Analysis

There are 15 rows and 16 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and no cheater squares.

The grid makes use of 23 of 26 letters, lacking FJZ.

It has regular rotational symmetry.

Average phrase size: 5.04, Scrabble rating: 344, Scrabble common: 1.69.

Puzzle has 8 fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.

This puzzle has 6 distinctive reply phrases.

It has 0 phrases that debuted on this puzzle and
have been later reused:

These phrases are distinctive to the Shortz Era however have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:

These 38 reply phrases are usually not authorized Scrabble™ entries, which typically means they’re attention-grabbing:

Day of week comparisons

Distribution of reply phrases by size

Letter distribution

Thumbnails

Various thumbnail views are proven:

• Standard 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

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Colorized grid for Thu Dec 15, 2022

The subsequent two sections try to indicate how recent the grid entries are.

In this view, uncommon solutions are coloured relying on how typically they’ve appeared in different puzzles.

Unique solutions are in pink, pink overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, and so on.

Freshness Factor

FF: 22.0 – 34.0 percentile, 31.2 Thursday percentile

Freshness Factor is a calculation that compares the variety of instances phrases on this puzzle have appeared
in different Shortz Era puzzles.
Click right here for an evidence.

The chart under exhibits what number of instances every phrase has been used throughout all NYT puzzles, outdated and fashionable together with Variety.