Here are the Letter Boxed March 22, 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:
LMEIUFWCBOAS
The answers are:
BLOWFLIESSUMAC
COWS—SUBFAMILIES
The Bovines
🐄🐃🐂
CUBISMS*—SEAFOWL*
Picasso’s Pelicans
| CUB | ISMS | SEA | FOWL |
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ism
Cows Subfamilies
Subfamilies Scow
Cows Subfamilies is so much nicer than the icky OA, which took far too long to find besides!
thanks for finding this – i would feel cheated if the only answer was BLOWFLIES-SUMAC. still sad there’s nothing to pair with UMBILICAL(S)
…or MALICIOUS 🙁
Or FABULOUS!
Really thought I had it licked once I found FABULOUS.
Same! 😂 I thought I’d be the only one to get such an “out there” answer!
I had:
FLAMBEAUS
SCOWL
I had that too but there’s an orphaned “I”.
Same with all of the above.
Good one!
Thank you, Mark. I now feel vindicated with:
BULIMICS – SEAFOWL*
Was disappointed when that was rejected.
Word Play:
8 letter:
_ _e_ _ _t_
clue: it is also infinite.
ideality or identity?
If so, good words!
Mr.MARKIEMARKUP,
WRONG! 🥴😵💫
ETERNITY
Mr.MARKIEMARKUP,
THAT’S IT!!! ETERNITY, indeed! 😎
☢️🌹
……….
Our existence is also very negligible compared both to the Earth’s age before we’re born and the eternity after we die. We just popped in the Earth’s timeline and will perish into oblivion.
REN
ZOT
ULA
MIC
memorization – nuclear
Hey, Mr. BBDELB
You’re very close to the OA. 😃
AMORTIZATION – NUCLEAR.
☢️🌹
CARMELIZATION – NUT
Candy bar aficionado.
Sorry. It should read
CARAMELIZATION – NUT
Hey, THIS,
WOW! Very nice find. Better than the OA. 😃
AMORTIZATION – NUCLEAR.
☢️🌹
My Find:
zirconium / mantle
Other finds:
man / nuclearization
munition / nuclearize
caramelization / noun
maze / electrocution
Hey, Mr.DAREDAVEL,
Awesome finds! 👍😊
☢️🌹
blowflies – sumac
I’ve never seen blow fly written as one word while fabulism and seafowl are rather common (and not taken). All to say, between this and downvoting, it’s been kinda dodgy this week
So dodgy. Think I might take a break from LB for a bit as it’s just making me frustrated and furious… 😆
Fishcake, I hear you!
I’m not even close more often than not. I often think of great words like amoebic but then nothing to pair with it.
I’ve learned not to give myself a hard time, and to put a time-limit on trying. 🙂
I think you’re right but once I get started i have a very hard time letting it go. What kind of time limit do you usually use?
LAMBIC (a kind of beer) was accepted, but not LAMBICS. On the other hand, both IAMBIC and IAMBICS were accepted.
My new theory is that the LB lexicon was built from the ground up, with someone just inputting every word they could think of.
It’s also clear, I believe, that the LB and Scrabble word lists are simply intersecting sets, mathematically speaking. Neither fully contains the other. For example, AWD is in LB, but not in Scrabble. Conversely, GED is in Scrabble, but not LB. I’m not sure if this dichotomy exists only with abbreviations, but I think there have been other cases.
Pretty sickened by the rejection of fabulism. Feeling frustrated…like I’m playing against AI and it uses my own vocabulary against me.
Flambeaus scow
Good one!
OA
So bummed the words ending with cious didn’t get me anywhere though
I’m making do with three again: FABULOUS-SWAMI-ICE. Some sort of epiphany involving frozen water?
I did spot Umbilical, Malicious, Scabious, etc–AND discovered that Bulimious is an acceptable LB word.
No LB-approved twofer today.
WOLF – FLAMBEAUS – SLICE
Lycanthrope hunt.
BEFOULS – SWAMIS – SIC
I don’t want to go there.
or similarly FLAMBEAUS-SCOWL-LIE
or FLOW-WEBMAIL-LOCUMS
G’nite !
Got it, but only because I have a record by YMA SUMAC.
My first answer was WOLF FLAMBEAUS SIC, the ending of which seemed apt.
Someone on Reddit came up with a different 14/2 which I thought was a great solution:
OWLISMS-SUBFACE
Happy Friday!
Settled for another trio – Fabulous – Slices – Swim
OA for me also.
And then
SUBFAMILIES SCOW
and then I tried UMBILICALS and UMBILICALCUSES, and got the same results as others with LB not accepting SUBFOWL.
oh well, at least I got something today. And ALIOW.
When does letterboxed started?
3 AM Eastern time
12 AM Pacific time
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 – 14 blowflies / sumac
2 – 15 blowflies / sumacs
3 – 17 blowflies / sulfamic
4 – 15 blowies / sulfamic
5 – 14 bowies / sulfamic
6 – 15 bowsies / sulfamic
7 – 15 cows / subfamilies
8 – 16 cowls / subfamilies
9 – 16 scows / subfamilies
10 – 17 scowls / subfamilies
11 – 15 subfamilies / scow
12 – 16 subfamilies / scows
13 – 16 subfamilies / scowl
14 – 17 subfamilies / scowls
15 – 17 mousewebs / sulfamic
16 – 14 owlisms / subface
17 – 15 owlisms / subfaces
18 – 16 owlisms / subfacies
19 – 18 owlisms / subfacieses
20 – 21 blowflies / smilacaceous*
21 – 16 bulimiacs* / seafowl*
22 – 17 bulimiacs* / seafowls*
23 – 15 bulimics / seafowl*
24 – 16 bulimics / seafowls*
25 – 16 clows* / subfamilies
26 – 17 cowals* / subfamilies
27 – 14 cubisms* / seafowl*
28 – 15 cubisms* / seafowls*
29 – 16 flamfews* / scabious
30 – 18 flamfews* / scabiouses
31 – 17 umbilicals / seafowl*
32 – 18 umbilicals / seafowls*
33 – 16 umbilicus / seafowl*
34 – 17 umbilicus / seafowls*
35 – 18 umbilicuses / seafowl*
36 – 19 umbilicuses / seafowls*
OA after spending most of the day on the road driving from Quebec to Boston – phew!
tried so hard to find a pairing from FLAMBEAU(S) as well.
Hats off to those of you who found SUBFAMILIES – impressive 🙂
OA but it was a pure guess. I got SUMAC and tried BLOWFLIES as a WAG. And it worked.
Subfamilies Scow
I couldn’t get past FLAMBEAUS-SCOW-WISE.
Frustrating!!!😵💫 I wasted my time toiling with… piranha, piracy, archway, highway,
grumpy, prawny, anarchy, anarchic,
urchin, runaway, chagrin
And, Guargum wasn’t a word 🙄😩