Here there are Letter Boxed October 17, 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:
KUAIODGBJSMR
The answers are:
JUGSSKIMBOARD
WTF is a “skimboard”?
I second that.
Got the OA and then spent some time down the skimboard rabbit hole. I thought it might be another name for plasterboard, I was very wrong.
I just typed in moujiks and it stuck! After that sugarbird was easy.
MOUJIKS. SUGARBIRD
Exactly!!!!
I knew what a SKIMBOARD was, but I had never heard of a SJAMBOK. Kudos to Mark for finding that, and for pairing it with a bird!
Thanks DW. It came from the new animal lists I’ve been putting together. Good way to learn new species!
OA also but unsatisfying as SKIMBOARD was just jumbling letters together
Glad I gave up early. I was expecting some foreign Mumbojumbo (looks good but contains unsatisfyingly few letters) and was surprised to find the OA is all english!
This was me, as well. Looked like trouble right away.
Love the “Mumbojumbo”! I found that one too, but of course it couldn’t be paired…
I just typed in moujiks and it stuck! After that sugarbird was easy.
MOUJIKS. SUGARBIRD
JUGS—SKIMBOARD
SJAMBOKS—SUGARBIRD
touche. kicking myself that I didn’t find SJAMBOKS (though I doubt even if I did, I’d find SUGARBIRD)
Oa.
Yep.
That’s the amount of sunscreen I need for a day in the surf.
Mumbojumbo of litters again!!!! I had a feeling that the only way through is a funny OA! Intuitively, I had a feeling that BOARD is involved so I invented JAMBOARD which is of course not a valid word.
Again, the OA is out of range in my little brain dictionary. Huhuhu
First glance at the litterboxed screams foreboding! Hahaha…So, i gave very early.
Early mourning at the litterboxed. 🟣⚫️🟣⚫️
WORD PLAY:
_ _ _ _HBO_
CLUE: little, FOOD CONTAINER.
Lunchbox.
Brilliant Bernie!!!!
😊🤗😚🤗
Aw shucks.
OA for me
OA but out of little more than luck.
Decided to give up on finding a 2 fairly quickly when I couldn’t find anything promising. Was struggling to find a 3 and thought I’d revisit BOARD and then randomly tried SKIMBOARD as I thought it might be something relating to a sport. I only just remembered what a SKIMBOARD actually is. I was originally picturing a flat surface which people might play bowls or something on lol.
Extremely tough selection of letters today. Never heard of SJAMBOKS by the way.
MOUJIKS – SUGARBIRD
Most impressive!
This an educational day for me 🙂
Good one Kat!
I’ve just added MOUJIK to my master list.
🙂
Cool, a new spelling! I’ve only ever seen Muzhik.
OA for me today. I think SKIMBOARD has cropped up before – if not in an OA, then someone used it in their own answer. Otherwise, this would have taken me a lot longer.
Steve you have an incredible memory. I did, in fact, use
cysts-skimboard as a solve on july14! I almost feel like I should apologize.
TK, I too must have first encountered Skimboard in your solution back on Bastille Day. Apologies not accepted! Without your Bastille Day answer, I would never have gotten the OA today.
Also glad I gave up early, didn’t know Skimboard, got Skim, Board, Jugs, etc. My 4w answer: JUMBOS SKIM MARG GRAD.
Hey a 4 like me … Tried to come back to this after work and still couldn’t come up with anything “better” than RIGOROUS… Settled on GRUBS-SKIM-MAJOR-RAD
Ajugas – skimboard
Should’ve seen jugs but I’ll take it.
Animal Kingdom. Work in progress. I have the letter restrictions in place, and I tested for LB and PSW, with mixed results.
Mammals: Babirusa³, Baiji³, Boskimo³, Briard¹, Brug³, Miki³, Oribi, Saiga, Sambar, Sjambok
Reptiles: Boa, Mamba
Birds: Bird, Ibis, Jabiru, Uguisu³
Fish: Barb, Bass², Gar, Gourami, Mojarra²
¹ PSW
² double-lettered
³ non-LB, non-PSW
I’ve been on here for a couple months and still can’t figure out what PSW is… Pacific Southwest? Or is it 3 major word games as word sources? P— Scrabble Wordle? Or something else entirely?
Permitted Scrabble Word, I believe. The word lists for LB and Scrabble diverge considerably. As I recall, one of our number was recently able to confirm that LB sources to the OED.
Thanks Bernie, you beat me to it. 🙂
What’s the others we use?
OA is Official Answer
TI is Thematic Integrity
ALIOW is At Least It’s Over With
And of course the number system 13/2, 14/3, etc…
It stands for Playable Scrabble Word. Many times a certain word will be unaccepted in Letter Boxed but yet it’ll be a valid word in Scrabble.
The LB wordlist evidently falls way short of the wordlist for Scrabble!
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Oh yes, of course, PLAYABLE! My sincere thanks for the clarification, Mark. I apologize for misinforming you, MBEE!
sjamboks – sugarbird
OA here. I learned Skimboard only recently, from LB in fact, so everything comes ‘round right.
Surprised to hear of Sjambok! I thought it was Jambok, and I thought it was an antelope of some kind – thinking of Springbok, I suppose. Oh so wrong!
Not even close for me today, but thanks to the erudition of LB friends, I learned two new words:
My great-grandmother was a Moujik.
And the sinister-looking Sjambok is available online for only $32.99, and apparently “an effective means of self-protection, whether from venomous snakes, or from varmints of the two-legged variety!”
OA but it took a while
SKIMBOARD? SJAMBOK? Glad I gave up early….there was no way.
I did learn the meaning of BIJOU this round though. And loved finding MUMBOJUMBO
Same for me — Never heard of or would’ve guessed SKIMBOARD. Found BIJOU as well, along with ROMAJI, but glad I gave up early.
Jugs / skimboard