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Sides of this Letter Box are:
ULICEJNKTSVB
The answers are:
SUBJUNCTIVEELK
OA in seconds.
OA in 30 minutes. I just made up SUBJUNCTIVE. Never heard of it before.
If only you had been a bit more conscientious in class…
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I always fear the English classes in Elementary (specially) when I had a very limited English because I don’t have access to books. Everyday day, one student is assigned to prepare a proverb. The rest of the classmates if chosen by that student will explain the proverb. After that we read a story and there is oral reading comprehension. So imagine my fear if my name is called. It’s in 3rd year high school that my English improved. But I still fear by English classes. College was better because there are a lot of books in the library! My best English is now. Because I consumed a lot of books the last ten years. But it’s useless. I don’t get to practice my English conversational skills.
Under the circumstances, it’s brave of you just to be here playing LB!
And your writing is good!
I especially enjoy your puzzles, they are creative and often challenging.
Usually one of the other puzzlers has solved them by the time that I get to read them.
Thanks! Mr.McBEE. 🤗😊
Mr.BerniePatootie, LB is my favorite out of all puzzles. I discovered it because of Wordle. 🤗😊
Same and same… SUBJUNCTIVE / ELK
KELTS—SUBJUNCTIVE for me in about five minutes.
Same here. Yippee!
“I wish I were a deer.” – SUBJUNCTIVE ELK
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If only it were a deer . . .
ELKS—SUBJUNCTIVE—ELKS 🦌🦌
TELEKINESIS—SUBJUNCTIVES
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Nice!
Also Leks – Subjunctive – Elk(s). Hard to imagine an answer that doesn’t involve Subjunctive, given the J limitations. Jujitsu, Jujube(s), Jive(s) are possibilities but can’t be paired as far as I can see.
Not paired but I stumbled into JUJUBE ELEVENSES SNICKET
Woah! This is excellent!
Almost the same Mark…
[ TICKLES ~ SUBJUNCTIVE ]
[ STICKLES ~ SUBJUNCTIVE(S)]
This can be reversed too
[ SUBJUNCTIVE ~ ELK ]
Do you see anything with…
Buckskin(s), Testicles 😂
And why isn’t “Ticketstub” allowed 😩
[ SUBJUNCTIVES ~ SICKLE ]
[ SUBJUNCTIVES ~ SUCKLE ]
I only see those words amongst triples, Bruce. As far as “ticketstub” goes, I guess it’s still considered two separate words, as it’s not a PSW either.
I’ve seen many cases over the past two years where a compound-word is accepted in the game but not everyone likes it, or is even familiar with it. And the reverse case too, like “ticketstub”. ☕☕
WORDPLAY:
6-LETTER:
_ _ _s_ _
HINT: a very cute tree
BONSAI!
Hey, Ms.FISHCAKE,
WOW! You got it! BONSAI, indeed!
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LSI
RTV
OEM
XNU
CLUE: Solution
Mixtures solvent
Hi, OSCAR,
WOW! You got the OA! 👍🤓
MIXTURES – SOLVENT
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Enjoyed that after quick oa. RF what about some challenges with the enigmatic one word solution. We can all practice so it does not slip by us. I often try to come up with these as i go to sleep. Last night’s: (if you are up for the paperwork)
AES
MVN
RLI
YTD
Hey, Oscar,
ADMINISTRATIVELY 🙂😊
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I also found:
DIVIDENDS – SMARTLY
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I got administratively for a 16/1
Bingo. Glad there was a two word solution. I did not plan for that
I also found: dismantle / every
OA in about 3 minutes. Quick for this big dummy. : )
OA here, and quickly too
UNBUCKLES-SUBJECTIVE
Nice one!
SUBJUNCTIVE, surely? ECT are next to each other… 🧐
SICKLES SUBJUNCTIVE
If it’s handle were longer, it would be a scythe.
its
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Same
OA in a couple minutes. I may’ve seen an elk?
SUBJUNCTIVE-ELK
I also found SUBJUNCTIVE(S) pairs up with singular and plural forms of
ELK
SICKLE
STICKLE
TICKLE
For a total of at least 11 pairs.
Add NICKELS to that list for even more solutions.
How would it pair with TICKLE or NICKLE?
In their plural forms
Tickles-subjunctive
Nickels-subjunctive
Bingo! SUBJUNCTIVE-ELK in less than a minute (for a change) while waiting for coffee to brew….Maybe LetterBoxd BEFORE coffee…..!
PS Us French speakers LOVE the Subjunctive-gets the kids’ attention 🙂
Yes! The only reason I know of the term is from studying French. I was taught that the subjunctive is “for lovers and politicians.”
I had totally forgotten what SUBJUNCTIVE meant (and was kind of guessing it was a legal term) so I had to look it up.
From Wikipedia:
“The subjunctive (also known as conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker’s attitude toward it. ”
Hmmm – and when I spoke I always thought my “attitude” was towards the person I was speaking to, and not to my words themselves.
Anyway, quoting more:
“Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality such as …”
which ties in perfectly with the politicians, and sadly also lovers, that you mentioned.
Anyway, interesting wikipedia article and it talks about how the Subjunctive mood varies by language.
oa before coffee
KELVINS – SUBJUNCT
Good one!
Excellent! Not. “Subjunctive”! I love to be proven wrong.
OA. Only took a couple of minutes. Really wasn’t much that could be done with that J. As a former French major, I was all to familiar with my nemesis, the Subjunctive tense.
OA after finding INJUNCT, then INJUNCTIVE – remembering a solution from not too long ago. From there it was SUBJUNCTIVE! Guess you can teach an old girl new words 🙂
Dang, I got KELTS-SUBJUNCTIVE after convincing myself it would be JUJITSU-UNsomething for a short while… :’)
SUBJUNCTIVES-STICKLE. Less efficient than the OA, but who cares! I almost always aim for ending my first word with a consonant so I tacked on the extra “S”. Had I ended with the “E”, I would have landed on the OA in less time. Oh well.
OA. I’m interested in how many solutions there are without SUBJUNCTIVE
My bet is none,
but Davel will tell us.
kelvins / subjunct(s)
JUVIES SUBLET TICKS
East Village pad back in the early 80s
Less-than-elegant Buckles/Subjunctive
I didn’t try to use the least amount of letters so…..
subjunctives, suckles and suckles, subjunctives
above
interchangeable
OA after starting with and getting hung up on INJUNCTIVE for a bit. Saw ELK(S) in the leftovers, but no way to use the B. That led to SUB~ and circling back to OA.
THE SUBJUNCTIVE ELK
(a haiku)
He wishes for kelts.
We wish for him. He tickles
Our dreams, suckles hope.
subjunctive elk, kelts, tickles, suckles
Lovely, Jill.
Okay, so perhaps like many I had a hard time thinking of a word with “J” in it because we couldn’t do justice, eject, and lots of others that we didn’t have a letter(s) for like adjustment or injunction. So I decided to try to start with “J” and the first word I thought of wasn’t JUST, but JIB (from sailing). Using it a 4-worder:
JIB BUCKETS SEVENS SLEB
LB actually took SLEB, which might be slang for Celebrity, or an acronym for the Super Low Energy Building agency in Singapore.
After all that then I looked at a list of words and remembered
SUBJUNCTIVE and then got the OA.
love the OA
I stumbled into suckles – subjunctive
SUBJUNCTIVE ELK
BUCKLES SUBJUNCTIVE
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 – 18 buckles / subjunctive
2 – 19 buckles / subjunctives
3 – 15 elks / subjunctive
4 – 16 elks / subjunctives
5 – 16 kelts / subjunctive
6 – 17 kelts / subjunctives
7 – 15 kelvins / subjunct
8 – 16 kelvins / subjuncts
9 – 18 kelvins / subjunctive
10 – 19 kelvins / subjunctives
11 – 17 kevels / subjunctive
12 – 18 kevels / subjunctives
13 – 15 leks / subjunctive
14 – 16 leks / subjunctives
15 – 18 nickels / subjunctive
16 – 19 nickels / subjunctives
17 – 18 selkies / subjunctive
18 – 19 selkies / subjunctives
19 – 18 sickles / subjunctive
20 – 19 sickles / subjunctives
21 – 14 subjunctive / elk
22 – 15 subjunctive / elks
23 – 18 subjunctives / selkie
24 – 19 subjunctives / selkies
25 – 18 subjunctives / sickle
26 – 19 subjunctives / sickles
27 – 18 subjunctives / suckle
28 – 19 subjunctives / suckles
29 – 19 subjunctives / skinlet
30 – 20 subjunctives / skinlets
31 – 18 subjunctives / skible
32 – 19 subjunctives / stickle
33 – 20 subjunctives / stickles
34 – 18 suckles / subjunctive
35 – 19 suckles / subjunctives
36 – 22 telekinesis / subjunctive
37 – 23 telekinesis / subjunctives
38 – 18 tickles / subjunctive
39 – 19 tickles / subjunctives
40 – 19 ukeleles / subjunctive
41 – 20 ukeleles / subjunctives
42 – 20 unbuckles / subjunctive
43 – 21 unbuckles / subjunctives
44 – 22 belsnickels / subjunctive
45 – 23 belsnickels / subjunctives
46 – 19 bubukles / subjunctive
47 – 20 bubukles / subjunctives
48 – 19 skinlets / subjunctive
49 – 20 skinlets / subjunctives
50 – 19 stickles / subjunctive
51 – 20 stickles / subjunctives
52 – 26 telekineticists / subjunctive
53 – 27 telekineticists / subjunctives
54 – 17 cleiks* / subjunctive
55 – 18 cleiks* / subjunctives
56 – 18 kebeles* / subjunctive
57 – 19 kebeles* / subjunctives
58 – 18 kelties* / subjunctive
59 – 19 kelties* / subjunctives
60 – 18 nickles* / subjunctive
61 – 19 nickles* / subjunctives
62 – 17 subjunctive / ekuele*
63 – 22 telekineses* / subjunctive
64 – 23 telekineses* / subjunctives
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After toying with buckets and biscuits, I couldn’t see a way to incorporate the V and J, so a change of tack led to subjunctive and elk was the only thing left. Nice LB today.