Here are the Letter Boxed January 28, 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:
ABPXNOERLDTI
The answers are:
EXPLAINEDDEBTOR
INEBRIATE—EXPLODE
🥴💥
Big plans for the end of dry January.
🙂 yep, moving into fluid February..
Ha! Well, they don’t call it March Madness for nothing….
This is the kind of exchange I come here for!
😄
Ooh, I like that! 😄
Got the OA myself, but some nice alts coming in.
I meant Inebriate & Explode. I got the boring taxman answer. 😄
BIPLANE—EXPORTED
We can all guess what is aboard.
Love this. Fortunately I did damp January (yes, it’s a thing) so hoping to avoid the Feb explosion. I came up with the less efficient EXPLAINED – DARTBOARD.
BIPLANE EXTORTED
Though I like your solution more than mine!
Same!! Again:)
This was my solution as well.
OA immediately. It’s nice to get a very easy one once in a while—not all the time. But every now and again it’s cool 😎
EXPLAINED-DARTBOARD
Good one!
BIPLANE EXPORTED
I am a World Wars 1 and 2 buff.
PIXILATED—DRAINBOARD
I’m glad I double checked this one. I was starting to envision a theme with a “pixelated drainboard”, which would probably not direct the flow of water as intended. 🙂 There was a drainboard in our house, in the laundry room, as part of a sink, next to the washing machine.
From Merriam-Webster:
“Is it pixelated or pixilated?
Pixelated is used to describe digital images in which individual pixels are discernable, as when you look closely at a large photo and can see the tiny dots that make up the image. Pixilated (coined from pixie, a pixie being a cheerful, mischievous sprite) is usually used to describe things considered whimsical, or people who seem dazed or lost in thought. While pixelated is a late 20th century coinage, pixilated has been in use since the mid-19th century.”
Thanks for the new word pixilated! Great word!
Congrats on finding drainboard. I could not quite get there and settled for
PIXILATED DEBTOR RAN
which is a fun image.
BIPLANE-EXPORTED
hopefully without any defective doors
Well, you beat me to it while I was reading about the Red Baron (WWI German ace). He actually flew a triplane. So when they delivered your plane to my answer’s TI, the doors were fine but apparently it was missing a set of wings. Snoopy was still mad though.
BIPLANE – EXTORTED
So that’s why Snoopy was so mad at the Red Baron.
Inebriate—explode
Borate Explained
I got this too, but I don’t know the word Borate as a word until just now. I was just throwing letters in front of explained that ended in E.
I tried the same thing with what was left with exported, and then switched.
Adding debtor to the end is a lot better, but I still win.
BORATE – EXPLAINED
Chemistry lesson.
Brine explorated
Same here
Same here…EXPLORATED: BRINED to death
OA pretty quick
Biplane Exported for me in New Zealand today
Found a bunch today, including the OA and the popular Biplane Exported / Extorted, plus Airborne Explodent (which goes nicely with those Biplane answers), Pinboard Dextral, Explorator Rainbird, and Explant Tailboard / Tailorbird.
But Pixilated is excellent!
OA in less than 10 minutes was welcome after 2 frustrating days of 2 hour, multi-good word 3 word solutions
Broadaxe Enprint
PLAINTEXT – TAILBOARD
Bine explorated
Same here. One less letter than BRINE-EXPLORATED
Same!
Beanie-explorated
Lots of 2 word solutions, but best 3 word solution is Blind Date Export.
Pixilated- Drainboard
OA today. Redemption after missing DICHOTOMOUS yesterday. 😄
explained – debtor
biopirate, explained
0A. I haven’t been able to look at the grid without feeling the worst sort of dyslexia in a few days. So it’s nice to get the OA after all this.
Biplane – Extorted. Played with bipolar then came up with biplane
BLADE EXTROPIAN, the start of some kind of sci-fi.
Borate explained
EXPROPRIATED – DEPLANED – DEB
Counts for nothing but I can see this scene playing out on the tarmac. The FBI is involved.
I really wanted Parboiled Texan to work. Alas.
beanie / explorated
BIPLANE EXTROVERTED
Explanator Rained. Perhaps describing an Eeyore type?
Rainbird. Not rained!
All of the above.
LIBRATE EXPLODENT. Both words were guesses.
EXPLAINED DARTBOARD
You don’t accept expirate? Then I am done
check the OED …
may be a very obsolete word.
Okay, for some obscure reason I entered the letters “PLAINED” before I thought of “EXPLAINED” and to my surprise LB accepted “PLAINED”. Turns out it’s a real word.
Then “DEBTOR” was an easy add-on. That left R and X. I tried “RAX” and surprisingly LB took it too – turns out RAX is in the dictionary also.
So PLAINED DEBTOR RAX
After all that I realized
EXPLAINED DEBTOR the OA
Also got:
BIPLANE EXPROPRIATED which might be something the Smithsonian Museum did to the Wright Brothers, but probably not.
Nice triple. When I searched for and substituted synonyms for the first and third words, it transforms, meaning-wise, as:
complained debtor stretch
😎 👍
PIXILATE-ENROBED
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 – 17 airborne / explanted
2 – 17 airborne / explodent
3 – 18 airborne / explorated
4 – 16 beanie / explorated
5 – 17 bedplate / extropian
6 – 17 betaine / explorated
7 – 16 binate / explorated
8 – 14 bine / explorated
9 – 15 biplane / exported
10 – 19 biplane / expropriated
11 – 15 biplane / extorted
12 – 17 biplane / explorated
13 – 14 blade / extropian
14 – 15 borate / explained
15 – 15 brine / explorated
16 – 18 explained / dartboard
17 – 15 explained / debtor
18 – 17 explananda / airboat
19 – 16 explant / tailboard
20 – 17 explant / tailorbird
21 – 19 explanted / drainboard
22 – 16 extropian / nailbed
23 – 16 inebriate / explode
24 – 17 inebriate / exploded
25 – 18 inebriate / explodent
26 – 19 inebriate / explorated
27 – 15 librae / explodent
28 – 16 librate / explodent
29 – 17 pedalboard / dextrin
30 – 15 pinboard / dextral
31 – 15 pixilate / enrobed
32 – 19 pixilated / drainboard
33 – 18 plaintext / tailboard
34 – 19 plaintext / tailorbird
35 – 15 probie / explanted
36 – 18 biopirate / explained
37 – 19 biopirate / explananda
38 – 18 biopirate / explanted
39 – 18 biopirate / explodent
40 – 18 explanator / railbird
41 – 18 explanator / rainbird
42 – 17 explanator / railbed
43 – 18 explodent / tailboard
44 – 19 explodent / tailorbird
45 – 20 explorated / drainboard
46 – 18 explorator / rainbird
47 – 17 pebrine / explorated
48 – 20 airplane / exprobrated*
49 – 19 alanine / exprobrated*
50 – 20 alienate / exprobrated*
51 – 18 aline* / exprobrated*
52 – 18 alpine / exprobrated*
53 – 19 aniline / exprobrated*
54 – 20 antliae* / exprobrated*
55 – 21 antliate* / exprobrated*
56 – 16 bedrop* / plaintext
57 – 18 bedropt* / taxiplane*
58 – 19 biplane / exprobrated*
59 – 18 biplane / extradotal*
60 – 19 boline* / exprobrated*
61 – 19 boline* / expropriated
62 – 18 boltrope* / explained
63 – 17 broadline* / expiate
64 – 18 broadline* / expiated
65 – 18 broadline* / expiator
66 – 19 broadline* / expirant*
67 – 17 broadline* / explant
68 – 19 broadline* / explanted
69 – 16 broadline* / export
70 – 18 broadline* / exported
71 – 21 broadline* / exprobrate*
72 – 22 broadline* / exprobrated*
73 – 21 broadline* / expropriate
74 – 22 broadline* / expropriated
75 – 22 broadline* / expropriator
76 – 19 broadline* / extropian
77 – 19 deadline / exprobrate*
78 – 20 deadline / exprobrated*
79 – 17 doline / exprobrate*
80 – 18 doline / exprobrated*
81 – 18 expirant* / tailboard
82 – 19 expirant* / tailorbird
83 – 18 expirant* / trilobed*
84 – 16 explant / trilobed*
85 – 20 exprobrate* / explained
86 – 22 exprobrated* / daedalian*
87 – 20 exprobrated* / deadline
88 – 22 exprobrated* / deadlined*
89 – 21 exprobrated* / dedalian*
90 – 18 exprobrated* / denial
91 – 20 exprobrated* / dentalia
92 – 18 exprobrated* / dolina
93 – 18 exprobrated* / doline
94 – 19 landline / exprobrate*
95 – 20 landline / exprobrated*
96 – 19 larine* / exprobrated*
97 – 19 latrine / exprobrated*
98 – 17 liane / exprobrated*
99 – 18 lindane / exprobrate*
100 – 19 lindane / exprobrated*
101 – 16 line / exprobrated*
102 – 20 lineate* / exprobrated*
103 – 22 lineolate* / exprobrated*
104 – 15 lobiped* / dextran
105 – 18 pebrine / extradotal*
106 – 20 petaline / exprobrated*
107 – 18 plaintext / trilobed*
108 – 20 plotline / exprobrated*
109 – 19 potline / exprobrated*
110 – 19 praline / exprobrated*
111 – 19 proline / exprobrated*
112 – 19 ratline / exprobrated*
113 – 21 tailplane / exprobrated*
114 – 17 taxiplane* / enrobed
115 – 22 taxiplane* / exprobrated*
116 – 19 topline / exprobrated*
117 – 23 trilineate* / exprobrated*
118 – 17 trilobe* / explained
119 – 17 trilobe* / explanted
120 – 20 triplane / exprobrated*
121 – 21 trotline* / exprobrated*
Dave, it might be nice to have your list grouped and sorted, if possible. That’s how I do mine internally. Output easier to comprehend in one glance:
13s A
13s B
..
14s A
..
..
Got the very inefficient EXPLAINED – DARTBOARD first, then took a second dip and came up with AIRBORNE – EXPLANTED. Not particularly efficient either, but ALIOW! 😂