Here there are Letter Boxed October 28, 2021 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest to try and solve the game by your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
XROVSTAUKEPI
The answers are:
VEXATIOUSSPARK
I got the official 14/2 answer. The usual $64,000 question: did anyone find a 13/2 answer?
This is for DEDE, re their questions in the Oct 25 puzzle comments.
Quick explainer: the X/Y formula = total number of letters used in the answer / number of words used. Thus “14/2” means a two-word answer with 14 total letters. There are 12 letters in each puzzle, so the minimum total of letters for a two-word answer is 13 (because the last letter of the first word repeats at the start of the next word). For the same reason, the minimum total of letters for a three-word answer is 14.
My private rule (shared, I think, by most commenters here), is that the total number of letters outweighs the total number of words, so that a 14/3 answer is superior to a 15/2 answer but inferior to a 14/2 answer.
Re strategy, I’m too cheap to pay for a subscription, so I only get one play per day, so I generally try out different words and see if they’re accepted, carefully crafting a final answer by moving back and forth from potential first word to potential second word and using the Restart button extensively. I don’t want to complete the puzzle prematurely with an unsatisfactory answer, since I only get one try per day.
Hope that helps. If nothing else, it will give you an idea of the amount of time it’s possible to waste on these puzzles, depending on the severity of one’s OCD!