Here are the Letter Boxed July 11, 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:
CIBANKOUPLHM
The answers are:
PLUMBBLOCKCHAIN
PLUMB—BLOCKCHAIN, oa
CHOLIAMB—BUMPKIN
OED:
choliamb, n. An iambic verse with a spondee or trochee instead of an iambus in the last (sixth) foot; a scazon.
Surprised to find this solution was the OA!
But really, “a democratizing technology, in that it makes everyone equally accountable and equally in control”… is kinda how toilets work.
There is another non-LB one on the periphery:
HUMPBACK—KLINO°
with klino used as a prefix; as in klinokinesis.
My settle for was HUMPBACK KINO OIL. Which must have been a thing back in the moby dick days … right?
A fav movie groovie!
The Gregory Peck one.
“I seek the white whale!”
Way to keep things real, MVUA 😀
quite true – that toilet chain is very important – and can break on anyone!
😎
CHOLIAMB BUMPKIN. Spent way too much time on this one
Blockchain – Nump 😂
Also had some other promising words I suspect others will find pairs for: Champion (nubuck and nonblack were close), Clapback, Chaplain, Complain, Blackmail, Chainmail.
Also, shout out to Kobe…
Blackmamba (not accepted)
Had 45 words on my tracking sheet, including COMPLAIN, CHAMPION and CLAPBACK as you did, along with some other ones that got me tantalizingly close like HUMPBACK, COLONIAL, NUNCHUK, KIMCHI, and LAMPBLACK. Happy to done with this one, which took the same time as the third set between Vekic and Paolini.
Got this too, but never heard of “nump”.
Looked it up and was appalled that this was an acceptable word.
After much pain a formal feeling comes. Dead ends galore today, iow. Finally found Blockchain, for Plumb Blockchain (PHD-thesis material) / and Blockchain Nump (I don’t even want to think about that one). Also found Choliamb Bumpkin (sophisticated poetics for such a simple soul). I really don’t think there’s another solution hiding in there today. This follows a perhaps imagined pattern, after yesterday’s extravaganza.
choliamb, spondee, trocheee and bumkin used for the second time together in the history of the universe 😂😂
Agree. Even after two years of playing this game, I have to appreciate the fact that we pair words that have never been paired before, whether written, spoken, and maybe even thought about.
Plumb Blockchain
OA.
I had a headache with this one. I was on the verge of surrendering since the answer key is immediately available. I’m glad I hanged on. Took almost 2 hours to solve.
YAY!!! 🥳
That’ some stamina you have there!
I was annoyed Chain Block isn’t one word before realising Blockchain is a thing now. Wanted to pair it with Mump because sick data has appeal, before hittng on Plumb to make a connection.
SURRENDER is one of the best ways to MANIFEST according to the orange book🙏🏻😇💡😊
I do like the days with dozens and dozens of unique solves so that everyone can submit something different. Yesterday was wild, but today comes down to “you either see it or you don’t” which can be frustrating. Good job sticking with it!! 🙂
OA as well after struggling with LUNCHPAIL, CHAMPION and BLACKMAIL.
Word Play:
9-letters:
_ _ _ _ _ _age
Clue: edge
ADVANTAGE
Hey, HOLE ROUSE,
Congrats! You got the correct answer! Yay!!! 🥳
ADVANTAGE, indeed! 🤓😉😎🤗
☢️🌹
LSV
MTC
EOY
PNI
CLUE: New formulation.
Composition Novel looked promising but there’s a dangling Y…
Duh! Composition Novelty?
👍
specimen / novelty ?
televisions / simplicity
sync / competitively
Hey, Mr. FRANZzEE2,
👍👍
Double thumbs up!!!
Yay!!! You got the OA! Cheers! 🥂🥂
COMPOSITION – NOVELTY, indeed! 🤓😉😎
Hey, Mr. DAREDAVEL,
Very nice finds. Good job! 🤓😉🤗👍
☢️🌹
PLUMB — BLOCKCHAIN
Played around with LAMPBLACK, HUMPBACK, and MAILCOACH.
Also:
HUNCHBACK, CHAMPION, MUNCHKIN, BLACKMAIL.
All the above and so many more. Homunculi! Oh how I hated to bail on Homunculi… But also Limbo! Kombucha! Cumin! Lunchpail! Linchpin!
Really hoped Lunchpail or Backmail would produce a result.
Ended up with the OA after struggling with CHAMPION, BLACKMAIL, LUNCHPAIL, LAMBKIN, NONBLACK, AND CHAINMAIL
I tried lots of “NON” words but LB does not like any of them. All of them are in the OED (but to be fair, many are hyphenated, so perhaps they really are two words??)
Looks like a lot of OA’s today.
But i also see:
UNPLUMB BLOCKCHAIN
which is the reality of virtual currencies!
Also:
BLOCKCHAIN NUMP
“Nump”, not “Numb”.
LB accepted “nump” but I’m not really sure it’s a word.
Webster’s doesn’t have it ; OED has only “numps” with a S.
Wiktionary says “nump” is an alternative form of “numps” and “numps” basically means “blockhead”, or fool, so i guess that gives us the TI:
“blockchain blockhead”
BLOCKCHAIN NUMP here as well, one of those unsatisfying ones where I tried “NUMP” because those were the remaining letters, and found to my surprise it was (maybe?) a word
Same. So did I really solve it? Humpback, lunchpail, bumpkin, blackmail and lambkin all seemed promising.
Exactly my thoughts too! I got BLOCKCHAIN NUMP very quickly but left feeling unsatisfied
Sorry to report that Nump is (also?) a work-related, though NSFW, slang term for occupying a toilet stall as if you’re relieving yourself while you’re actually catching forty winks. Nap + Dump = Nump. This frankly does not make it more endearing. But I figured youse guys would want to know, lest you start throwing the term around ubder a misapprehension as to its meaning.
Now I feel a fool for dismissing Nump out of hand!
UNPLUMB – BLOCKCHAIN. After quickly running through Bumpkin and Clapback, I was so happy to hit on Blockchain (and then Unplumb), I didn’t notice the solution could be more efficient.
expected munchkin, humpback and chainmail to get it done. but no the whale plumb surfaced through blockchain
😎
OA here
KOMBUCHA-AILPIN (14/2)
So there IS a match for Kombucha after all! Thank you MBEE!
OA like pretty much everyone else.
🐦MAUI ALAUAHIO, OAHU ALAUAHIO, AUK, BLACKCAP, BOKIKOKIKO, BLACK BULBUL, CHACO CHACHALACA, PLAIN CHACHALACA, CHILIA, COCHOA, BLACK INCA, LIMPKIN, MALIA, MALKOHA, MAO, MINLA, MUNIA, OLOMAO, OMAO, PALILA, PIAPIAC, PIHA, PIPIPI 🐦🐦 BOOBOOK, CUCKOO, LOON.
I love it when the bird’s name tells you what it says! Too bad they aren’t, you know, real.
Another BLOCKCHAIN – NUMP. 🤷♂️ I was sad PACHINKO was one letter off from being a valid submission. Feels like it would be an Ezersky selection.
No luck. Tried PINCHBACK but not accepted. Went with BLACKMAIL LUMP PHONO
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 blockchain / nump
2 – 15 choliamb / bumpkin
3 – 15 plumb / blockchain
4 – 14 kombucha / ailpin
5 – 14 kombucha / alphin
6 – 17 unplumb / blockchain
7 – 15 backhaul / lampion*
8 – 17 blockchain / numpkin*
9 – 15 kumbaloi* / inchpin*
10 – 17 pinchcock* / kumbaloi*
I still have about 1.5 hours before admitting defeat. My best efforts sofar are:
Inch-humpback-koala
Champion-numb-bulk
Defeat!!!
That’s 3 of the last 4 that I’ve missed.