Here there are Letter Boxed August 19, 2023 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:
RYNBETUOVAZS
The answers are:
YUZUUNOBSERVANT
SUBZONES-STARVY
what can I say-it was accepted
Subzones Starvy here too. A reference to the Hunger Games?Okay, It’s lousy. But ALIOW, and anyway it’s no worse than the OA. I had Unobservant instantly, but never in a million years would I have thought to try Yuzu. Well, you would learn something new every day, and sometimes it’s a fruit.
Same same same same. Tried all day to make y Z work. Should have ended with sub zones starvy which was just a random guess. Never heard of yuzu.
Ditto, and I still don’t know what the second word means.
Same here.
Sounds very artificial.
SUBZONES—STARVY here too.
I didn’t know that yuzu is a fruit.
Largest anagram group found:
{RESERVE, RESEVER*, REVERES, REVERSE, SEVERER}
* unaccepted
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Another SUBZONES – STARVY here too. Nearly fell out of my chair when it was accepted. YUZU -wow! Guess I’ve been unobservant 🙂
SUBZONES / STARVY
Tried subvert, couldn’t pair it. Went to subzones and didn’t really think it’d get in… saw starvy. Knew it wouldn’t get in but thought what the heck. Hmmm…
Accepted here too 🙂
SUBZONES – STARVY here too. Today marked my longest winnings streak, 20 days in a row! A real stinker of an answer to win on, but feels good to beat OA today.
Cheers to everyone who found a solution! 🎉
YUZU-UNOBSERVANT – arrived at through grit, determination and sheer bloody-mindedness. On the way, STARBURST, BRAVEST, TRANSVERSE, SUBVERT… Phew!
A Travesty!
Let’s not overlook Bronzy, Bronze, Bronzer. Very Ken.
Bronze (and variants): nice!
Got nowhere with Bronzes, Subzero, Subverts etc.
Didn’t even notice Unobservant – why would that be?
Ha! Made my day. Lb sure didnt
Does Starburst have a Yuzu flavor?
😂🤣
Subzones Starvy too but looking for another!
Ha! I accidentally opened this page before doing the puzzle. Normally, I would mutter profanities toward myself for unintentionally revealing the answer, but not today.
I am glad i am not the only one who has done that. 😀
OA here. Somehow I know what a yuzu is. It’s like a Japanese lemon/grapefruit. Lucky me.
I took one look at the array of letters, threw up my hands, and came here to see what others had found. Congrats to those who braved the thicket of buvyz, with success.
I thought about coming here first, but stuck it out long enough to fiddle with Travesty, Subzero, Observant, a few others. THEN I threw up my hands.
Congrats to all who came up with actual solutions. 🙂
Ditto
subzones – starvy as well (came very close to throwing in the towel)
Maybe YUZU is a more common flavour this side of the pond. They chuck it in everything. Pretty sure I came across yuzu-flavoured cat food the other day! 😉
Congratulations to those who even bothered to try STARVY. In no universe of which I am aware is that a word.
I think I’m going to stop commenting here when the puzzle is ridiculously contrived and constraining. It drives ad revenue and encourages this kind of nonsense.
I had observant, subservant , never thought of the un suffix. Alas, came up with SUBZONES STARVY AS WELL. Surprised it took starvy.
Unobservant tarzy.
One of those ones where I desperately make up random words in the hope they are real!
Ha, there’s the pairing for Unobservant! And it’s even weaker than Yuzu!
Nice going with TARZY.
Merriam-Webster didn’t have it but Oxford did:
tarzy, n.
Chiefly in Middlesbrough: a makeshift rope swing across a river or stream, typically suspended from a tree. Cf. Tarzan swing, n.
From the Oxford Dictionary: STARVY, as of 1664 – adj. Originally of land and its produce: lacking in nutrients, poor. Later more generally: indicative of starvation; undernourished, weak; feeble, sparse.
Thank you for this. I had SUBZONES STARVY because I was just trying any combination of remaining letters and was surprised like others here that it was accepted.
Hi everyone: two solutions today, and an observation:
1) The OA, which I found at first but then went on to look for another because I figured there must, most certainly, be a more normal answer. If my MIL weren’t a Kiwi, I wouldn’t have stood a chance of finding YUZU.
2) ZORBONAUT–TRAVESTY. The Z-word isn’t accepted of course, because ZORB is a proper noun. Heck of a thing to try, though, as long as you haven’t ingested anything recently.
Observation: EUROZONE is an acceptable LB word? What?
Subzones and starvy as well. I wanted travesty to work and kept looking because the OA seemed so absurd.
Yuzu is pretty widely available in California. Here is a summer favorite:
YUZU COCKTAIL
Muddle a few mint leaves with juice of one yuzu.
Add vodka / tonic– 1 / 3, ice, and some fresh mint.