Here are the Letter Boxed January 02, 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:
ULXDGAIECMHO
The answers are:
CLIMAXEDDOUGH
less efficient and less thematic potential EXCLAIMED-DOUGH
Homer Simpson expression🤭
My thoughts exactly.
Tribute to my second most loved/ familiar tv personality. Alex Trebek was #1
Too funny, Steph!
Everyone always thinks I must identify with Lisa, but no – Homer all the way!
Same
Same.
Although slightly less efficient, I like EXCLAIMED – DOUGH better than the OA
I immediately thought of Poppin Fresh ☺️ Pillsbury Doughboy
Same
Same here… easiest one I have done so far.
Ditto, easiest/quickest for me too. Maxed, Maximum…Maxed led me to Climaxed and then saw Dough right away, nice!
Technically less efficient, but I think I got Exclaimed-Dough faster than any Letter boxed ever, so I thought it was quite efficient!
EXCLAIMED / DOUGH
Probably my fastest solve… about a minute.
Exclaimed dough. Just as efficient 😊
Me too! 🙂
I also prefer exclaimed dough! Also thought Homer Simpson 😁
This was my exact answer, too.
OA, TI explanation?
OA immediately brought to (my) mind a transactional affair….
OA = official answer
I think TI stands for thematic integrity but I could be wrong.
Oh yes, Peter, I thought Victor was looking for a theme for the OA. Peter is correct: TI= thematic integrity. Often unexpected and hilarious finds from our Puzzlers.
Timophilia
OA. which sounds like some adult toy made of Play-Doh
OA here!
Ditto.
EXCLAIMED – DOUGH for me.
Same.
Although I didn’t use them, some good words came out of today’s puzzle:
Coaxial
Legume
Exhumed
Dialogue
Dialogued
Maximum
Maximal
Maxima
Maxed
Cough
Coughed
Helix
Helical
Helium
Demigod
Nice work! I thought COAXIAL and DEMIGOD had legs for a 2-worder but no such luck. LOUGH (alt. of loch) was accepted, so I tried CLOUGH on a whim, and it too is kosher: turns out it’s Northern England/Scotch for a narrow cleft, ravine, gorge, etc. But neither went anywhere!
Got a solution relatively quickly this time around but I thought of EXHALED before EXCLAIMED 😁
EXCLAIMED-DOUGH for me, too. I love Steph’s TI for this one!
EXCLAIMED – DOUGH in 2 minutes
Likewise!
EXCLAIMED – DOUGH.
This is the fastest I’ve ever solved. Took about 15 seconds.
Great image , CR 😄
EXCLAIMED DOUGH for me.
D’oh!
Exclaimed – Dough here. I actually had Exclaim-Mud-Dough going through my solving process. Looked at the set and…D’oh!!
I am not a speedy solver. I almost always make it more complicated than necessary. Today was very quick for me. Just under 6 hours….😳…jk, about 10 minutes. 😃
Same. Helix and Maximum left too many letters, but Exclaimed took 8 and left the tantalizing E and D, so a quick solve from there.
exclaimed – dough
Climaxed Dough —- post pandemic sourdough in back corner of fridge
OA after struggling with MAXIMUM, MAXIMAL, LAUGHED and COUGHED for a few minutes.
OA here, but Exclaimed Dough, at the cost of one extra letter, has the funny TI as per Steph.
Had CLIMAXED DIALOGUE =
Pillow Talk
Needed the H but who cares!
I found GOUACHE and paired it with EXCLAIMED
Nice! Such an interesting medium too.
Yes. Like water colors but more opaque.
Same here. Very satisfying, for some reason. More so than the OA.
Exclaimed – Dough.
COUGH / HELIUM / MAXED
GODCHILD / DUE / EXAM
GILDED / DOUCHE / EXAM
Another EXCLAIMED – DOUGH here, took awhile to find DOUGH in the leftovers. 🗣️🍞
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 – 13 climaxed / dough
2 – 14 exclaimed / dough
3 – 15 glochidium / maxed
4 – 16 glochidium / maxixe
5 – 16 gouache / exclaimed
6 – 18 glochidium / malaxed*
easy and official