Here are the Letter Boxed May 02, 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:
NPROCIDYSATB
The answers are:
CRYPTOOBSIDIAN
BONITOS – SCRAPYARD.
Took only 3 minutes to solve.
Terrific answer, Fleur!
Thanx Mr.BerniePatootie…😊🤗
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Word Play:
14 letters:
_ _o_o_ _n_ _esis
Photogenesis
Oops that doesn’t add up
Hey, OSCAROO,
WRONG! 🥴😵💫
Photosynthesis
Hi, JOHNNIE,
Yeah, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, indeed!
👍🤓
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PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
Hi, Ms.FISHCAKE,
YES, it is! PHOTOSYNTHESIS, indeed!
Yay!!! 👍🤓
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There’s no H
OUE
CLP
TNK
RDI
CLUE: The sharing of food.
Not the answer but UNDERLIP PICKPOCKET I think works. Off to bed pleasant dreams and days to everyone
OSCAROO,
Your solution works! Yay!!! 👍🤓
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The OA is 13/2.
Starts with P.
Yeah
potluck — kinder ??
Hey, Sir BILL DUFFIN,
YES, it is! POTLUCK – KINDER, indeed! Yay!!!
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Pancarditis storyboard
Woah! 👏🏾👏🏾
PYCNOSIS STORYBOARD (shrink the script?)
TRANSCRIPTS / STORYBOARD
Yep. Me, too
Aye yay yay crypto’s was first word I worked on never saw obsidian did go with BROADCASTS SPINY
That was my answer, too, Oscar.
Yes, but also BROADCAST–TRYPSIN
Broadcasts Spiny
me too.
I connected the letters for “NONBROADCAST” but LB didn’t like it, and also “CRYPTON” but LB didn’t like it either.
Same here Nitesh!
BROADCASTS and SPINY!
Maja Hai!
SCRIPTS-SANDBOY
That’s what I came up with too. Then I had to research the elusive sandboy!
Similar, I found the less efficient
[ TRANSCRIPTS ~ SANDBOY ]
I had no idea what a sandbox was but I know to play odd sounding compound words.
transcripts – sandboy as well
I found the less-than-satisfying OA, but ultimately preferred something a bit more surreal: Brainiac Cryptosporidia. (Also had Bronc Cryptosporidia, but it was too unpleasant. Poor horsies!)
transcripts storyboard
Me too
BRONCS—SAPIDITY
BIPARTISAN—NONCANDIDACY*
The opposite of current US politics.
Good TI on the OA! ☕
This is my favourite solution so far! “I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.” — William Tecumseh Sherman.
BRONCS – SAPIDITY for me as well. But I doubt horses have a pleasant taste, and I don’t think I want to find out.
Agree. Thematically incongruent. 🙂
so THAT’s what TI stands for . . .
Good one KP! 😊
That could be a new category, the other end of the spectrum.
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Excellent solution with related terms!
Can’t beat Mark’s BIPARTISAN CANDIDACY! 🌷
Just OA and BROADCASTS – SPINY for me.
Wow Mark!
Omg, another “almost” for me! I got Bipartisan, and Candidacy, and tried Non- (fruitlessly), but didn’t think of Noncandidacy. Good one!
15/2.BROADCASTS
SPINY
BROADCASTS-SPINY as well in about 15 seconds. Much better than yesterday.
CARBONADOS – SPIRITY*
Come to think of it, CARBONADOS – STRIPY is a bit better. But nowhere near as good as Mark’s BIPARTISAN – NONCANDIDACY*.
BRONCS — SAPIDITY
CAPITONS (new word for me) STORYBOARD.
Moi aussi!
SCRIPTS – SANDBOY
J
Saw obsidian but went with broadcasts-spiny.
I wouldn’t have thought to use CRYPTO on its own, figuring it’s more of a prefix than a standalone word.
CRYPTOSPORADIA–ANTIBIAS* (LB accepts the first of these words, but not the second)
DRAINBOARD–DIPTYCAS* (*evidently, a less common plural form of ‘diptych’)
BRAINIAC – CRYPTOSPORIDIA
Me too!
…and we’re not even the longest solution!
Here too, after moving on from the OA. Always on the lookout for Brainiac!
CANTRIPS – STORYBOARD (the plans for a fantasy animation perhaps?)
My solution too. 🧙♀️
same here! cantrip: a mischievous or playful act; a trick. Nice!
1 word challenge:
T A P
C E L
S I R
O H M
hint: they make our modern world go round
plasticmicrochip(s)
Although officially I think it’s two words.
And I was also going to say “officially silicon” but after looking it up I see how behind the times that I am – they can make the chips out of plastic now.
PETROCHEMICALS.
Yes indeed but plastic microchips are definitely a petrochem
Hey Radio:
you are exactly right!
I had forgotten the “E”.
And I have two of them in my name!
I can’t believe I wasn’t able to make a combo with SACROSANCTITY. All that was left was a B P and D.
Drops-Sanctity just missed the B, so BID DROPS SANCTITY = 16/3.
OA, but definitely took awhile. Annoyed that I didn’t see Storyboard, because I had Board and was looking to compound it with something.
BROADCASTS – SPINY
Oh, I should’ve got that one, BROADCASTS- SPINY, but I only got Sportscasts and Spiny among a whole bunch of great words and 3w and 4w answers. No way would I have found today’s OA.
I came up with RAPIDO OBSTINACY
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 bonitos / scrapyard
2 – 22 brainiac / cryptosporidia
3 – 20 brainiac / cryptodirans
4 – 19 brainiac / cryptodonts
5 – 16 broadcast / trypsin
6 – 15 broadcasts / spiny
7 – 19 bronc / cryptosporidia
8 – 17 bronc / cryptodirans
9 – 14 broncs / sapidity
10 – 15 cantrips / sandboy
11 – 18 cantrips / storyboard
12 – 20 caparisons / storyboard
13 – 18 carbonados / sapidity
14 – 18 carbonados / sparsity
15 – 16 carbonados / stripy
16 – 18 carbonara / adiposity
17 – 16 padrino / obstinacy
18 – 17 padrino / obstinancy
19 – 18 postscripts / sandboy
20 – 14 scripts / sandboy
21 – 18 transcripts / sandboy
22 – 21 transcripts / storyboard
23 – 14 crypto / obsidian
24 – 18 capitons / storyboard
25 – 16 carbona / adiposity
26 – 16 carbonas / sapidity
27 – 19 cryptodiran / nanobots
28 – 21 cryptodiran / nanorobots
29 – 15 cryptodiran / nibs
30 – 15 cryptodiran / nobs
31 – 16 cryptodiran / naibs
32 – 21 cryptodirans / sandboard
33 – 19 cryptodirans / sandboy
34 – 15 cryptodirans / sib
35 – 16 cryptodirans / sibs
36 – 17 cryptodirans / sibia
37 – 18 cryptodirans / sibias
38 – 18 cryptodirans / sinbin
39 – 19 cryptodirans / sinbins
40 – 16 cryptodirans / snib
41 – 17 cryptodirans / snibs
42 – 16 cryptodirans / snob
43 – 17 cryptodirans / snobs
44 – 15 cryptodirans / sob
45 – 16 cryptodirans / sobs
46 – 16 cryptodirans / sorb
47 – 17 cryptodirans / sorbs
48 – 17 cryptodirans / sorbi
49 – 16 cryptodirans / stob
50 – 17 cryptodirans / stobs
51 – 22 cryptodirans / storyboard
52 – 16 cryptodont / tibias
53 – 16 cryptodonts / sibia
54 – 17 cryptodonts / sibias
55 – 13 cybrid / dopants
56 – 18 pancarditis / sandboy
57 – 21 pancarditis / storyboard
58 – 16 pandoro / obstinacy
59 – 17 pandoro / obstinancy
60 – 18 paniscas / storyboard
61 – 15 pardao / obstinacy
62 – 16 pardao / obstinancy
63 – 18 popinacs / storyboard
64 – 18 pycnosis / storyboard
65 – 15 rapido / obstinacy
66 – 16 rapido / obstinancy
67 – 18 antisnobs* / scrapyard
68 – 22 bipartisan / noncandidacy*
69 – 19 birdbrains / scriptory*
70 – 16 bonists* / scrapyard
71 – 17 broadcast / trypsins*
72 – 15 broadcasts / snipy*
73 – 19 broadcasts / spinosity*
74 – 13 brond / diptycas*
75 – 16 cantraips* / sandboy
76 – 19 cantraips* / storyboard
77 – 19 capodastro* / obstinacy
78 – 19 carbidopa* / anisotropy
79 – 18 carbidopa* / antistory*
80 – 16 carbidopa* / aroynts*
81 – 18 carbidopa* / asininity
82 – 15 carbidopa* / astony*
83 – 23 carbidopas* / sacrosanctity
84 – 18 carbidopas* / sanctity
85 – 16 carbidopas* / sanity
86 – 18 carbidopas* / scantity*
87 – 16 carbidopas* / scanty
88 – 16 carbidopas* / snorty*
89 – 18 carbidopas* / sonority
90 – 19 carbidopas* / spinosity*
91 – 16 carbidopas* / stinty*
92 – 15 carbidopas* / stony
93 – 19 carbonados / scriptory*
94 – 19 carbonados / spinosity*
95 – 17 carbonados / spirity*
96 – 17 carbonados / stypsis*
97 – 18 carbonaras* / sapidity
98 – 15 carbons* / sapidity
99 – 18 crispins* / storyboard
100 – 15 crypto / obsidians*
101 – 22 cryptosporidia / antibias*
102 – 22 cryptosporidia / antisnob*
103 – 23 cryptosporidia / antisnobs*
104 – 18 diptycas* / strobotron*
105 – 19 diptycas* / strobotrons*
106 – 18 drainboard / diptycas*
107 – 15 inboard / diptycas*
108 – 18 isobronts* / scrapyard
109 – 16 nonbrand* / diptycas*
110 – 19 nonbroadcast* / topiary
111 – 20 nonbroadcast* / triptyca*
112 – 21 nonbroadcast* / triptycas*
113 – 17 nonbroadcast* / tripy*
114 – 19 nonbroadcast* / trypsin
115 – 20 nonbroadcast* / trypsins*
116 – 18 nonbroadcast* / typist
117 – 19 nonbroadcast* / typists
118 – 18 obsidians* / scriptory*
119 – 15 onboard / diptycas*
120 – 17 paniscs* / storyboard
121 – 20 papyrian* / nonbroadcast*
122 – 16 pinboard / diptycas*
123 – 18 pinyin* / nonbroadcast*
124 – 18 pinyon / nonbroadcast*
125 – 20 pontianacs* / storyboard
126 – 17 postcrisis* / sandboy
127 – 16 pycnidia* / arborist
128 – 17 pycnidia* / arborists
129 – 16 pyin* / nonbroadcast*
130 – 19 pyronin / nonbroadcast*
131 – 17 ribstons* / scrapyard
132 – 15 tipcarts* / sandboy
133 – 16 triptycas* / sandboy
134 – 19 trypsin / nonbroadcast*
Defeat!!!
This ends my nine day winning streak.