Here are the Letter Boxed June 21, 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:
HIFMELBUTARD
The answers are:
HUMILIATEDDEBRIEF
BRIMFULโLATHED 13/2
FLIRTERยฐโRHUMBAED
Dirty dancing?
AFTERBIRTHโHALTERIDIUMยฐ
ยฐOED:
flirter, n. A person who flirts (in various senses of flirt, v.); esp. a person who (habitually) behaves in a flirtatious manner or who flirts with a lot ofโฆ
halteridium, n. A name for the gametocytes of the protozoan genus Hรฆmoproteus, which is parasitic in birds, used when the gametocytes were erroneously considered toโฆ
Oh Jezus, Mary and Joseph! Couldn’t pair AFTERBIRTH or AFTERMATH, would never have found HALTERIDIUM! Played inconsolably with REHABILITATED, DEATHBED, BEREFT, HUMILIATED, bla bla bla
Deathbed and bereft are good finds Nicole. I did not go down those paths yet.
Similarly, I had BRIMFUL – LATHERED
Brimful Lathed here too. 13/2, but no TI that I can see – maybe MVUA can spot it!
Alternately, Brimful Lathered, rinsed and repeated, to the delight of the shampoo manufacturer.
Also found the OA, Humiliated Debrief (the team meeting after a shellacking), plus Hateful Limbered (all warmed up for a Trump rally) and the more efficient but less thematically integrated Hatful Limbered.
Fumier – Rehabilitated
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Also think there may be pairings withโฆ aftermath, (something with โfruitโ in it, breadfruit was close), breathed (left โfilm,uโ), birthed/rebirthed (left โmafulโ, feathered (left an opening with something โmultiโโฆ dimbulb almost worked ๐
FUMIER / REHABILITATED and fast.
My bete noire was FEATHERBED, which for a split second I thought could pair with DELIRIUM. Alas, the second word is not viable.
Came up with BRIMFUL-LATHED soon after. Still, I’m glad someone found a way to work with the -IUM suffix.
FAULTIER – RHUMBAED with another jaw-dropping, “wow – that’s a word?” Can’t really find a dictionary with it, but I’m assuming it’s past tense for rhumba, which is what made me try it, but still a surprise. Another one for the list ๐
FAULTIER and RHUMBAED works, and yes, it is the past tense of the verb RHUMBA, as in to do the rhumba.
Afterbirth-Humiliated
BRIMFUL – LATHED. 13/2.
Sameโฆ donโt think this is what is meant by an oaked wine.
BRIMFUL-LATHED took way too long…
Brimful lathered
BRIMFUL-LATHERED as well
And me three.
Word Play:
11-letters:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _nal
Clue: garments like kimono, sari, kilt
Hi RrrF
My wife bought me a TRADITIONAL Filipino barong
Hey, Sir LWMMM,
I bet you look handsome in it! โค๏ธ
TRADITIONAL, indeed! Kudos! ๐
โข๏ธ๐น
APV
YTR
LIH
NOE
CLUE: Options aplenty. 21/2.
A is linker.
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Hey, Sir MARKIE,
YES! A is the linker indeed. ๐
Hyperopia Alternative, but that’s only 20/2…
Hey, FRANZzEE2,
Nice solution! And, you’re on the right track for the OA. ๐
โข๏ธ๐น
PLETHORA — ALTERNATIVE
Mark and Franzee2 gave me great hints! ๐
Nice, and so obvious now you put it up ๐
Hey, Sir BILL DUFFIN,
99% correct! ๐
You forgot the Y. ๐
PLETHORA – ALTERNATIVELY.
โข๏ธ๐น
Hateful Limbered.
A couch potato, that’s me!
Angry gymnast
Same here.
Same here as well.
And me too. Seemed like the easiest solution.
Same for me, although it was an embarrassingly long time after having seen both HATEFUL and LUMBERED. But not nearly as long as the struggle to get to PIRANHA-ADJUDICATION which I finally did this morning after battling with the puzzle for quite some time yesterday.
Me as well. 15/2. More efficient than the OA.
A really mean circus performer?
HATFUL-LIMBERED
HATEFUL-LIMBERED
Good night all!
Sleep well. ๐ค
Me too.
I finally got HATFUL-LIMBERED (14/2) too. Before that the closest I got were:
FLAMBร-ERUDITE (missing H)
FLIRT-THUMBED (missing A)
THUMBED with either FLAIR or FAILURE (unpaired)
But there are a lot of words in the comments that I ever saw at all!
Brimful Lathered
same here
AFTERBIRTH — HUMILIATED
FUMIER — REHABILITATED
Thank you for putting me out of my misery, got so hung up on REHABILITATED!
I had thought fumier meant to smoke, smoker, etc. Apparently, it is French for manure! ๐
Am I the first person here to get the OA today? It came pretty quicklyโthe only other solution I tried wasnโt accepted since LB apparently doesnโt like DEFLATER for some reason.
TI : the boss really dressed down someone during the team meeting after the event๐ brutal!
Or more positively, the team had a talk to discuss a publicly embarrassing moment and how to avoid repeating their mistakes
OA for me, had humiliated pretty quickly but couldn’t find the link. Had briefed, kicked myself when I realised it could be debrief instead.
OA here after brief struggles with THUMBED , DUMB
Hateful – limbered
Got to OA in the end but there were so many promising dead ends today. Was frustrated not to get anything to pair with FEATHERBED
brimful – lathed
Ditto! I watch too many woodworking tutorials.
FEATHERTAIL – LUMBERED
That’s a good one. Had Lumbered and couldn’t pair it
BRIMFUL – LATHERED
Extra foam.
Site is acting up again. Put my post in limbo.
Brimful Lathed
TAILFEATHER – RHUMBAED More festive TI than OA, with visions of Brazilian carnival ๐ชถ๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ชถ
Nice, Judy!
Thanks, Steph ๐
My favorite today, Judy! (Although I got to it a day late!)
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HATEFUL LIMBERED
Afterbirth humiliated
Afterbirth-Humiliated
Finally! Got the OA today after a few weeks of failed attempts at 2-word solutions!
Brimful – Lathed. Fumier – Rehabilitated
Here is the full list including Scrabble words:
** Donโt look at the list if you havenโt finished solving the puzzle **
(The first number is a count and the second number is the number of letters used)
* Scrabble words start on line 18
1 – 20 afterbirth / humiliated
2 – 13 brimful / lathed
3 – 15 brimful / lathered
4 – 16 faultier / rhumbaed
5 – 16 featherbed / didlum
6 – 19 feathertail / lumbered
7 – 16 flirtier / rhumbaed
8 – 19 fumier / rehabilitated
9 – 14 hatful / limbered
10 – 15 hateful / limbered
11 – 17 humiliated / debrief
12 – 19 humiliated / debriefed
13 – 19 humiliated / debriefer
14 – 18 tailfeather / rumbaed
15 – 19 tailfeather / rhumbaed
16 – 17 multibed / defeather
17 – 19 multibed / defeathered
18 – 15 default / thumbier*
19 – 18 fatherlier* / rhumbaed
20 – 17 fatherlier* / rumbaed
21 – 16 featlier* / rhumbaed
22 – 15 flirter* / rhumbaed
23 – 17 imbathed* / defaulter
24 – 15 imbathed* / direful
25 – 15 imbathed* / dureful*
26 – 17 mithered / debateful*
27 – 15 mudflat / thumbier*
28 – 18 refurbed / diathermal*
29 – 15 threatful* / limbed
30 – 17 threatful* / limbered
31 – 16 thumbier* / reflated
FUMIER – REHABILITATED
Boy, looks like i’m late to the party! ๐
I did Not get the OA. Instead:
DEFAULTER RHABDIUMยฐ(mw)
IMBATHEDยฐ DEFAULTER
HALF-TIMBEREDยฐ DEFAULTER
ยฐ means OED except for Rhabdium, which apparently is not in the OED, but is in Merriam-Webster and a few other on-line dictionaries.
And speaking of hyphenated words – do we count them as one word, or two?
HALF-TIMBERED seems to be hyphenated in all of the dictionaries it is in, including OED, M-W, and many others.
I found this interesting article about half-timbered buildings.
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-half-timbered-construction-177664
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