Here are the Letter Boxed July 24, 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:
RXTEYMPCIFAL
The answers are:
CAMPFIREEXACTLY
EXCRETA—AMPLIFY
Gross, but it beats the OA by 1 letter. 🙂
Tell me (if you dare), did you find Amplify first and then have to look for Excreta? Or was it the other way round?
The other way around 😉
Same. Guessed EXCRETA.
Taxi Imperfectly. The pilot got stuck in the mud on the way to the runway!
Took longer to put the letters in than anything 🙂
Same
I came up with a similar answer – MAXI-IMPERFECTLY. Got this one done a heck of a lot faster than the last few days.
Same
I saw Taxi, but tried AXI. It took!
[Axi – Imperfectly]
Taxi – Imperfectly
Also found…
Expecter/Excepter, Climate, Climax, Primate, Primarily, Crimple, Prefix, Amplifier
Same
I got MAXI IMPERFECTLY, but I like TAXI better! Was glad to solve this in 2w very quickly today, after only getting 3w’s lately most days.
Likewise here. On both points.
Same
TAXI, of course! 🤦♂️ I ended up guessing with AXI – IMPERFECTLY. I’ll still take it, though!
Love the TI 👍 …
took me a long time to see IMPERFECTLY … i don’t know if it was mud on my windshield or just the TAXI in the way! 😎
Taxi Imperfectly
Yeah, same… so now I drive for Uber.
👍😎🐝
Uber under
I just tried a variant of the OA.
CAMPFIRE—EXILITY
The flame’s going out.
🔥
campfire -exility as well
~30 minutes to get
CAMPFIRE EXACTLY
Excreta – Amplify
Same OA in less than 5 minutes
OA after spending way to much time with PERPLEXITY and then searching for a word that would end with CAMP.
Yeah, I had that same issue. I could get CAMPFIRE but nothing that ended in CAMP.
Same
oa
OA too. ‘Hope you are still enjoying the Scabble Tournament, Radio 🙋🏻♀️
👍
TAXI — IMPERFECTLY
Pretty quick today
Campfire, Exactly
(within 10 minutes)
Another Taxi Imperfectly – my last flight, and I do mean last! (Axi and Maxi also work but Taxi has better TI.) Also Campfire Exactly – Smokey is watching.
😄
One more for TAXI—IMPERFECTLY.
MAXI-IMPERFECTLY
CAMPFIRE – EXACTLY
In the time of a three-minute egg.
OA here too after attempting to find pairs for AMPLIFY, PERPLEXITY and FRACTILE* (not accepted by LB, seriously?)
I too noted the mysterious rejection of Fractile. Not saying it would have been pairable, but still….
I tried way too long with refractility but couldn’t make it happen
taxi imperfectly
OA. I was determined to get today’s after failing to find POMOGRANATE – oy vey! I feel vindicated 🙂 Plus, I’m a camping addict 🙂
Taxi Imperfectly
I’m reasonably new to letterboxed and this blog. Would someone mind explaining what the initialism “oa” stands for? Is it Obvious Answer?
Thanks.
Hello Allan,
OA = Official Answer. It’s the NYT 2-word solution for the day.
PSW = Playable Scrabble Word
word* = acceptable Scrabble word
word° = word is in the Oxford dictionary
x/y = x letters in y words (example, today’s OA is a 15/2)
Hey Allan!
Mark covered the basics of LB, including the letter count … sometimes players will strive to and brag about getting a better (lower) letter count than NYT’s OA (official answer). Or sometimes they’ll try to get the highest possible letter count by using two very long words.
The golden grail, i suppose, would be a 1/12 – all twelve of the puzzle letters used in a single word. I haven’t seen that yet, and i haven’t seen any one word answers that LB (Letter Boxed) has accepted yet. LB seems to be finicky and surprising in what it will or won’t accept as a word.
Davel is a player who usually reports the complete list of possible two-word solutions, usually a few hours before the end of the puzzle day which is 3am New York time … the blog time, i think, is on GMT or Universal Standard Time.
You will also see TI mentioned which stands for Thematic Integrity but is what i think of as the wittiest explanation for how the words in your answer relate to each other.
Welcome to the blog!
😎 McBee
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 – 15 campfire / exactly
2 – 15 campfire / exility
3 – 14 excreta / amplify
4 – 15 maxi / imperfectly
5 – 15 taxi / imperfectly
6 – 14 axi / imperfectly
7 – 15 excerpta* / amplify
All these were guessed today (except for the Scrabble word)
TAXI – IMPERFECTLY
Longest word found:
PRETERIMPERFECT (15)
OED: preterimperfect, adj. & n. Of a tense: expressing past action going on but not complete; = imperfect, adj.