Here are the Letter Boxed May 19, 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:
YHOLFVNTRGWI
The answers are:
VILIFYINGGROWTH
OA quickly today
VILIFYING—GROWTH
Suspected Singular Solution (SSS)
But I’ve been proven wrong before.
WOFT⁺—THRIVINGLY⁺
⁺ both are in OED, why not LB?
https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=WOFT
So much for Mr. Ezersky’s ”It’s just the OED”!
Has anyone contacted the NYT and asked why the OED is but isn’t the official LB dictionary?
Not yet, but I may join that community you mentioned on X.
THRIVINGLY is also a PSW, although WOFT isn’t.
I guess WOFT is an alternate to WEFT.
https://scrabblewordfinder.org/dictionary/weft
for what it’s worth WHIFT and WHIFTY accepted, but don’t complete a match I can see
WOFT – THRIVINGLY for me too, but in this particular case I don’t consider it a solution.
Since LB is “Powered by OXFORD” and Sam only removes words that have meanings considered inappropriate for his puzzle, I’m now doing two checks: OED and the Urban Dictionary.
THRIVINGLY is in the OED and not the UD. Therefore it’s reasonable to conclude that the LB rejection is not intentional, but is evidence of flaws in its OED interface. As wise men have said: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect.
WOFT is in the OED, but it’s in the UD with a more modern use of the F. So I assume that this word has been removed by LB intentionally.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woft
I also had WOFT – THRIVINGLY before I got VILIFYING – GROWTH
Ditto on the OA with a side of suspicion that it’s a one-off. Let’s see!
I tried THRIVINGLY too and was disappointed it wasn’t accepted.
HWYL makes it’s triumphant return:
FROTH—HWYL—LIVING
FROTH—HWYL—LOVING
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hwyl
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another VILIFYING-GROWTH.
how rumors spread
Or the GOP on Bidenomics.
OA.
So many problematic letters (YHWFV). I decided to solve it by parts. I didn’t give up on the F-V part. I knew it was the key to the solution. I was right. Took me so long to find VILIFYING but finally. I already solved GROWTH beforehand. A satisfying solve for me. Luxuriously difficult. I’m very happy. 💜
Wordplay:
(4-) (5-letters):
(S_ _ _) (_ _ _ _L)
Hint: Something a person can make out of himself/herself in his/her front yard in winter time.
Snow angel?
Hey, Mr.FRANZzEE,
Yes, absolutely! Wow!!! Snow Angel, indeed! 👍🤓
☢️🌹
You gave good clues 🙂
💜
LZP
DAU
EIT
ROB
CLUE: Not your regular table.
Not it surely, but I did find POPULARIZED — DEBT
PRIZED — DOUBTABLE
Hey, Sir BILL DUFFIN,
I’m glad that you found these nice unique solutions. Good job. Yay!!!
👍🤓
The OA starts with a T. 😉
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TABULARIZED — DOPE ??
Sir BILL DUFFIN,
Nice one too. But, not the OA.
Well i will BLURT TRAPEZOID
Or BUILT which is better TI and fits clue but does not start with T
Oh trapezoid double?
Here is a one banger fir you : clue: i think?
E A Q
L O S
T U N
Y I B
questionably
Hey, OSCAROO,
Yes, absolutely. You got the OA!
KUDOS for finding it. 👍🤓
TRAPEZOID – DOUBLE.
☢️🌹
OSCAROO,
I accidentally seen the answer to your puzzle. Huhuhu…
Yes un questionably… which i just realized i could have engineered to be a double answer
One of these?
trapezoid / double
trapezoid / doubled
trapezoid / doubler
trapezoid / doubtable
Hey, Mr.DAREDAVEL,
YES, absolutely! You found the OA! YAY!!!
👍🤓
TRAPEZOID – DOUBLE.
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OA though it took quite awhile. Growlingly and frowningly didn’t get me anywhere unfortunately.
OA today, after seeing that Thriving wasn’t.
Decided V was the letter to knock out so looked for a word starting with V.
Interesting approach – instead of focusing on the pivot letter, find words that start with the letter that’s least likely to be the pivot letter.
I started today mainly looking for a long word that would leave only three or four leftover letters – words like:
THRIVINGLY (-3)
RIOTINGLY (-4)
FROWNINGLY (-3)
but couldn’t get a match with any of them.
I figured “H” or “G” would be the pivot letter, because not many words start with Y or end with F, but I kind of stumbled onto the OA:
VILIFYING (-5)
GROWTH (-6)
I thought I had something with THRIVINGLY but it was not accepted. I basically found any word that ended in INGLY (GROWLINGLY, FROWNINGLY, INVITINGLY, ETC.) but couldn’t connect them.
OA pretty quickly today.
Looking through the comments, I don’t see many (or any) alternate solves. Weird, since I usually struggle, but I actually got it today.
Oa
OA in 5 minutes after a total failure yesterday.
VILIFYING / GROWTH and ditto!
OA.
Only 2 vowels! But YOUPEE! OA following attempts at pairing VOLITION, FRIVOLITY, GROWTHING (!), WRITHING, NOTHING, etc!
Saw a V without an E so figured word started with V. Got OA too quickly and now I have nothing to procrastinate with.
OA — thankfully within a few minutes today
VILIFYING-GROWTH
Tough array today.
OA, and disappointingly fast after someone published the first and last letter hint in the Spelling Bee Community. It’s more fun, although frustrating, to plow through iterations like thrifting, volition, growly, etc. The struggle is sort of fun in a perverse way.
Got stuck on FRIVOLITY then FROWNINGLY. Alas.
There was only 1 solution today. No Scrabble words.
1 – 15 vilifying / growth
So we were right for once! Thanks, Davel.