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Sides of this Letter Box are:
ICEUOANGRJLH
The answers are:
JUNIORRUGELACH
got the OA because I know Ezersky’s penchant for Yiddish.
now I’m hungry for that yummy treat…
ENJOINER / RUGELACH here.
Same
I was surprised when LB accepted JULIA. So I’ll take
JULIA ANCHORAGE
to end my three day losing streak.
And I’ve NEVER heard of rugelach. Sheeeesh!!!
Isn’t that crazy? I tried JULIA after finding ANCHORAGE too.
“You’re not Jewish, are you?
Frasier 1993
Death Becomes Him
Season 1. Episode 11
Glad I gave up cause I ain’t never heard of no RUGELACH before.
JUGLONE – ENCHORIAL was where I got my first solve today
Still startled that it’s the OA. Junior Rugelach. At least they’re small. Rugelach are about as tasty as cotton balls stuffed with raisins.
Oops- I actually didn’t get OA. got JOINER- RUGELACH
Me too. I asked my wife what she thought the odds were that the two word solution was JOINER – RUGELACH and she said “Not good.” (Turns out she was right.) Never did spot JUNIOR as a J word. Was distracted by JOCULAR and JUGULAR. And I’m quietly congratulating myself on being able to spell RUGELACH without checking merriam-webster.com.
Also CONJUGAL!
Same here. I struggled with the spelling of RUGELACH, but I was pretty sure that I needed to nail down word to solve the puzzle. Once I did, my eyes found JOINER instead of JUNIOR.
John Neuralgiac
JOHN—NEURALGIAC
and
JULIA—ARCHEGONIA
👫
I also had JOHN and NEURALGIAC!
Was quite shocked when the latter stuck, as I was certain that I’d just made it up!
Good for you! I kept fiddling with Neuro… anything, but didn’t veer left to an A.
I’m looking forward to seeing if luncheon or conjugal might figure but I’ve run out of time. Will check in tonight to applaud!
Two good words — neither of which I spotted. (Saw LUNCH but not LUNCHEON.) This may be the first time I’m berating myself for getting the two word solution but failing to find a juicy 8-letter word like CONJUGAL. (Not that I haven’t found my share of juicy 8-letter words that led me down a blind alley.)
Jugular? Jocular? Regional? Nope nope nope….
INJURE—EUCHOLOGIA
CONJURE—EUCHOLOGIA
LUJULA° ⇄ ARCHEGONIAL°
ARCHEGONIAL° ⇆ LUJULA°
Too obscure for my tiny brain.
I did have high hopes for Conjugal Leghair.
Ah yes, every newlywed’s dream.
Good ones with EUCHOLOGIA!
JOINER-RUGELACH
JOHN-NEURALGIAC
JUGA-ARCHEGONIAL
*JUGULA-ARCHEGONIA*
*JUGULA-ARCHEGONIA* both good in Merriam-Webster, Scrabble US (TWL)
ENJOINER-RUGALACH
“Fat Man, you shoot a great game of pool.”
“So do you, Fast Eddie.”
The Hustler, 1961
You are Lancey Howard
JULIA – ANCHORAGE.
Same 😁
ME TOO! JULIA – ANCHORAGE
same, purely on a Hail Mary basis. I know this is New York (Times) but I do sometimes feel aggrieved that Yiddish words are accepted as OA but Britishisms are not
Perhaps not in LB but Spelling Bee recently used ‘tommyrot’ as a word. That feels more British usage than American to me.
Well, I was at first. But I have solved with words that have crossed over into English usage from Spanish and Hindi☺️
So there is that!
Julia – Anchorage
Same here … Julia was a lucky guess
Need more coffee. But since I’ve switched to best I can donn by in 5 minutes”, my brain doesn’t hurt so much!
Jail-launcher-roger
Also distracted by JOCULAR/JUGULAR/JAILOR
Thought of RUGELAGH (but thought is was spelled GH not CH!), also liked ARUGULA, and ended wuth JUGULAR -RANCHERO – ORIGIN
👍 I dallied with those too but was unfamiliar with Rugelach, so just spun my wheels during allotted LB time this morning. Ready for next time!
Need more coffee. But since I’ve switched to best I can do in 5 minutes”, my brain doesn’t hurt so much!
Jail-launcher-roger
PAM, I think you need another cup! I had to do a double-take, I thought I had considered LAUNCHER, but the A and U were on the same side.
No clue what rugelach is.
A recipe for poor relations:
Heroin Nonconjugal*
A shortcut to the nether world
Nonchurchgoer rejail*
And my actual answer:
Conjurer Rachialgia
Fantastic solutions!
Thanks!
Damn, lookin’ up RACHIALGIA!
JOCULAR – RHIGOLENE*. Nitrous is not the only anaesthetic that makes you giggle.
Many of you will remember Jill, who turned out solutions into poetry. Well, she was in town on the weekend and we finally met in person, for dinner. What a lovely time we had! Who says the Internet is all bad??
*our
I am so charmed and gratified to hear this! Lucky youse guys! 👍🎉
That’s wonderful! It’s nice to imagine such good company together.
Does OG Jill still slip in and comment sometimes? Or is there a new Jill posting on this board now? Recently a Jill asked what OA meant.
So many words but no cigar today.
The best I could scrape up was JUGA*-ARCHAEOLIGIAN* but it wasn’t having any of it.
sorry ,I meant JUGA*- ARCHAEOLOGIAN*
Julia anchorage took a stab at leftover letters, learned Julia is a butterfly
junior – rugelach
JOHN — NEURALGAIC
Found NEURALGAIC but avoided JOHN for almost an hour since LB usually doesn’t accept proper names (even if there is another meaning). Also found CONJUGAL, but LB (as usual) doesn’t accept NONCONJUGAL
but I did find HEROIN — NONCONJUGAL*
GULCH-HEAR-REJOIN (15/3)
OA here after spending a bit of time on CHURCHGOER, RELIGION (which would have been a nice TI).
CHURCHGOER — RELIGION — NINJA 🙂
As if “rugelach” is a word anyone but the 2% of people in America who are Jewish know, and maybe not even all of them. All of the alternate answers likewise use words that are so rare that many of them don’t appear in standard dictionaries but only maybe as obscurities in comprehensive unabridged dictionaries, making them exceedingly unlikely to be in anyone’s working vocabulary, doubly so where it’s both words.
This betrays that the lion’s share commenting here color outside the lines of using just their brains and sheer wit by depending on apps/software to solve the puzzle, sort of like the weightlifter who uses steroids or the cyclist who secretly uses an ebike. That’s disappointing.
Also, I don’t understand the point of it, of touting that which was unearned and can readily be gotten from any number of online apps that do all of the work (e.g., https://letterboxed.aliceyliang.com/ ). Maybe somebody can explain it to me.
“As if “rugelach” is a word anyone but the 2% of people in America who are Jewish know, and maybe not even all of them.”
I’m not Jewish, and it’s a word I know. Granted, I’ve lived in New York City for over half my life and, yes, have my share of Jewish friends. I’ve also bought rugelach in the supermarket and, if I weren’t at an age where I worry about diabetes, would gladly eat it more often.
Still, I freely admit that I’m sometimes surprised by the Jewish words Letter Boxed accepts. (Not long ago it accepted TRAYF for me, though there was no miraculous two-word solution attached to it.)
In any case I never use anything other than my wits to solve Letter Boxed and freely admit that I hit rough patches where *no* two-word solution will present itself for a week or more. When that happens I veer into hypochondriacal worries about dementia (I’ll be 70 in September) until the opposite happens and I’ll bat 1.000 for a week or more — like right now. But that won’t stop Letter Boxed from defeating me soon with a RUGELACH-like word I happen *not* to know … or can’t spot. That’s the way it is with this damned puzzle, no?
I’m with you, RFH. I consider it a good brain workout to solve LB on my own. If other folks use—or devise—other ways to do it, no sweat. In fact, I welcome the opportunity to learn some new words (not that I remember them all).
Any Jewish bakery (anywhere) has rugelach — very common. Likewise, any decent Greek bakery has baklava, and German bakeries have strudel. These words are not that rare.
Interesting comments. I guess some of us live very sheltered lives! I will ask in my Welsh border town bakery for all three delicious sounding treats and let you know their answer! Meanwhile, bring on the lardy cake……
My ancestors lived in a welsh border town area ; came here in 1620s. Lardy cake sounds kind of good. Buttermilk biscuits with butter and syrup sounds good to me too
I’d ask what the hell is a “lardy cake” (presumably it’s made with lard, which appears to be making a comeback), but what I really want to know is whether you’re a Wrexham fan!
I’ve gotten to where I’ll fool with it for about five minutes, maybe a little longer if I feel like I’m onto something, then check on here for what I missed, sometimes slapping myself in the head for missing the obvious. Like today, thinking it must involve CONJUGAL or JOCULAR. But sometimes it turns out to be a word you’re simply not familiar with, so you’re never going to get it on your own. I’m like you, I like trying to solve it using only my own vocabulary, memory, mentally playing around with word fragments, etc., and wild guesses. I really admire guys like Mark, who devised his own LB software, and I don’t really understand the satisfaction of solving using outside sources. But if other people approach it by looking for the most words they can come up with using whatever means they want to use, I guess it’s not on me to be telling somebody else how they should be playing some little word game.
I usually look here after solving, and however weird my solution, someone has usually found the same one. but today I didn’t see anyone else mention
HIJRA – AGLUCONE
which is what I came up with
Nicely done!
Wow. You not only get points for obscurity (Answer readers: if you look up only one obscure word today, make it “hijra”) but for conciseness. Your two words use every letter in the puzzle only once!
Jail – Luncheon – Niger. Surprised Niger is accepted
I know the word Rugelach but had no idea how to spell it.
I also had INJURE EUCHOLOGIA — and NINJA ARCHEOLOGUE* (a nod to my high school French.)
Also made-up HEGELIAN NONJOCULAR.
JUGLONE-ENCHORIAL
but now all I want is rugelach
The amazing words (and humor on the side) a lot of you come up with are worth coming here every day after I finish working on it. I know a lot of regular words, some pedestrian, some exciting, but nothing like I read here.
I have to say I’ve been getting 2w answers averaging 10 – 14 times a month (last month 16), which is fun since I’ve only been doing LB since October.
Keep up the good work, and keep me laughing!
Is the Juglone one of those mythical beasts of the Southwest?
Got annoyed when LB didn’t accept HERCULIAN and quit.
Hurculean
No sugar tonight.
I’m a goy with a somewhat passable Yiddish vocabulary but rugelach never occurred to me.
Love the analogy of using apps to solve LB to using steroids in sports
There should be two LB answer sites, one for app solution users and the other for gray matter solution users.
Happy upcoming holidays to all, no matter your persuasion.
Second day striking out. JOCULAR, JUGULAR, CONJUGAL, JOINER/REJOIN all seemed promising. Never would’ve gotten RUGELACH, even knowing Ezersky’s penchant for Yiddish. Oy vey. 🫤
JUGULAR-RANCHERIA
Never mind, missed the O.
That’s what she said… yuk yuk yuk!
A little birdie told me something, while I was riding my e-bike back from school today. So, brought back by popular demand:
Palindromes: HAGIGAH^, HALALAH°
Anagrams:
ANCHORER | RANCHERO | REANCHOR
COLONER | CORONEL | ENCOLOR
CAROLINE | COLINEAR | CREOLIAN
COLLINEAR | CORALLINE
CANNELURE | UNCLEANER
ENALURON | NEURONAL
LAGUNERO | UROGLENA
GERANIOL | REGIONAL
ARRHINIA | RHINARIA
CREOLIN | LOCRINE
ANNULLI | ILLANUN
😊