Here are the Letter Boxed July 12, 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:
KLMAEROUSDCQ
The answers are:
QUACKEDDOLDRUMS
OA. ALIOW after yesterday’s debacle.
Same, OA in short order. (After Quacks – Seldom bit the dust.)
OA after not too long. Took me until today to get BLOCKCHAIN NUMP for yesterday’s one. Glad of a few day streak after a string of recent failures.
Me too:
QUACKED – DOLDRUMS
Just when I get all my ducks in a row, it’s duck season.
Same and 😂
OA, but it took longer than it should have as I struggled with SQUALOR.
*Squalors – Smocked
should have worked
Also very close with…
Quacked – Dorsal (M left)
Squalor – Rocked (M left)
Thought Masques, Clamors and something ending in -made might work too?
Nope on ducksauce too 😂
As so many of us do, JT.
My best effort: Rorquals Smacked the water when they breached, while the black ducks, in a black mood, Quacked Doldrums. Not that those are bad answers, particularly the OA (Doldrums is excellent!), but I must say this puzzle presented unexpected difficulties.
OA for me as well. Had QUACKED right out of the gate. And then struggled for a long time, trying out a number of other Q words, before finally seeing DOLDRUMS.
Same here! 😭
OA
What is aliow?
At Least It’s Over With
RORQUALS -SMACKED.
QUACKED of the OA was the first word I found. And, it’s my first acquaintance of the word DOLDRUMS.
Quacked-doldrums. The doldrums – Milo visits there in The Phantom Tollbooth.
OA in short order and first acquaintance with RORQUALS (more Baleen whales smacking the ocean waters)! Got a little hung up on MUDROCKS* and SQUALOR ( MUDROCK(S) not accepted).
Similarly, I had SQUALORS* – SMACKED/SMOCKED pretty quickly
yes, I found that one too. Strange that SQUALORS was rejected though.
Hi RF!
Yep, “DOLDRUMS” is a place that the ancient and medieval sailors feared greatly!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doldrums
My answer today was just the ordinary OA.
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PS – i think you were the first to find
RORQUALS and i think they are much more interesting than the Doldrums, especially when the Rorquals are Smocked! Would love to see a painting of them!
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Word Play:
(6-) (7-letters):
(_ _ _on_) (c_ _ _ _re)
Clue: unparalleled
BEYOND COMPARE!
Haha. My answer BEYOND COMPARE is inexpicably “awaiting moderation”
Beyond compare.
Hey, THIS,
That is correct! Bravo! 🤓🤗😉
BEYOND COMPARE, indeed! 👍👍
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Hahaha…STEPHFIE, Cheers! 🥂🥂
beyond carfare (for a funny answer)
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MWS
PIU
OEA
HTR
CLUE: PEEK-A-BOO!
WHITEHOT – TEMPERATURES
Posted for fun because of the heat wave that’s underway here. When I checked it out, White-hot is hyphenated. 🙂
When I say peek-a-boo to a baby, it’s WHISPEROUS – SOMEWHAT.
Hey, THIS,
Very nice answer! Good job! 🤓😉🤗
Try again for the OA…
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because peek-a-boo is a game that doesn’t require buying anything, it is a PAUPER’S-SHOWTIME 👶
Hey, STEPHFIE,
Very nice solution! Good job! 🤓😉🤗
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Could it be…
surprisers / somewhat
or
autopsies / somewhere
Hey Davel!
i think it is your first one, except minus the extra R … i.e:
SURPRISES SOMEWHAT
Several good suggestions – we will have to wait until RF wakes back up to find out which he was thinking of …
Hey, Mr. DAREDAVEL,
Mr. McBEE is right. You overshoot the OA with one letter. You are 99% correct. BRAVO! 🤓😉🤗
The OA is:
SURPRISES – SOMEWHAT.
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I see the extra R. Thanks!
SURPRISERS – people – is a valid word, but my spidey sense was telling me it was a little more than RifF was looking for … 😎
OA … If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck; though it could still be depressed.
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🤣🤣🤣
😂 I keep hearing sad muttering in a Daffy Duck voice..
CLAQUEURS – SMOKED. We had a musical group at summer camp in Québec, in which most of us played spoons, called “Les Claqueur Boys.” And, yes, several of us did! But I did not. 🚭
RORQUALS-SMOCKED
quacked – doldrums
Closest I came was Squalors* smacked, but this plural form not acceptable to LB,
*found in Merriam Webster and Dictionary.com.
Correction. Listed by those dictionaries according to OneLook, but not defined.
Defined in Wiktionary.com.
Also defined in OED:
1621-
squalors, in squalor, n.
The state or condition of being physically squalid; a combination of misery and dirt.
Me too.
I actually prefer squalors in the plural form.
Sounds a bit Victorian, like a case of the ‘vapors’. But Dickensian as well.
OA today but the excitement was lacking.
It’s a dull life if you’re a duck (except shooting season).
QUACKED — DOLDRUMS
Really quick solve today.
Me too.
MACROQUAKES** pairs with SALAD, SCOLD, and probably several others.
I found the first word experimenting with the MACRO- prefix and already knowing that microquakes were real. Evidently, it’s a thing in astronomy—a phenomenon that can occur on neutron stars (if nowhere else).
Don’t know why the relatively simple OA escaped me!
OA!
Glad to have read Phantom Tollbooth as a kid 🙂
OA after finally abandoning SQUALOR. CLAQUEURS is a new word for me, as well as RORQUALS. Adding to the list 🙂 Off to the other games….
Kept trying Croques —guess I was hungry. Then Macaques seemed promising but dead end. Finding Seldom quickly led to Doldrums and I finished with OA.
QUACKED-DOLDRUMS…a relief after yesterday
OA came rather quickly–but only on the second go-round, post-incubation.
OA finally — all those bored ducks out there.
OA. QUACKED was the first word I tried, and DOLDRUMS jumped out instantly in the leftovers. Happy to take the quick W.
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 claqueurs / smocked
2 – 15 claqueurs / smoked
3 – 15 quacked / doldrums
4 – 15 rorquals / smacked
5 – 15 rorquals / smocked
6 – 16 aquadromes* / seckel*
7 – 17 aquadromes* / seckels*
8 – 15 aquadromes* / slack
9 – 17 aquadromes* / slacked
10 – 16 aquadromes* / slacks
11 – 16 mockadoes* / squalor
12 – 17 mockadoes* / squalors*
13 – 15 mudrocks* / sequela
14 – 16 mudrocks* / squamule
15 – 17 mudrocks* / squamules
16 – 13 quacks / slormed*
17 – 15 squalors* / smacked
18 – 15 squalors* / smocked
Another day of defeat. It’s been a tough week!
My best 3 worder:
Sequels-smacked-dorm