Here are the Letter Boxed December 16, 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:
WCMHKSOBEIAT
The answers are:
BIOCHEMISTTWEAK
WHACKIEST TOMB
WHACKIEST TOMB
same here!
Same!
Me too.
Halloween contest winner?
the WHACKIEST TOMB is the one with the most booby-traps.
Same.
And Merv Griffin has a pretty whacky tomb, which reads “I will not be right back after this message.”
Same. Quickest solve to date.
same.
Same.
But I almost gave up upon seeing too many difficult letters namely: WHCKB.
Ditto
Me, too.
Whackiest Tomb also.
Thought I was on the way to the OA… until I saw tomb was the only way to finish.
Whakiest – Tomb here also, despite having a degree in biochemistry, lol.
*whackiest
🤭
sometimes you just don’t see it, Wallace …
I know! I keep missing the big music words, and it takes a little bit out of me each time. Yesterday’s Pangram eluded me for a good while, and when I figured it out (seconds, really, from giving up), I was knocked down quite a few pegs.
Same! Reminds me of “walk like an Egyptian”
Same
got that
BISECT. TOMAHAWK
Same.
OA = latest COVID vaccine
The OA also hurt my arm fir about 30 minutes
BISECT-TOMAHAWK
🪓
Same:
“But what I do have are a very particular set of skills…”
Same, and I was pretty sure this was the OA.
I don’t know how people define “quick” but I got this within 5 minutes. 20 minutes is my threshold for giving up. So I guess I got my answer quick, relative to how long I can play this game without quitting.
BISECT-TOMAHAWK for me too. And also a quick solve, probably under five. If I gave up after 20, then I’d rarely find the two word solution. It’s all about the mental workout. Setting LB aside for a few hours is perfectly acceptable to me. I do, after all, have a life outside this game.
My solution as well. Just as much TI as the OA. I’m wondering if anyone else found STOMACHACHE(S) and thought they had this thing licked?
I was working on Backache(s) for a while.
Didn’t accept stomachache in my version.
I found stomachache! And was so frustrated I couldn’t make the letters left over work!!!
BISECT-TOMAHAWK for me as well.
Same. I like the imagery.
Same
Oh, good! Tomahawk seemed to have such potential (though I couldn’t make it work). 👍
Same, but not quick! Found MOHAWK first and was surprised it wasn’t accepted but at least that led me to TOMAHAWK. I tried pairing SETBACK before that. This one took me more than 20 minutes, but with lots of distractions in my defense. ALIOW!
BISECT TOMAHAWK!
Me too! Bisect Tomahawk! Was so proud!
tried a lot to do something with MASOCHIST as well. EASTCOAST and WESTCOAST were also on the list.
BIOCHEMIST WHACK
after finding, in order, KOTCHES, SWAMI, BAKES, CAKES, WAKES, MOCHAS, BIKES, CHEWIEST, HOMIES, WHICH, WICKETS, WHACK, CHOKIEST, SEISMIC, BACKIES, MOCKIES (a Jew apparantly. Never heard of that), STOCKIEST, WHAMS, STOMACH, MACHISMO and CHASM,
THWACK*
Also BIOCHEMIST – THWACK
Not in the same order, and with a couple of differences…. But I somehow missed STOMACH. Kind of glad…. I would have been stubborn on that one.
My words were:
Homesick
Awoke
Choke
Chokes
Mocha
Mochas
Kickback
Stock
Comet
Comets
Coma
Comas
Kismet
Steak
Womb
Wombs
Tomb
Tombs
Machismo
Wicket
Wickets
Theme
Themes
Scheme
Schemas
Biome
Biomes
Smock
Smock
Smack
Smack
Setback
Chick
Biotech
Machete
Machetes
Chews
Chew
Stews
Stew
Stow
Chest
Chests
Masts
Mast
Biochem
Biochemist
Biochemists
Tomahawks
Chemists Sowback
BISECT TOMAHAWK
BIOCHEMIST – TOMAHAWK
The OA is much more efficient. I was stuck on HOMESICK for a while
BIOCHEMIST THWACK (It’s a word!)
Chewiest Tomback
Same, just in time
Another WHACKIEST-TOMB here. Definitely took a while to dawn on me.
Bisect – Tomahawk. I like the imagery.
My answer too.
And mine. I was surprised it wasn’t the OA. But Whackiest Tomb is surely the cream of today’s crop. It gots lotsa TI packed into its 13 letters.
Saw both the OA and WHACKIEST–TOMB right off, decided on the latter since it was 13/2. Also discovered that the game accepts COCKTEASE, which both amused and startled me.
I also got WHACKIEST TOMB.
whackiest – tomb
BIOWASTES—SCHMICK
I also got COW / WHIMS / SETBACK
CHEWIEST – TOMBACK. fast solve for me. First 2 word in a while for me.
Here is the full list including today I used the Oxford English dictionary word list instead of the (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 – 16 biochemist / thwack
2 – 18 biochemist / tomahawk
3 – 15 biochemist / tweak
4 – 18 biochemists / sowback
5 – 14 bisect / tomahawk
6 – 15 chemists / sowback
7 – 15 chewiest / tomback
8 – 14 chewiest / tombak
9 – 17 misteaches / sowback
10 – 19 schistosomes / sowback
11 – 13 whackiest / tomb
12 – 14 whackiest / tombs
13 – 15 whackiest / tombac
14 – 16 whackiest / tomback
15 – 15 whackiest / tombak
16 – 16 whackiest / tombacs
17 – 15 whackiest / tombic
18 – 16 abakwetha / acosmic
19 – 17 abakwetha / acosmism
20 – 17 abakwetha / acosmist
21 – 18 abakwetha / acosmists
22 – 21 abakwethas / schistosome
23 – 22 abakwethas / schistosomes
24 – 18 abakwethas / stoicism
25 – 19 abakwethas / stomachic
26 – 20 abakwethas / stomachics
27 – 20 abakwethas / sciotheism
28 – 21 abakwethas / sciotheisms
29 – 19 abakwethas / scotomise
30 – 16 biowastes / schmick
31 – 16 ethicisms / sowback
32 – 14 methies / sowback
33 – 18 sciotheisms / sowback
34 – 14 tombac / chowkies
35
35 – 18 abioses* / smethwick*
36 – 18 abiosis* / smethwick*
37 – 17 abmhos* / smethwick*
38 – 19 absistos* / smethwick*
39 – 17 backmost / thawiest*
40 – 17 backmost / thewiest*
41 – 17 backmost / thiswise*
42 – 16 basos* / smethwick*
43 – 20 biochemist / tweakiest*
44 – 19 biochemists / sasakwa*
45 – 19 biochemists / sawback*
46 – 17 biochemists / swack*
47 – 16 biochemists / swak*
48 – 20 chemesthesis* / sowback
49 – 19 chickasaw* / wombiest*
50 – 21 hemiscotosis* / sawback*
51 – 20 hemiscotosis* / sowback
52 – 20 histotomies* / sawback*
53 – 19 histotomies* / sowback
54 – 22 isthmectomies* / sawback*
55 – 21 isthmectomies* / sowback
56 – 17 kiotomies* / schwab*
57 – 19 mesothesis* / sawback*
58 – 18 mesothesis* / sowback
59 – 20 scabiosas* / smethwick*
60 – 17 smethwick* / kochab*
61 – 20 somesthesis* / sawback*
62 – 19 somesthesis* / sowback
63 – 22 somesthesises* / sawback*
64 – 21 somesthesises* / sowback
65 – 16 thamesis* / sowback
66 – 16 thawiest* / tomback
67 – 15 theisms* / sowback
68 – 14 themis* / sowback
69 – 16 thewiest* / tomback
70 – 15 tombac / cheswick*
71 – 17 tombacs / smethwick*
72 – 16 wakamba* / achiotes
73 – 16 wombiest* / tcheka*
74 – 15 wombiest* / thack*
75 – 15 wombiest* / thwack
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