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Sides of this Letter Box are:
ERTHDPLUOFCW
The answers are:
PRODUCTTWELFTH
PRODUCT—TWELFTH (oa)
⨯(1/12)
COPRODUCT^—TWELFTH
^MW: by-product.
I’m surprised it wasn’t in OED.
Same. PRODUCT – TWELFTH.
Product-theft-towel
(Hotel issues)
Also found some groups (world, crowd, people)
PRODUCT — TWELFTH
Spent a lot of time with COPRODUCT and COPRODUCED (neither of which is accepted by LB,
I think the words with a CO- prefix have been removed from the LB dictionary, like their cousins ANTI-, NON-, MIS-, etc. 😐
Interesting observation. Maybe UN as well. I’ll keep an eye out moving forward.
I think the “Excluded Categories” are now up to:
Proper names (exceptions: kleenex, xerox,..)
Abbreviations, even if in mainstream use
Vulgarities, obscenities
Highly technical
Variants of much more common originals
Negations (un, anti, non, and the like)
Not kleenex. There was another one, like Xerox, that I can’t recall at the moment. It was a brand name that become a regular word.
Chapstick
I was able to type in XEROX so I think the brands that have become generic terms are accepted. I would like to try others (POPSICLE, for example) to see.
The Chapstick incident still makes my blood boil. No way has that entered the no capitalized state
Or REAL words such as:
Defueled
Deductor
Keep the revolution alive!
Glad I quit early with PROWLED DUCT THEFT. My first guess was another 3w: WEFT TORCHED DUPLE. Was surprised Dupled wasn’t allowed. I don’t think I was close to solving today’s 2w.
similar PROWLED- DUTCH-HEFT.
has it become permissable to stop after a threebie solution 🤭?
i think sometimes it is the wisest course … actually my first goal is just to solve in the number of words that LB suggests (this puzzle was 4). Then i go on and try a 2 worder …
😎
PRODUCT is a boring word and i didn’t think of it …
mostly i messed around with WHORLED, WHELPED,
WEFT, and
UPTHROW.
No two word solutions with those …
Also, noticed LB accepted UPTHROW
but not THROWUP
and noticed LB accepts THRU which i’ve always thought is slang, and should be written as THROUGH except on road signs.
Had to settle for a 3 worder: CURFEW WORLD DEPTH.
FOP PROWLED DUTCH — cheap date
CURFEW WHELPED DOT — strict matron
OA for me. Something about chickens or bakers.
Curfew and whelped and various others tempted me to go astray, but the good old boring OA won out – Product Twelfth. Models One through Eleven may have failed, but hope springs eternal!
There was one solution today. There was one scrabble solution.
** 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 – 14 product / twelfth
2 – 16 coproduct* / twelfth
Hooray, I got the OA finally today! It’s been a while.
OA after reluctantly giving up on WHELPED – DEFLECTOR variants. I’m usually quicker to spot numbers, but must need more coffee to get the neurons firing!
8 letter words in today’s solution
churched
codeword
crotched
defector
deforced
forcefed
octupled
produced
protopod
tucotuco
poroporo
protopop
urochord
9 letter words in today’s solution
deflector
ectoproct
octothorp
thrutched
torpedoed
octochord
opodeldoc
productor
protocoel
protopope
10 letter words in today’s solution
octothorpe
pleurocoel
proctocele
protocoele
Ugh. Today’s not fun
Three words for me today:
DEFLECTOR ROW WHUP
OA before it resets in an hour! 2 or nothing baby!
SPARKPLUG GROUNDHOG