Here are the Letter Boxed August 23, 2024 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest trying to solve the game on your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
ATBRLCEHIFSP
The answers are:
BIRTHPLACEELFISH
FIB BIRTHPLACES
Likewise.
Same. Super satisfying to find BIRTHPLACES.
BIRTHPLACES – SAFE in about 30 seconds. My fastest solve ever!
More of the same: Fib Birthplaces (Obama Certificate again); plus Birthplaces Safari (Obama Certificate again again!) / Safe / Safer / Safest / Sailfish / Saltfish / Scarf / Seafarer / Self / Selfish / Serf / Shaft / Sift, and on and on. Also Afterbirths Scalp (on the placenta black market) and Alpaca Afterbirths (eaten by postpartum alpacas).
Yes, here too.
Phlebitis Scarf
PERFECTIBILISTS SHAPE
Birthplaces sift
Perfectible Earths
Same here
It wouldn’t accept perfectibilists
AFTERBIRTHS – SCALP
Perfectible – Earths — Shaper – Reflectible
Sorry, not meant as a reply to DB.
Same here.
Same
Same…
[ Afterbirths – Scalp ] after almost an hour of wild goose chases.
Was also close with…
Prestretch – Half (no BI)
Replicas – Shaft (no B)
Found some other highly distracting good words…
• Fastpitch
• Characteristics
• Precharacteristics?
Reptiles, Plastics, Chapters, Fairest, Replasters, Stretch, Practices, Participles, Shafters
FASTPITCH HALBERT
(dangerous!)
BIRTHPLACES
SAFE
This one!
BIRTHPLACES – SAFE also.
Same
Leaves out half of the US…
Shaper – Reflectible
Same here.
Lots of answers out there, but took me longer than it should.
Feasible Earthscape
Lovely find! I’ve lost my mojo these last couple days, and disappointed that LB won’t accept words like FRACTILE(S) and PREBIBLICAL and there was another perfectly definable word that was not accepted 🙁 came up with CHARACTERISTICS – SHARPER – REBEL
FLIPCHARTS-SLEB
FLIPCHART – TRIBES
The gang at head office.
Another Flipchart Tribes. Took too long but made me laugh.
Roaming bands of salesmen doing it old style!
Yes! My solution and image as well. Those business folks who love presenting!
Flipchart
Trebles
Same here. Surprised by Sleb !
BIRTHPLACES – SAFE
Same
Plebiscites-Sharif
Plebiscite became part of my childhood vocabulary through news. Used it after ages!
AFTERBIRTHS – SCALP : cradle cap, or vernix?
FIB – BIRTHPLACES : well… in the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London; of course.
less efficient AFTERBIRTHS-SCALPEL. Ouch!!
AFTERBIRTH-SCALPEL is what I got too! It’s a pretty self explanatory TI!
I hypothesized a placental black market for the former, Obama shenanigans for the latter, but that’s where your expertise in the Royals comes in! (I had to look it up, as I thought at first it had something to do with a certain bear…)
FEBRILE – EARTHSCAPE
Was disappointed that Cerebral – Liftshaft left me with a spare P.
Birthplaces Sift
Ditto!
Birthplaces safe
My solution:
SHARP PERFECTIBLE
Off to work on some of the other puzzles.
Same here. Honing my paring knives.
Likewise.
🐦 SHARPE’S APALIS, ARACARI, ASTRAPIA, BESRA, CARACARA, CARIB, CHACHALACA, CITRIL, FISCAL, IBIS, IFRIT, PALILA, CAPE PETREL, PIAPIAC, PIPIPI, PIPIT, PIPRITES, RAIL, SIBIA, STILT, CAPE TEAL, TESIA, TIT 🐦🐦 BRISTLEBILL, IBISBILL, SHARPBILL, SITTELLA, TRILLER
Nice bird list.
Mammals joining:
Alpaca, Ape, Bear, Caracal, Ferret, Hare, Harp Seal, Hartebeest, Irish Setter.
and Fish swimming behind:
Carp, Electric Eel, Fire Eel, Pipefish, Sailfish, Tetra
🐦🐘🦈
I didn’t even see FISH!
Some obvious ones:
SALTFISH
TILEFISH (they remind me of the fish in Finding Nemo who swim down to save themselves and Dory)
FILEFISH
PIPEFISH
SAILFISH
SELFISH 🙂
I got BLEPHARITIS and SCI-FI.
Thanks to DW and Mark for fauna representation!
Judy, I have a hunch you’d be good at flora. Am I right? 🙂
Sharp-Perfectible for me too
Sharp perfectible
BIRTHPLACES SELF
BITCHFEST* TRASHPILE*
BIRTHPLACES-SELF
Didn’t accept B*TCHSLAP-PREF
ME TOO!
I was greatly disappointed at the rejection of Bitch and hence its corollaries Fest and Slap! Is it still supposed to be too risqué for tender readers?
It was hard to pick a favorite from among these, so I list four solutions that struck me. Imaginative themes abound, singly or collectively.
BIRTHPLACE—EARTHFAST
BIRTHPLACES—SEAFARER
PERFECTIBLE—EARTHRISE
RESHAPER—REFLECTIBLE
Good day.
☕🙂
phlebitic – carafes
birthplace – efts
SHARP — PERFECTIBLE
I had a hard time giving up on CHARACTERISTICS, but the remaining letters just wouldn’t produce a nice word.
PERFECTIBLE — EARTHRISE
Flipchart – Trebles
BIRTHPLACES SIFT
Not sure why you wouldn’t put the S on and make it far easier with SAFE or SIFT, rather than doing ‘Elfish’, which is nice, but inefficient.
fastpitch – halbert
It’s not often that I come here *knowing* that my two-word solution is not the OA, but today — no question.
PHLEBITIS – SCARF
Even better, I scrolled through the comments and found only one, from Robin (phlebitic – carafes), that uses even a form of PHLEBITIS.
It’s great to be unique, eh Robin?
Excellent Richard, with Phlebitis!
Maybe that’s the need for the scarf?
PLEBISCITES – SHAFTER
Odd that B*TCH is not allowed. But the F word pluralized in Wordle is. The NYT is so odd.
FEBRIFIC* CHAPLETS here.
I found this 3 worder
FIB / BERTHS / SCALP
I found this 3 worder
FIB / BERTHS / SCALP
FASTPITCH HALBERT
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 afebrile / ecphrastic
2 – 18 afebrile / earthscape
3 – 19 afebrile / earthscapes
4 – 16 afterbirths / scalp
5 – 18 afterbirths / scalpel
6 – 19 afterbirths / scalpels
7 – 18 afterbirths / scalper
8 – 19 afterbirths / scalpers
9 – 20 afterbirths / sceptical
10 – 17 afterbirths / schlep
11 – 19 afterbirths / slipcase
12 – 20 afterbirths / slipcases
13 – 17 alpaca / afterbirths
14 – 15 biface / earthslip
15 – 15 birthplace / efits
16 – 14 birthplace / efts
17 – 16 birthplace / elfish
18 – 19 birthplace / earthfast
19 – 17 birthplaces / safari
20 – 18 birthplaces / safaris
21 – 15 birthplaces / safe
22 – 16 birthplaces / safer
23 – 17 birthplaces / safest
24 – 16 birthplaces / safes
25 – 19 birthplaces / sailfish
26 – 19 birthplaces / saltfish
27 – 16 birthplaces / scarf
28 – 16 birthplaces / scifi
29 – 19 birthplaces / seafarer
30 – 20 birthplaces / seafarers
31 – 18 birthplaces / sealift
32 – 19 birthplaces / sealifts
33 – 15 birthplaces / self
34 – 19 birthplaces / selfcare
35 – 18 birthplaces / selfish
36 – 18 birthplaces / selfist
37 – 19 birthplaces / selfists
38 – 15 birthplaces / serf
39 – 16 birthplaces / serif
40 – 16 birthplaces / shaft
41 – 17 birthplaces / shafts
42 – 18 birthplaces / shafter
43 – 19 birthplaces / shafters
44 – 17 birthplaces / sharif
45 – 17 birthplaces / shrift
46 – 18 birthplaces / shrifts
47 – 15 birthplaces / sift
48 – 16 birthplaces / sifts
49 – 17 birthplaces / sifter
50 – 18 birthplaces / sifters
51 – 17 birthplaces / stifle
52 – 18 birthplaces / stifles
53 – 18 birthplaces / stifler
54 – 19 birthplaces / stiflers
55 – 17 birthplaces / strafe
56 – 18 birthplaces / strafes
57 – 17 birthplaces / strife
58 – 18 birthplaces / serific
59 – 14 birthplaces / stf
60 – 18 birthplaces / strafer
61 – 19 birthplaces / strafers
62 – 16 blepharitis / scarf
63 – 16 blepharitis / scifi
64 – 19 blepharitis / selfcare
65 – 18 blepharitis / serific
66 – 18 chap / perfectibilist
67 – 19 chap / perfectibilists
68 – 20 earthslip / perfectible
69 – 23 earthslip / perfectibilist
70 – 24 earthslip / perfectibilists
71 – 16 fastpitch / halbert
72 – 17 fastpitch / halberts
73 – 18 feasible / ecphrastic
74 – 18 feasible / earthscape
75 – 19 feasible / earthscapes
76 – 17 febrile / ecphrastic
77 – 17 febrile / earthscape
78 – 18 febrile / earthscapes
79 – 14 fib / birthplaces
80 – 14 fibster / raplach
81 – 16 fleapit / tribrachs
82 – 17 flipchart / tibiales
83 – 16 flipchart / trebles
84 – 15 flipchart / tribes
85 – 17 flipchart / triblets
86 – 14 flipcharts / sleb
87 – 15 flipcharts / slebs
88 – 17 hap / perfectibilist
89 – 18 hap / perfectibilists
90 – 21 harelip / perfectibilist
91 – 22 harelip / perfectibilists
92 – 18 harp / perfectibilist
93 – 19 harp / perfectibilists
94 – 22 paraphraser / reflectible
95 – 17 perfectible / earths
96 – 20 perfectible / earthslip
97 – 16 perfectible / ecash
98 – 20 perfectible / ecphrasis
99 – 20 perfectible / ecphrases
100 – 21 perfectible / ecphrastic
101 – 17 perfectible / ephahs
102 – 17 perfectible / eschar
103 – 18 perfectible / eschars
104 – 20 perfectible / earthfast
105 – 20 perfectible / earthrise
106 – 21 perfectible / earthrises
107 – 21 perfectible / earthscape
108 – 22 perfectible / earthscapes
109 – 19 phacelia / afterbirths
110 – 17 phaser / reflectible
111 – 14 phlebitis / scarf
112 – 17 phlebitis / selfcare
113 – 19 phlebitic / cafeterias
114 – 16 phlebitic / carafes
115 – 17 phlebitic / carfares
116 – 18 phlebitic / ceasefire
117 – 19 phlebitic / ceasefires
118 – 16 phlebitic / chafers
119 – 19 plebiscite / earthfast
120 – 18 plebiscites / shafter
121 – 19 plebiscites / shafters
122 – 17 plebiscites / sharif
123 – 18 plectra / afterbirths
124 – 16 plica / afterbirths
125 – 18 replica / afterbirths
126 – 17 shafter / receptible
127 – 17 shaper / reflectible
128 – 16 sharp / perfectible
129 – 19 sharp / perfectibilist
130 – 20 sharp / perfectibilists
131 – 18 sharper / reflectible
132 – 20 threap / perfectibilist
133 – 21 threap / perfectibilists
134 – 20 acephalia / afterbirths
135 – 18 epicerebral / leftish
136 – 20 epicerebral / liftshaft
137 – 21 epicerebral / liftshafts
138 – 17 factible / earthslip
139 – 17 factible / ecphrasis
140 – 17 factible / ecphrases
141 – 18 factible / ecphrastic
142 – 18 factible / earthscape
143 – 19 factible / earthscapes
144 – 22 paraphrastical / lifebelt
145 – 23 paraphrastical / lifebelts
146 – 18 perfectibilist / thai
147 – 18 perfectibilist / thar
148 – 19 perfectibilist / thars
149 – 19 perfectibilist / teach
150 – 20 perfectibilist / tephra
151 – 21 perfectibilist / tephras
152 – 20 perfectibilist / teraph
153 – 26 perfectibilist / terephthalic
154 – 24 perfectibilist / tetrastich
155 – 25 perfectibilist / tetrastichs
156 – 19 perfectibilist / thale
157 – 20 perfectibilist / thaler
158 – 21 perfectibilist / thalers
159 – 19 perfectibilist / thali
160 – 20 perfectibilist / thalis
161 – 20 perfectibilist / thrash
162 – 20 perfectibilist / threap
163 – 20 perfectibilist / tirtha
164 – 21 perfectibilist / tirthas
165 – 19 perfectibilist / trash
166 – 22 perfectibilist / tribrach
167 – 23 perfectibilist / tribrachs
168 – 23 perfectibilist / teleflash
169 – 20 perfectibilist / tithal
170 – 23 perfectibilists / sailfish
171 – 20 perfectibilists / saith
172 – 22 perfectibilists / saltish
173 – 23 perfectibilists / saltfish
174 – 19 perfectibilists / sash
175 – 20 perfectibilists / selah
176 – 21 perfectibilists / seraph
177 – 22 perfectibilists / seraphs
178 – 20 perfectibilists / shaft
179 – 21 perfectibilists / shafts
180 – 22 perfectibilists / shafter
181 – 23 perfectibilists / shafters
182 – 19 perfectibilists / shah
183 – 20 perfectibilists / shahs
184 – 20 perfectibilists / shale
185 – 21 perfectibilists / shales
186 – 20 perfectibilists / shalt
187 – 20 perfectibilists / shape
188 – 21 perfectibilists / shapes
189 – 21 perfectibilists / shaper
190 – 22 perfectibilists / shapers
191 – 22 perfectibilists / sharara
192 – 23 perfectibilists / shararas
193 – 20 perfectibilists / share
194 – 21 perfectibilists / shares
195 – 21 perfectibilists / sharer
196 – 22 perfectibilists / sharers
197 – 21 perfectibilists / sharia
198 – 22 perfectibilists / shariah
199 – 21 perfectibilists / sharif
200 – 20 perfectibilists / sharp
201 – 22 perfectibilists / sharper
202 – 23 perfectibilists / sharpest
203 – 23 perfectibilists / sharpers
204 – 23 perfectibilists / sharpish
205 – 20 perfectibilists / shart
206 – 21 perfectibilists / sharts
207 – 22 perfectibilists / shastra
208 – 23 perfectibilists / shastras
209 – 24 perfectibilists / shtetlach
210 – 20 perfectibilists / slash
211 – 23 perfectibilists / sriracha
212 – 22 perfectibilists / stealth
213 – 16 periblastic / chafe
214 – 17 periblastic / chafes
215 – 17 periblastic / chafer
216 – 18 periblastic / chafers
217 – 19 pericerebral / leftish
218 – 21 pericerebral / liftshaft
219 – 22 pericerebral / liftshafts
220 – 21 perichaetial / lifebelts
221 – 18 periphlebitic / cafes
222 – 23 periphlebitic / cafeterias
223 – 20 periphlebitic / carafes
224 – 21 periphlebitic / carfares
225 – 22 periphlebitic / ceasefire
226 – 23 periphlebitic / ceasefires
227 – 19 periphlebitic / chafes
228 – 20 periphlebitic / chafers
229 – 18 periphlebitis / scarf
230 – 21 periphlebitis / selfcare
231 – 20 periphlebitises / scarf
232 – 23 periphlebitises / selfcare
233 – 22 periphrastical / lifebelt
234 – 23 periphrastical / lifebelts
235 – 20 phalarica / afterbirths
236 – 18 phraser / reflectible
237 – 17 plebiscitic / chafer
238 – 18 plebiscitic / chafers
239 – 18 precerebral / leftish
240 – 20 precerebral / liftshaft
241 – 21 precerebral / liftshafts
242 – 19 receptible / earthfast
243 – 20 reflectible / earthslip
244 – 20 reflectible / ecphrasis
245 – 20 reflectible / ecphrases
246 – 21 reflectible / ecphrastic
247 – 17 reflectible / ephahs
248 – 21 reflectible / earthscape
249 – 22 reflectible / earthscapes
250 – 19 reshaper / reflectible
251 – 19 afebrile / ecphractics*
252 – 19 afterbirths / sceptral*
253 – 19 afterbirths / septical*
254 – 16 becarpet* / tilefish
255 – 17 becarpets* / sailfish
256 – 17 becarpets* / saltfish
257 – 16 becarpets* / selfish
258 – 15 bepelts* / scarfish*
259 – 18 beplasters* / scarfish*
260 – 16 birthplace / eftest*
261 – 19 birthplaces / safarist*
262 – 20 birthplaces / safarists*
263 – 15 birthplaces / saft*
264 – 17 birthplaces / safter*
265 – 18 birthplaces / saftest*
266 – 18 birthplaces / scarfer*
267 – 19 birthplaces / scarfers*
268 – 19 birthplaces / scarfish*
269 – 18 birthplaces / sebific*
270 – 16 birthplaces / sefer*
271 – 19 birthplaces / serafile*
272 – 20 birthplaces / serafiles*
273 – 18 birthplaces / serfish*
274 – 14 birthplaces / sif*
275 – 18 birthplaces / sitfast*
276 – 19 birthplaces / sitfasts*
277 – 20 birthplaces / slashfest*
278 – 21 birthplaces / slashfests*
279 – 18 birthplaces / strifes*
280 – 17 birthplaces / strift*
281 – 18 birthplaces / strifts*
282 – 21 bitchfest* / terephthalic
283 – 17 bitchfest* / tetrapla*
284 – 18 bitchfest* / tetraplas*
285 – 19 bitchfests* / saltpeter
286 – 20 bitchfests* / saltpeters*
287 – 19 bitchfests* / saltpetre
288 – 20 bitchfests* / saltpetres*
289 – 17 bitchfests* / scalper
290 – 18 bitchfests* / scalpers
291 – 18 bitchfests* / sceptral*
292 – 18 bitchfests* / sliprail*
293 – 19 bitchfests* / sliprails*
294 – 16 blepharitic* / cafes
295 – 21 blepharitic* / cafeterias
296 – 18 blepharitic* / cafilas*
297 – 18 blepharitic* / carafes
298 – 19 blepharitic* / carfares
299 – 20 blepharitic* / ceasefire
300 – 21 blepharitic* / ceasefires
301 – 18 blepharitic* / chafers
302 – 17 blepharitic* / chafes
303 – 17 blepharitic* / chafts*
304 – 18 blepharitis / scarfer*
305 – 19 blepharitis / scarfers*
306 – 19 blepharitis / scarfish*
307 – 18 blepharitis / sebific*
308 – 18 blepharitises* / scarf
309 – 20 blepharitises* / scarfer*
310 – 21 blepharitises* / scarfers*
311 – 21 blepharitises* / scarfish*
312 – 20 blepharitises* / sebific*
313 – 16 calpa* / afterbirths
314 – 19 carpalia* / afterbirths
315 – 18 chapteral* / lifebelts
316 – 17 chaptrel* / lifebelts
317 – 16 chaptrels* / sebific*
318 – 16 epiblastic* / chafer
319 – 17 epiblastic* / chafers
320 – 17 epiblasts / scarfish*
321 – 20 epistilbites* / scarfish*
322 – 17 faible* / ecphractics*
323 – 18 feasible / ecphractic*
324 – 19 feasible / ecphractics*
325 – 18 febrific* / cephalitis*
326 – 20 febrific* / cephalitises*
327 – 16 febrific* / chaplets
328 – 17 febrific* / chaptrels*
329 – 18 febrile / ecphractics*
330 – 14 filberts / scarph*
331 – 15 filberts / scarphs*
332 – 16 flipchart / terbias*
333 – 17 flipchart / terebras*
334 – 17 flipcharts / sebific*
335 – 18 flipcharts / stilbite*
336 – 19 flipcharts / stilbites*
337 – 15 frib* / birthplaces
338 – 15 lifebelts / scarph*
339 – 16 lifebelts / scarphs*
340 – 21 perfectibilist / terefah*
341 – 26 perfectibilist / tetrastichal*
342 – 18 perfectibilist / thae*
343 – 19 perfectibilist / thrae*
344 – 22 perfectibilist / threaper*
345 – 23 perfectibilist / threapers*
346 – 22 perfectibilist / threapit*
347 – 21 perfectibilist / trachle*
348 – 22 perfectibilist / trachles*
349 – 20 perfectibilist / trefah*
350 – 22 perfectibilist / triphase*
351 – 21 perfectibilists / saiths*
352 – 21 perfectibilists / scaith*
353 – 22 perfectibilists / scaiths*
354 – 23 perfectibilists / scarfish*
355 – 21 perfectibilists / scarph*
356 – 22 perfectibilists / scarphs*
357 – 21 perfectibilists / scarth*
358 – 22 perfectibilists / scarths*
359 – 21 perfectibilists / selahs*
360 – 18 perfectibilists / sha*
361 – 23 perfectibilists / shariahs*
362 – 22 perfectibilists / sharias*
363 – 20 perfectibilists / shash*
364 – 22 perfectibilists / shaster*
365 – 23 perfectibilists / shasters*
366 – 25 perfectibilists / shtetelach*
367 – 21 perfectibilists / slahal*
368 – 22 perfectibilists / slahals*
369 – 24 perfectibilists / slashfest*
370 – 25 perfectibilists / slashfests*
371 – 24 perfectibilists / srirachas*
372 – 23 perfectibilists / stealths*
373 – 24 perfectibilists / sticharia*
374 – 23 perfectibilists / straicht*
375 – 25 perfectibilists / straichter*
376 – 26 perfectibilists / straichtest*
377 – 20 perfectible / earthpeas*
378 – 19 perfectible / earthset*
379 – 20 perfectible / earthsets*
380 – 22 perfectible / ecphractics*
381 – 16 perfectible / ephas*
382 – 18 perfectible / eriachs*
383 – 17 perfectible / ethals*
384 – 18 periblasts / scarfish*
385 – 19 pharisaical* / lifebelt
386 – 20 pharisaical* / lifebelts
387 – 16 phlebitis / scarfer*
388 – 17 phlebitis / scarfers*
389 – 17 phlebitis / scarfish*
390 – 16 phlebitises* / scarf
391 – 18 phlebitises* / scarfer*
392 – 19 phlebitises* / scarfers*
393 – 19 phlebitises* / scarfish*
394 – 19 plebiscites / scarfish*
395 – 18 prebiblical* / leftish
396 – 16 sebific* / chapteral*
397 – 15 sebific* / chaptrel*
398 – 16 sebific* / chaptrels*
flipchart-tribes. YAY!!
Bitchslap – perfect …. But it wouldn’t accept bitchslap, so lost interest