Here are the Letter Boxed December 30, 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:
BTLEHYOCVJWI
The answers are:
WHOOBJECTIVELY
OA very quickly
OA (rather slowly!) 🤦🏽♀️
Me too! Never solved it so quickly.
Same
OA and wondering who will come up with an alternative solution
Yep, turned out to be an easy OA. Still took a little looking first though. 🙂
OA, and another containing a bird and a PSW:
BOBWHITE—EJECTIVELY*
Brilliant solve, Mark! 😊
BTW, here’s the complete list of today’s birds: 🐦 BOBWHITE, OWL, OWLET, TIT 🐦🐦 BOOBY, HOBBY, WEEBILL.
Saw Bobwhite but didn’t see a match. Well done!
I also found bobwhite, but would never have thought of trying EJECTIVELY.
I got it, but I definitely wasn’t attacking it correctly at first. I was for certain it was BEJEWEL, but that just left so many terrible letters.
Right there with you! Loved BEJEWEL but rotten letters left over!
Apparently I just forgot to play yesterday! No wonder I seemed to have more time for tasks than usual…
An easy solve today- Js always narrow the field, and when you throw in C, B and Y….
I’ve learned not to think any OA is a one-off, or I would think so here. Good TI for an OA, at least. Because really, Who?
Your wit is missed when you don’t post, Bernie. Don’t pull a SOTA on us!
My thoughts too, Steph! Don’t, Bernie!
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Aw, youse guys… I’m here for the duration! I do miss SOTA still.
OA as well.
OA as well, after dallying with BEJEWEL.
Exactly the same for me.
Has anyone else had this experience? Toying around for a minute or two, getting distracted, doing something else, and then, out of nowhere, the solution pops into your head when you aren’t even looking at the puzzle? That was me today, and not for the first time. 🤔
Absolutely, DW. I also arrive at solutions to various problems during sleep (reportedly so did out-of-my league Einstein and Edison). The brain works in mysterious ways….
Yes! DW…While having dinner, my brain is working in the background. Twice, I found the OA this way!
Yes! I call it brain swirl!
Oa today.
I love this! 🙂
That’s my usual. If I don’t get the two-word solution during AM coffee, I try to get a good working memory of the letters (and their layout on the grid) and ‘spin my wheels’ while doing other tasks. Quite often, I’ll come up with something while driving to work.
Dw i often see if i can get a quick solve in before bed. If not i will often dream words and very occasionally wake up with a solve.
I come up with Spelling Bee words like that. Even as I’m falling asleep.
Agree with comments above. 🙂
OA quickly today.
Same here. OA. Not too long spent but awhile with BEJEWEL too. Almost settled for 4w: (Hive-Eject-Towel-Lowboy) but then Eject led to Object which quickly got me OBJECTIVELY and then WHO right away.
I was using pen and paper today. I scribbled the suffix CTIVELY. I never bothered to pursue it persistently. Also, I forgot trying it on the site on the phone. Maybe I would notice OBJE-…
It had occurred to me that CTIVELY must be part of the OA tho.
When setting the objective to “objective”, two old LB denizens reappear:
OBJECTIVE—ETH—HWYL
When I couldn’t extend EJECT into a longer word, my eye caught OBJECT as a root word and then the OA came quickly.
HOWTO. OBJECTIVELY
Hah! Nice.
An alternative answer! Well done, Tweena! I would never have thought to try Howto.
Almost always. If I don’t see an answer quickly, I go for a 3-word solution. When I come back later, a 2- word match often pops right up. I think of the process as absorbtion, incubation, solution.
OA in a minute (for a change). Now what am I going to do with my free time?
Really, it’s not the winning that’s fun; it’s the playing.
OA here too!
OA in a couple minutes as well. Started with EJECT then quickly cascaded through OBJECT, OBJECTIVE, OBJECTIVELY, and smiled when I saw the leftovers.
OA today
OA
I just feel stupid for missing this OA . Got fixated on botchily. Oh well. Another puzzle tomorrow.
JECT then OA.
OA but after an age!
OA
Here is the full list including Scrabble words:
** Don’t look at the list if you haven’t finished solving the puzzle **
(The first number is a count and the second number is the number of letters used)
1 – 16 howto / objectively
2 – 14 who / objectively
3 – 19 bobwhite / ejectively*
4 – 17 howbe* / ejectively*
5 – 16 whio* / objectively