Here are the Letter Boxed May 23, 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:
QKIHMUSOAERF
The answers are:
FORKSSQUEAMISH
Oa from me
and me
Same. Wasn’t this one of Sybil’s quirks?
Found the OA instantly, which certainly frees up time, especially having polished it off so early!
I’ll check in later and see what folks come up with for alternatives, if there are any.
Bernie, aren’t you in Maine? If so, you are either a serious night owl or a major early riser!
Kinda both! Sleep becomes more elusive as we age.
For Bernie, since no more replies are available on his comment:
Long walks, and short naps, are key!
OA here as well. With still plenty of commute left.
Same in 15 minutes after focusing on… squirms, marsquake, seaquakes, misform, famous, famishes, squarish. Thought fishfarm was a word and squamish was, but not accepted
Surprised squirmish was not accepted
Right, that too
I am very new to this word game. What does “oa” stand for?
SHAKE—EQUIFORM⁺ 13/2
SMOKEHOUSES—SQUAMIFORM⁺
⁺OED
definitions from Merriam-Webster:
equiform: like in shape or function : uniform
squamiform: having the shape of a scale.
Hi Mark! Yes on the long walks and short naps!
OA quite quickly which was satisfying
Same
FAQUIRS – SMOKEHOUSE. For the ascetics’ guilty pleasures.
Fantastic!
OA quite quickly after playing around with FURIOUS (FARIOUS not accepted) and QUAKE-related. Like the SMOKEHOUSE finding and learning a new word (FAQUIRS)!
I’m sure Ronnie Barker did a piece about the old faquirs on the street corner.
He kept saying old faquirs rather a lot.
I see what you did there! Heh-Heh!
Well done! I spent way too long on MARQUISES and SMOKEHOUSE(S) and couldn’t make either work. Finally landed on the OA.
Terrific TI.
🧘♂️🚬
FAQUIRS — SMOKEHOUSE
Likewise.
I spent a lot of time with SQUAMOUS and SEAQUAKES but struggled connecting them to a word containing ‘F’
Yep! and trying to fit the R in there also.
The DDG outage put me behind yesterday morning (early Thursday) and then we did painting most of the day in Greasy Cove (they have a great restaurant/general store called the Greasy Spoon there) and back at home i fell right asleep and didn’t really get on this until this morning.
The OA is so easy but all I got were 3’s:
SQUAMOUS SHRIEKS SHEAFS
and
SQUAMOUS SHRIEKS SEIFS
You could cut that last S off each of the answers, but I decided to leave it on for the symmetry.
SEIF – i think that i had completely forgotten that i had learned this word in Marine Geology many years ago – “a sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind”.
LB wouldn’t take
SUFI
KAFKAESQUE
SQUAMIFORM
i’m don’t see why not.
Yes, in fact, Kafkaesque was rejected just a week ago or so. An outrage!
Word Play:
10-letters:
_u_ _ _m_ _e_
Clue: He/she is very good-looking.
SUPERMODEL
I think I spelled this one correctly, considering my errors yesterday!
Hey, TOMMM,
GOTCHA! Hehehe…
Two thumbs up! 👍👍
SUPERMODEL, indeed! Yay!!! 🤗😉
☢️🌹
The SUBLIMATED, EUPHEMIZED SUPERMODEL, OUTGAMBLED her CUSTOMIZED AUDIOMETER, as she ate her GUACAMOLES.
🙂
👍👍
I just scrolled down
Wow! that is a description!
😎
Hey RF!
i haven’t scrolled down to answer yet, but i bet you have
SUPERMODEL.
But I decided to say
SUBLIMATED
“raised (someone) to a high office or status; to dignify, to elevate, to exalt.
Hey, Mr.McBEE 🐝,
I’m happy you got the answer too. Good job! 👍🤓
☢️🌹
RHU
LES
ITW
POA
CLUE: A devout Catholic’s faith for instance. Like my mother who prays the rosary with me almost every night.
And my aunt too especially.
WORSHIPS — SUPERALTARS ??
Hey, Sir BILL DUFFIN,
Oooh, kudos for this one! 👍🤗
And, you’re almost there for the OA. 😉
☢️🌹
WORSHIP — PERPETUAL is a better fit for devout Catholics 🙂
Sir BILL DUFFIN,
WOW! Two thumbs up! 👍👍
WORSHIP – PERPETUAL, indeed! I’m happy you got it! 🤗😉
☢️🌹
OA – that sound of silverware scraping against the plates.
🤣
Just the OA for me. Almost had FISHCAKE (FISHQUAKE?!).
Just the OA here.
If you see someone walking down a NY street with a garden fork, maybe you should run…
OA quickly. My only other solution was 3w SQUEAKS SHOFAR RIM.
FORKS – SQUEAMISH
Picky-picky.
OA
Quick OA after dabbling with QUARKS, QUIRKS, SQUEAK, and SQUIRM.
….and MARQUIS had no match, so another OA here
and SQUARKS again, my fav particle 🙂 ⚛️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfermion#Squarks
OA… Instant solve for me for a change. Literally saw it right when I looked at it…less than 30 seconds!
A quick OA
OA
Wonder why EQUIFORM was not accepted
me too
OA. Before that,
FAMOUS SQUIRMS SHRIEKS
Immediate OA
faquirs – smokehouse
First had FAMISHES SQUARKS and SHOE but as I was clicking to send I thought why not SQUEAMISH? Then got FORKS. Pays to take one’s time. 🙂
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 – 17 faquirs / smokehouse
2 – 18 faquirs / smokehouses
3 – 14 forks / squeamish
4 – 14 faquirs / smokeho*
5 – 15 hakes / squamiform*
6 – 19 harakekes* / squamiform*
7 – 15 hokes / squamiform*
8 – 16 keshes* / squamiform*
9 – 19 kohekohes* / squamiform*
10 – 18 kurushes* / squamiform*
11 – 15 okehs* / squamiform*
12 – 20 rakeshames / squamiform*
13 – 16 shakes / squamiform*
14 – 17 shakoes* / squamiform*
15 – 17 shrieks / squamiform*
16 – 21 smokehouses / squamiform*
OA. I think this is the fastest I’ve ever solved it
I worked through a lot of potential words before I finally found
FORKS-SQUEAMISH
SQUARISH quickly to OA.