Here are the Letter Boxed January 04, 2025 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:
DUKIMOJSNEBA
The answers are:
BIJOUUNMASKED
BIJOU-UNMASKED
a lovely jewel 💎 of a puzzle today
Likewise. 🤗
Yup
I got the OA relatively quickly, but not before I tried several of the other possible solutions mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Happy New Year!
KINKAJOUS SUBSUMED
Me too, It took me a long time to find this one.
Junkman nobodies. Harsh. I wouldn’t be without my local junkman.
Junkman Nobodies!
Unrecognised recyclers!
Same here – bit sad really
Another…
Junkman – Nobodies
Same, in less than a minute. Two quick solves in a row!
Yet another Junkman — Nobodies
JUNKMAN – NOBODIES also.
“I may not be rich in money, but I’m rich in friends!” – Fred G. Sanford
I missed Junkman Nobodies entirely. An excellent answer!
For my part, I found the OA Bijou Unmasked (Lupin, Raffles) and Kinkajous Subsumed (by their less obscure ringtailed cousins; okay, it’s a stretch for TI, but, Kinkajous… ).
PS, love the Sanford shout-out, JAF!
Same here!
Junkman Nobodies!
Unrecognised recyclers!
Same for me!
oh man. I had half of each of the 3 answers I see. I had subsumed (but obviously wasn’t going to pull kinkajous out of any hat I own). I had Junkman, but I didn’t have it pluralized. And I had unmasked, and a collection of letters I couldn’t make heads or tails of.
Fun letters but I lose.
I could not recall initially the meaning of kinkajou either. Now I vaguely remember it being present in LB before.
I was pleased to have the puzzle accept JOKES – SUBMEDIAN and was prepared to declare victory, but then I discovered that SUBMEDIAN is not a PSW. So I failed.
DW, I think you succeeded. 🙂 SUBMEDIAN is in MW and OED. I agree it’d be better if it was a PSW as well though. ✔
On that, and sort of the opposite, I’ve found lately some PSWs that were not MWs or OEDs. Not frequently at all, and they escape me at the moment. ☕
JOKES — SUBMEDIAN
Playewd around with SUBSIDISED, UNBOUNDED, MUNDANE, DESKBOUND, and DIAKINESIS
OA
OA
OA. Quick solve today.
An LB short story for Jan 4, 2025.
All words were either accepted in LB, or at least found in Merriam, Oxford, or online Scrabble checkers.
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The JUNKMAN—NOBODIES met up with the KINKAJOUS—SUBMUNDANE.
They encountered the JUMBIE—ENOKIDAKES and became afraid.
So the KINKAJOUS—SUBSUMED the JOBNAMES—SKINBOUND book,
while the JUNKMAN—NONBIASED worked on his JOKES—SUBMEDIAN.
Afterwards they were finally able to behold the BIJOU—UNMASKED.
The End.
Nice one! Enokidakes is new to me – was familiar with enokitake but not that variant. OA for me in less than 10 so it’s a good start to the day!
Excellent Susan, thanks, and good day! 🙂
I actually used ENOKITAKE in a solve last spring/summer, and at the time, I had never heard of the word, but was grateful that LB accepted it!
Good one. 🍄
LB seems to like foreign foods. It accepted injera in a puzzle last week, but I couldn’t connect it up.
I encountered the fermented flatbread in an Ethiopian restaurant in Oakland in the 80s. Yum.
Found BIJOU – UNMASKED today
Replying to Amber:
I did not know about injera.
Thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injera
OA.
Failed on 2…JUNKED – DISEMBODIED – DAMN (to round it out and dispense with the A)!
Went by accident with —
UNKIND DEJA AMBOS.
Was just trying out the last word and it took.
Well today my JUMBOS SAD DINKIES and i couldn’t get my JUNKIES () MAMBOED so many excellent combos today always impressed
bijou – unmasked
JOKES – SUBMEDIAN in record time (less than 20 secs!!)
Got bijou unmasked, figured it couldn’t be OA,tried another hour, finally quit and what do you know? Noticed mankind and subman but alas no submankind
Bondmaid-Dejunks, after chasing my tail with other leads including embodies, disembodies, bondsman/men, deskbound and unmasked.
Junkman – nobodies
JUNKMAN – NOBODIES
Disregarded and discarded ☹️
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 adjikos / submen
2 – 14 adjikos / submenu
3 – 15 adjikos / submenus
4 – 16 adjikos / submedian
5 – 17 adjikos / submundane
6 – 13 bijou / unmasked
7 – 14 jokes / submedian
8 – 15 junkman / nobodies
9 – 17 kinkajous / subsumed
10 – 18 kinkajous / submedian
11 – 19 kinkajous / submundane
12 – 15 bondmaid / dejunks
13 – 16 jumbie / enokidakes*
14 – 16 junkman / nonbodies*