Here are the Letter Boxed October 30, 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:
RPMGBKNAEICY
The answers are:
PAYBACKKINGMAKER
See yesterday for original steph first with oa. Mine: BACKPACKING GIMCRACKERY long but satisfying somehow
The same for me, after trying lots of …ING endings and getting nowhere, I got GIMCRACKERY and realised I could use BACKPACKING 🙂
Eyepiece Embarking
Same here!!
This is my answer also. Wasn’t sure somebody else would have it.
I too had Eyepiece Embarking (can’t set sail until I find my spyglass), but I went with the OA Payback Kingmaker (Elon’s big plan). .
I got PACEMAKING and GARBAGY
Same, exactly!
EYEPIECE — EMBARKING
I spent a lot of time trying to get REMAKING, PAPERBACK, BAREBACKING, and REMEMBERING to work, but couldn’t pair them.
EYEPIECE – EMBARKING almost immediately
TI: the pirate navigator prepping to set sail
Well done! I got stuck on PACE-EMBARKING with Y still left over so it’s really satisfying to see someone else get a solution, with a nice theme as well
I got PACEMAKING GREYBACK
EYEPIECE – EMBARKING also.
I also got this – got embarking right away and worked backwards to get eyepiece
Backpacking Grimey
I tried this too but it didn’t accept Grimey with the e
Hey Oscar! I feel we are time traveling 😀 on this site.
PAYBACK-KINGMAKER also long, but politically timely?
Interested to see if more efficient, non-compound-word solutions arise today.
I think LB getting prepped for the time jump coming this Sunday maybe it will not be down most of that day like usual
Aha!
Well, they’ll have an extra hour to figure it out in!
EYEPIECE-EMBARKING here too.
OA here. Didn’t think it was, so a nice surprise.
The price of success 🙁
PACEMAKING – GARBAGEY
Sinus issues.
GARBAGY also works, but efficiency was out the window at this point.
Nice! I only got an unlinked Pacemaker Bingy.
PACEMAKING – GARBAGEY
Not efficient, but satisfied!
Mine was:
PACEMAKING GREYBACK
Actually, i first tried GYBER as the 2nd word, but LB wouldn’t take it.
Then GRAYBACK, but LB said no to it.
So that left GREYBACK, and LB accepted it.
I didn’t think about GARBAGY … i would have a hard time deciding if the correct spelling is with or sans the “E”.
PS – MW lists “Grayback”, but not “Greyback”.
OED lists them jointly under “Greyback”.
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Eyepiece embarking. Wanted to make repackaging work also tried both payback and kingmaker w/o making the connection,went back to my second try and this time saw eyepiece
PACEMAKING / GREYBACK (GRAYBACK) here.
Me too. So many times I think I will be the only one with an answer like PACEMAKING – GREYBACK, and others have found it also!
EYEPIECE—EMBARKING
Going for new glasses.
BACKPACKING—GIMCRACKERY
“Travelling with trinkets” (from ChatGBT).
Longest unaccepted word found: MIMINYPIMINY°
°OED:
miminy-piminy, adj. & n. Ridiculously delicate or affected; finicky, over-refined.
gimcrack, n. & adj. Now usually applied to a showy, unsubstantial thing; esp. to a useless ornament, a trumpery article, a knick-knack.
I can’t believe someone else got the highly inefficient. BACKPACKING GIMCRACKERY
My answer, too. But I love using Gimcrackery!
Hey Mark – thanks 🙏 for checking those words for me a couple of days ago …
i didn’t do yesterday’s LB … was driving all day Monday and then yesterday had a dentist appointment and then a meeting until after 9pm last night … i was Tired 🥱!
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payback-kingmaker
Pacemaking Greyback here.
Long solutions today.
PAYBACK-KINGMAKER
Really wanted to use CAPYBARA in my solution but found the OA instead!
Depending on who wins…
a) Payback for the kingmakers OR b) payback as promised by he who would be made king
ps- please vote even if you have to stand in line. You can play letterboxed while waiting.
YES!!!!
Pacemaking garbagy
I was thinking more CRYBABY than Kingmaker.
OA – 2 day streak!
Pacemaking – Greyback. Who knew Greyback was a word…I was surprised when I tried it out and it worked.
Struck out after failing to match BACKPACKING. 🫤
Hopefully the OA proves false next Tuesday. (unless the PAYBACK is the would-be king losing in a landslide…)
Here is the full list including Scrabble words:
** 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 – 22 backpacking / gimcrackery
2 – 17 eyepiece / embarking
3 – 18 pacemaking / garbagey
4 – 17 pacemaking / garbagy
5 – 18 pacemaking / greyback
6 – 16 payback / kingmaker
7 – 15 meiping / greyback
8 – 19 backpacking / gramarye*
9 – 20 bagpiping* / gimcrackery
10 – 18 pacemaking / grayback*
11 – 17 paperbacking* / gamay*
12 – 17 paperbacking* / gamey
13 – 16 paperbacking* / gamy
14 – 18 paperbacking* / geminy*
15 – 23 paperbacking* / gimcrackery
16 – 19 paperbacking* / gramary*
17 – 20 paperbacking* / gramarye*
18 – 17 paperbacking* / grimy
19 – 15 paperbacking* / gym
20 – 20 parbaking* / gimcrackery
Got many of the words I’m seeing here (including Capybara) but just wasn’t finding matches. I was stuck the longest on Repackaging.
BACKPACKING GIMCRACKERY