Here there are Letter Boxed June 26, 2023 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest to try and solve the game by your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
SHAOGERINFTK
The answers are:
FORESIGHTTANK
FREAKIEST—THONG
😍👙
Mind out of the gutter, Mark!
😆!
I guess I’m in the same gutter.
Likewise! Great TI with this one.
🐦 AKIKIKI, AKOHEKOHE, GNATEATER, GREAT IORA, GREEN IORA, HERON, KAKA, KEA, KITE, KNOT, KOKAKO, NENE, RHEA, ROSEATE TERN, SORA, STORK, TESIA, TETRAKA, TIT 🐦🐦 AKEKEE, GANNET, GREAT TIT, GREEN HERON, ROOK
I always look forward to your bird names, DW, and this is a particularly fine, and large, flock!
That’s what I got, too! Took me a ‘minute,’ as they say.
I’d rush to MARK’s defense and point out that a thong can also be a simple kind of sandal, but then he got creative with the emojis!
I can only respond with my favorite 3 combo. FRANKEST THONG GIT
I had the same solution. I thought the puzzle maker had the beach on their mind.
Forks-straighten
FORKS-STRAIGHTEN for me too. Brings to mind one of my favourite poems, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
Forks Straighten here as well, but while your august mind goes to America’s Poet of Terror, mine goes to cutlery rescued from the Insinkerator.
First time anyone’s ever suggested I have an august mind. I’ll take it!
Another FORKS – STRAIGHTEN, also involving dining utensils (although mine weren’t incinerated first 🙂 ). Not as efficient as the OA, but mine not to quibble with a solution that pops out so quickly.
Dinglehopper!
Me too.
FORKS – STRAIGHTEN too. Reminded me of Uri Geller.
Of course!!
Forks-straighten as well.
That there’s some primo connecting, Goblin!
Due to my shameful lack of Mermaid knowledge, I found your comment quite mystifying until Google came to my rescue!
I got this as well 🙂
Us too! 🙂
FORESIGHT – TANKA
(I’ll be back with a tanka later today).
Had to look it up, Jill. Can’t wait to read it!
What an interesting form. I’d never heard of it but look forward to seeing one.
OA
FREAKIEST – THONG is a great start to the day.
OA also. Great alternatives and creativity.
OA & Foresight Taken.
OA. It’s seldom I say: How easy was that! 😄
TANKA*
a road not taken
will not strengthen regrets of
foresight forsaken
some roads fork, others straighten
— a therefore thief, awakened
*a Japanese form consisting of five lines and 31 syllables: 57577
From so quickly seeing these words in the puzzle and comments, to learning about the poetic form, and then straight on to your brilliant verse, I got goosebumps. Thank you for this treat!
Thank you! It seems rhyming isn’t required/typical, but it gives a nice rise and fall to your tanka.
Here is one from last October, when the the words generated did not so readily lead to rhyme. I’m discovering a lot about the idiosyncrasies of our language, as we do our daily work with 12 seemingly random letters.
TANKA
night bibliophiles
weave their ether-like letters
into syllabic cadence
dense amphibole* syntaxes
epiphenomenal dreams
*needle-like crystalline structures
Brilliant! And I learned a new thing.
DW, I have a question for you.
Would you be willing to send me a note offline, at my Berkeley email address? Thx in advance.
just wow
Freakiest thong for me too. Lol
Tried heatstroke first but couldn’t find a match
I like Heatstroke, fiddled with it a little. The best I came up with is Heatstroke-Ensign-Naif (the poor lad’s dizzy!)
forks – straighten
FREAKIEST – THONG for me too! 😱😳🙈
Foresight – Taken
OA here. I also played with heatstroke for a bit.
In addition to a two-word answer, I also look for a solution that employs each letter only once, other than the obligatory last/first repeat:
Skort thief fang
Forks Straighten
FORESIGHTS STANK here, to describe the poor prognosticator’s efforts.
😄👍
Forks – Straighten for me too