clues. And I still have no idea what it means. Ah, just looked it up. Very clever.
I guessed that one by playing around with the suffix but didn’t know the word before. I had a tough time today but finally got to G and I am done for the day.
I only got it because it’s come up before. I was going to say ‘once before’ but surprisingly it’s the fifth time.
Another first word pangram, but otherwise I had problems today and needed clues. Guess you could say I was frantic.
It’s easier to get the pangram first when it’s a perfect one (i.e., exactly seven letters).
It’d be even easier if it was fewer letters.
Three perfect pangrams seemed unusual. I wonder if there have ever been more.
Gimme a little while, I think I can answer that.
There have never been more, but there have been three similar puzzles, including about six weeks ago on August 10. ETA: also, for what it’s worth, about 1 in 4 pangrams (25.5%) is perfect.
I particularly like puzzles with perfect pangrams in which the center letter is the middle letter of the pangram.
We have a poster named Llama_logophile
Loach comes up as a word from time to time