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Sides of this Letter Box are:
SEHTAKCRIJXW
The answers are:
JACKSTRAWSSIXTIETH
OA soon enough
Same here.
Methinks SSS.
Also OA, but very surprised it was the OA.
Found Extracts, Rejects, Whackier, Earwax, Whiskers, Hacksaws first
Throw tearjerker and straitjacket into the list of seemingly decent words that went nowhere
Nice Cliff!
Ayuh. Straitjacket was so nifty. But Jackstraws Sixtieth it is. Games for a milestone birthday. I suspect a one-off.
Exactly! OA and surprised with all the repeated letters.
also found HIJACKERS!
OA after wasting too much time on CARJACKERS, HIJACKERS and STRAITJACKETS
Had all of those options and tearjerkers too. Another example of you can’t solve a puzzle when you’ve never heard of one of the words. JACKSTRAWS is a new one for me. I had SIXTIETH. But had to Google “words containing jack” to finish this one for the OA.
JACKSTRAWS / SIXTIETH as well.
JACKSTRAWS SIXTIETH also, pretty quickly.
same
OA also fairly quickly.
When there are two of the four letters J, Q, X, and Z, in the same puzzle, it’s most likely a SSS with a zero fun factor.
The closest I could get to a two-word solution is *EARTHWAXES-STRAITJACKET but ES falls on same side.
*EARTTHWAX good in Collins Dictionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) not LB
Oops, EARTHWAX
Jack Straw was a Wichita lyin’ man
A neat follow-up to yesterday’s Direwolf answers!
And yet … I had fun! That’s what makes for horse races, I guess. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Stumbled on jack straws, then it was easy.
OA. Was looking for jackdaw found jackstraw then it was easy
Oa
OA. But I just made up JACKSTRAWS.
I know the singular, but I don’t know what it means. Turns out Jackstraws is the origin game of Pick-Up_Sticks.
I got jackstraw super fast (because there’s not much else) and then eventually added the S and then got to sixtieth pretty quickly because sixtieth was also in Strands today.
I have lost this game for 14 straight days, so i’m declaring my victory the world over today.
OOPS! Spoiler alert for Strands! I play Letterboxed before Strands, so you gave me a big hint!
Never heard of JACKSTRAWS, so it took me a while before I trued that word I got SIXTIETH early and figured it would be the second word.
Yeah – I’d never heard of jackstraws either…. it was pick up sticks for us!
I had to do a triple today: CARJACKS – SIXTH – HAWKER.
My quick 3 was whackers
Sixth
Haj
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JACK STRAW’S SIXTIETH birthday was on the 3rd August 2006. His boss, Tony Blair, organised a surprise party for him in 10 Downing Street.
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When pairs are scarce go for triples.
WRECKS—SIXTH—HAJ 14/3
Some symmetric triples ↘️
STRAITJACKETS—SCHWA—AXIS
AXIS—STRAITJACKETS—SCHWA
SCHWA—AXIS—STRAITJACKETS
HIJACKER—RETWISTS—SIXTH
SIXTH—HIJACKER—RETWISTS
RETWISTS—SIXTH—HIJACKER
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Nice!
JACKSTRAWS — SIXTIETH
We called jackstraws “pick up sticks” but the objective was the same.
I really wanted STRAITJACKET/STRAITJACKETS to work, but I couldn’t find anything to connect with them. Anyone else find something?
JACKSTRAWS-SIXTIETH … and here I thought Jack Straw was just from Wichita.
Got it in my usual three
Straitjacket thaws six
Still hopeful for a 2 someday!
OA Recognized Jackstraw right away because I’ve read too many old stories that mention Victorian children playing games. . .
OA right off the bat. Quickest solve to date.
OA
Jack Straw
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
WAXETH – HIJACKERS…
…was my immediate find, but for some reason “waxeth” didn’t take, even though it’s in the Bible… THREE times. It’s the present tense conjugation of the verb WAX in English’s second-person informal.
JACKSTRAWS – SIXTIETH took me having to get over it, so about 20 minutes.
*third-person (sorry)
OA which surprised me.
Plus JET THWACKERS* SIX
*MW
OA after giving up my fixations on HIJACKERS and STRAITJACKETS. JACKSTRAWS was a guess. 🤷♂️ Very surprising it was the OA today.
Jackstraws Sixtieth