Here are the Letter Boxed August 28, 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:
ROKEDNLCIWFA
The answers are:
INFERNALLOCKDOWN
FERIAL LOCKDOWN (eg, a public holiday) uses fewer letters
Same.
FERIAL—LOCKDOWN
Also noticed
DOWNFIELD—DREADLOCK
DOWNFIELD – DRACK (adjective
slang. (esp of a woman) unattractive). New word for me and a little surprised LB accepted it. Figured ‘DOWN’ had to be in today’s solution(s)…got LOCKDOWN and CRACKDOWN, but didn’t find their pairs!
Same. Drack was a wild guess.
Downfield-Drack for me too. . It took a ridiculous amount of time. Couldn’t believe I couldn’t pair firecracker or crackdown.
Also DOWNFIELD DRACK. drack because that was the leftover letters. Surprised it worked
Ended up the same for me after toying with AIRFIELD, AIRFLOW, DOWNLOAD, FLOWER, CODIFIER, CONIFER, CARDINAL, FRECKLE, WRINKLE …. Omg this took forever only to end with a word I didn’t even know existed 🙂
Same. Never heard of the word DRACK before.
Ditto on all the above! Must admit I like the TI of the OA better. The long years of COVID that dragged on!
FERIAL-LOCKDOWN here too. good theme for it, Stripe.
Same answer. FERIAL was a complete guess. Wanted to find another solution that didn’t involve guessing but couldn’t find one. FLOCKIER, FIRELOCK and CRACKDOWN looked promising but c’est la vie.
FERIAL-LOCKDOWN here as well, but I spent a ling time struggling with FIRECRACKER and KNOCKDOWN to no avail.
Ferial -Lockdown too after a frustrating journey with dead ends.
Close with
Inflow – Wreck (no DA)
Flowerier – Rank (no CD)
I was sure something with “flower “ would work.
Flockier, Wrinkle, Codifier, Firelock led nowhere.
Dancecard not accepted
DIREWOLF – FOLKDANCE…
What I learned during lockdown! Yippee!
DIREWOLF — FOLKDANCE
I wasn’t sure that DIREWOLF was really a word (I knew the term from Game of Thrones!)
Also found FIRECRACKER, DOWNLOAD, RADIOLARIAN, and ALKALOIDAL
Yah, I think it’s really a four word answer. But I rather be a forward dancer!
Clap for the Wolfman!!!
🙂
Six hundred pounds of sin!
Love this, found DIREWOLF but not FOLKDANCE (which I would have assumed to be two words)
Everywhere else, FOLKDANCE seems to be two words. Perhaps even more strangely, LB rejects FOLKDANCER.
Indeed! Found Folkdance, tried Folkdancer, and never even thought of Direwolf as one word.
As for solutions, I don’t think I’ve got anything new: (OA) Infernal Lockdown – Hell has a Big House, apparently; also Ferial Lockdown- just an ordinary day in Covid times. More: Downfield Dreadlock / Downfield Drack – pass it to the receiver with the rad hair, or maybe the one with the ugly mug; and finally, Crackdown Nifle – petty over-policing. Okay, that last one might be new.
OA a bit ominous since a grass fire near me kept lots of people stuck inside today
OA.
Took so long to find. So, a very satisfying solve.
😊😉
DOWNFIELD – DRACK
Another day, another new word.
OA. Infernal lockdown!
I might have said that a couple of years ago
CRACKDOWN NIFLE
Thank you for the pair to CRACKDOWN! who knew NIFLE is a word?! (trivial or worthless person or thing. It can also mean something useless, a small or flimsy article of clothing, or a trick. As a plural noun, it can mean trifles or items of little value. As a verb, it can mean to steal trifling objects.
The word nifle is pronounced “nigh-fuhl” in both British and U.S. English. The earliest known use of the word is from the Middle English period (1150—1500), with the earliest evidence being from around 1395 in the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer. The origin of the word is uncertain.
Nifle Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster
ni·fle. ˈnīfəl, ˈnif- variants or niffle. ˈnif- plural -s. chiefly dialectal. : a trivial or worthless person or thing.
Merriam-Webster
nifle, n. meanings, etymology and more – Oxford English Dictionary
0.0004. 1990. 0.0003. 2000. 0.0002. 2010. 0.0002. See frequency. How is the noun nifle pronounced? British English. /ˈnʌɪfl/ NIGH-fuhl. U.S. English. /ˈnaɪf(ə)l…
Oxford English Dictionary
nifle – Middle English,
Definitions: 1. (a) Something trivial or useless; (b) a small or flimsy article of dress, a kerchief of fine material; (c) a trick
Thank you for this definition!
crackdown – nifle as well
CRACKDOWN – NIFLE
Another stern measure in the war on drugs.
Was going to add a definition, Nicole, but yours was no trifling thing. 🙂
Ferial Lockdown
Yippee
DOWN FIELD – DRACK (never heard of DRACK before but ya gotta give it the auld LB try!)
Another FERIAL LOCKDOWN, “ferial” a complete stab in the dark for me.
Can anyone see a two-worder with DRAINCOCK? I couldn’t make it work.
DOWNFIELD – DRAINCOCK
DOWNFIELD—DRAINCOCK
Another Drack (4meanings apparently) after spending an inordinate amount of time trying to find any ____ flower but coming up empty
I got downfield and draincock.
Impressive answers. I had DOWNFLOW which my dictionary says is a word, and couldn’t get very far today. Ended up with DREADLOCK KNIFE EWE
Ugh, got CRACKDOWN and LOWDOWN and LOCK/ER, but not LOCKDOWN! Got RADIAL, CRANIAL, CARDINAL, but not INFERNAL! Also DOWNFLOW. Ditto re Folkdancer not ok’d. My 3w solutions: FOLKDANCER EWER RID (or RIFE), and DOWNLOW WRACK KNIFE
Oops, I meant to write FOLKDANCE not FOLKDANCER there.
Liked Werewolf, folkdance, crackdown… but no matches. So many great words today!
You were on the right track just had the wrong wolf.🥴
DIREWOLF and FOLKDANCE
Direwolf Folkdance
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 – 14 crackdown / nifle
2 – 17 direwolf / folkdance
3 – 14 downfield / drack
4 – 18 downfield / draincock
5 – 18 downfield / dreadlock
6 – 14 ferial / lockdown
7 – 16 infernal / lockdown
8 – 16 wifekin / nocardial
9 – 17 wifelkin / nocardial
10 – 15 downfield / dacker*
11 – 14 lockdown / naifer*
CRANKIER – REFLOW
Surprised to not see this!
DOWNFIELD – DREADLOCK after a long time fiddling with other words