Here are the Letter Boxed December 23, 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:
IOYTAPVEDRUN
The answers are:
VINEYARDDROPOUT
VINEYARD—DROPOUT (oa)
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PROAVIAN—NEUTRODYNE
From the OED:
proavian, adj. & n. Of or relating to a hypothetical animal forming an evolutionary link between fossil reptiles and fossil birds.
neutrodyne, n. A type of high-frequency valve amplifier in which neutralization is employed to prevent oscillation throughout a range of frequencies.
Hats off for finding a winner with Neutrodyne. Found that but couldn’t make it work and also got tangled up with all the prefixes—anti, inter, intra, retro, and made a bunch of crazy words with those but never did find OA. The humble Pivoter-Randy picks up all but U.
Also Vituperant*-Tody in protest for not allowing some version of Vituperate today
Thanks. I knew proavian, but I had to look up neutrodyne. 👍
Had DROPOUT, but not
VINEYARD – DROPOUT
Wine in a box.
OA Vineyard Dropout here as well. I left the Sommelier program under a cloud.
OA after toiling with other words and near misses with Vineyard. 🙄
Rainout, Outyard, Airport, Topiary,
Outyard -Divine (no P)
PRENOVA(?!)-AUDITORY
I’ll take it to compensate for all the real words LB rejected!
Great solution!
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Thanks ☺️. High praise coming from an LB Master.
Same here. Really needed auditory to work.
Super! I struck out with Auditory, only got as far as Pent – Trivia – Auditory. Finally gave up on it and eventually hit on OA.
Oh I like that one! I had a few 3w’s with AUDITORY including PEN NOVA AUDITORY. Missed any 2w today. Got Yard, not Vine somehow, -out or Out- (Outdone, Outran), Drop and Pout but missed Dropout too. Lots of 3w’s. My shortest was VARIETY YUP POND.
Same, nice!
Vineyard + dropout
Vineyard was the first I really considered but somehow missed dropout on the first look, after playing around with penitentiary and poutine I returned to vineyard and caught dropout 👍
vineyard dropout… a wine stopper.
Vineyard Dropout
VINEYARD — DROPOUT
I spent a lot of time trying to get INTRAUTERINE, PENETRANT, ANTINEUTRON, and PERPETUITY to work. Found YARD and then VINEYARD and DROPOUT was right there.
LB would not accept ANTINEUTRINO or DIPROTODON.
Nice finds Bill! Not as long, but I also found NONPERPETUITY, REPUDIANT, OPERANDI, and VIRIDIAN before finally landing on the OA. Thought of a VINEYARD littered with inebriated college students 🙂
Kathleen got protein, nervy, yearend, propriety……couldn’t make anything work today
At least it does accept the ANTINEUTRON and the ANTIPROTON today. ⚛️ ✔
OA
vineyard – dropout
Some minimal triples (14/3):
AUDIT—TROPE—ENVY
AVID—DUE—ENTROPY
DUET—TROPIN—NAVY
PIVOT—TUAN—NERDY
A symmetric triple ↘️ :
PIVOTER—RANDY—YUP
YUP—PIVOTER—RANDY
RANDY—YUP—PIVOTER
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I wanted to add that triples almost always abound in LB. But when restricting to just 14 letters it is still a challenge. You can uncover rare 3- and 4-letter words.
Nice!
VINEYARD / DROPOUT
Took longer than I’d like to admit, being an advocate for both.
OA, spent some time with PROTERVITY to no avail
VINEYARD – DROPOUT as well.
Had vineyard for awhile but no pair. Thought I was going to have to pass.
Then DROPOUT dropped in!
OA! (Two days in a row! That’s good for me!)
PRENOVA AUDITORY here too. I was playing around with NONAUDITORY which was not accepted (but is in MW etc) and then tried this one.
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 – 18 neutropenia / avidity
2 – 15 vineyard / dropout
3 – 15 prenova / auditory
4 – 18 proavian / neutrodyne
5 – 17 antependia* / avoutry*
6 – 15 induviae* / entropy
7 – 15 induviae* / eutropy*
8 – 18 ouvirandra* / antetype
9 – 20 ouvirandra* / antipyrine*
10 – 18 ouvirandra* / antitype
11 – 18 ouvirandra* / autotype
12 – 15 peponida* / avoutry*
13 – 16 peridinia* / avoutry*
14 – 17 vanadinite / eutropy*
15 – 15 viranda* / autotype
16 – 17 vivandiere* / eutropy*