Here are the Letter Boxed September 22, 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:
GPJUOINLCHRY
The answers are:
CONJURINGGLYPH
CONJURING—GLYPHIC
GLYPHIC—CONJURING
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GLYPH also works but I liked the symmetry obtained with GLYPHIC.
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I also had Glyphic Conjuring
👍 Awesome TI. Solutions like that prove it’s not random. Someone came up with it.
OA. Definitely themed.
Same
Conjuring
Glyph
Same. CONJURING GLYPHIC
Same – glyphic conjuring first
Nice it came rather quickly after a few failures this week.
Yes, the interchangeability is a delightful feature for which I am generally willing to sacrifice efficiency. But in the event, I went with Conjuring Glyph and Glyphic Conjuror (the Pentagram and its uses and users), and also Polyphonic Conjuring (spells cast with and by music).
OA. Started with glyph, went glyphic, saw conjuring. The rest is history
Another one I just stumbled on was POLYPHONIC—CONJURING.
No match for the superlative OA though.
Yes the OA…
such a charming character!
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Yay! Thanks Bernie
Put me down for half the OA with POLYPHONIC CONJURING as well.
Polyphonic conjuring
Conjuring Glyph
CONJURING – GLYPH
“Necronomicon Ex-Mortis”
Watch out for deadites.
OA, a gift, mercifully quick, not like yesterday’s 12 drummers drumming….
I feel that. Same here. OA in about 5 minutes 😁🍻
Me too, but it took me about 20 mins today. Played around with INJURING, GROPINGLY, PORCHING.
Yeah, didn’t quite get there today landing on INJURING – GLYCOLIC – CHOP; also toyed with JINGLING; PROCURING; GLYPH/IC
Agree.
OA
OA too.
CONJURING. GLYPH
POLYPHONIC — CONJURING
Also played around with CHURCHING, LOGOGRIPH, LIPOPHILIC, PHONOLOGIC.
CHLOROPICRIN* is in the OED but not in LB
COPROPHILIC* is in the OED but not in LB, and that is just as well! 🙂
PHILOCYNIC* — CONJURING
I am so seldom the winner, but today I am the winner, and nearly instantly.
Good!🎉
Mark and Bill, saw your observations yesterday on the frustrating LB word list. LB is using an Oxford word list, but it’s clearly not the 600,000-word OED. I’ve checked a number of OED words recently rejected by LB.* None of them are included in the 350,000-word ODE (Oxford Dictionary of English). I think that’s the word list LB is using.
Any abridged dictionary doesn’t just leave out uncommon words. It leaves out many words that add well-understood prefixes and suffixes to common words. This makes sense in a dictionary, but can be unendurable in a word game. 🙂
*Not a scientific sample, but it visits many prefixed and suffixed words in OED that we know and use.
UNDUG
UNFOUGHT
UNFOUND
UNFRIGHTENED
UNINFLATED
UNREFRIGERATED
UNTHOROUGH
UNTIGHTEN
DUNKABLE
CRACKABLE
KVETCHER
TINKLER
ANTIPOLE
REFILE
SPEWY
CHRONOLOGIC
FRACTILE
ZYMOSIS
BINDLE
HENCHWOMAN
Thanks for investigating! I wasn’t aware of an abridged version of the OED (kind of like an abridged version of the Encyclopedia Britannica!)
Thanks THIS for sharing your research. I completely forgot about the abridged versus unabridged versions (ODE vs OED). I’m glad to know this now. It should clear up some of the mysteries we’ve been encountering.
OA here too.
CONJURING / GLYPH inside 2 minutes today.
Same, though I chalk that up to my lack of imagination. There are some really fun non-OAs that I would have never found.
Regarding abridged dictionaries, I have been surprised of late how many normal, oft-used words are not in the MW Official Scrabble Players dictionary. Extraneous, for example. (At least the one we have.) My friends insist on using it during games, but it limits what can be fairly played.
Frankly my morning was list after i saw Lurching Gojiro and soent the rest of my allotted time on trying to find anything to do with the leftover P Y. My two cents i don’t believe there is any reference other than Ezersky brain matter. Yes they must check it and run it through some program but ultimately i think sam just looks at lists and decides yes/no
Another GLYPHIC CONJURING, which I was happy enough to find, so didn’t see that reversing the words gives a more economical solution. Sounds eerie and mysterious both ways, though.
OA pretty quickly after failing yesterday.
conjuring – glyph
OA, mercifully quickly, ending a dreadful 3 day losing streak. Still annoyed about Whataboutism, but have only myself to blame for not seeing Deadbolt. Had WRINKLED and BOLT on my word list. Yesterday had PRODUCT but didn’t see TWELFTH. Still think it looks funny written out.
OA. Looked briefly this morning and couldn’t concentrate properly, came back at bedtime and got it straight away.
CONJURING GLYPH, and it took more than 2 minutes for sure.
Alao INJURING GLYCOLIC CHIP before the OA.
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 – 14 conjuring / glyph
2 – 16 conjuring / glyphic
3 – 16 glyphic / conjuring
4 – 15 glyphic / conjuror
5 – 18 lyophilic / conjuring
6 – 16 nonjuring / glyphic
7 – 19 polyphonic / conjuring
8 – 19 polychoric / conjuring
OA after waking up in middle of the night …
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