Here are the Letter Boxed December 10, 2023 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest trying to solve the game on your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
PKAIBORSWTCD
The answers are:
TORPIDDRAWBACKS
TRIPODS—SOWBACK
same!
Torpid????? Really a reach
BACKWARD–DISPORT
Same – twisted humor perhaps!
Wish I’d seen Disport. I wound up with BACKWARD-DISPOSITOR–which may have some astrological significance, who knows?
Same! BACKWARD – DISPOSITOR
I got backward right away but couldn’t get past “disposit” for a while.
That’s the Fosbury flop!
Same
Me too… learned the word disport today
There are 48 valid 2 word answers today. here are a few,,,
14/2
backdrop / pitsaw
tripods / sowback
15/2
7 – 15 backdrops / sawpit
10 – 15 backward / disport
24 – 15 disports / sowback
39 – 15 torpid / drawbacks
40 – 15 tripod / drawbacks
42 – 15 tripods / sowbacks
48 – 15 protid / drawbacks
What does 7-15, 10-15 etc mean?
I don’t know but I wonder, since Davel called it “some”, if it might simply be #7 on their list of the 15 letter answers, #48 on their list of 15 letter answers. I can’t discern any further meaning than that.
14/2 means using 14 letters over 2 words which is a measure of efficiency of answer. I don’t play at that level. I’m satisfied with a 6 word solution if it lets me get on with my day.
BASICS STOPWORK KID
The first number is the solution number. The second number is the number of letters used for that solution. What you see is the solution number for the 15 letter word’s.
JENNS got it right. Those numbers (generated by my program) help me post partial solutions when there are lots to choose from. Unlike the last 2 days!
Here are the 2 word combos that contain “spirito” including scrabble words:
backwards / spirito
drawbacks / spirito
backwards / spiritoso*
backwords* / spiritoso*
drawbacks / spiritoso*
BACKWARDS—SPIRITO for me today.
Momentarily thought I was the only one with that solution!
I got backdrop – pitsaw basically by trial and error.
Backwards Spirito.
Maybe, just maybe, LB is trying to tell me somehing…
Ooh SPIRITO — I would have given my eyeteeth for that word about an hour ago.
Me too! I gave up. So many one shorts. ABRACADABRA turns out not to be very useful. Couldn’t get away from the BASTARD for a while…
Hate those one shorts! They are soul destroying and spirit breaking 🙁
I could see abracadabra not being very useful. It only has 5 unique letters. Bastard has 6.
I prefer SCRIPTOR, which was not accepted, but is apparently in the OED.
Yes I was annoyed at this too
No to Scriptor, but Yes, FWIW, to Scriptoria!
Yes! That was my first solution, but only found SPIRITO by throwing letters together. Turns out it’s not a PSW, my Merriam-Webster app, the OED, or anywhere else (musical scores will say ‘con spirito,’ but that’s still not even English parlance.
Still, I knew there’d be other solutions, so I went back for more and found TRIPOD–DRAWBACKS. Wondering what kinds of minds would find TORPID before TRIPOD (my kinds of minds, I suppose, heh).
Tripod – Drawbacks
I’ll name some! 😉
1. Could slow you down from getting a good shot when they take too long to set up.
2. Keeping takes up space and time.
Tripod Drawbacks…
The art student that always manages to setup their easel behind the model.
😄 LOL Mvua.
Just another OA day for me.
Tripod is so much better than Torpid! I’m ashamed I missed it.
Roadworks *Spitback.
Yep, that tarry mess on your car has a name.
Kickbacks-stopword
Ahhh you beat me to it!
Tripod-drawbacks for me. Chuffed to get that after days of failing!
tripod drawbacks for me too. had a hunch it was some kind of compound word and got it right away
It seemed like a lot of compound word possibilities! Besides the ones evident here, I looked at pitstop, dipstick, kickback, backdrop, etc
Backwards Scotopia
BACKDROP – PITSAW. Opening scene from “Sometimes A Great Notion”?
I had all the compound ones. Brickworks, backwards, drawbacks, backdrops, backstops.
I was however too torpid to find torpid.
DRAWBACKS SPIRITO
SPIRITO is a new word for me. Just a guess.
Backwards Spiritoso
…but LB says spiritoso is not a word
DRAWBACKS – SPIRITO
Def not a drawback for me being a pianist on this one.
Backward Disport
12-10-23
PKA—IBO—RSW—TCD
🐘 : Aidi, Cat, Coati, Cow, Dik-Dik, Kodkod, Pitador, Potoroo, Rat, Stoat, Tosa, Woodrat
🦅 : Crow, Dodo, Kiwi, Potoo, Stork
🐍 : Asp, Krait
🦘 : Kowari
Anagrams (unchecked):
ARTISTS : STRAITS : TSARIST : ATTRITS
PROTIST : TROPIST : RIPOSTS
ROCKWOOD : WOODROCK
PROSODICS : DORCOPSIS
STOPWORK : TOPWORKS
DIATROPIC : PODIATRIC
PROSAISTS : PROSTASIS
PROTISTIC : TROPISTIC
STATISTIC : ATTICISTS
DIPROTIC : TRIPODIC
POROTIC : PORTICO
SATIRIST : SITARIST
TAROTS : TORTAS
TORPID : TRIPOD
Palindromes: PULLUP, TIBBIT, ALALA, ALULA, ANANA, TIPIT, ULULU
Oops, no U, bug in program.
🙁
Actually, it’s another day’s palindromes!
It didn’t update correctly.
Kickbacks – Stopword
It took me a long time to find a solution today, but is nice to see that my solution was unique.
backward – disport
TRIPOD – DRAWBACKS. The advantage of a tripod is rock-solid stability, but tripods are heavy and clunky to carry around, so my go-to is a monopod.
🐦 ARACARI, DARK BATIS, PRIRIT BATIS, CARACARA, CROCIAS, CROW, DORADITO, KIWI, PIPIPI, PIPIT, SORA, STORK, ACACIA TIT, CARP’S TIT 🐦🐦 COOT, IIWI, PITTA, POTOO, ROOK, WOODSTAR
Good theme.
And bipods are for rifles.
Your extensive bird list is helping me to augment mine. 🙂
I’ve only recently found this game through the NYT app. I’ve come to enjoy the challenge of the game. Then I discovered the prior day answers and a whole additional level of complexity is now added in trying to solve the puzzle in two, let alone the OA. Everyone here is so talented, and I am glad to have stumbled upon the site. I have only solved the puzzle once in two and most of the time I give up and end up with 3-word answers as I am no wordsmith. For today I have BRICKWORKS-SPIRIT-TAD.
BACKDROPS – SAWPIT
Stage set for an old fashioned barnraising.
I’ve only been playing the past few weeks and I’ve observed that the types of acceptable words seems to be a bit all over the place. I’m quite disappointed that it frequently rejects some common words like CARDSTOCK or SCRIPTOR or SOCRATIC or COPTIC or WORKGEAR or WORKWEAR
Yet it will accept words like SPIRITO or ROBOCOP or ABRACADABRA or STOPWORD.
The general consensus is that the LB word list is a subset of the Scrabble list, which in turn is an apparent subset of the OED.
Exceptions have arisen however.
But several of the words I mentioned that are NOT accepted actually ARE found in the OED. And if we’re going by the Scrabble dictionary then several of the words they DO accept are NOT Scrabble words. So it seems they should either go with the OED and include the words they’ve been excluding or they should go with Scrabble and exclude the words they’ve been including. It seems very loosely goosey. Lol
We can always email Sam Ezersky on it. 😉 I emailed him many moons ago on whether single word solutions can exist. It took weeks but he finally replied that it was possible. 👍
Agree. A common word like SPOTKICK is also not accepted.
Backward-dispirit
Another one with BACKWARD – DISPORT
BRICKBATS STOPWORD
Drawbacks Sarcoptic
Found a couple today, in the following order:
KICKBACKS – STOPWORD
BACKWARDS – SPIRITO
BACKDROP – PITSAW
TRIPOD – DRAWBACKS
I thought the last one was going to be OA, but Sam had to go with TORPID instead, huh. 🙄
TRIPOD-DRAWBACKS after way too long – didn’t know disport.
Many possibilities today but none as TI-rich as Tripod Drawbacks. See MVUA above. I missed Tripod, finding instead Torpid Drawbacks, Backdrop Pitsaw, Backward Disport, and Backwards Scriptoria before calling it Enough.