Here are the Letter Boxed December 20, 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:
ENMILRDFTZKA
The answers are:
FLANKEDDRAMATIZE
OA.
… every car chase scene.
OA for me as well.
… “Sir, tariffs on Mexico and Canada? But why?”
“Cause I don’t like the USMCA; I like doing the YMCA better! Now, on to my next rally…”
🕺
OA. Depending on you definition of FLANKED, this could be Les Miserables or Sweeny Todd.
Yikes!😳
OA and very quickly for a change.
OA and reasonably quickly
Same
OA. After not being able to get fraternized to work
Me as well. Really thought fraternized would yield something. But then the OA came pretty quick.
Got hung up on Fraternalized too. Took way longer to see Dramatize than it should have. But after the Rainwash debacle yesterday – and I still say that Seahawk is a word – happy to have found the OA.
OA after many good words and near misses…
Fraternized, Reanimated, Reinflated, Marketized, Reintimated, Terminated/Terminal, Determinate, Internal, Fraternal, Minimized/Minimal, Lantern, Dreamland, Farmland
Marketized – Defiant (no L)
Farmland – Ditzier (no K)
Farmanimal and Animalfarm not accepted
Same
OA
… “Eu, tu Brutus?”
That would be Shanked – Dramatize
OA
… London Broil, reality cook-off competition.
Hehe.OA too.
Will there be another -ize word that works? 🤔
… “Look out!! Enemy fighters on your 9… and six!!”
… “uuhh, sorry, I meant 3! Everything’s digital these days and I got confused. Anyway, Look Out!”
I feel like every ize word was swarming through my head except the OA. Enough already with the izes, I say!
I hung in there with Fraternized
forever, hoping against hope. Paired it with Delaminate, but there was that darn K left over…
FLANKED — DRAMATIZE
FANKLED — DRAMATIZE
FLANKERED* — DRAMATIZE
Found DRAMATIZE and couldn’t find any words starting with E to connect, so looked for words containing F and ending in D and found FLANKED, FANKLED, FLANKERED (OED).
FLEAMARKET-TERMINIZED
… overzealous exterminator!
(I did not find this solution, only the OA)
Nice!
Ed – excellent find!
Good catch on FLEAMARKET!
Nice! Played around with LANDMARK(ED*), MARKET(ED/ER), LEAF, FRATERNIZE(D/R), RANKLE(D), ZEAL, etc, didn’t quite get there today 🙁
FLEAMARKET / TETANIZED here.
Same here, as well.
Oa after spending forever on marketize.
Same.
Yes! No solution here, but found Marketize. Really, LB?
Yes, I was surprised LB didn’t take Martinize. Haven’t we all had our clothes Martinized at the cleaners?
Actually I have stayed away from any personal contact with that dubious sounding treatment.
That’s a good one!
Flanked Dramatize
FANKLED-DRAMATIZE (16/2)
Spent too long on this only to end up with a 3
FRATERNIZER—REALM-MARKED
flanked – dramatize
Flanked dramatize.exaggerated seriousness on each side. No politics, just Peace On Earth to all!
Ok who’s the Grinch that isn’t accepting Zinfandel? Otherwise zinfandel – market is the only acceptable answer 😂
Oops because I can’t use it I booped the fact that the 2nd word has to start with the last letter of the first word. Maybe I’ve already had too much Zinfandel
I agree!
By capitalizing Zinfandel you’ve answered your very own question. The puzzle doesn’t accept proper nouns.
FLANKED—DRAMATIZE (oa)
and, from Mark’s land:
MARKLAND—DEFINITIZED°
🙂
OA as well as MALFED* DEKERATINIZED*
Got OA too, quickly!
OA very quickly for a change!
OA. Stared at it for a long time then had to walk away. When I came back to it tonight, I found OA almost instantly. Guess it was marinating back there somewhere.
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 – 16 fankled / dramatize
2 – 17 fankled / dramatized
3 – 16 flanked / dramatize
4 – 17 flanked / dramatized
5 – 19 fleamarket / tetanized
6 – 20 fleamarket / terminized
7 – 18 fankled / dedramatize*
8 – 19 fankled / dedramatized*
9 – 17 fankled / dramatizer*
10 – 22 farnarkeled* / dedramatize*
11 – 23 farnarkeled* / dedramatized*
12 – 20 farnarkeled* / dramatize
13 – 21 farnarkeled* / dramatized
14 – 21 farnarkeled* / dramatizer*
15 – 18 flanked / dedramatize*
16 – 19 flanked / dedramatized*
17 – 17 flanked / dramatizer*
18 – 20 flankered* / dedramatize*
19 – 21 flankered* / dedramatized*
20 – 18 flankered* / dramatize
21 – 19 flankered* / dramatized
22 – 19 flankered* / dramatizer*
23 – 20 landmarked* / definitize*
24 – 21 landmarked* / definitized*
25 – 16 marketize / elfland*
26 – 22 zinkified* / determinantal*