Here are the Letter Boxed December 09, 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:
AWHPTGNRCEYO
The answers are:
TWOOCEANOGRAPHY
OA really quickly
Wet – Technography
Not even close!
Chronographer Rowthy
WET – TECHNOGRAPHY
Ditto
wet – technography as well
Same
I “WENT” with WENT-TECHNOGRAPHY. After finding TECHNOGRAPHY, only the W was left so there are lots of options for a first word.
REWRAP—PHOTOCHRONOGRAPHY
photochronography, n. Originally: an early form of cinematography as developed by the Frenchman E. J. Marey (1830–1904) (now historical); also called chronophotography…
Wonga Apothecary
Love this one! Adding Wonga to my list!
Went through so many -graphy’s and hypo’s. Finally got OA which feels like vengeance after yesterday’s solution. Not getting that time back, but you now, folks call me obsessive and I can’t disagree 🙂
Such a fun answer, Nitesh!
I settled for Wretch Hypogean (it’s not easy being a Morlock) and Cowrote Ethnography (see, eg, Mead and Bateson).
Hey Nitesh!
same for me …
i looked up “wonga” in the OED online – “money” … OED dates it only to 1984 but the longer version “wonga-wonga” back to 1821 … and the root “wong” back to Old English and Germanic.
😎🐝🇺🇸
COWPEA — ANTHROPOGRAPHY
Also saw PATHOGEN, PHYTOPATHOGEN, PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOTYPOGRAPHY but couldn’t connect them.
LB didn’t accept TYPOGRAPHY or APPGRAPHY alone but took PANTOGRAPHY and all the others that left me with letters I just couldn’t put together today! Lost my mojo 🙁
WRETCH HYPOGEAN
Same
Wretch Hypogean also
Same
RAGWORT-TACHYPNEA
I forgot all about the various -WORT words.
THROATWORT — TECHNOGRAPHY works too.
Adding on:
EARWORT—, HEARTWORT—, HOGWORT—, HONEWORT—, and PEWTERWORT—TECHNOGRAPHY.
I think I verified all. ☕
Are those mainly in the UK? I had never heard of any of them before I started playing LB.
I found them with a database search. I verified some of them in LB; and good thing, as there were a lot of invalids, for a variety of reasons:
wort, worth, worthy, catwort, earwort, hogwort, potwort, ragwort, tapwort, cocowort, enworthy, hoarwort, honewort, tentwort, caperwort, grapewort, greenwort, heartwort, pennywort, peterwort, poppywort, preworthy, throwwort, towerwort, worrywort, noteworthy, pennyworth, pepperwort, pewterwort, tetterwort, throatwort, trophywort, honorworthy, thegnworthy, threepennyworth.
Good one. Adding on:
HYPOCENTER—RAGWORT
COWPEA – ANTHROPOGENY
I was disappointed anthropocene was not accepted as a word 🙁
Chronographer- Rowthy
Excellent.
Father Time.
🙂
Same!
PARACYANOGEN–NOTEWORTHY
COWP PARTHENOGENY
A solve for the first time in 3 days – Took longer than I expected given that there are thousands of possible words with that letter array. Kept pounding away at GRAPH words and finally got COWROTE-ETHNOGRAPHY. Memo to Sam – TOCOGRAPH(Y) and CAPNOGRAPH(Y) are both legit words. And while LB accepts CHRONOTROPIC or CHRONOTROPHY, it denies CHRONOTROPE. Drugs such as Isoproterenol and Dobutamine are known as Chronotropes. Rant over.
OA didn’t take long when started thinking ography/ographer sufixes
Hi Matt, your comment prompted me to search for *GRAPH*. I did not check them for LB validity. Just posting them out of curiosity, and I left the double-letter constraint off. ☕☕
graph, graphy, oograph, regraph, anagraph, apograph, engraphy, orograph, aerograph, cecograph, cerograph, copygraph, echograph, ergograph, gyrograph, horograph, orography, otography, paragraph, ponograph, pyrograph, rotograph, tonograph, topograph, typograph, aerography, cacography, cartograph, cathograph, cerography, chorograph, cynography, cyrtograph, ethography, graphotype, hectograph, horography, hygrograph, hypnograph, nephograph, noctograph, ontography, orthograph, pantagraph, pantograph, petrograph, phonograph, photograph, phytograph, protograph, pyrography, renography, tachograph, tachygraph, tenography, topography, trypograph, typography, aerographer, anapnograph, anthography, aortography, cacographer, cartography, cathography, cerographer, choregraphy, chorography, chronograph, coronagraph, coronograph, enterograph, ethnography, graphophone, graphorrhea, hectography, horographer, hythergraph, orthography, pantography, papyrograph, paragrapher, pathography, petrography, phonography, photography, phrenograph, phycography, phytography, pyrographer, reparagraph, reprography, rhypography, tachygraphy, topographer, typographer, arthrography, cartographer, choregrapher, chorographer, chronography, ectypography, enterography, ethnographer, hepatography, heterography, oceanography, organography, orthographer, pantographer, papyrography, petrographer, phonographer, photographee, photographer, phrenography, phytographer, pyretography, rephotograph, reprographer, tachygrapher, technography, theatrograph, thoracograph, anorthography, chronographer, herpetography, oceanographer, papyrographer, photopography, protectograph, rhyparography, technographer, tenontography, aerocartograph, anthropography, pyrophotograph, rhyparographer, aerocartography, aerophotography, photonephograph, phototopography, phototypography, phytotopography, pyrophotography, chronophotograph, phonophotography, photochronograph, prototypographer, chronophotography, ethnotechnography, photochronography.
What did you do the search in? I noticed that neither of my hospital based monitors – toco for baby’s heartbeat and Capno for CO2 levels are included in this list either.
It’s a personal word list that I maintain. It is constantly growing thanks to all the LB solutions people come up with. I’ll be adding the two you mentioned to it. Thanks.
Got photography, but could not advance
Probably a one-off solve with Wotcher — Renography. After much time with all the other “graphy” words I backed into that with the guess of Wotcher.
COWCATCHER / RENOGRAPHY
Surprised COWCATCHER was accepted…
cowrote ethnography
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 – 17 caponata / ageworthy
2 – 19 chronographer / rowthy
3 – 20 cowcatcher / renography
4 – 16 cowp / parthenogeny
5 – 18 cowpat / technography
6 – 18 cowpea / anthropogeny
7 – 17 cowpea / anthography
8 – 18 cowpea / anthropogony
9 – 20 cowpea / anthropography
10 – 18 cowrote / ethnography
11 – 19 cowtown / nephrography
12 – 19 ecotown / nephrography
13 – 17 ecotown / nyctograph
14 – 23 enwrap / photochronography
15 – 16 went / technography
16 – 16 gowpen / nyctograph
17 – 17 granophyre / ecotown
18 – 14 hewn / nyctograph
19 – 19 honewort / tachygraphy
20 – 20 honewort / tachygrapher
21 – 20 honewort / technography
22 – 17 howto / oceanography
23 – 16 newt / technography
24 – 16 newton / nyctograph
25 – 16 nowt / tachygrapher
26 – 16 nowt / technography
27 – 19 oceanographer / rowthy
28 – 15 owt / technography
29 – 17 pacarana / ageworthy
30 – 16 panacea / ageworthy
31 – 25 powerpop / photochronography
32 – 17 pwnage / erythrocyte
33 – 16 ragwort / tachypnea
34 – 19 ragwort / technography
35 – 17 regrown / nyctograph
36 – 16 renown / nyctograph
37 – 23 rewrap / photochronography
38 – 15 rowen / nyctograph
39 – 19 tachygrapher / regrown
40 – 18 tachygrapher / renown
41 – 17 tachygrapher / rowen
42 – 18 tachygrapher / rowner
43 – 16 tachygrapher / rown
44 – 18 tachypnea / ageworthy
45 – 22 throatwort / technography
46 – 22 twerp / photochronography
47 – 15 two / oceanography
48 – 14 wean / nyctograph
49 – 16 weapon / nyctograph
50 – 13 wen / nyctograph
51 – 16 wert / technography
52 – 15 wet / technography
53 – 15 wot / technography
54 – 15 wonga / apothecary
55 – 16 wont / tachygrapher
56 – 16 wont / technography
57 – 16 wort / technography
58 – 17 wotcher / renography
59 – 14 wren / nyctograph
60 – 14 wretch / hypogean
61 – 17 wrythen / noctograph
62 – 17 wrythen / nyctograph
63 – 20 wronger / rehypothecate
64 – 16 wrot / technography
65 – 17 hypocenter / ragwort
66 – 17 agarophyte / ecotown
67 – 17 cytopyge / enwreathe
68 – 19 earwort / technography
69 – 21 heartwort / technography
70 – 16 hogwort / tachypnea
71 – 19 hogwort / technography
72 – 13 nyctograph / hew
73 – 14 nyctograph / hewn
74 – 15 nyctograph / hewer
75 – 18 nyctograph / honewort
76 – 14 nyctograph / howe
77 – 19 nyctograph / heartwort
78 – 22 paracyanogen / noteworthy
79 – 19 paracyanogen / nowther
80 – 22 pewterwort / technography
81 – 17 rowet / technography
82 – 19 technographer / rowthy
83 – 18 townho / oceanography
84 – 17 towno / oceanography
85 – 16 twocer / renography
86 – 18 chewet* / technography
87 – 17 copygraph* / honewort
88 – 19 enwreath* / hectography*
89 – 19 enwreathe / echography*
90 – 21 enwreathe / ectypography*
91 – 15 ewt* / technography
92 – 18 honewort / tachygraph*
93 – 19 hypothecator* / regrown
94 – 20 nongrowth* / hectography*
95 – 19 nongrowth* / hepatocyte
96 – 18 nongrowth* / hypotheca*
97 – 19 nongrowth* / hypothecae*
98 – 20 nongrowth* / hypothecary
99 – 20 nongrowth* / hypothecate
100 – 21 nongrowth* / hypothecator*
101 – 16 owche* / ethnography
102 – 21 paracyanogen / nongrowth*
103 – 19 pyrenocarp / pregrowth*
104 – 17 rewet* / technography
105 – 16 rowt* / technography
106 – 18 tachygraph* / honewort
107 – 20 tachygrapher / renowner*
108 – 17 tachygrapher / rewon*
109 – 16 towt* / technography
110 – 20 tragacanth / hyperpower*
111 – 17 wecht* / technography
112 – 17 wenge* / ectypography*
113 – 15 wretch / hypogaean*
I gave up on finding a 2 word solution for the fourth day in a row. My favorite 3 wotders:
COW WEAPON NEGATORY
COPYCAT THRONG GREW