Here are the Letter Boxed May 31, 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:
AERUCTIYSVLQ
The answers are:
AQUAVITTRICYCLES
CLAVICLES-SQUIRTY
Me too. Botched surgery? 😬
More efficient: CLAVES -SQUIRTY
Same
CLAVES-SQUIRTY as well. I knew that AUTOCLAVES is a word, but since the puzzle could not accommodate that, I took a stab at CLAVES and lo and behold it worked.
Claves Squirty here also.
Didn’t like it much, until I saw the OA.
My answer as well after failing to finish off qualitative.
EVALUATES SQUIRTY
missing the C
Where’s the C?
Same. 🙂
Same.
Not as fun, tho
clavicles – squirty
Same here.
Most efficient.
I did CAVALRIES and was pleasantly surprised about SQUIRT haha
Same.
I’m irritated that LB didn’t accept ECRUS as a word—it was literally a NYT crossword answer the day before yesterday! 😜
Same here.
Found Cavalry Squirty early (the secret weapon that won the West) but then stumbled on Critiques Slsvey (the very definition of punching down!).
CAVALRIES – SQUIRTY
Same!
Same.
another CAVALRIES SQUIRTY here
similar CLAVES- SQUIRTY and yes CLAVES was just a play of letters that was accepted 🤷🏻♀️
Same. Found in 2 secs today remarkably! Was looking for ENCLAVES (no N) but CLAVES is accepted go figure
The Autoclave is the machine that we use to sterilize surgical instruments between procedures. So I actually used claves being pretty sure it would be accepted.
claves – squirty
Same, though I thought of Claves right away because Connections had primed me with “maracas”.
Word Play:
(7-) (7-letters):
(_ _ _ _in_) (_ _ _ _in_)
Clue: self-service store.
vending machine
Hey, PGGIE,
🎉🎉 Wow!!! You are correct! Yay!!!
Vending Machine, indeed! 👍🤓
☢️🌹
Hi RrrF
I missed it today. I wanted it to be SARI SARI store but not enough letters. :wink
Hey, LWMMM,
I’m surprised you know SARI SARI Store and my parents own one. It’s a Filipino word. How did you know it?
Oi RrrF,
My wife is a Filipina from a village in Batangas Province. We used to go there frequently when I worked in Asia but it’s been many years since our last visit. We live in Houston, Texas now. She doesn’t have a Sari Sari store here but she does have a small Filipino restaurant- catering shop that specializes in kakanin. Her turon, suman and pancit are especially popular.
LWMMM,
It’s nice to hear that you have a Filipino connection. I love all the foods you mentioned. PLUS lumpia, adobo, and palitaw.
Filipino wives are the best! 💯
🤗
Aviatrices squatly
AVIATRICES is a great find, PG! My favourite so far. I had CAVALRIES – SQUATLY.
Hey DW – i ended up with CAVALRIES SQUATLY also, after failing with Equality and Elasticity along the way …
It took A while but I got
CAVALRIES-SQUIRTY
I trimmed it down to CLAVES-SQUIRTY
After LB accepted CLAVES I had to go find out what it meant: A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short wooden sticks.
😎
CAVALRIES — SEQUACITY
I couldn’t get SALICYLATES to work.
CRITIQUES – SUAVELY…
“Outstanding! That’s such a unique form incompetence!”
Nice one!
Damnit Mvua, I thought I had a unique answer! Same in less than 10 minutes. Was also close with: Cirques – Suavely (no T)
and Circlets – Suavely (no Q)
I can’t believe I missed this! Also missed OA by a sliver (thought it was AQUAVITE). Ended up with CLIQUIEST TRIVIALITY
Critiques Slavey
😆
Really wanted qualitatively to work but couldn’t get there. Ended up with Claves -Squirty
Hadn’t heard of the OA… that’s taking DWI to a whole new level.
CRITIQUES-STATIVELY
An LB story.
The AVIATRICES—SQUATLY pounded the CLAVES—SQUIRTY and overcame their RIVALRIES—SEQUACITY.
With a QUALITATIVE—ESCRY, one of them CRITIQUES—SUAVELY the CIRQUE—ELASTIVITY of the AQUAVIT—TRICYCLES.
By doing so she removed all of the CLIQUIEST—TRIVIALITY.
The End
🙂
All solution words are at least in OED.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/3FJcWnW36ZLX3Lkf/
ACQUEST TRIVIALITY
Well done!
Hey guys, I’m new here and I was just wondering what OA meant because I kept seeing it being used everywhere. What a cool thread by the way! Thanks!
I had the same question – from context, it means Official Answer
Official Answer
Omg- I’ve been playing this whole time thinking it was optimal answer!
Sometimes the official answer (OA) will be the most efficient, but not always. A solution using more letters may surpass the OA with it’s thematic integrity (TI).
The ultimate holy grail is the elusive 12/1, a single word using all 12 letters just once. It has happened. The last I recall was LEXICOGRAPHY.
Cliquiest triviality
Now that’s a great letters-to-syllables ratio – 19:8
I tried to no avail to find a solution with ‘Acquit’. It’s rigged! The whole thing is rigged!
This made me laugh 🙂
😃
“It’s all being run out of the Biden White House. The DOJ, the FBI, the Communists, the Fascists, the Marxists, they’re all in on it.”
Being half Swedish I got aquavit-tricycles
and also clavicles-squirty.
TRIVIALITIES SEQUACITY
I gave up today when neither of my two solutions were accepted despite being words. I had qualitative – escort and scrive – equality.
Escort? There’s no o in the puzzle today 🤔
RIVULETS–SEQUACITY
I tend to get stuck on a word that I want to work, and I have trouble seeing around it. Today it was EQUALITY. I tried SCRIVE, but it wasn’t accepted, so I ended up with a three-word solution
CATS-STRIVE-(for)EQUALITY
but they’ll never get it because dogs are far superior (let the flames begin LOL).
Similar for me, Rodney. Everything that looked promising failed. I couldn’t fit the C anywhere so I settled for
CLUE EQUALITIES SURVEY
RIVALS SEQUACITY has a political tone to it.
Gosh, a pretty-much unique solution with CRITIQUES-SLAVEY (first word shared with others 👍).
SCRIVE*-EQUALITY
Unique (so far)
calicivirus / sequacity
CRITIQUES SLAVEY
Evaluate the performance of someone you don’t pay who works really hard.
eventually got the OA, but on the way, I found QUALTRICS–SURVEY. I know the proper noun disqualifies it, but the TI was too good not to share.
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 aquavit / tricycles
2 – 17 aviatrices / squatly
3 – 18 cavalries / sequacity
4 – 16 cavalries / squatly
5 – 16 cavalries / squirty
6 – 16 cirques / statively
7 – 16 claqueurs / suavity
8 – 18 claqueurs / statively
9 – 18 claqueurs / stativity
10 – 13 claves / squirty
11 – 16 clavicles / squirty
12 – 19 cliquiest / triviality
13 – 15 critiques / slavey
14 – 16 critiques / suavely
15 – 18 critiques / statively
16 – 15 lurves / sequacity
17 – 15 rivals / sequacity
18 – 18 rivalries / sequacity
19 – 17 rivulets / sequacity
20 – 16 rivulus / sequacity
21 – 18 rivuluses / sequacity
22 – 17 surveils / sequacity
23 – 18 survivals / sequacity
24 – 21 trivialities / sequacity
25 – 16 vaquita / acrylates
26 – 17 acquest / triviality
27 – 18 acquiries / statively
28 – 20 calicivirus / sequacity
29 – 22 caliciviruses / sequacity
30 – 20 caliciviruses / squatly
31 – 20 caliciviruses / squirty
32 – 19 rivalities / sequacity
33 – 18 rivalties / sequacity
34 – 15 rivels / sequacity
35 – 16 acquites* / surveyal*
36 – 17 acquites* / surveyals*
37 – 15 acquits / surveyal*
38 – 16 acquits / surveyals*
39 – 16 aquatics / surveyal*
40 – 17 aquatics / surveyals*
41 – 17 claqueurs / stievely*
42 – 14 claqueurs / stivy*
43 – 17 critiques / surveyal*
44 – 18 critiques / surveyals*
45 – 14 cruives* / squatly
46 – 18 quietives / satyrical*
47 – 15 scrieve* / equality
48 – 15 scrieves* / squatly
49 – 14 scrive* / equality
50 – 14 scrives* / squatly
51 – 19 sequacities* / surveyal*
52 – 20 sequacities* / surveyals*
53 – 16 slurves* / sequacity
54 – 20 surveyals* / sequacities*
55 – 18 surveyals* / sequacity
56 – 19 virilities* / sequacity
57 – 14 virls* / sequacity
58 – 14 vrils* / sequacity
Very late to the game today.
CLAVICLES – SQUIRTY