Here there are Letter Boxed May 12, 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:
ISEXTHGRJNFA
The answers are:
JINXINGGEARSHIFT
Official. Wish I could’ve been more original, but happy to have seen it.
5.12.23 : ISE—XTH—GRJ—NFA
Pairs: JINXING—GEARSHIFT(S)
Atoms: TIN ₅₀Sn, ASTATINE ₈₅At
Math: FINITE HEX INTEGERS, TRIG, STATS
Characters: a FRIAR, a HAJI, and a RAJA walk into a bar… 🙂
Official and, in all likelihood, the solitary solution here (barring GEARSHIFTS). Other finds: TRIJETS, SHIFTER, TAJINE, INJERA (it seems rather pointless to deliberate on what basis the plural was not accepted).
LBF score: 16 (got 9/12 letters correct).
IMG UEN COH STK
next.
Injera, tajine. Brilliant!
Failed. I found JINXING, also HEXING, FIXATING, INTERFERING and SHIFTING. But not GEARSHIFT. This would definitely be two words in British English (but I am making excuses). 🤷🏽♀️
Hyphenation & one or two words is a constant, vast gray (or grey) area…
Official. Rajahs, fixate,fixating.
Easy Friday.
My first instinct like a few days back with wizard is to combine high scrabble point letters in one. Also thought it would be -ers or -ing word.
So jinxing then the rest.
Official. Clearly only two solutions today. What is it with all these highly-constrained arrays? Doesn’t the puzzle master look here occasionally and see the frustration? This community values creativity, and creativity requires degrees of freedom.
🐦 STINT, SHAG, TIT, TERN, JAEGER
Agree about this community and I hear the frustration re: single solutions.
However, since a 2-solve is beyond me most days anyways I’ve been enjoying the make-your-own-rules creativity here (birdsearch, new words, minipoems, meaningful phrases, prognostication) without feeling a need to tie it to official success.
Excellent attitude, Jenns. Namaste 🙏.
Official, though I guess that goes without saying. Struggled for a bit, then as soon as JINX dawned on me I knew it had to be part of the official, and JINXING was the only way it was going to give me a useable letter. GEARSHIFT took longer. Broke my three-day losing streak, so grateful for that.
I agree that the one-solution puzzles are tiresome, especially when they hinge on the guesser knowing a more obscure word. Clearly the puzzle master disagrees, though. IMO, if obscurity is the only way you can make your puzzle challenging, it’s not a very good puzzle.
I saw Jinx but didn’t think to combine it with -ing. I kept getting too cozy with Saxifrage. 🙄
I’ve always spelled the word Tagine. Interesting to see the “j” version.
Similarly, I had it as SAXIFRAGA (rather than SAXIFRAGE) and was quite surprised it’s even used in English. Living and learning all around… 😉
Saxifrage is probably the most-recognized common name for the plant(s), at least in my experience. So, yes, the word comes in handy!
My wife got it Jinxing and Gearshift
JINXING GEARSHIFT
A prophet’s spell,
a techno knell.
Can we dilute
The poisoned well?
Can gears tell time?
Do jinxes rhyme?
From fourth to first,
A hill to climb.
Afar
our star:
the electric car.
With vehicles, I have bad luck
Be it a car or a truck
Just confirmed my worst fears
My new car has jinxed gears!
Jill! Where ya been? I thought we’d lost you!
Found Jinxing readily enough, Js being what they are, put it aside, found Gearshift and played around with that forever, and EVENTUALLY managed to put them together. It’s been a tough run lately, the algorithmic gods have had it in for us. Perhaps they will smile upon us again soon.