Here are the Letter Boxed July 19, 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:
HLPCNIYEOKAT
The answers are:
PAYCHECKKILOTON
PACKET—THIONYL 13/2
Wikipedia: The thionyl group is SO, a sulfur atom plus an oxygen atom.
KITCHENET°—TOTIPOTENTIALITY° 25/2
Webster: the quality or state of being totipotential.
Looks like a lot of options today!
PAYCHECK — KILOTON
Spent lost of time trying POTENTIALITY, EPITHELIAL, COALITION, NATIONALITY, OPTIONALITY
Good one with epithelial! Some chem and bio today. 🙂
Yeah, I really wanted CYCLOALKANE to work but the K and A are on the same side, and neither CYCLOALKENE or CYCLOALKYNE were accepted.
OA here, but only after a struggle. Add POLYALCOHOL to the science list. And why aren’t the following words: HANKYPANKY? PAYHIKE?
Good finds, as both are in OED.
Hanky-panky was hyphenated, and pay hike was listed as two words.
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I tried Hankypanky too; so disappointed it wasn’t accepted. The word, I mean.
HONKYTONK, however was accepted. Couldn’t find a match with it.
Didn’t get there today but same playing with CYCLONE-EPITHELIAL (LIKE to get the K in there); ELECTION; HYPOCOTYL; PYTHON; CHECK; and all the prefixes CYTO-; LITHO-; PYTHA-; PHYTO-; totally missed KILO!!
Sort of same with me as you can see i’m posting very late, just before midnight my time.
For some reason, I didn’t see PAYCHECK or KILOTON.
I did see NETLIKE which LB liked.
My matches for it, though, LB frowned on. These included:
APOCYNTHION
HOLOPTYCHIAN
Good night! 💤
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LB also rejected
APOLYTIKION
i can’t remember if i ever found a match for it.
LB did accept
TONALITY
CYANOTYPE
i can’t remember if i found match for them either.
I got PACKET THIONYL and thought no one would see this combination. Kudos to you!
Thanks. 🙂
OA but I really liked my word Polytonality :/
POLYPTYCH / HANKIE
OA.
Oa here as well after several hours and so so many words that didn’t work out, the highlight of which was POLYCLONALITY. So happy to finally be done with it.
The OA, Paycheck Kiloton (for high-powered earners); Hypanthial Locket (floral-themed Tiffany piece for said high-powered earners); Cyclopian Neckcloth (from the Polyphemus Collection); and Chantlike Ecotype (birdcalls of the Amazon). LB is always stingy with Like, so I was surprised Chantlike was accepted.
KILOCYCLE-EPITHELIAL
Nice! Couldn’t find a pair for EPITHELIAL
OA quite quickly, happy not to be stuck for hours today!
paycheck – kiloton
Chantlike-Ecotype
Not proud of this one, but at least I found it fairly quickly…
Really nice finds.
Me too.
CHANTLIKE – ECOTYPE
“I Sing the Body Electric”
I only got PAYCHECK. I really thought the leftovers were just gibberish.
Took me 1.5 hours to give up.
Ughhh…
Initially thought -tion was a gift but no. Had Paycheck and Lotion but no link.
Why did I see Nanotech but not Kiloton?
You? No way!
Same for me RrrF but I stuck with it to the bitter end. I only ended up with a few 3word solutions.
heh, I saw PYTHON NECKLACE quickly and got so excited i overlooked the missing “I” before checking in here. i don’t think i’d have found any of the solutions you all have revealed!
Me too, with Python-Necklace. Only I saw the “I” was missing and didn’t care—it’s the best I’ve got today
PAYCHECK–KNOTLIKE also works.
Also: HYPOPNEA–ANTILOCK.
In yet another head-scratcher, LB rejected ANTIPOLE.
Nice solution, KP.
Antipole is in OED and Webster.
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I tried PAYCHECK KNOTLIKE and the reply was that KNOTLIKE is not a word. Since when?
Nice finds!
The rejection of Payhike put a crimp in my plans for a Payhike Election. Campaigning on the Minimum Wage.
POLYPTYCH – HANKIE, for when you need to dust your altarpiece.
Excellent!
I think I used POLYPTYCH as part of a solve a few moths back.
Excellent find!
Started with Paycock, which didn’t work, then Peacock which led to Paycheck, et voila. OA.
Poikilocyte Ethane
I found these 3 worders..
COPILOT / TENTH / HANKY
PAYCHECK / KILT / TONE
Lotion Nap Paycheck here.
Put on lotion, take a nap, don’t expect paycheck!
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OA. Got PAYCHECK and typed in KILOTON, not expecting it to be accepted but voila!
OA. Spent a wee while on it earlier and didn’t get very far. Went back to it just now and got it in like 2 minutes. It’s funny how that happens sometimes.
Found PAYCHECK and thought I hit PAYDIRT, but did not see KILOTON. Arggghhhhh.
Found this 14/3 3 worder
PILOT / TECH / HANKY
POIKILOCYTE-ETHANE
YAPOK / KITCHENALIA Took a while.
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 chantlike / ecotype
2 – 18 clacket / tithonotype
3 – 18 cyclopian / neckcloth
4 – 16 hypanthial / locket
5 – 17 hypothec / chantlike
6 – 18 kitchenalia / alopecy
7 – 20 kitchenalia / anthotype
8 – 18 neckcloth / hypanthia
9 – 19 neckcloth / hypanthial
10 – 13 packet / thionyl
11 – 15 paycheck / kiloton
12 – 16 paypacket / thionyl
13 – 15 polychaete / enoki
14 – 15 polyptych / hankie
15 – 16 yapok / kitchenalia
16 – 16 hypopnea / antilock
17 – 17 yapock / kitchenalia
18 – 18 poikilocyte / etchant
19 – 18 poikilocyte / ethanal
20 – 17 poikilocyte / ethane
21 – 18 poikilocyte / ethanol
22 – 19 poikilocyte / enanthol
23 – 20 poikilocyte / enanthole
24 – 19 poikilocyte / enanthyl
25 – 14 polyanth / hackie
26 – 18 polyanthea / antilock
27 – 19 polyanthea / antiknock
28 – 17 polypian / neckcloth
29 – 18 polythelia / antilock
30 – 19 polythelia / antiknock
31 – 19 polytopian / neckcloth
32 – 18 antechapel / lekythoi*
33 – 20 apocynthion* / neckcloth
34 – 19 apocynthion* / necklace
35 – 18 apocynthion* / necklet
36 – 19 apocynthion* / necklike*
37 – 18 apocynthion* / netlike
38 – 17 claylike / epitheton*
39 – 16 hanap* / poikilocyte
40 – 13 honkie* / ectypal*
41 – 15 hyponea* / antilock
42 – 17 hypotheca* / antilock
43 – 16 hypotheca* / antlike
44 – 18 keitloa* / apocynthion*
45 – 22 kitchenalia / apocynthion*
46 – 13 klepto* / onychia
47 – 17 neckcloth / hyponoia*
48 – 16 pactional / lekythi*
49 – 17 pactional / lekythoi*
50 – 16 paiocke* / entelechy
51 – 15 paiocke* / ethylene
52 – 14 paiocke* / ethynyl
53 – 16 paycheck / knotlike*
54 – 17 poikilocyte / enhalo*
55 – 15 polychaete / eikon*
56 – 17 polyclonal / lekythi*
57 – 18 polyclonal / lekythoi*
58 – 16 polyhalite / enlock*
59 – 15 thankit* / telecopy*
Wow clearly out of my league on this one. This was the first LB in several days that I had a serious go at, and not only did I not find almost any of the words discussed in the comments here, I haven’t even heard of many of them. I had hopes for KITCHEN and found lots of shorter words, but that was about the best that I got.
FRAUGHT – DETERMINED