Here there are Letter Boxed January 29, 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:
AKOIBTRNCMHL
The answers are:
MARIACHIINKBLOT
(from yesterday’s puzzle)
A TWO-WORD WONDER
Its syzygy articulates
The space between the sounds it makes,
As a polyglot’s semantic wit
Shines like topaz, skylight lit;
Or lost in etymology,
A sylph’s wordplay philosophy.
Sometimes it’s simply hit or miss,
In hazy, lazy, glazy glitz:
Syllabic zygapophysis.
You’re too good for the room, Jill! How can we return to mundane play after you weigh in? Well, it’s a struggle, but we must beat on…
I found what surprisingly turned out to be the official answer but anticipate many excellent alternatives from this array.
As if in response to our discussion of repetitiveness, contrary to my caution against apophenia, various recent finds and old favorites jumped out (Bobolink, Backlot, Charbroil), along with some newer-feeling entries (Klatch, Kimchi, Anabolic), all quite Normal and Abnormal….
Also, by way of follow-up on my thoughts about linkage to Spelling Bee, I note a little overlap, with Tantric and Tract. Any others?
I like “hazy, lazy, glazy glitz”.
Melodic, and thought provoking.
❤️
Lovely!
I love it!
When I first saw yesterday’s puzzle, I was happy to see SYZYGY across the top of the box! Glad to see someone making some use out of it!
Thanks, Jill
Wah!
I bow in awe.
Meanwhile, I hem and haw
Gnaw and claw,
Yet find no straw.
I totally subscribe to BERNIE HOROWITZ’s comment, above; Jill is the gift that keeps on giving!
I was hoping that after the collapse of FTX and the likes, I would never have to hear about another BLOCKCHAIN – NOMINATOR…
I got the same pair, after failing to make much with CHARBROIL. (Although I did match up CHARBROIL and LAMB)
BACKCLOTH – HARMONIC
Same
Mine as well.
BACKCLOTH – HARMONIC is what I, ultimately, had to settle for. Not ideal in terms of efficiency & thematic cohesion, but there we are… I tip my figurative hat off to DW & BERNIE HOROWITZ for coming up with the elegant TROCHAL – LAMBKIN (I dig the Greek element in particular). Not many unsuccessful attempts today, either; THICK, THINK, TRICK, TRACK, BLACK, CARBON, COBALT, BACKLOT, and ABNORMAL. HACKBOLT was rejected (I’d be interested to know what DW makes of that), and I’ll also add a couple of long & inefficient ones (to go with my solution) in LABORATORIAL & AMATRICIANA.
HACKBOLT isn’t a playable Scrabble word, apparently, so I will keep my indignation in reserve. 😉
Thanks, DW, and I had absolutely no intention of preconceiving your verdict by turning to you. I was tempted to ask only because that particular bone of contention lies at a juncture where two areas of interest you often pick up on converge; the problematic word list, and birds 🙂
Another new avian wonder for me!
(I was picturing some kind of industrial tool . . . )
My bird vocabulary is growing– thanks DW!
BACKCHAT—TRINOMIAL
“An impudent polynomial”
Ax²+Bx+C
INKBLOT-TRACHOMA
MINICAB – BARKCLOTH. On the long side but it works. And I got to throw in some vintage fabric. 🙂
I’ve just received a message that today is National Puzzle Day in the US. 🍸 Cheers!
TROCHAL – LAMBKIN. And why not?
I just now stumbled on Trochal Lambkin myself, but DW beat me to it. I’m bemused by it but having a hard time picturing a wheel-like sheeplet. Perhaps a woolly throw pillow…
Trochal is a new word for me. I tried it on a lark. It does pay to roll the dice with this game!
I was tickled when I found MARIACHI-INKBLOT 🪕🎺🪗💃🏼✍🏼⚫️ that would be one fun, margarita-induced Rorschach test!
I did not think this would be the official for some reason (🥸 no offense NYT, but you’re not usually so whimsical, imho).
Rockclimb-bothan was accepted😒🥴
Two non-playable Scrabble words. I would really like to know what they were drinking when they made up the word list.
Yeah I was embarrassed to admit that was all I could come up with today.
Found harmonic pretty quickly but didn’t know what to do with other letters… Then after a few sips of coffee i got BACKCLOTH HARMONIC
Stumped again. I really wanted HARMONIC CLICKBAIT to work but IT couldn’t be together. My best was two 3 word answers: Harmonic-Cobalt-Talk, or Bath-Harmonica-Alack…alas!
MACHINATOR / ROCKCLIMB
AH! And I couldn’t find anything to work with MACHINATOR.
Settled for the salacious THROB BLACKMAIL LOIN
Marlin and notchback, that’s a new word to me.
MARLIN–NOTCHBACK
Same as KP
marlin – notchback
Blockchain nominator
Couldn’t get matrimonial to work. Was dreading compound words. I am bad at those. Glad I got blockchain to work.
Better late than never! Had to settle for MONOCHROMAT – TAILBACK. Didn’t know for sure either were words before today but just kept throwing things against the wall to see what stuck!
mouls – startingly