Here are the Letter Boxed March 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:
ANOGDVIEFWZT
The answers are:
FAZEDDOWNVOTING
FAZED—DOWNVOTING
What I thought was happening to me the other day with my LB solutions. 😟
Thanks all for your words of encouragement. I guess I overreacted. I think I have a tendency to do that. 🙂
OA.
(I almost gave up. )
Mark, well done on the TI! Good to have you back. (OA also).
Haha- I thought (like many others) the OA was farfetched when I found it, but since it brought Mark back, it has a purpose!
Word Play:
(4-) (1-) (8-LETTERS)
(_ _st) (a) (_ _r_ _ _er)
CLUE: a somebody
Navin Johnson, once he got his name in the phonebook… but that doesn’t fit… I’ll keep after it till someone beats me to it.
Just a murderer?
(sorry, it’s all I could come up with. no triggering intended)
Hey KP,
It’s wrong! 😵💫🥴😵
Just a stranger.
Hey THIS,
JUST A STRANGER, indeed!
Brilliant!!! 👍😊🤗
☢️🌹
Just a stranger
Just a gardener
Hey, Mr.DAREDAVEL,
It’s wrong! Nice try tho. 😵💫🥴😵
Hey, Mr.RAMANATHAN,
JUST A STRANGER, indeed!
Brilliant!!!! 👍😊🤗
☢️🌹
(JUST A STRANGER)
The Earth has 8 billion people yet we only know a very neglible few. That’s a lot of strangers and it’s impossible to know them all. When we popped up in the timeline and then dies, they don’t know about that happening.
DOWNVOTING?!?! Is this a joke?! 😡
Couldn’t agree more….
Now officially my second-least-favourite LB puzzle. DOWNVOTING does not even appear in an Ngram viewer search.
What is the ngram viewer? It’s in the dictionary
It’s an indication of usage frequency. Apparently virtually no one has ever used the word in print.
Then it seems this “ngram viewer” may be faulty or biased from the samples it draws from. As Piper pointed out, it written frequently as the term for 👎
And as the OED notes, it’s been in use for other contexts for centuries.
So it seems ngram viewer only looks at published books, with an emphasis on scientific literature. It also doesn’t include websites, magazines, or newspapers. And it only goes up to 2019. Clearly its results don’t accurately reflect how people use words in the real world, the addition of newer words to the lexicon, nor provide any indication of whether a word is a “real” word or not.
But it is the single word associated with the icon for thumbs down 👎 .
Totally agree, “voting down” is a real thing, “downvoting” is not.
Not sure why you think it’s “not real”…🤔 it appears in the OED and it’s been a word since at least the 1800s.
Why? What’s wrong with DOWNVOTING? It’s a legitimate word. Definitely more legit than CHAPSTICK (which is a brand name)!
CHAPSTICK also made me spit…
Upvote, Downvote is used in QUORA.
OA… Among my fastest ever. A nice change from.racking my brain for a few hours.
Anagram Adventures, allowing for double letters.
Format: (more common : less common)
ATTENDEE : EDENTATE
INDIGENT : ENDITING*
NEGATIVE : AGENTIVE
AVENGED : VENDAGE*
EVADING : DEAVING*
INVADED : VIDENDA*
WINDING : DWINING*
INDIGN* : NIDING*
Some minimal Quads (15/4)
DZO—OFT—TEW*—WAVING
DZO—OVA—AFT—TEWING*
VAW—WINGED—DZO—OFT
VIGA—AWD²—DZO—OFTEN
VIGA—AWNED—DZO—OFT
WAVED—DZO—OFT—TING
WAVING—GED*—DZO—OFT
WINGED—DZO—OVA—AFT
ZING—GOWD*—DEVA—AFT
* PSW
² OK in LB, but not a PSW
Observation: Apparently Letter Boxed and Scrabble do accept some abbreviations (AWD and GED), unless there are other definitions that I’m unaware of. ☕
fazed – downvoting
Nice TI for several solutions, including OA. I didn’t find two words, but I quite like my three (and TI): ZAFTIG GOWNED DIVA. 🙂
Nice one. Certainly paints a picture.
Yes, positively Wagnerian.
OA. And not a lot of time spent on it either! Nice change of pace from the past few days
All I’ve got:
WAFTED – DIVINIZING – GOD
Something in the air.
I also had Wafted, Waft, Wafting… 4w: VINTAGE ENDOW WAFTED DAZE..or ENDOW WAFTING GAZE EVE.
Glad I settled for 3w’s, I’d never have got 2nd word. My closest ones: FAZED DOWNTOWN NEGATIVE, and I went with FAWNED DEVOTING GAZE.
Similar here. FAWNED-DEVOTED-DIGITIZE
Laden with TI, SLC!
Never saw DOWNVOTING. Went with a boring 3: WAFTED DOZING GIVE.
Wafting – Gazed – Dove. Had to settle for three–thought there was a touch of poetic TI
ZAFTIG GOWNED DIVA
OA, wish ZAFTIG would’ve worked with another for a pair
AVOW / WAFTED / DOZING
Alternate letter grid puzzle: All I did was substitute R for Z in today’s Letter Boxed puzzle.
Can someone guess the OA in this letter grid?
ANO
GDV
IEF
WRT
Hint: I enjoy flying sailplanes
FAVORITED – DOWNING
FAVORITE – ENDOWING
That’s not it. The OA has the word TOWING in it
OVERDRAFT – TOWING
You guessed it. Good job!
Yay!!! 😊🤗
Thought I had it earlier, but didn’t cover the G.
AVOIDED – DOWNDRAFT
If only Downdraft were a verb .
AVOIDED – DOWNDRAFT is a great solution for a sailplane pilot, That’s what you do the entire time you’re flying, Too bad about the G
FAWNING GAZED DIVOT
Glad I flew the white flag today. I probably wouldn’t have ever come up with the OA.
But Mark – SO GLAD YOU’RE BACK!!!
I hope the short break was good and you realize the positive difference you make 😉
Had fazed, down and voting. Couldn’t put it all together.
Today there was only 1 solution, No PSW.
(The first number is a count and the second number is the number of letters used)
1 – 15 fazed / downvoting
AVOWING – GAZED – DAFT. No OA today!
WAFTED DOZING GIVE was the best I could do.
When I saw Zaftig I thought surely it would be part of the OA, but No. Eventually found the one and only two-word answer. I always feel cheated by a one-off.