Here are the Letter Boxed September 08, 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:
EPYANOIWMLRC
The answers are:
COMPLAINERRAILWAY
COMPLY-YAWNIER
I got half the OA with
COMPLAINER RACEWAY
I wasted a bit too much time trying to get POWERPLAY to work.
Same experience to get to COMPLAINER-RACEWAY!
COMPLAINER – RAWLY. I also had POWERPLAY, but I spent most of my time trying to pair POLICEWOMEN.
Optimal here too,
COMPLY – YAWNIER (13)
Same
YAWNER – RECOMPILE
Very tired after coding all night?
Enwrap polymeric
Enveloping the world in plastic: landart or pollution ?
Polymeric-Careworn
Similar theme for me, but the much less efficient POLYMERIC-CAMERAWOMAN. Happy to be done with it.
YAWNER / RECOMPILE too.
Complainer-rawly
Ditto
Got stuck with Policewomen.
Principal Laywomen! Bit of TI for your Policewomen!!
Same
Principal, but also Empirical, Incorporeal, Precocial or Reciprocal Laywomen. Those gals are good for just about anything. Also Complainer Rawly. Enough with the carping! At least tone it down! Plus Yawner Recompile (no wonder, so boring!), Enwrap Polymeric (enwrap it up, I’ll take it!), Polymeric Careworn (from too much enwrapping), and Polycarpic / Polymeric Camerawomen (hard to believe there’s a need for more than one of either).
ditto ditto
COMPLAINER – RAWLY
More efficient and, I think, more directly thematic than the OA.
Took me too long to get there.
Ditto.
Same
Complainer – Rawly …
Waiter! I said medium-well! Clearly this is just medium!! It’s practically still mooing! TAKE IT BACK!!!
Wasn’t going to play with this because I already think that most complainers do it rawly. But you found the way in. ☺
I also got complainer rawly and fairly quickly. Complainer was the easy one but it was a Doh! moment that got rawly.🙃
There are different kinds of WOMEN in today’s array:
PLAYWOMEN—NICER 👩🎤
EMPIRICAL—LAYWOMEN 👩🏭
POLYMERIC—CAMERAWOMEN 👸
I need another word to pair with POLICEWOMEN 👮♀️
Hopefully someone can find.
Didn’t get a match for policewomen but you provided me with one for:
POLYMERIC – CAREWORN
and now I am tired down to my DNA… so thanks and goodnight.
PRINCIPAL LAYWOMEN.
Even after several hours of sleep, POLICEWOMEN remains unpaired. 😴
Hey Mark – i’m coming in way later …
i tried POLYCARP, hoping that LB would accept it as meaning “multiple fish”, but they said “Not a word” … Polycarp IS in most encyclopedias and some dictionaries, not as a fish but an ancient martyr.
Moving slightly up the water column i came upon the word “NYROCA”, which seems to be used sometimes as a species name and sometimes as a genera name for various similar kinds of ducks:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&offset=0&ns0=1&search=NYROCA
… but again, LB said “Nyet!”.
OA, plus COMPLAINER – RACEWAY
(found RACEWAY and RAILWAY both before COMPLAINER)
Complainer and raceway as well. Haven’t solved in a while so this feels good.
Complainer-rampway. Wanted something to go with lawnmower….
Yes, I too mowed and mowed the lawn but in vain
COPOLYMER — RAINWEAR
I grew up wearing those think, yellow rubbery raincoats.
Monday morning in the pouring rain. Waiting for the yellow school bus in my yellow raincoat. Enough to put me off education for life.
Ditto.
PRINCIPAL – LAYWOMEN
The NEWLY appointed leader of the Catholic school wielded his POWER like a spoiled PRINCE or self-important CORPORAL, ICILY greeting the married female teachers, despite their WARMER demeanor.
I had EMPIRICAL and I fought and fought with laywoman to work and it never occurred to me that there might be more than one laywoman, so I gave up that train of thought and eventually failed.
2 chicks at the same time.
I found COMPLAINER right away. Tried in vain to pair. Failed.
COMPLAINER — RAILWAYMEN
Really wanted to use policewomen but ended up same as one of Mark’s , POLYMERIC-CAMERAWOMEN
WOMENPOWER – RACILY Victoria’s Secret catalog?
Excellent!
Likewise. Quickly too.
Hehe, Judy 😄
😃
I never thought of putting WOMEN first. 😉
Nice find. 👍
🙂
complainer rawly.
I think it would have been railway if I’d got that one first rather than just using the leftover letters for rawly. You know with two letters you’re going to make it work one way or another.
I got LAWNMOWER – RECIPROCY
Sounds like a drive-in revenge flick! 🙂
The Lawnmower Man, 1992
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/
That’s the one! 🙂
Well done, I spent ages trying to get a word to go with lawnmower!
Am I the only one to get the OA today?
OA, surprisingly considering the number of different answers!
INCORPOREAL–LAYWOMEN here
EMPIRICAL LAYWOMEN after some noodling. Nice work above finding a two-worder with CAREWORN, I struck out. Saw EARWORM off the bat, again couldn’t find a two-worder, but if anyone can do it it’ll be one of you brilliant folks here!
ALYCOMPAINE* — EARWORM
A perennial composite plant, Horse-heal (Inula Helenium), with very large yellow radiate flowers and bitter aromatic leaves and root
Amazing. Now I’m tempted to plant some!
RECIPROCAL – LAYWOMEN
Me too!
Oh man! I thought I finally had an original!
Reciprocal Laywomen here too.
Me too!
Mine too! I’m a bit embarrassed that it took me a long time to get an answer seeing as how many possible answers people found!
Inwrap Polymeric
Complacency- Yawnier
I found
COMPILER / RAILWAYMEN
But it didn’t accept compiler today
That’s weird that it fond RECOMPILE as a valid word
I was able to type in that combination.
Never mind. It did find COMPILER
copier – railwaymen
COMPLACENCY – YAWNIER
Less efficient than using “Comply” first, but I was trying to lead off with a longer word to reduce the number of letters needed for a word starting with “y”. Never went back to realize the “acenc” in the middle was superfluous…
OA.
I solved it, but not in time to catch the train.
TI: AmTrak for commuters
I forgot to post this last night.
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 – 19 caprylic / camerawomen
2 – 18 compiler / railwaymen
3 – 18 complacency / yawnier
4 – 17 complainer / raceway
5 – 17 complainer / railway
6 – 20 complainer / railwaymen
7 – 15 complainer / rawly
8 – 17 complainer / rampway
9 – 17 complainer / roloway
10 – 13 comply / yawnier
11 – 16 copier / railwaymen
12 – 19 copolymer / railwaymen
13 – 17 copolymer / rainwear
14 – 17 copolymer / rainworm
15 – 17 empirical / laywomen
16 – 15 enwrap / polymeric
17 – 15 inwrap / polymeric
18 – 19 incorporeal / laywomen
19 – 19 lawnmower / recipiency
20 – 18 lawnmower / rapamycin
21 – 18 lawnmower / reciprocy
22 – 14 lower / rapamycin
23 – 16 lowlier / rapamycin
24 – 14 pinworm / mycelia
25 – 15 pinworm / mycelial
26 – 16 pinworm / macilency
27 – 15 plower / rapamycin
28 – 18 policier / railwaymen
29 – 20 polymeric / camerawomen
30 – 17 polymeric / careworn
31 – 17 precocial / laywomen
32 – 17 principal / laywomen
33 – 16 prowler / rapamycin
34 – 18 reciprocal / laywomen
35 – 15 welp / paromomycin
36 – 15 yawner / recompile
37 – 16 yawnier / recompile
38 – 15 colinear / rampway
39 – 16 lowerer / rapamycin
40 – 14 owler / rapamycin
41 – 16 paromomycin / newel
42 – 16 paromomycin / newly
43 – 18 paromomycin / newline
44 – 15 picarel / laywomen
45 – 17 pileworm / macilency
46 – 21 polycarpic / camerawomen
47 – 17 precarial / laywomen
48 – 18 principial / laywomen
49 – 16 womenpower / racily
50 – 18 womenpower / relicary
51 – 18 alycompaine* / earworm
52 – 18 alycompaine* / empower
53 – 17 alycompaine* / enwrap
54 – 15 alycompaine* / ewer
55 – 15 calycine* / empower
56 – 18 carapacial* / laywomen
57 – 15 coemploy* / yawnier
58 – 18 comparer* / railwaymen
59 – 16 complicacy* / yawner
60 – 17 complicacy* / yawnier
61 – 18 complier* / railwaymen
62 – 18 copolymer / railwomen*
63 – 22 copolymeric* / camerawomen
64 – 19 copolymeric* / careworn
65 – 19 coprincipal* / laywomen
66 – 16 encolpia* / armyworm
67 – 16 enwrap / promycelia*
68 – 17 enwrap / promycelial*
69 – 18 incorporal* / laywomen
70 – 16 inwrap / promycelia*
71 – 17 inwrap / promycelial*
72 – 16 mowra / alycompaine*
73 – 21 paralympic* / camerawomen
74 – 18 paralympic* / careworn
75 – 17 policer* / railwaymen
76 – 18 praecocial* / laywomen
77 – 15 prawlin* / neomycin
78 – 18 promycelia* / airwomen
79 – 15 promycelia* / awarn*
80 – 13 promycelia* / awn
81 – 15 promycelia* / awner*
82 – 16 promycelia* / awnier*
83 – 14 promycelia* / awny*
84 – 15 promycelial* / lawn
85 – 18 promycelial* / lawnier*
86 – 20 promycelial* / lawnmower
87 – 16 promycelial* / lawny
88 – 19 promycelial* / laywomen
89 – 15 promycelial* / lown
90 – 16 promycelial* / lowne*
91 – 19 rewarewa / alycompaine*
92 – 17 womera* / alycompaine*