Here are the Letter Boxed October 19, 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:
LDMPNCIARTOB
The answers are:
BITMAPPALINDROMIC
PALINDROMIC COMBAT
PALINDROMIC—CATACOMB
PALINDROMIC—COMBINATION
BROMANTIC – CROPLAND!
I found lots of words with strong potential so it took a while before I finally got to
PALINDROMIC COMBAT
Done for the day.
BROMANTIC CROPLAND
Same. Didn’t expect either word to be accepted
Same here.
Me too getting desperate with time running out when tried romantic with cropland and had b left over. Then thought if bromance is a word, then maybe ……
We complain a bit on this site about words that LB doesn’t accept, but let’s just take a moment to appreciate that ‘BROMANTIC’ was viable.
I got this one, too, along with IMPLICATIONAL–LABROID.
COMORBID-DILAPIDATION.
dystopia
Same here
Broadband diplomatic
Oh, that’s a good One! I got Palindromic Combat (using Radar), Palindromic Catacomb (“Live on, Time; emit no Evil.”), Colorblind Diplomat (a handicap if literal, an advantage if metaphorical), Broadband Diplomatic (obvious hacking target), Bromidic Compilation (Proverbs), Bromidic Complication (still Proverbs), Bromantic Cropland (Days of Heaven, Brokeback Mountain, God’s Own Country, Shane…), Bioclimatic Cropland (that actually sounds like a thing), and OA Bitmap Palindromic (maybe I could come up with something if I had any idea what Bitmap means, and yes, I did look it up).
Tropicana Abdominal
Finally non OA after 3 or 4 days of OA
Same
Mica:
I guess mine is closest to yours and Douglas’s:
DILAMBDODONT
TROPICAL
And no, i didn’t think of that first word first!
I saw TROPICAL in the array and then for the four leftover letters (BDMN) i could only find three words starting with L and three words ending with T that each used all of those letters (BDMN). Of those six words the only one that fits the array is DILAMBDODONT.
Which is an actual word in MW, OED, Wiktionary, etc. so naturally LB rejects it!
And i couldn’t find this one in Collin’s Dictionary either.
At first i was thinking it’s a jabberwocky word from “Alice in Wonderland” … maybe because i mentally pronounce it “Di-Lamb-Do-Don’t ” …
But actually, from Wiktionary:
“adjective
Having teeth with a pair of lambda-shaped ridges on each.
noun
A creature with teeth of this kind.”
😎🐝🇺🇸
There are probably a few zoologists that play this game who are absolutely OUTRAGED that LB doesn’t accept this quite common word! 🙂
I think it’s great that you found it.
Same.
Same here!!
COLORBLIND ⇄ DIPLOMATIC
DIPLOMATIC ⇆ COLORBLIND
Brond diplomatic
This is exactly what I got too
Same
Yup!
Not buying it, but it worked and I’m tired😴
these should be the real OAs!
😎🐝🇺🇸
Matched pairs like this could form an entirely new game!
Really nice.
Colorblind Diplomat.
Colorblind Diplomat for me
Did it again! Nice
broadband-diplomatic
same!
PALINDROMIC COMBAT…
racecars vs. kayaks!
🤗
👍👍
😎🐝🇺🇸
My kayak can beat a racecar.
On the water, that is.
😉😊
👏👏
A bit of a meandering one today.
PALINDROMICAL-LIBATION
BROMIDIC COMPLICATION
Same, Louisa. I had some trouble with this one–but look at all the possibilities! Good job, LB board
Same here. And I thought I had a one off!
It smells of faffing about and desperation in my case…
Louisa beat me to it!
Same! Just happened to be the first solution that worked.
Almost the same here but one letter shorter: BROMIDIC COMPILATION
BITMAP — PALINDROMIC
The first word that I saw was BITMAP but I did not see PALINDROMIC right away. I spent lots of time trying to get IMPLICATION to work. Also spent time with ANTICLIMACTIC, CLIMACTICAL, and ORDINATION. When I finally found PALINDROMIC, I recalled BITMAP and got the solve. There are lots of -ATION and
-ICAL words left so I think that there will be many unique solves today.
Palindromic Combat
Excellent!
Pantropical-lambda
Took way too much time. Couldn’t get any of the ——cations (abdication, complication, etc) work
IMPLICATIONAL – LABROID
I had my suspicions.
labroid, n. & adj.
a fish of the perciform suborder Labroidei or superfamily Labroidea, which comprises the wrasses, cichlids, parrotfishes, damselfishes, and related forms.
On the way I had:
TROPIC – COMBINATIONAL (no D)
COMPLICATION – NIMROD (no B)
IMPORTATIONAL – LIMBIC (no D)
MALADROIT – TROPICANA (no B)
Finally got B & D together in LABROID
Forgot BLIMP – PROACTION (no D)
PALINDROMIC – COMBINATION
Finally stumbled onto this same answer.
bioclimatic – cropland
Broadband Diplomatic
TROPICANA ABDOMINAL
BROND DIPLOMATIC worked
Now I need to look up “brond”!
PALINDROMIC COMBAT
Retreating army order … “Flee to me remote elf”
Also found BIOCONTROL LAMPAD* (MW and OED)
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 aplanatic / comorbid
2 – 19 apomictic / colorblind
3 – 17 badam / micropolitan
4 – 20 bioclimatic / compandor
5 – 19 bioclimatic / cropland
6 – 17 bitmap / palindromic
7 – 19 bitmap / palindromical
8 – 19 broadband / diplomatic
9 – 17 bromantic / cropland
10 – 19 bromidic / compilation
11 – 20 bromidic / complication
12 – 15 brond / diplomatic
13 – 18 colorblind / diplomat
14 – 20 colorblind / diplomatic
15 – 20 comorbid / dilapidation
16 – 20 diplomatic / colorblind
17 – 20 implicational / labroid
18 – 19 palindromic / catacomb
19 – 17 palindromic / combat
20 – 20 palindromic / combatant
21 – 22 palindromic / combination
22 – 24 palindromic / combinational
23 – 19 panmictic / colorblind
24 – 16 platinic / comorbid
25 – 22 prodromic / combinational
26 – 16 albitic / compandor
27 – 23 micropolitical / libidinal
28 – 20 monopolitical / labroid
29 – 17 monoptical / labroid
30 – 20 palindromical / labcoat
31 – 21 palindromical / libation
32 – 18 pantropical / lambada
33 – 17 pantropical / lambda
34 – 19 pantropical / lambdoid
35 – 21 pantropical / lambdoidal
36 – 18 pitmatic / colorblind
37 – 18 pompatic / colorblind
38 – 17 prodroma / abactinal
39 – 19 prodroma / ablactation
40 – 19 prolactinoma / abandon
41 – 22 prolactinoma / abdication
42 – 21 prolactinoma / abdominal
43 – 18 prolactinoma / abroad
44 – 17 prolactinoma / adorb
45 – 17 prolactinoma / aband
46 – 20 prolactinoma / abdicant
47 – 17 prolactinoma / albid
48 – 20 prolactinoma / albinoid
49 – 18 tropicana / abdominal
50 – 16 ambroid* / diplontic
51 – 15 baltic* / compandor
52 – 19 bicorn* / nondiplomatic*
53 – 19 bicron* / nondiplomatic*
54 – 16 biocontrol / lampad*
55 – 21 broadband / diplomatical*
56 – 22 bromantic / clinopinacoid*
57 – 20 bromidic / complanation*
58 – 18 bromidic / complicant*
59 – 19 bromin* / nondiplomatic*
60 – 24 bromination / nondiplomatic*
61 – 17 brond / diplomatical*
62 – 18 caprolactam / midband*
63 – 19 corban* / nondiplomatic*
64 – 16 dambrod* / diplontic
65 – 16 diplomatic / corban*
66 – 17 diplomatic / corbina*
67 – 21 nondiplomatic* / comorbid
68 – 19 nondiplomatic* / corban*
69 – 20 nondiplomatic* / corbina*
70 – 18 nondiplomatic* / cromb*
71 – 18 nontropical* / lambada
72 – 17 nontropical* / lambda
73 – 19 nontropical* / lambdoid
74 – 21 nontropical* / lambdoidal
75 – 20 palindromic / catabatic*
76 – 19 palindromic / cibation*
77 – 19 palindromical / libant*
78 – 23 palindromical / libational*
79 – 18 patroclinal* / lambada
80 – 17 patroclinal* / lambda
81 – 19 patroclinal* / lambdoid
82 – 21 patroclinal* / lambdoidal
83 – 19 patroclinic* / comorbid
84 – 15 portland* / dicamba*
85 – 19 prodromata* / abactinal
86 – 21 prodromata* / ablactation
87 – 17 prodromata* / albinic
COLORBLIND – DIPLOMAT (and the interchangeable DIPLOMATIC – COLORBLIND / COLORBLIND – DIPLOMATIC) after lots and lots (and LOTS) of searching. Happy to see people found pairs for TROPICANA, COMBINATION, and BROMANTIC, as they all tortured me. 😝 I was so sure LAMBDA would be part of the solution, as ~TIONAL – LAMBDA is already so close and there were so many ~TION words today. Glad to see PANTROPICAL matched with it, didn’t think to try that. Good puzzle today!