Letter Boxed December 16, 2024 Answers

Here are the Letter Boxed December 16, 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:

TRNEIPSBAFHM

The answers are:

AMPHIBIANSSNIFTER

47 thoughts on “Letter Boxed December 16, 2024 Answers”

    1. Also got AMPHIBIANS SIFTER, after many hours…not sure I ever saw SNIFTER but did try SHIFT/ER… lots of other juicy big words too. Relieved to finally get a 2w’er after days of mostly 3w answers.

      1. I had the samepillow fight with featherbrain, finally gave up and settled for Mineshafts Sparerib and Fermata Amphibians. They took way too long to find and made way too little sense. Embarrassing, really.

    1. Damn! Was looking FOREVER for a pair for FEATHERBRAIN! Ended with AMPHIBIANS & STARFISHES – movement in the water vs air in the brain 😉

      1. Nice! For whatever reason, LB allows AMPHETAMINES, but does not take METHAMPHETAMINES. I guess there’s only one “Meth.” 🙂

    1. Same here. Who can object to that??

      Also SPATHE, which I hadn’t thought of for a while (not fond of arums), and LB accepted Empathise.

  1. So many good ones today. I got stuck with BITMAPS before trying ANATHEMATISM which oddly made me see AMPHIBIANS and I got the OA.

  2. 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 amphibians / shafter
    2 – 18 amphibians / shafters
    3 – 17 amphibians / shifter
    4 – 18 amphibians / shifters
    5 – 16 amphibians / sifter
    6 – 17 amphibians / sifters
    7 – 17 amphibians / snifter
    8 – 18 amphibians / snifters
    9 – 20 amphibians / starfishes
    10 – 16 benefits / seraphim
    11 – 16 bitmaps / sherifian
    12 – 17 fermata / amphibians
    13 – 19 fimbria / amphetamines
    14 – 20 firebreather / rampsman
    15 – 20 firebreather / rampsmen
    16 – 20 firebreathers / spaeman
    17 – 20 firebreathers / spaemen
    18 – 20 frambesia / amphetamine
    19 – 21 frambesia / amphetamines
    20 – 18 mineshafts / sparerib
    21 – 17 panfishes / starbeam
    22 – 18 panfishes / starbeams
    23 – 20 featherbrain / naptimes

    24 – 19 afterbrains* / seraphim
    25 – 20 afterbrains* / seraphims*
    26 – 17 afterbrains* / shrimp
    27 – 18 afterbrains* / shrimps
    28 – 19 amphibia* / afterbrains*
    29 – 18 amphibia* / afterpains
    30 – 19 befana* / amphitheaters
    31 – 16 benefit / teraphims*
    32 – 18 benefiters* / seraphim
    33 – 19 benefiters* / seraphims*
    34 – 17 benefits / seraphims*
    35 – 17 featherbrain / nimps*
    36 – 19 featherbrains* / sempre
    37 – 21 featherbrains* / sempster*
    38 – 22 featherbrains* / sempsters*
    39 – 21 featherbrains* / seraphim
    40 – 22 featherbrains* / seraphims*
    41 – 19 featherbrains* / shrimp
    42 – 20 featherbrains* / shrimps
    43 – 17 featherbrains* / simp
    44 – 19 featherbrains* / simpai*
    45 – 20 featherbrains* / simpais*
    46 – 18 featherbrains* / simps
    47 – 20 featherbrains* / spaeman
    48 – 20 featherbrains* / spaemen
    49 – 17 featherbrains* / spam
    50 – 18 featherbrains* / spams
    51 – 22 featherbrains* / spanaemia*
    52 – 18 featherbrains* / stamp
    53 – 19 featherbrains* / stamps
    54 – 23 featherbrains* / stimpmeter*
    55 – 24 featherbrains* / stimpmeters*
    56 – 18 feterita* / amphibians
    57 – 16 fimbria / aphanites*
    58 – 17 fimbriate / ensphere*
    59 – 18 fimbriate / enspheres*
    60 – 18 fimbriates* / seraphin*
    61 – 19 fimbriates* / seraphine*
    62 – 20 fimbriates* / seraphines*
    63 – 19 fimbriates* / seraphins*
    64 – 16 fimbriates* / shnaps*
    65 – 16 fimbriates* / sphene
    66 – 17 fimbriates* / sphenes*
    67 – 17 frambesia / aphanite*
    68 – 18 frambesia / aphanites*
    69 – 17 manshifts* / sparerib
    70 – 17 pharma / afterbrains*
    71 – 16 terefa* / amphibians

    1. So, are the asterisked answers not in the Scrabble dictionary and, if so, are they not in both Scrabble US (TWL) and Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)? Is there one word authority for all LB play or is it a compilation of several word sources?

      1. Hi. The words should all be in the scrabble dictionary.

        I use this to check out a scrabble word:
        https://scrabblewordfinder.org/dictionary/terefa

        I use a Scrabble word list that contains most of the scrabble words. but most likely not ALL.

        I don’t think Letter boxed from the nytimes site uses all the scrabble words. Some are from the Oxford English Dictionary. I don’t have a reliable word list for the Oxford English Dictionary.

        I read all the words that the nytimes site uses for valid words. I find them in the source of the https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/letter-boxed and look for “window.gameData = {” I take all characters up until the following “}” The Json group contains a dictionary sub group which is the official word list used for today’s puzzle. I also use the sides sub group. That dictionary list isn’t sorted alphabetically which makes me think they add various groups of words from various word lists.

  3. Hi Richie. The words should all be in the scrabble dictionary.

    I use this to check out a scrabble word:
    scrabblewordfinder.org/dictionary/terefa

    I use a Scrabble word list that contains most of the scrabble words. but most likely not ALL.

    I don’t think Letter boxed from the nytimes site uses all the scrabble words. Some are from the Oxford English Dictionary. I don’t have a reliable word list for the Oxford English Dictionary.

    I read all the words that the nytimes site uses for valid words. I find them in the source of the http://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/letter-boxed and look for “window.gameData = {” I take all characters up until the following “}” The Json group contains a dictionary sub group which is the official word list used for today’s puzzle. I also use the sides sub group. That dictionary list isn’t sorted alphabetically which makes me think they add various groups of words from various word lists.

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