Here are the Letter Boxed January 27, 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:
MCLRODSHIPUT
The answers are:
DICHOTOMOUSSLURP
(from yesterday’s LB array)
In fall 2022, a bar-tailed godwit (also called a YARWHIP or yarwhelp) flew 8,435 miles non-stop from Alaska to Tasmania. Its 11-day journey without rest or food was tracked by a satellite tag. According to Guinness, this migration became the longest non-stop avian flight on record.
THE LONGEST MIGRATION
Where wind is the Alaskan tundra’s flute
And an Arctic icecap marks an ancient route,
A caraway* beak points south, astute.
Cosmic participant in climate’s drift,
Stilted legs evolution’s gift,
The yarwhip awaits an updraft’s lift.
Protean instinct, archetypic
As an Orca’s paean to an orphic tryptic,
She deciphers the encryption of the great Pacific.
Across whitecaps of a whiter white:
A centerpiece? A cryptic neophyte?
Or a nowhere phantom of the winter night?
A typhoon’s spiral at last unwinds;
Then twice across the ‘Tropic’ lines,
Flies our honorary teacher of human minds.
(Is hypnotic migration witchery
A phonetic song’s antiphony,
perhaps with trophic treachery?)
She reads from Browne’s Hydriotaphia,**
Of graves and urns, etcetera,
Then onward to Tasmania.
Whence, the migrant’s recompense:
Not reactionary, but rapt, intense,
At a precipice of poetic sense.
*The yarwhip’s beak is remarkably similar in shape to a caraway seed.
**Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, 1658:
“A yarwhip, so thought to be named from its note, a grey bird intermingled with some whitish yellowish feathers, somewhat long-legged, and the bill about an inch and a half; esteemed a dainty dish.”
LB words:
where, wind, tundra, arctic, icecap, ancient, route, caraway, participant, yarwhip, await, protean, archetypic, Orca, paean, orphic, tryptic, decipher, encryption, whitecap, whiter, white, centerpiece, cryptic, neophyte, nowhere, winter, unwind, twice, tropic, honorary, teacher, hypnotic, witchery, phonetic, antiphony, trophic, treachery, etcetera, whence, reactionary, rapt, precipice, poetic
remarkable ! 😀
So after that trek, the yarwhip ends up on someone’s plate?🥺
Life is cruel. Art…and poetry…soften the blows.
Ditto
😎
I enjoyed reading your poem this morning Jill. That particular style of grouping three lines brings the reader in quickly and carries him aloft with the character. Lonely, yet heroic, is how it made me feel. A sense of timelessness as well. Very inspiring.
One of my absolutely favorite poems, John Masefield’s ‘The Passing Strange’, is in this form.
https://allpoetry.com/The-Passing-Strange
Love this! Thanks!
😱
Beautiful Jill! Thanks for giving us a moment of transcendence via the heroic yarwhip. My day is brightened by your creation.
So excited when I saw this and of course not disappointed! Thank you again for sharing your words!
“onward to Tasmania!” Is my new mantra.
Dichotomous-Splurt. Not sure how I missed Slurp sitting right there.
The medieval knight might win…
Couldst Triumph
Same! Took forever! Really thought RIDICULOUS would work, but no!
Same, but pretty quick. Triumph is one of my look-fors, plus I’ve had considerable Shakespeare exposure of late.
Couldst Triumph is such a superb answer I hesitate to even mention my first shot in the dark: Chomps Stridulous. Quite Ridiculous, as the puzzle itself points out.
similar to OA: dichotomous- splurt. Phew!
Me too!
I found the slightly less efficient DICHOTOMOUS – SULPHUR
I’m slightly annoyed that it did not accept MULTIPLICITOUS. I’m not certain I would’ve found another word to pair it with anyway. Nevertheless I’m miffed at its exclusion.
I also found COULDST – TRIUMPH
TI: the medieval victory is possible!
MURIDS—SPLOTCH
13/2
DICHOTOMIC—CULPRITS
Laurel and Hardy?
Abbott and Costello?
🙂 🙂
Me too- dichotomic-culprit
TRICUSPIDS* – SCHOLIUM. When in doubt, go technical.
comicstrips – schlump. Wimpy from the Popeye comics?
Excellent! I so wanted to find a match for SCHLUMP(S) but couldst not
STRIDULOUS / SCHLUMP too!
comicstrips – schlump is missing a ‘D’. There were a few other ways you could get schlump to work.
Comicstrips was allowed??
TRIPLOIDS SCHLUMP. This one took a while!
A bit half-hearted on my part, so I abandoned the effort after wrestling with COMPLICITOUS unsuccessfully. Congrats, the rest of you, for finding such interesting solutions!
Less efficient TRIPLOID – DICHOTOMOUS but mind twisting to grasp how that combination might play out in cellular biology 🙂
Dichotomous surplus
Same…
The cognitive dissonance of modern existence.
And the OA; building on the first : trying to drink from both ends of the straw at once.
There’s a TRUMP in today’s puzzle:
COURT TRIUMPH HURT TRUMP POMPOUS SCOLD
or
HURL LURID DIRT TRUMP POLITICS
TRUMP—POLITICS—SOLICIT—THUDS
TRUMP—POLITICS—SLID—DITCH
TRUMP—POLITICS—SUCH—HUMID
CHOIRS—SCOLD—DULT—TRUMP
CULT—TRUMP—PITCH—HOLDS
DUST—TRUMP—POLITICS—SMIRCH
Couldst – Triumph
COULDST – TRIUMPH
huzzah!
triploids–scholium
DICHOTOMIC – CULPRITS (really wanted CULPRITS to work; this one felt a bit like forcing the wrong puzzle piece in, but that’s why I went back for more)
CHOMPS – STRIDULOUS
I really was disappointed I couldn’t find a good word to pair with trichotomous so I gave up and used holds scrums spoilt. Bad football.
MURIDS SPLOTCH also
Frustration again…
Great words with no pairs, although some of you found a match for “Triumph”.
Photoscopic, Schlumps, Ostrich,
Sulphuric, Posthumous, Scrumps,
Scrimps, Circuits, Complicit,
Copilots, Politics, Triumph
Congrats to those who succeeded today.
dichotomic – culprits
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 – 16 chomps / stridulous
2 – 16 chumps / stridulous
3 – 16 dichotomous / slurp
4 – 17 dichotomous / slurps
5 – 17 dichotomous / splurt
6 – 18 dichotomous / splurts
7 – 18 dichotomous / sulphur
8 – 19 dichotomous / sulphurs
9 – 20 dichotomous / sulphuric
10 – 18 dichotomous / surplus
11 – 18 dichotomic / culprits
12 – 13 murids / splotch
13 – 23 phospholipids / sursumduct
14 – 24 phospholipids / sursumducts
15 – 18 schlumps / stridulous
16 – 17 stridulous / schlump
17 – 18 stridulous / schlumps
18 – 15 thrum / mucolipids
19 – 19 triploid / dichotomous
20 – 16 triploids / schlump
21 – 17 triploids / schlumps
22 – 17 triploids / scholium
23 – 14 couldst / triumph
24 – 23 lophotrichous / sursumduct
25 – 24 lophotrichous / sursumducts
26 – 17 mucolipids / scritch
27 – 13 mudirs / splotch
28 – 15 muricids / splotch
29 – 21 osmiridiums / slipstitch
30 – 18 osmiridiums / splotch
31 – 24 phospholipoids / sursumduct
32 – 25 phospholipoids / sursumducts
33 – 22 pluricuspid / dichotomous
34 – 21 pluricuspid / dichotomic
35 – 19 circumducts* / splotch
36 – 21 hoplitic* / circumducts*
37 – 16 iridiums* / splotch
38 – 18 midmosts* / sulphuric
39 – 19 multicuspids* / sohur*
40 – 20 multicuspids* / sohurs*
41 – 16 pichurims* / stolid
42 – 20 pichurims* / stridulous
43 – 19 tricuspids* / scholium
44 – 21 tricuspids* / scholiums*
45 – 19 triploids / scholiums*
46 – 16 triploids / smouch*
HOLDS / SOLICIT / TRUMP
chocoholic / couldst / trump