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Sides of this Letter Box are:
JOYPEAKRTCBH
The answers are:
JACKPOTTHEREBY
JACKPOT-THEREBY in 6 minutes after trying ROCKABYE (nice way to try to get all the irimtating letters out of the way). Was sad PROKARYOTE, TRAJECTORY, and APOTHECARY didn’t work.
Kanishk and RF, looking forward to seeing you both soon with your solutions – loved that all three of ours were different yesterday!
Good luck, everyone, and happy Tuesday!
OA. Instantaneously again twice in a row.
Good job to us Miss Irim and hopefully to Kanishk-boy too.
An instant OA here as well! Tried JACK- on the very first instant I saw the grid. And agreed, this looks singular.
Nothing else to share – well done, Irim and RF! The triumvirate has triumphed yet again. Good luck to everyone else and happy Tuesday to all!
OA here as well. Did not spend enough time trying to pair jackpot initially. Got distracted with Crackerjack and carjacker. Eventually came back to it and saw thereby.
JACKPOT—THEREBY
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And a few pseudo-solutions:
KAYPOHʷ —HABERJECTʷ
PREOBJECT°—TAKYAHʷ
PREOBJECT°—TAKYEHʷ
REJACKETʷ —TOPOBATHYʷ
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° OED, ʷ Wiktionary
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Definitely looking singular from this end!
Same here. 😊
Instant OA
JACKPOT-THEREBY
OA also
Same here
JACKPOT-THEREBY
+JACKPOTER-RHYBOK*
+WIK, *OED
Not instant but a very quick OA.
OA after toying with
Jackety, Carjack, Crackerjack, ?-phobe, Rejector, Protector first
Quick solve. The only alternative I could think of is KORYPHA* ABJECT
*variant spelling of Corypha, a fan palm plant from the Greek word korypha for peak, crown. Koryphae is also the German spelling of Coryphaeus — the chorus leader in Greek tragedy.
OA today. But again, it took some serious time in order to find any two pairings. It just so happened that my first success turned out to be the OA.
OA after searching for words with PHYTE, PHYTO, HYPO, PHOTO, CYBER, CRYO, CYBER, BROTHER, and so many others, but glad I didn’t give up. Catnap seems to have helped 🙂
OA, but took longer than it should have to click.
OA but took forever(off and on) to see jackpot. And I knew I had hit the jackpot but also DUH!
Before that- cryptophyte protectorate protectory caretaker photocopy objector crackerjack abject. Protophyte theocracy theocracy erythrocyte pyrophyte prayer acrobat rectory corporatecbarebacker heterophyte crackpot carjacker jetboat etc , each time thinking a hit but no
Even tried rockabyebaby and babycake
Townhouse eyepatch for me