Here there are Letter Boxed January 16, 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:
UKNTROMCYQAE
The answers are:
QUANTUMMOCKERY
Found Mockery immediately, with Quantum left over, and knew it for the official answer. A pocket review panning the recent Bond movie, perhaps.
Doesn’t look like there’s much more to be wrung from today’s array, but I’ll check in periodically to see what anyone uncovers.
Official here, as well, through a similar thought process -having also looked into the material Steve refers to.
QUANTUM came like a flash,
then MOCKERY.
I had RECONQUER and spent some time looking for something to pair with it.
Official here as well – took a few minutes after working on QUACKERY, MONETARY, and COMETARY.
Official
Official…
Official
Official after quackery got nowhere. Can start my day now & say I stuck to my time limit 😉
Good on you. Official here Got close with QUATERNARY YOCK but that darn M that’s just KARMA
Cheers! Same here…bliss in < 1 minute ☕️⏲️ 🔡⭐️☺️
(took longer to write this than to solve today 🙄)
Official.
Official (after a short dalliance with Quackery). And quickly enough to suspect it was official.
Same here, I was stuck on Quackery for a while before getting the official.
Same
Same
Same
Yup QUACKERY looked so promising, as did RACQUET, but that finally led me to MOCKERY and it was a short leap to the official as well here. Not even 3 sips into the coffee! Makes up for yesterday 🙂
Yes, QUACKERY was my first digression . . .
After a string of gloriously rich puzzles, another one-hit wonder, no doubt. See what I just did? I mocked the quantum.
QUANTUM—MOCKERY
Perhaps a nod to the physics of a century plus ago. Quantization of energy was a revolutionary idea that became a foundational piece of the quantum mechanics of today.
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I also see my name in the mix of letters. Maybe my “quarrelsome quad” is in there today. 🙂 ☕
Official. Super fast
I was THIS close. I got frustrated that CROCKERY wouldn’t work, so I settled for a 3 word answer, QUANTUM,MERCURY,YOKE. Now I’m kicking myself for not seeing MOCKERY instead of CROCKERY
The teacher of my Quantum Physics course was so bad that the students renamed it to …….
Ha! ☺ I had a pretty good one. He recreated the ultraviolet catastrophe with historical flair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
Edgar Allen Poe refers to a ‘quantum of absurdity’ in his story “A Loss of Breath” (1850). The story itself is a literary mockery of mid-19th century emerging practices in medicine.
“William Godwin . . . . says that ‘invisible things are the only realities,’ and this all will allow, is a case in point. I would have the judicious reader pause before accusing such asseverations of an undue quantum of absurdity.”
Good one! Thanks. I need to read that one. “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “A Descent into the Maelström” are among my favs.
I had never read it, but looking into the word history of ‘quantum’ (a favorite pastime) discovered a new Poe. It’s even more bizarre than the better known stories!
quantum – mockery
Official. Props to anyone who can find an alternative.
Is Monday the easiest when it comes to degree of difficulty?
I’ve detected no such pattern. I perceive the degree of difficulty of these puzzles as being both random AND subjective; Any given letter distribution can prove either kind and easy, as long as an answer manifests itself fairly quickly in any way (even serendipitously), or hard and unforgiving if, for any reason, the solution escapes you.
Furthermore, if the number of available solutions is anything to go by, today’s puzzle cannot really be rated as easy.
For the record, there IS an alternate acceptable solution to today’s puzzle provided by a solving app:
QUATERCENTENARY – YOKEMATE 23/2 (yeah, sure)!
I KNEW IT! 😝
Yes, QUATERCENTENARY—YOKEMATE was my solution! I was wondering if anyone else came across it. I had found QUATERCENTENARY (an upgrade from QUATERNARY, which I had been working on). YOKEMATE took some ‘digging and hoping.’
That’s once every 400 years; grats, KP!
Thanks!
The puzzle creators should have flaunted THAT as the official solution 🙂
It may be a record of ‘most letters in two words’, at least since I’ve been playing the game. Yokemate is another new word for me, and conjures up a picture of two BFF oxen pulling a plow. Lovely!
Official straight away