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Sides of this Letter Box are:
ARENOFICUKGL
The answers are:
COLORFULLINKAGE
UNCLOAKING—GRIEF
Behind every mask waits mourning.
COLORFUL—LINKAGE
KILOCALORIE—ENGULF
CORNCAKE—ENGULFING
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I think I checked them all. ☕
UNCLOAKING-GRIEF after CLOAKING, FROCKING, FLOCKING, CROAKING, anything that left me with GULFE having to start with G! Finally realised UNCLOAKING was an option, or I’d have been there about 15-20 minutes ago. All in all, took about 25 minutes.
Can’t wait to see you, Kanishk and RF, wondering what your solutions were! AER, LK, ON and IC could go in the bin!
Good luck, everyone, and *happy Friday* of a long weekend for many of us.
Same answer here, Irim! UNCLOAKING – GRIEF in 40 minutes. Took me way longer than it should have, especially with all those vowels! (but fiendish arrangement nonetheless).
Can’t wait to see you, RF, with your solution.
Well done, Kanishk, great minds!
Burning Hindi question:
Raj ki behti – would it be Raj ka behta? Does ki/ka match with the owner or the owned? I also notice it’s ki ketab.
I did Julia ka behta (to go with what is ‘owned’) but got it wrong…however, see the Raj example, so I’m now confused!
CORKAGE – ENGULFING.
Looked easy but it took me an hour to solve.
Glad that my besties Miss Irim and Kanishk-boy are already here. Yay!!! The triumvirate did it again. 🤗
Woohoo, the triumvirate is triumphant once again – congratulations all around. *high fives*
Happy Friday, my lovelies.
Nice question, Irim! In Hindi, ki/ka always matches with the owned. So in your case, for example, it would be Julia ka beta/Julia ki beti. In case of Raj, it would be Raj ka beta/ki beti. I have no idea why it didn’t accept your answer, ‘Julia ka beta’ is the correct sentence.
It is ki kitaab because kitaab is feminine in Hindi. You’ll come across masculine/feminine words as you learn more Hindi. Even I get confused with less common words sometimes!
In short, the gender of Raj/Julia does not matter for ka/ki agreement.
Thank you, hon! I ended up doing that lesson again and slapped my forehead: I realised I’d read the question wrong and missed that they were asking me to write ‘Raj’s *sister’s* son’ So ‘Raj ki behan ka beta’ and somehow I missed that.
Should have followed nana abba’s advice to read the question three times before answering; at least it wasn’t an exam. Thank you, hon! Really looking forward to seeing what’s next, and it’s giving structure to my speaking as well, so maybe now I can practise. Have a good weekend and have some fun!
ROCKFACE ENGULFING
UNCLOAKING-GRIEF…
overexposure