Here are the Letter Boxed February 12, 2024 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:
GZQUSONREITP
The answers are:
PRIZINGGROTESQUE
OA here today!
OA here too.
Also: PUTZING—GROTESQUE
And the off-the-wall one: ZOETROPE—ESQUIRING*
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zoetrope
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Hey Mark, I see your ZOETROPE is more efficient than mine. Nice!
Yes, I saw that possibility, but went with the E as the linker. But yours is official, and mine is only a PSW. 🙂
Now, now, Mark, don’t belittle the superior word list! 😉
I tried esquiring but it didn’t accept it. Did it for you??
No, esquiring was not accepted in the game. Yet it is an acceptable Scrabble word, hence the frustration sometimes with the maintainers of the Letter Boxed word list.
OA Me too.
The best of the worst?
PRIZING / GROTESQUE too!
PUTZING – GROTESQUE
The dank basement lair of the internet troll.
Whereas I take it as our first Trump reference of the day.
Got Putzing first and then Prizing Grotesque –
Cronenberg’s and del Toro’s aesthetic.
I got PUTZING – GROTESQUE too. My TI:
How the other townspeople viewed Quasimodo
He wasn’t a real modo, only a quasi-modo.
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ZOETROPES-SQUIRING.
admittedly farout, but ALIOW
Same
Same here.
Upsizing Grotesque
ditto
My answer too. Reasonable reaction to the McMansion trend.
Some Anagrams that stood out:
GESTURING : GRUNGIEST
UNIQUEST* : UNQUIETS*
GUESSING : SNUGGIES*²
IGNORING : GROINING*
QUESTOR : ROQUETS : TORQUES
* playable Scrabble word
² double lettered
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ZOETROPES – SQUIRING
QUINZES* – STRONGPOINT. It’s always strangely satisfying to knock off a Q and a Z in one word.
Similarly, in WWF, a Q and a Z can be quite valuable together, as in QUIZ, especially when landing across a TW cell. Good one with Quinze!
Knowing I’ll come up with the answer myself as soon as I post this comment, I must ask what ‘WWF’ means (aside from the esteemed Wrestling organization).
Oh, I play “Words With Friends” (WWF) with family. Good game. Basically an online Scrabble variant.
Failed today. Didn’t see GROTESQUE. Ended with ROQUETS SPRING SEZ. SEZ was a guess.
Another ZOETROPES – SQUIRING. Jumped right out at me after starting with the second word. I guess the American Zoetrope title sequence is burned into my unconscious!
OA today!
Another OA.
OA for me. Has been a fallow few days, so I am relieved.
OA here as well.
GONZO / OPES / SQUIRT
ESPORTS / SQUIZ / ZING
OA here as well
Oscar Best Picture for 2017
Excellent TI, Ricky! And it loops del Toro back into the discussion, as a bonus!
UPSIZING – GROTESQUE
This was mine as well.
Same
ZOETROPES SQUIRING
Got the OA today! Mighty pleased!
PRIZING GROTESQUE TOO.
Had QUESTS SIZING GROPE earlier, but didn’t get to OA from there. I was preoccupied with SEQUINS and QUEUEING, or trying to compound ZONING but no go.
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 prizing / grotesque
2 – 17 prizing / grotesques
3 – 16 putzing / grotesque
4 – 17 putzing / grotesques
5 – 17 upsizing / grotesque
6 – 18 upsizing / grotesques
7 – 17 zoetropes / squiring
8 – 17 poetrizes / squiring
9 – 19 poetrizing / grotesque
10 – 20 poetrizing / grotesques
11 – 16 peizing* / grotesque
12 – 17 peizing* / grotesques
13 – 18 peizing* / grotesquest*
14 – 19 pequistes* / sironizing*
15 – 18 prizing / grotesquest*
16 – 18 putzing / grotesquest*
17 – 18 quinzes* / strongpoint
18 – 19 quinzes* / strongpoints
19 – 19 quinzies* / strongpoint
20 – 20 quinzies* / strongpoints
21 – 19 upsizing / grotesquest*
22 – 17 zoetrope / esquiring*
23 – 18 zoetropes / sequining*
Nobody guessed (yet)
poetrizes / squiring
poetrizing / grotesque
Quint tropes sizing
And I’m annoyed because prizing is the first word I tried 😑
UPSIZING, GROTESQUE
Poetrizes squiring