Here are the Letter Boxed December 05, 2023 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:
LGFNYUIOAPBT
The answers are:
BAYOUUPLIFTING
BAYOU—UPLIFTING 14/2
OUTFABLING*—GYP* 13/2
autoplaying / gobful
bafta / autoplaying
bayou / uplifting
fatiguability / yaupon
fatiguability / yolping
fatigability / yaupon
fibula / autoplaying
fibula / antapology
layabout / typifying
polypi / infibulating
boyau / uplifting
patulin / noblifying
pongyi / infibulating
pontifying / gulab
pultan / noblifying
pulutan / noblifying
AUTOPLAYING-GOBFUL. inelegant, no theme, but ALIOW. which leads me to ask WHERE IS BERNIE? (who I believe popularized ALIOW)
Ah…looking back more carefully I see Bernie is most definitely present among us and not sunning himself on an internet-free isle 🌞
a LAYABOUT TYPIFYING?
No, not Bernie.
Thanks for the shout out, Steph. Present and accounted for, but distracted by performances and other seasonal obligations. Miles to go before a long winter’s nap, but LB-ing as and when I can… which brings us to today’s, or should I say yesterday’s, puzzle.
OA here. Pretty neat answer. A nod to the restorative powers of Nature? A harbinger of climate change and sea level rise? Not really expecting much by way of alternatives even from you LB Mavens. Later, Gators (speaking of bayous). This is but ALIOW and not goodbye.
AUTOPLAYING / GOBFUL
The endless lugie?
Scrabble words:
bufotalin* / nonpaying
bufotalin* / nonplaying
fabulating / gypo*
falbala* / autotyping*
fatigability / youpon*
fibula / autotyping*
gypo* / outfabling*
infibulating / gypo*
outfabling* / gapy*
outfabling* / gilpy*
outfabling* / gulpy
outfabling* / gyp*
outfabling* / gypo*
typo / outfabling*
AUTOPLAYING – GOBFUL as well — a never-ending diatribe?
Nice one👍
Looks like Kat has got your TI, Steph!
Aha! Yes indeed. Nicely played.
Some 3 word solutions:
atop / playful / lubing
tufting / gap / playboy
tulip / pagan / noblify
typing / gift / tabouli
typo / outfit / tabling
ubi / infant / topology
uplift / tangibly / you
uplifting / gab / boy
you / uplift / tangibly
abluting / gift / typo
babyfying / got / tulip
infobot / tag / gulpy
obligant / tufty / yip
pantiling / gub / boyf
plotful / lab / blingy
pugilant / tofu / ubity
fanboying / guilt / tip
Some 14/3 s
fault / typing / gob
pat / tying / gobful
potful / lying / gab
OA here as well. Had UPLIFTING but didn’t land upon BAYOU until I exhausted many other dead ends. One of these days I’ll smarten up, right? 🙂 Missing poems from Jill as well!
Hi Susan,
These two are recent:
Nov 26
AQUILEGIAS
Squint, it’s a telegram–
“Look past all Maga enragements.”
(Insurgents, intransigents, yet
A mere quartile enigma
Of an unquaint time).
Listen, it’s an art–
A quintet of eaglets call
And chirp their elegant mantra:
“Petals asquirl, stems tranquil,
Columbines grow in aquamarine shade.”
These birds are our integral allies,
Aquiline elegists, all.
Nov 30
NIGHTHAWKS
Warships stalking in a thawtless* fight,
Thawts shrinking in the war’s twilight,
Lights sprinkled on a field of white,
Wights twinkling in an endless night,
As nighthawks spiral– a sparkling sight,
In a thawing spring, in their foraging flight.
Same here. Went down lots of dead ends and close but no cigars, such as:
Uplift – Tangibly.
OA.
oa.
took a chance at BAYOU even though it is a short word. just imagine my elation that i spotted UPLIFTING from the many leftover letters.
this is a very happy solve.
😊
LAYABOUT – TYPIFYING
I stand corrected? CR – that is a nifty and original alt answer!
How does this site (and others) know what the NYT OA is before the next day?
That’s still a mystery to me, since this site states no affiliation with NYT. However, noting that this site comes online a minute or two after NYT, I believe there must be some unofficial communication between the two.
The GameData for today has the NYTimes Solution encoded in it. I’m sure this site uses that data.
It looks something like this:
ourSolution:[BAYOU,UPLIFTING],printDate:2023-12-05,sides:[LGF,NYU,IOA,PBT]
Yes, that makes sense.
OA.
Thanks, DAVEL. Just curious, how does one look at that code? (I’ve been away from programming for a long time.) Before WORDLE became a NYT game, someone had posted all the solutions that were embedded in the code!!
The way i do it is to refresh the game so I see the game board for today.
Then in Google Chrome I right-click and choose Inspect.
Then I look about 6 or 7 lines down and see a line that looks like:
window.gameData =
In the imspector i right click and do a Copy > Copy Element
Try that,
I left out a step…
The way i do it is to refresh the game so I see the game board for today.
Then in Google Chrome I right-click and choose Inspect.
Then I look about 6 or 7 lines down and see a line that looks like:
…
Then you expand that line and see:
window.gameData = …
Right click on window.gameData and Copy > Copy Element
Then, paste into your favorite text editor.
I probably shouldn’t type in html code into these messages:
Then I look about 6 or 7 lines down and see a line that looks like:
script type text/javascript …
Thanks!
Bafta Autoplaying. Thought I hit pay dirt with Autoplaying, but what to do with b-f-a or g-b-f?
Don’t like it but I’ll take it. In what universe is bafta an allowable word? And yes I didn’t see Gobful.
Yeah. I ended up with the less efficient FIBULA – AUTOPLAYING.
OA. Found BAYOU right off, assumed 2nd word would have to start with UP
It always takes me a while to stop making words that start with P, when there’s a P.
I got to the OA after a while, because UPLIFTING sounds like PLIFTING (which is not a word, but is definitely something I tried, because I like starting words with P)
I usually start by looking for letters that group together (i-n-g is just a gift and s might be followed by p and r) and then for any prefixes and suffixes.
Very rarely do words just leap out at me and maybe why I get more bizarre solves 🙂
OA.
LGF—NYU—IOA—PBT
Mammals: Agouti, Baboon, Bat, Bilby, Bongo, Bonobo, Buffalo, Gibbon, Olingo, Pangolin, Papillon, Pig, Pit Bull, Pug, Pugapoo, Puli, Utonagan
Dinosaur: Patagotitan
Anagrams: BITONALITY : NOTABILITY, LOGOTYPY* : TYPOLOGY
Palindromes: ALALA, ALULA, ANANA*, ULULU
Living in New Orleans helped with Bayou! I got Uplifting and then Bayou! Oh Happy Day!
really wanted something with “bologna” to work….sad…….
Once I got UPLIFTING, saw BAYOU right away for the OA, happily.
Autoplaying – Gobful. :)))
Bayou – Uplifting
Got back to LB late today (after my AM three-word pass), tried yet another -ing word, and found OA. I’m definitely less competent at spotting pairs that hinge on a vowel. But–ALIOW (somehow I associate that with Fishcake).
ALIOW was a joint effort but Fishcake did the heavy (up)lifting.
I had Fibula Autoplaying — restless leg syndrome?
What a monster this one was! Took me ages.
There were so many affixes to work with (-OLOGY, I/ABILITY, OUT–, –FUL, POLY–, –ING) and I just couldn’t seem to follow through with any of them until I started noodling with UP– words. Finally got the OA. Having lived in New Orleans (too long ago, I suppose) didn’t help much, though.
I got Fibula Autoplaying