Here are the Letter Boxed May 04, 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:
VMTLDBHROEUW
The answers are:
OVERWHELMEDDEBUT
OVERWHELMED—DEBUT (or DOUBT)
OVERBOWL—LOUDMOUTH
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I was overwhelmed with doubt that overbowled was a word. So, though it had its debut (for me), I kept looking and found the OA.
Yes, I thought at first it’d be a PSW only. I’ve been amused lately when 2-word solutions are compounds, of this sort:
OVER : BOWL : LOUD : MOUTH
Just like KIBITZ yesterday, OVERWHELM is also recycled.
So not a debut then.
OA for me.
OVERBOWL is not a PSW, unfortunately, so I dipped today.
Ha! Took me a while to find OA too
Cool 😎 phrasing!
I ended up finding
OVERWHELMED DOUBT
which I greatly prefer to Overwhelming Doubt, which I think of as hopelessness.
But truth, I think, has overwhelmed doubt.
I also tried LOUDMOUTHED but I didn’t find a match for it. I didn’t think of dropping the ED suffix.
OVERWHELMED -DOUBT too, serious imposter syndrome.
I’m OVERWHELMED with DOUBT that there will be many 2-word solutions today. 🙂
Same, and didn’t take too long
Same solution today too after an embarrassingly long struggle. Yes, imposter syndrome indeed!
I was thinking more along the lines of religious conviction battling loss of faith…
OA.
OVERBOWL – LOUDMOUTH.
OVERBOWL- LOUDMOUTH too.
He’s not popular at the lanes.
Walter from Big Lebowski! (Which it just so happens we re-watched last night!)
Good OA, even though i only got OVERBOWL LOUDMOUTH
Wordplay:
(4-2-5-letters):
(_o_ _) (o_) (_ _ _or)
Clue: a promise
Code of honor.
Hi, David,
Almost! And, nice answer! 😊
Word of Honor?
(building from David’s answer)
Hey, Stephfie,
Yes, it is! Word of Honor, indeed! Yay!
👍🤗
☢️🌹
Word of honor for me too.
Hey, LWM,
👍🤗
NAJ
WIT
HEY
LBR
CLUE: There is a treasure hidden within this letterboxed. Find it through the maze of letters.
Linking letter is L.
😉
Hey, Mr.MARKIESCE,
😉👍
3 in a row you got the OA. 🤗😊
☢️🌹
jewel labyrinth
Hey, Mr.BROMANN,
WOW!!! You got it! Congrats! 👍🤓
JEWEL – LABYRINTH
☢️🌹
turbo overwhelmed
Mine also
OVERWHELMED-DOUBT in about a minute. Much better TI than the OA, no doubt.
OVERWHELMER—REDOUBT
I knew it would not be the OA, but it was accepted, and I’ll take the win.
Failed. Though I was pleased to find VERMOUTH and TURTLEDOVE. MOTHERLOVE was not accepted.
MOTHERLODE took up a bit of time for me. Also LOUDMOUTH.
Yes, definitely took a Vermouth detour as well on the way to the OA. Still took less time than yesterday.
Overwhelmed-Doubt.
Got stuck a few times getting to OVERBOWL – LOUDMOUTH. Had to give up on THUMBED a few times, but still have half a cup of coffee left so not too bad 🙂
OVERWHELMED – DOUBT
I spent too long with LUMBERED and BEHEMOTH
Overwhelmed – Doubt. Quickest OA in a long time!
Got OVERWHELMED DOUBT very quickly and was surprised it wasn’t the OA!
OVERBOWL – LOUDMOUTH after accepting MOUTHLOVER wasn’t a word. 🤷♂️
It took a while but I finally got
TURBO-OVERWHELMED.
I kept looking and found several more words and their variations to pair with OVERWHELMED/OVERWHELMER for a total of 9 solutions.
OVERWHELMED-(with)-DOUBT
1. OVERWHELMED DOUBTER
2. OVERWHELMER REDOUBT
3. OVERBOWL LOUDMOUTHED
4. OVERBOWL LOUDMOUTH
5. OVERWHELMER REDOUBTED
6. OVERWHELMED DOUBTED
7. OVERWHELMER RETUBED
8. BUTEO OVERWHELMED
9. OVERWHELMED DEBUT
10. OVERWHELMED DEBUTED
11. OVERWHELMED DOUBT
12. TURBO OVERWHELMED
overwhelmed – doubt
Here is the full list. There were no Scrabble words today.
** 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 – 16 buteo / overwhelmed
2 – 16 overwhelmed / debut
3 – 18 overwhelmed / debuted
4 – 16 overwhelmed / doubt
5 – 18 overwhelmed / doubted
6 – 18 overwhelmed / doubter
7 – 16 turbo / overwhelmed
8 – 17 overbowl / loudmouth
9 – 19 overbowl / loudmouthed
10 – 18 overwhelmer / redoubt
11 – 20 overwhelmer / redoubted
12 – 18 overwhelmer / retubed