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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 20 of 26 letters, lacking BJPQXZ.
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Common phrase size: 4.85, Scrabble rating: 291, Scrabble common: 1.54.
Puzzle has 5 fill-in-the-blank clues and three cross-reference clues.
This puzzle has 1 distinctive reply phrase.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
had been later reused:
These phrases are distinctive to the Shortz Period however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 26 reply phrases should not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which typically means they’re attention-grabbing:
Day of week comparisons
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:
- 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 colour key as above
- Freshness view reveals distinctive solutions in crimson (see colorized grid under)
With solutions
Puzzles which may be just 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 36 blocks, 78 phrases, 69 open squares, and a median phrase size of 4.85:
Colorized grid for Thu Nov 17, 2022
The following two sections try to indicate how recent 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
FF: 25.2 – 40.6 percentile, 40.8 Thursday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of instances phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Shortz 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, previous and trendy together with Selection.
