Here are the Letter Boxed January 17, 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:
SMUEWCNTRPJA
The answers are:
JUNCTURESSWAMP
OA. This one took about 20 seconds.
Beat me by about 11 seconds. Fastest solve yet.
JUNCTURES / SWAMP almost instantly…
OA. Not long at all.
Same
OA in a flash
Easiest OA since, well, yesterday.
Doing the happy dance. 🤣Did it in a jiffy.
Ditto!
OA, after a few days of brain fog!
JUNCTURES – SWAMP…
That critical moment of the night, standing in your bathrobe, lit only by the open refrigerator, knowing full well the type of microbiome it will create for the morrow… and deciding it is ok to finish all the ice cream.
Beautiful.
How about: Upon arriving in DC, the first-term Congressperson gets invitations from three lobbyists to boozy debauched parties and, rather than play favorites, chooses to go to all three.
OA. Trundling through the Welsh countryside on a train this cold crisp morning, I have noticed quite a few swampy junctures beside the tracks…
That’s much better; I just couldn’t find the lactose pills.
Oa
Oa quickly as well. Not many je/ju words came to mind other than jesters.
OA here too. It seems to be a reference to the swamp in my basement a few days ago. Nothing like staying up all night bailing to protect the furnace. That was fun. But at least it worked.
As to the business at hand, things don’t look good for OA alternatives, at least for now. The J alone and its placement are greatly limiting, and when you throw in the C, P and W….
OA for me too, and I agree – the options were greatly limiting.
The only alternatives that I can see, Bernie, are variations on the theme: SWAMPS, SWAMPER, SWAMPERS.
Not a whole lot of birdlife, either: 🐦 CARACARA, CRANE, MACAW, NENE, SCAUP, SCREAMER, SWAN, TURCA, WREN 🐦🐦 CREEPER.
OA, but not quick and not much fun, TBH. Couldn’t see anything for ages, then eventually got Junctures and then Swamp was easy.
Me too. Reminds me of Naked and Afraid in Southern Georgia.
OA.
OA. Thanks God it’s mercifully quick coz I’m lazy today.
OA shockingly quickly: always half-celebratory, half-disappointing. But a welcome time saver for a busy day.
Same. SWAMPS led to JUNCTURES in a snap.
OA but first got stuck for a while trying unsuccessfully to get SCRAMJET to work
This is a great word! 👏🏾
Fastest solve for me as well on this one. Nice for a change!
OA and mercifully quick
OA
🐊🐊🐊
OA quite fast and welcome after a rare bomb playing Connections!
connections sucked today. RATHER killed me.
Connections was BRUTAL
OA very quickly.
OA. Stared at it for about an hour this afternoon and fell asleep with the phone in my hand. When I woke up I saw JUNCTURES in about 30 seconds, followed immediately by SWAMP.
Sometimes the brain just needs a refresh. 🧠😂
☹ Never saw JUNCTURE. Was fatalistically certain PERJURES would lead me to a 2-word solution…it was not to be.
This is exactly my story. I gave up when PERJURES didn’t link. Don’t know if I would have seen junctures for a long while though
I missed the OA.
Was happy to find UNWARPS – SCRAMJET
The first was not accepted, though it is in Merriam Webster, meaning to ‘untwist.’
SCRAMJET turned out to be LB-ok, though it was an accidental find for me.
cutup / prawns / scramjet
erupts / swans / scramjet
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 – 14 junctures / swamp
2 – 15 junctures / swamps
3 – 16 junctures / swamper
4 – 17 junctures / swampers
5 – 16 juncates* / swamper
6 – 17 juncates* / swampers
OA upon 2nd try