Here there are Letter Boxed February 17, 2023 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest to try and solve the game by your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
DNORYHUATMCI
The answers are:
ANCHORMANNUDITY
CHOIRMAN—NUDITY
👨🎤 🩲
One letter better than the official.
Both these answers elicit a Yech!
Same 🙂
MYTHOMANIAC CURD
Me too.
Same
Mythomaniac Curd and Drum Mythomaniac.
Also Thorium Mordancy, which sounds like a real thing!
Other finds along the way: Dynamo, Orchid, Orchard, Rouncy, Romancy, Humanity, Inhumanity, Radium, Cardamom, Crotch, Carotid, Adhocracy, Adhort, Chiromancy, Myocardium, Myocardiac, Arachnid.
I’m sure Sota will be all over this one, with all its Greekitude…
Quite the set you got going on there, Bernie! Indeed, ADHOCRACY (which was new on me and, hence, the most intriguing of the lot) is only pseudo-Greek etymologically (it took some doing to establish).
Had I foreseen that Greekery would turn out to be such a decisive feature about me in this forum, I’d have gone by a moniker such as ‘Greek the Geek’ or something, rather than the flavourless one I chose -but it’s probably too late for that…
You’ll always be the Greek Geek to me, Sota. 😉
And THORIUM – MORDANCY is pretty remarkable; I’m not exactly sure why Jill went on to -in a way- pooh-pooh it after coming up with it.
THORIUM – MORDANCY
(I may come back to look for something better.)
That’s what I got, too, inside of about 15 minutes. I’m probably not sticking around for more this time, though!
Same here, and I’m pretty happy with it
MYTHOMANIAC CRUD
MYOCARDIUM – MYTHOMANIA for a whopping 19/2. My Greek words’ pool clearly came to the rescue today. A had a look (not necessarily an extensive one) into UNITY, -MANCY, DRAMA, DRUM, DYNAMO, CHARITY, COUNT, ANTI-, UN-, AMOUNT, UNMOUNT, MARCH, RADIOMAN, TOUCH, MUCHO, MACHO, MACHINA, COURTYARD, HITMAN, CHARM, -IUM, ARMY, INCH, [ACANTHOID], CHINA, CHAIN, CHORD, -TOMY, and THORNY, before stumbling upon MYOCARDIUM which I was determined to make work &, fortuitously, found MYTHOMANIA to round that one off.
One of my first finds was DRACHMA, and I thought, “Sota’s going to flag that!” 🇬🇷
I turned an absolute blind eye to it (having spent over twenty years in the Euro)… 😉
Only managed cormorant, thud and dainty.
MYOCARDIUM-MANHUNT
Nice! I got nowhere with CRANIOTOMY. Not surprising the heart has it over the head this week 🥰
Good one, Steph!
myocardium – manhunt
as well
Official. Briefly tried doing something with Cormorant. . .
Choirman Nudity
CYMA—ARID—DUNT—THO
CRU—UNTIDY—YAM—MHO
MHO—ORC—CAN—NUDITY
CORM—MAD—DHU—UNITY
I learned cyma, cru, corm, and dhu.
I knew mho, and of course the orc makes his triumphant return.
🙂
awesome!
Thanks, KP. Those 3-, and 4-letter words are certainly interesting!
Like Jill THORIUM MORDANCY unlike Jill I will not be going back as I find these ones with a Y in them exhausting. Not sure whY I have such a hard time with it but it seemed like it has been this weeks theme
Mythomaniac – Corduroy
It occurred to me that when I was on earlier I forgot to post my own solution! I had very little time this morning, so I stopped at CARDAMUM – MYTHOMANIA. I was not put off by the fact that the puzzle rejected CARDAMUM, as it is a playable Scrabble word. In fact, I have decided not to treat the puzzle’s word list as authoritative from this point forward. It’s too wonky. If a word is playable in Scrabble, I will count it.
Is SKELETOR playable in Scrabble? ;^)
Alas, no; but I tried that too!
I 100% share your sentiment, DW! If anything -& on the evidence of several ridiculous words they’ve been allowing to stand-, the word list ought to be as inclusive as possible, especially in relation to alternate spellings. Furthermore, as many of us go through various NYT puzzles, an invariable word base should apply to all, rather than have players treading tight ropes between different games. I’d be fine with it being the Scrabble word pool, until everyone gains access to which, however, you’re likely to have people turning to you for some semblance of approval.
(I was, in fact, curious what your solution was, but I would never ask).
CHOIRMAN NUDITY here. Yes. Yech.
First time posting here! With some wordplay managed to find this solution:
DUO – ORNITHOMANCY
Official. Hate compound words
I was disappointed Corinthian is not acceptable?
Choirman Nudity. Surprised at choirman acceptance.
MYOCARDIUM- MAHANT
Mythomaniac – Corduroy