Here there are Letter Boxed February 22, 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:
PMUOARCITLNE
The answers are:
COUNTERCLAIMMOP
CALIPER—REMOUNT
Same.
Counterplan Nim should have worked, but Counterplan was not accepted.
Consoled myself with Mountaintop Placer.
I agree.
I had counterplan nim too.
I was also surprised that ‘preclaim’ was not accepted, as in:
preclaim—mount
How about a MANIAC in the COUNTERPLOT? 😉
Good one.
Thanks Mark!
ANIMATO—OPERCULA
OPERCULA—ANIMATO
⇄
🔥
Monoculture – Epilate
Palmier – recount
Same here. Napalm seemed promising, napalmier was rejected but led me to palmier, then I saw count and was just about to move on when I realized it can have re- as a suffix.
Sounds like election shenanigans to me. Cue the AZ AG and the GA Grand Jury!
PATRIMONIAL – LUCRE
PATRIMONIAL LUCE shaves a letter.
I didn’t know what a luce is, but now it’s a new addition to my expanding LB fish vocabulary! I like both answers for theme.
YES! I couldn’t solve this one while I was at the computer, but thought of PATRIMONIAL when I was driving around later. (CEREMONIAL was a dud) Didn’t have time that day to return to the Puzzle to see if it would fit, but finally got around to it today. Sure enough! Good to see someone else got the same one, too—so there’s no chance of anything falling short of LB’s wordlist.
CALIPER – REMOUNT
Literally the first word I saw was CALIPER, which left me with MOUNT, and it wasn’t difficult to join them up. Maybe the first day I’ve not had to touch the Delete button.
Sweet
THREEERS: Recalm – painter – tour
I like it.
I mostly have threeers (except for today), that’s why I think they are the real winners.
Yes, especially if you can do Noun-Verb-Adverb, or Adjective-Noun-Verb combos, then that’s an extra reward.
Hmmm, I hadn’t thought about parts of speech as a parameter. I like it.
PRETERMINAL LOCULI
MINOTAUR – REPLACE
A rather kludgy OUTPOUR-RECLAIMANT
RECLAIM – MOUNTAINTOP
Trying to out-kludgy you! 🙂 …borrowing (reclaiming?) PG’s Mountaintop
COUNTERCLAIM—MOUNTAINTOP
🙂
Dang it! So perfect 🤣
Teamwork!
Pour-reclaimant is what I got.
Caliper Remount
INCULPATE – EMOTER
what a bad spouse does?
4 ACES
RUNT—TOM—MILPA—ACE
LTR—RUN—NIP—POMACE
TURN—NOM—MILPA—ACE
PLOT—TURN—NIM—MACE
MOLT—TURN—NIPA—ACE
MOT—TURN—NIP—PLACE
PRIM—MOLT—TUNA—ACE
MOLT—TURN—NIP—PACE
ALMANAC – COUNTERPOINT
CONCEPTUAL-LACRIMAL
so clunky it made me cry
Same!
Official. Couldn’t decide between map and mop or any other m word. Went with mop.
Contaminate and maniac were the only other words I tried.
My first solution was PALMIER – RECOUNT, which I suspect is about as efficient as this puzzle is going to yield, but by far my favourite solution, as someone who spends a good deal of time researching and writing about South China Sea disputes, is COUNTERCLAIM – MAP. Breathtaking TI!
Agreed. Map would have been a better choice but I went with mop thinking it would be unique and it was the official answer!
Today I got really frustrated with Wordle, because they picked a comparative (riper) as a solution, which is pretty unusual and maybe even a tad unfair. Same with Spelling Bee, which accepted “pityingly” as a pangram, but “typingly” was not valid. Happy to have been compensated in Letter Boxed finding the twoworder MANIAC-COUNTERPLOT.
I was thinking the same thing! Wiper, viper, and piper were better choices but I did end up with riper on my last guess.
Exactly my order and thoughts too:
wiper, viper, piper —- riper?
Ah. So I won’t need to play those today now. Lesson learned. I did not expect spoilers for other puzzles on this site.
Yeah, you always need to watch out for them! I, generally, get Wordle out of the way within one or two minutes from its release (which is midnight in Athens), plus I’m not into Spelling Bee, so I’ve come out unscathed…
Oops, I’m sorry, Jenns, didn’t think about spoilers. Lesson learned here, too.
COPOUT – TERMINAL
Palomino outplacer
Outplacer remint
MOUNTAINTOP PLACER
Ditto
I went to COPOUT – TERMINAL as well – was hoping to come up with something thematic. This looked harder than it seemed at first, but was really fun to have a slew of words with which to work rather than the constrained boxes of late!
Minotaur Replace
Welk, they had to, didn’t they? Post Theseus?
PALMIER – RECOUNT 14/2, which sort of has a life of its own thematically -as does its anagram CALIPER – REMOUNT. Also spotted the official answer (with both MOP & MAP), along with various other COUNTER-s (COUNTERTOP, COUNTERPLOT etc.), TOUR, TURN, CULMINATE, PRECALCULATE, MATERNAL, and PATERNAL. Almost anything seems to be working in this one but, still, I couldn’t find a 13/2.
Think I might be the only person with this answer: COLOURMAN NIPET.
I don’t think NIPET is even a word in English so I’m not sure why it was accepted. It was the first random attempt at a partner for COLOURMAN and it happened to be valid. COLOURMAN was also a guess as I don’t think I’ve ever heard of one before. Very flukey 14/2 today.
Something to do with the British army. It’s in a Sherlock Holmes story title….
POUTER RECLAIMANT, a child who has ended up on the wrong side of a toy swap.
COPTER-RECLAIM-MOURN. A bit sad.
Also ran…PLACEMAT TOURNIER (now survives only as a proper name but used to refer to professional lathe operators
PATRIMONIAL-LUCE. Second thought 🙂
COUNTERTOP-PRIMAL
Stopping by Field on a Snowy Morning
(respect to Robert Frost)
Setting: On my way to the breakfast shop this morning, I cut through a field, next to the hospital, with freshly falling snow. I thought back on my high school book report on Frost’s poem.
Whose field this is I think I know.
It’s part of the hospital though;
They will not see me stopping here
To watch their field fill up with snow.
My heated gloves are oh so dear
As I now have frostbite fear
Between the field and frozen lake
The coldest morning of the year.
Push on towards where the bagels bake
I am hungry, for heaven’s sake!
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The field is lovely, light and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wnm8ZuLFLMuui9a96
MOUNTAINTOP,PERCOLATE
The Starbucks on Everest
🏔️☕
Oh good! I wanted PERCOLATE to work!
I was about to report the same answer from my neighboring MOUNTAINTOP PRECOLONIAL.
Preterminal – Loculate
I got my solution pretty quickly but to my horror it was not accepted.
Counterpoint Tamil
I had that, too! Ended up with COUNTERPOINT-TERMINAL
Kind of long.
Conceptual-limier
conceptual – limier
as well
outplacer remain
opposites, sort of
CLAPOMETER-RUIN
PRECONCEPTUAL – LIME
POULTER RECRIMINATE here
Almanac Counterpoint
MOUNTAINTOP PLACER