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Sides of this Letter Box are:
NKJURWOTDILG
The answers are:
JOLTINGGROUNDWORK
OA.
seismic feeling to solve without angst today
JOLTING—GROUNDWORK (oa)
jolt | ting | ground | work
OA.
OA also. Figured WORK would be in the solution as it deals to K and W.
J would take care of itself once the groundwork had been laid and so it did!
Same here
JOLTING / GROUNDWORK pretty quick.
“1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott!”
JOLTING – GROUNDWORK
“It’s Alive!”
OA as well after finding a F-ton of “ing” words. 😂
Wording, Worlding, Wounding, Joking, Jointing,
Outworld, Workout
Close with:
Outworking – Gold (no J)
Outworking – Goji (no LD)
Same
OA with quite a bit of effort.
JOKING and OUTWORLD use all the letters but I couldn’t force them into a pair. I made a threesome with
JOKING GOGO OUTWORLD.
OA but took me a long time. I was concentrating on suffix words TION and ING Juking joking but jolting didn’t occur. I had a solve with JINGKO OUTWORLD but JIngko was not accepted!
JOLTING — GROUNDWORK
Found GROUNDWORK and then worked backward. Also found NUTRITION, TUITION, INTUITION, GRIDIRON, GROUNDING, DROWNING, NITRIDING.
I thought that I had found TRINITROTOLUOL, but the O and T are on the same side.
+ IRONWORKING, OUTGROWING, OUTWINDING, UNROUNDING,
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Nice!
+ OUTWORKING. Takes 10 to cover 9.
Adding OUTWORLD to the list. Tried GROUTWORK first – my mind’s on the need to repair our bathroom floor….. Led me to OA inside of 10 min. I’ll take it!
I would have had it quite quickly if Groutwork had been accepted. Despite seeing the WORK options pretty quickly, it took a long time before I saw GROUNDWORK. Happy to have found the OA. J words were quite limited. My list only went 6 deep – Jolting, Joking, Joint, Jowl, Jingo, and Joining.
Same thought process…took a while to get to OA but satisfying solve today!!
Outworking goldworking
Still no J
Pretty long words (that’s pretty and long not fairly long) aren’t much use if they use a small number of letters over and over.
Janky long words with lots of ugly letters are the ones we want 🙂
You are quite right. If I start to see the same letters left over when I discover long words. I start over with those letters and try to make a decent sized word with most of them (especially J, Z, F, X, etc.). I have used this approach many times with pretty good results. 15 letter words aren’t much good if you can’t connect them.
Oa
Another OA.
Jackhammerer’s daily drill
OA Jolting Groundwork: the lead-up to the big jump-scare.
Judging from the lack of alternatives here, I think this is probably another one-off.
Save me a spot under the table!
JOLTING
GROUNDWORK
same as OA and most of the other answers.
OA reasonably quickly.
BTW, it popped into my head the other day that THUNDERCLAPS would be a one-word solve if the letter array allowed it. 😊
OA here.
Also JINGKO*–OUTWORLD, which still has the -ING, but at least not as a suffix
OA! Fortunately didn’t take me ALL day (like it usually does )
OA rather quickly.
Felt good to solve one after striking out the last few days.
OA in one minute.
“Call Before You Dig!”
SO… if you are bored with today’s LB here is another.
The sides of the box are: USE PDG JRN ICO
Don’t know what you’ll find. I have spotted SPRUCED DINGO with a dangling J (apart from my OA which I’ll tell you later).
JURISPRUDENCE – EGO
By jingo, you done it! Exactly right. Yippee!!!!
JUNIPERS—SCROUGED
For fun, I chose a different one from THIS, but I figured mine was not the “oa”. Glad they got it though. 🙂
SCROUGED is a word I had never seen until today.
Junipers scrouged please, or, make mine a gin!
OA. Found working first then groundwork then jolting. Pretty manageable this round!
OA in less than half an hour. Didn’t take all day this time, either.
I ran my software on the box: USE PDG JRN ICO
and came up with (based on the scrabble wordlist I use)
1 – 16 crouped / disjuning
2 – 16 discerping / goujon
3 – 17 discerping / goujons
4 – 16 goujon / necropsied
5 – 18 jerepigos / scrounged
6 – 18 jerepigos / scundered
7 – 16 jerepigos / scunged
8 – 17 jounced / discerping
9 – 17 jounced / dispersing
10 – 19 jounced / disprisoning
11 – 17 jounced / dispursing
12 – 14 judogis / spencer
13 – 15 judogis / spencers
14 – 16 junipers / scrouged
15 – 17 junipers / scrounged
16 – 16 jurisprudence / ego
17 – 17 jurisprudence / egos
18 – 20 jurisprudence / endogen
19 – 21 jurisprudence / endogens
20 – 22 jurisprudence / endorsing
21 – 22 jurisprudence / endungeon
22 – 24 jurisprudence / endungeoned
23 – 25 jurisprudence / endungeoning
24 – 23 jurisprudence / endungeons
25 – 19 jurisprudence / engore
26 – 20 jurisprudence / engored
27 – 20 jurisprudence / engorge
28 – 21 jurisprudence / engorged
29 – 22 jurisprudence / engorging
30 – 21 jurisprudence / engoring
31 – 19 jurisprudence / epigon
32 – 20 jurisprudence / epigone
33 – 20 jurisprudence / epigoni
34 – 20 jurisprudence / epigons
35 – 17 jurisprudence / ergo
36 – 18 jurisprudence / ergon
37 – 19 jurisprudence / ergons
38 – 18 jurisprudence / ergos
39 – 21 jurisprudence / erigeron
40 – 22 jurisprudence / erigerons
41 – 19 jurisprudence / eringo
42 – 20 jurisprudence / eringos
43 – 20 jurisprudence / eroding
44 – 18 jurisprudence / erugo
45 – 19 jurisprudence / erugos
46 – 19 necropsied / disjuning
47 – 16 preceding / goujons
48 – 20 precensored / disjuning
49 – 17 produced / disjuning
50 – 19 pronounced / disjuning
51 – 19 reproduced / disjuning
52 – 22 underproduced / disjuning
53 – 19 unproduced / disjuning
54 – 21 unpronounced / disjuning
Thank you Davel, what a list! I have a lot of words to learn now.
Gave my scrabble dictionary (and scrabble board) away years ago. I wonder if she still has them. A good excuse to look her up 🙂
Goldworking goujon
Whoops
No t
OA and happy. 🤓
OA. Found JOLTING pretty early, but was ready to give up after 20 minutes of nothing clicking. Almost came here to check the solution, but decided to just close it instead. Came back tonight and did some more noodling, when I spotted GROUND/WORK in JOLTING’s leftovers. Sometimes you just need to let a puzzle marinate in your subconscious for bit. 😁
I forgot to post this yesterday…
Here is the full list. 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 – 17 jolting / groundwork