Here there are Letter Boxed November 09, 2022 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:
TRCLIKMBAPHS
The answers are:
BLACKSMITHHARP
Official.
Same here; and great to see the website back up & running.
Official for me too.
Me too.
official for me as well, mercifully got it quickly 🙂
We’re probably being treated to another single-answer puzzle; I mean, you can go HARPIST or HARPISTS instead, but not much else. I failed to pair either ARMPIT(S) or CAPITAL(S) with anything.
I suspect this is exactly right. Very constraining set and arrangement today.
Is there a way to more quickly tell if options are limited or plentiful? I’m improving (got the official quickly today) but fear I spend eternities on days looking for multiple avenues not realizing only one combination of certain letters will eventually work. Hope that makes sense!
Without knowing the full answer set, no, unfortunately. But there are clues. A puzzle with only two vowels (neither of which is E) and several commonly-combined letters sharing a side (e.g., SH, TH, CH, CK, etc.) is likely to have a very constrained solution set. A puzzle with at least one vowel on each side, lots of high-frequency letters, and common combinations on different sides is likely to have a large solution set.
So, for example, the following puzzle has but one answer (I think!):
SBJ-PND-HRY-IXA
Can you find it??
This puzzle, in contrast, has HUNDREDS of two-word solutions:
COR-ASN-ETH-IGD
Whoa, that’s different, DW (with no room for trial & error practice); quite a tall order!
&, additionally, what does YOUR word list look like? 🙂
I bet you can do it! 🙂 Common words, both.
Gotcha, what a master stroke -and so elegantly oxymoronic! I’m posting the solution as a reply to your 11/6 comment, so that others can have a crack at it. Man, could NYT take a thing or two away from it!
& HOTDOGS – SCARING prima vista for the ‘easy’ one.
My faith was redeemed! I knew you could crack it. But, as you know, I prefer puzzles that have a handful of solutions — not too few, and not too many — so I do not endorse either of mine!
The first: a chatterer with nothing to say
The second: a riddler of a “day.”
One is of feathers and tiny-bones,
The other a giant carved of stone.
But both are of whom poets sing,
And more than that: both are winged.
I’m printing this out and framing this…
Take to framing ‘Jill’ &, before you know it, you’ve given your place the wallpaper treatment!
Got there, with the help of Jill’s Riddle of the You-Know-What. (Tough without the box!) Plus we have Sota sending us on a treasure hunt back to November 6… Great fun!
Just a weird glitch with yesterday’s puzzle, apparently. At least we now know what the official answer was. As for today’s, official answer here, and I too suspect it’s the only two-word answer with this array. Armpits, Charism (accepted), Capital, all dead ends. But if anybody could find another, it’d be someone in this crowd!
Also, I’m saving Jill’s wonderful piece from yesterday to a special folder, and will continue to do so going forward!
Also Plastic(s), Plasticism(s), sadly unpairable, contrary to their nature…
Has anybody ever used the ‘Search’ button on the page to find anything and actually did?
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Official here as well. At least it came quickly 🙂
BLACKSMITH—HARP(IST)
A comical, yet somewhat incongruent, theme!
Words that worked but went unpairable:
?—PARASITIC(AL)—?
?—PRIMITIAL—?
?—APIARIST(S)—?
?—RATPACK(S)—?
?—PIRATISM(S)—?
If videogame lexicon were to be accepted, a possible obscure answer would be
BRACHIALS (plural of an obscure definition for Brachial according to Wiktionary)- STIMPACK (or STIMPAK) depending on whether you’re playing Starcraft or Fallout
The official today