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Sides of this Letter Box are:
YZIKMTOHSJUC
The answers are:
JOYSTICKSSCHMUTZ
Joysticks schmutz
I would have gotten the whole OA if I know how to spell SCHMUTZ. Ughh…
I usually see the SHMUTZ variation, but since the S and H are on the same side today, I added the C and it was accepted. LB seems to accept all Yiddish terms.
I’ve noticed that too. I once tried TRAYF and was amazed that it was accepted.
😅🤗
I got the OA but I have to say this was a pretty crappy puzzle. I wish the schmuck who designs them would confine the OA to words in the English language.
I agree that the puzzle today was lacking. JOYSTICKS came immediately, and then you knew it would be a one-off solution using a Yiddish word.
I did, however, discover that MUZHIK(S) is an accepted word.
Which means? (Looking it up as we speak!). OA-Agreed that Yiddish words are all the rage while other English words seem to not be accepted. Looks to only be one solution today (OA) (aside from MUZHIKS and ?)
Since your comment used the Yiddish word schmuck, I’m guessing you’re joking. But in case you aren’t, I looked up schmutz on merriam-Webster.com (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schmutz) and it’s listed as “US slang”.
OA figured there was a Yiddish word in there.
OA. can’t believe it’s the solution 🤪
JOYSTICKS – SCHMUTZ
It’s a slippery slope, Sam. If you start allowing SCHMUTZ, you open the door to all the slang words for JOYSTICK.
😆 LOL, This
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OA. I knew that one of the words had to be a silly one.
JOYSTICKS — SCHMUTZ
Dirty gaming devices… Gotta love Yiddish
Also saw COUSCOUS, HISTIOCYTIC, CYSTOTOMY, MYSTICISM, MYSTICISTS, MYTHICISM, MYTHICISTS
The moment I saw the array, I knew one of the words had to be Yiddish… and from there it was literally about 3 seconds to the OA. I would be dershtoynt if there were another solution.
this one definitely didn’t take long, because you always know with the Z you’re getting yiddish.
I had mysticism first, but it left way too many letters. Whole puzzle was done in less than a minute, though. That’s the way I like them.
OA.
OA. Took me a while to remember to try Yiddish, then knew it’d be OA as soon as Schmutz was accepted.
Arcade janitor is off his game.
JOYSTICKS—SCHMUTZ (sss)
And climbing out onto the OED branch, flimsy at best today:
MUZJIKS°—SCOTCHY°
°OED:
muzjik, n. A Russian peasant or serf.
Scotchy, n. (A nickname for) a Scottish person. Cf. Scotty, n.
Unfortunately this spelling of Muzhiks was rejected, and the accepted spelling couldn’t be paired.
Joysticks Schmutz here – you should clean those things, they’re disgusting! It’s surely a Singular Solution (SS).
Pretty bad when the LB Solver only has muzjiks/scotchy (not accepted), and the OA is nowhere to be seen.
I have HAD it with these words. Dictionary.com categorizes as as slang, which is borderline at best. No student on the SAT or GRE would be presented with schmutz! Cmon!
OA- can’t believe I got it after first seeing the letters. Once I found JOYSTICK(S), I knew the 2nd had to be Yiddish. Took me a while to spell it correctly.
JOYSTICKS
SCHMUTZ
OA. Even recognizing the high likelihood of Yiddish being involved, still took me a few minutes to spot Joystick. But once I had that the leap to JOYSTICKS-SCHMUTZ was pretty simple.
Got joysticks easily , never got schmutz even though my mother was always rubbing it off my face
OA. TI: a dirty video game controller 🕹️
I suspect this is a one off. I find it eye roll inducing that so many other legitimate words are rejected, yet Yiddish is often the key to a singular two word solution array. MIZJIK is inexplicably unacceptable
Got it quickly. But a JOYless exercise.
JOYSTICKS STOIC CHUM MOZO. MOZO was a guess. Hated this puzzle. JOYSTICKS seemed like such a good find that I thought it must have been part of the solution but I don’t think I would have ever found SCHMUTZ. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that word written. I’ve heard it but rarely as I’m Scottish, I live in Scotland, I am not Jewish and I don’t know any Jewish people. I’ve said it before but I wish he wouldn’t use Yiddish words in solutions as they’re very hard to get for a lot of English speakers around the world.
If it’ll make you feel any better, a couple of years ago one of the words in the two-word solution was RAGEQUIT. I couldn’t find it at merriam-Webster.com and had to resort to Urban Dictionary, where I learned it’s when you’re driven into a fury by a video game and stop playing it in disgust. I considered writing to the editor and suggesting he limit himself to words that can be found in a standard online dictionary.
I was bummed that ICHTHYOTOMIST was not accepted (who doesn’t like a good fish dissector?), even though it is in the OED.
schmutz isn’t even an English word
geez!
There was only 1 solution today. No scrabble words.
1 – 16 joysticks / schmutz
8 letter words in today’s solution
chutists
couscous
cystitis
joystick
kickouts
miskicks
otocysts
schticks
sickouts
stickums
stocious
stockist
stockout
stoicism
tokotoko
tukutuku
mokimoki
musicist
muticous
myotomic
mythisms
oustitis
9 letter words in today’s solution
cystotomy
joysticks
mysticism
mythicism
mythicist
schistous
stockists
stockouts
musicists
mysticist
mysticity
10 letter words in today’s solution
ichthyotic
musicstick
mythicists
mysticists
11 letter words in today’s solution
musicsticks
histiocytic
13 letter words in today’s solution
mycomysticism
14 letter words in today’s solution
mycomysticisms
OA, just as I was about to enter a 3w, either JOYSTICKS SUM MUZHIK or JOYS STOICISM MUZHIK (I found MUZHIK/s and MUZJIK in Scrabble Solver, but as noted here, the latter wasn’t accepted), Muzhik was a new word for me.