Here are the Letter Boxed December 26, 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:
HWUESBFKGRAI
The answers are:
GAWKERREFURBISH
GAWKIER — REFURBISH Slightly less efficient.
Neither LB nor the OED accept REFURBISHER/REFURBISHERS, but those would have been even more inefficient.
Tried to get BREAKAGE to work but couldn’t.
Me too. GAWKIER – REFURBISH
Didn’t see i to i.
I struggled to get a 3 word solution today.
BUSKERS SWAGS SAWFISH
Oa
What does OA stand for?
OA as well.
OA for the third day in a row. That never happens.
GAWKER-REFURBISH. Big fan of remodelling TV shows?
GAWKER – REFURBISH too.
Gawker / Gawkier Refurbish here as well. Keep an eye on those DIY klutzes.
OA. Quick solve today.
OA, but took a bit of time as I stared stupidly to rearrange the letters to their original words.
Good one Tom! Quick OA for me today.
Gawker
Refurbish
Yup!
OA.
Took me quite a while.
Started with fishburger but LB wouldn’t accept it.
Tried FISHBURGER too, and BABUSHKAS and FREAKISH but just couldn’t get to the OA today 🙁
FISHBURGER* – REWAKE.
Same, but couldn’t verify fishburger
It’s a PSW.
With limited time today, I left it at FAB-BREWSKIS-SHRUG.
Quick oa today
OA here as well in a reasonably short time.
OA. Also Hawks-Subfigure*
GAWKER—REFURBISH
GAWKIER—REFURBISHER
Some minimal triples (14/3):
FURBISH—HAWK—KEG
GAWK—KEF—FURBISH
A symmetric triple ↘️ :
REAWAKE—EAGER—REFURBISHER
REFURBISHER—REAWAKE—EAGER
EAGER—REFURBISHER—REAWAKE
REFURBISHER*^✔☕🙂
I mean, what do you call someone that refurbishes things?
The OED rejects REFURBISHER/REFURBISHERS, but is okay with FURBISHER/FURBISHERS (???)
You got me. 🙂 I was surprised REFURBISHER was not allowed. It seems like the word REFURBISHER is more common than FURBISHER anyway. Oh well, onwards and upwards. ↗
gawker – refurbish
In less time than Wordle.
I fired up my old Quad module, which is a subset of my entire Smith program. I’d like to optimize it further, for speed, as Quads are definitely computer-intensive, at least on my system, and with how I built it. 👩🏻💻
Some minimal quads (15/4):
AWK—KEF—FIGS—SHRUB
BURG—GAWK—KEF—FISH
WAKE—EFS—SHRUB—BIG
HIKE—EFS—SWAG—GRUB
A symmetric quad ↘️ :
AWK—KERFS—SUB—BIGHA
BIGHA—AWK—KERFS—SUB
SUB—BIGHA—AWK—KERFS
KERFS—SUB—BIGHA—AWK
Freakish hawkbug* (unfortunately the latter is not a compound but a hawk bug)
I had the same problem with grubfish* hawker. Grubfish works everywhere but here
BREWSKIS SURFERS SHAG — Beach Blanket Bingo
OA here. Had to give up on BURKHA(S), HAWKISH and FREAKISH along with a few FISH and BUG attempts, but got there in the end!
I found these 3 worderS…
FURBISH / HAWK / KEG
BAKER / RUGS / SAWFISH
I Forgot to post this last night…
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 – 15 gawker / refurbish
2 – 16 gawkier / refurbish
3 – 17 fishburger* / reawake
4 – 16 fishburger* / rewake
5 – 15 fishburgers* / skaw*
6 – 16 fishburgers* / skaws*
7 – 17 gawker / refurbisher*
8 – 18 gawker / refurbishers*
9 – 18 gawkier / refurbisher*
10 – 19 gawkier / refurbishers*
Comping guardrail