Here are the Letter Boxed November 20, 2023 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:
RPIEOUFLGATH
The answers are:
ARTFULLOGOPHILE
Grapefruit & Telephoto. That’s fine by me even if not the OA. 😄
Nice, same here. And I think GRAPEFRUIT – TELEPHOTO is a cleaner answer than the OA.
I got grapefruit right away, but I couldn’t close the deal. So I settled on heliograph and heartful.
I got fruit and telephotograph
I did Grapefruit and Telephoto too and was mighty pleased!
Suki
Same here!
HELIOGRAPH – HURTFUL … time to break out the super-duper sun glasses.
Lurve the OA!
Me too!
And me.
Also HELIOGRAPH HURTFUL after not being able to pair GRAPEFRUIT.
UPLIFTER-ROTOGRAPH
huh? ALIOW!
Uplift topographer
Gotchay!
autograph-highlife. A celebrity’s life.
Same and I like it better than the oa! Actually I think everyone’s answers seem a bit better that the oa. I saw -uplift, -phile, -graph in quick succession and settled on autograph-highlife.
Same here. Beautiful combination
Well talk about long winded answers. AUTOPHOTOGRAPH HIGHLIFE. 22/2 ouch
Mine too.
And here as well. Had to give up on LEAPFROG, but I’m guessing someone will come up with a way to use it!
I was trying leapfrog too!
Photographer Refugial
For any doubters, refugial definition: pertaining to an area of relatively unaltered climate that is inhabited by plants and animals during a period of continental climatic change (such as a glaciation) and remains as a center of relict forms from which a new dispersion and speciation may take place after climatic readjustment.
You just can’t make this stuff up 😃.
FORGETFUL – LOGOPHILIA
That’s a cool combo!
TEARFUL – LOGOPHILE. That’s me when I can’t solve LB.
Same and great TI.
OA is when Jill writes us a poem.
Same
Same and great TI, DW.
The OA is when Jill writes us a poem.
Absolutely true! (That’s a hint, Jill!)
Working on it! I’m glad to be back– I’ve been locked out for a few days. 🗝
Autograph highlife
Fruit – Telephotograph
Good one!
Newbie here… is there a reason why NYT doesn’t do stats on letter boxed? Until now I didn’t realize every puzzle could be done in two.
What an interesting question, Newbie! They do seem to want to keep that information on the down low, for some reason. But as you have discerned, there is always a two-word solution. Very, very occasionally there is a one-word solution, but I have noticed that even then, the official answer (OA) is always two words.
Fun fact–
Last December, NYT published some ‘stats-of-the-year’ for their various games, and reported that 200,000 people has solved LB in two words in 2022.
I didn’t quite believe it, preferring to think that we are somewhat unique.
Let’s see if they post again this year . . .
Heliograph-hurtful
Same but “heartful” .. less efficient but nicer 😉
OA here. Am I the only one? And I think the TI is lovely – a tribute to us!
Petroil Laughful
Faugh-heliotrope
Some 3w’s: PHOTOGRAPH HELPFUL LIE. or PHOTOGRAPH HURTFUL LIE. HEAL LEAPFROG GUILT. Other promising words: Arugula, Afterlife, Hotelier, Graphite, Heartful, Photographer.
OLIGOTROPH / HEARTFUL Surprised it was accepted.
UPLIFT – TELEPHOTOGRAPH
UPLIFT – TELEPHOTOGRAPH
(Sorry if this is a duplicate, posted 10 miutes ago and it hasn’t shown up yet)
And there it is now, of course!
Heliograph Hurtful.
Topographer – Refugial or Photographer – refugial. I’m impressed by the variety of answers. I found this one difficult.
PHOTOGRAPHER – REFUGIAL
PS:
It’s nice to be back. I’ve been locked out for the past few days.🗝 🙂
How dare they! Lock out LB’s Poet Laureate? Unconscionable! Glad they relented. You are garnering many mentions here.
There are some obscure words in these…
utopographer / relief
photofit / tragule
fruit / telephotographer
grapefruit / telephote
faultier / rotograph
heteropolar / regifuge
poitrel / laughful
plagiograph / heartful
phototopographer / refugial
photoheliograph / helpful
photoautotroph / highlife
oligotroph / heartful
heartful / logophile
autophotograph / highlife
refugia / altograph
futile / ergograph
uplifter / rotograph
uplift / topographer
ultrafilter / rotograph
tearful / logophile
parhelia / autograft
artful / logophile
hopeful / litreage
heliograph / hurtful
grapefruit / telephoto
figura / autophile
aphelia / autograft
Photograph – highlife
Oops, I meant to say:
Autograph – highlife
Only had time for a quick look today and just didn’t see two words right off. Found Photographer, Portraiture, Failure, but no pairs to do the job. Good work, all you you Artful Logophiles!
ARTFUL LOGOPHILES
for my letter boxed friends, lovers of words
Start with a portrait of an egret’s figura,
Or a topographer’s failure; an Icelandic caesura.
Is a rotograph telling a artful lie
As a negative of a graphite-toned sky?
Mark the heliograph signal of aphelial cold,
As parhelia mock what the photograph told.
As hopeful as a utopographer’s artful mind,
As heartful as a geographer’s refugial find,
As helpful as a poitrel on an equine breast,
As hurtful as a modern autophile’s excess,
As absent as an African tragule’s horn,
As futile as a penance in the afterlife, reborn,
The faultier litreage of the human mind:
A leapfrog in failure, yet semantically kind.
And in tearful relief, the heartful is heard:
Our logophile love of the material word.
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Bravo!! ♥️
Brilliant!
We are spirits in the material word!
Beautiful!
HOPEFUL – LITERAGE