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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 23 of 26 letters, lacking FVX.
It has regular rotational symmetry.
Common phrase size: 4.85, Scrabble rating: 330, Scrabble common: 1.75.
Puzzle has 3 fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.
This puzzle has 1 distinctive reply phrase.
It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
have been later reused:
These phrases are distinctive to the Shortz Period however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:
These 19 reply phrases are usually not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which typically means they’re attention-grabbing:
Day of week comparisons
The inexperienced highlighted squares present which each 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:
- Customary view exhibits 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 coloration key as above
- Freshness view exhibits distinctive solutions in pink (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:
Equivalent grids
Different puzzles with the identical block sample as this one:
Topologically related grids
Different crosswords with precisely 36 blocks, 78 phrases, 73 open squares, and a median phrase size of 4.85:
Colorized grid for Wed Nov 30, 2022
The subsequent two sections try to point out 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 pink, pink overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, and so on.
Distinctive | 1 different | 2 others | 3 others | 4 others |
Freshness Issue
FF: 21.8 – 33.4 percentile, 52.5 Wednesday percentile
Freshness Issue is a calculation that compares the variety of instances phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Shortz Period puzzles.
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The chart under exhibits what number of instances every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and trendy together with Selection.