QUANT FLIERs = Quantifiers

From an idea by @Dez influenced & enlarged by @Documentalista & with contribitions by @Yal, @Jn (& others?).

The initial idea came after GROSS was the solution, and was expanded with more numbers and their derivatives. Also some ADDLE-LAYED alternatives.

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Contents:

Played in 2026

Jan 1 - MONAD UNITY ONCES ONCER FIRST PRIME ONELY

Jan 2 - DEUCE DUETS DYADS HALVE HALFS TWINS PAIRS BRACE TUTUS 😂 OTHER AFTER

Jan 3 - TRIAD THREE TREES TERCE THIRD TRINE TROIS

Jan 4 - QUART FOLIO FOURS FORTH LIPPY [= fourth part of a peck; in goods sold by weight usually 1¾ lb.] QUADS TETRA ZUZIM[silver coin anciently in use among the Jews, the fourth part of a silver shekel.]
[zenzizenzic, Designating the fourth power or root of a number; b. n.the square of a square; the fourth power of a number ]

Jan 5 - QUINT FIFTH FIVER FIVES

Jan 6 - HEXAD SIXTH SIXES SIXER SEXTO [Designating a size or shape of paper produced by folding the original printing sheet to form six leaves, a page of this size or shape, or a book composed of such pages] SECHS [German] SEXTS

Jan 7 - SEVEN VIRGO [The number seven, which has no factors or multiples less than ten is called the Virgin Number. ] OUTER [OUTER countries: The name given to the original seven countries (Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K., at that time all non-members of the European Economic Community) which, in November 1959, formed the European Free Trade Association.]

Jan 8 - OCTET OCTAD EIGHT

Jan 9 - NONET NINTH NINER NINES

Jan 10 - DECAD DECAN TENTH MILLE
(The day had been claimed by Dr Tooth on Dec 10 but then he recused hemself as he is leaving the forum, see https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4cd40p)

Jan 11 - ELVEN+SEIZE 😆

Jan 12 - DOZEN GROSS (Hail TERRY 🙇🏻‍♂️ ;)

Jan 13 - BAKER's DOZEN

Jan 14 - STONE(14 pounds to a stone) Fourteen is a Square Pyramidal Number: meaning you can stack 14 balls to form a pyramid with a square base (the sum of (1^{2}+2^{2}+3^{2}=14)).

Jan 15 - the Ides of March Caesar's bane: FIfteen is a lucky number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number and a pentatope number, phosphorus is atomic number 15. THREE FIVES or maybe IDEAS MARCH to addle the most well-known ides.

Jan 16 - POINTs in a compass [A]ROSE; OUNCEs to the POUND [and a PINT'S a POUND the WORLD aROUND]. SEIZE [French]

Jan 17 - Seventh PRIME number; also the sum of 4 smaller prime numbers, atomic number 17 is chlorine, a pale GREENgas -name from the Greek for green. Addles: SEVEN TEENS or SEVEN TENTH

Jan 18 - XVIII - ARGON atomic number

Jan 19 - In music, a '19 EQUAL temperament' is a tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 19 equal steps. The MAGIChexagon of order 3 has 19 cells. thanks @Yal https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d1qev
Late addle: NIGHT TEENS / EENSY

Jan 20 - SCORE

Jan 21 - LIBER ABACI Fibonacci opus e.g. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34...

Jan 22 - CATCH-22

Jan 23 - an ancient & venerated quant: PITHY AGORA or anagrammed TYPOS, AARGH! ;)

Jan 24 - FINIS

May 24 - 144th day (Julian DOY), TERRY GROSS day!

Alternate QUANT F...R Addles

[@Dez tried to post the list below but something attracted the sudden and menacing glare of the EMU.]

Found by a quick and highly subjective survey of all playable words F...R:

FAYER 
FERER 
FEUAR
FILER
FIRER
FLAIR
FLIER
FLYER
FOYER
FRIAR
FRIER
FRYER

Said @Dez, in that stifled post: "All of the above appeal almost equally, although I still like the connection with 'take a flier/flyer on something' and how the lowercase quantflier looks close to quantifier with just one transposition needed.

"Now striking me as funny variants, only after identifying the semi-good ones above, are:"

FAKER FAKIR FAQIR
FEVER
FEWER
FIFER
FIXER
FLOOR
FNARR
FREER
FUBAR
FUROR

and still more:

FIERE
FIERI
FIERS
FIERY

FIARS

AFIRE
FIRED
FIRES
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Pub: 05 Nov 2025 00:19 UTC

Edit: 23 Mar 2026 19:12 UTC

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