Here are the Letter Boxed September 23, 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:
UHKALGPDRSON
The answers are:
HOUNDSSPARKPLUG
OA. puzzles getting fun again!
GROUNDHOGS—SPARKPLUG
SPARKPLUG—GROUNDHOGS
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Wake up, Punxsutawney Phil!
SPARKPLUG / GROUNDHOG here.
Same, pretty quickly
Ditto – GROUNDHOGS – SPARKPLUG in about 5 mins. Saw GROUND immediately, then GROUNDHOGS, then SPARK, then SPARKPLUG
Yup. Hounds Sparkplug (Hey, you! Leave that sparkplug alone!). Also Sparkplug Groundhog and Horndogs / Handholds / Groundhogs Sparkplug. Is there an answer without Sparkplug?
Yup! Was thinking the same thing! Challenging without being ridiculous!
OA as well.
Same as you, Mark. Half the OA again.
I like finding symmetric pairs, LWM, A↔B ⋀ B↔A, even if they’re not the most letter-efficient. 🙂
Nice rebus with the emojis, by the way.
found the OA, but I was today years old when i found out SPARKPLUG is one word
HOARHOUNDS — SPARKPLUGS
OED does not accept the plural of HOARHOUND, but LB does!
SPARKPLUG — GROUNDHOG
I just saw GROUNDHOG
Yet it was fine with Horndogs! Go figure.
9,232,024 is a REALLY long life, DHW, What’s your secret?
(Actually I see what you did there; I’m just being a wiseguy.)
Sparkplugs- sandhog
Nice – sandhog is new on me
Odographs slunk
Ha! So there IS an answer without Sparkplug! Good work finding it, Ras.
HOUNDS – SPARKPLUG
Catching up now, had a bad streak last week not getting a two word solution for many days!
Okay, so i offer:
HOARHOUNDS SPARKPLUG
“Hoar” doesn’t mean what it sounds like, and isn’t a synonym for “boar” (as in hog) which i was kind of thinking (thus, hog hunting hounds), but “hoar” means “furry”. So, “hoarfrost” is “furry frost”. Something i never knew before, but real frost is not too common in Christmas (Florida)
Anyway – “hoarhound” isn’t a furry dog either, but a plant in the mint family … from Wikipedia:
“The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word horehound from Old English hoar (furry, as in “hoarfrost”) and hune (a word of unknown origin designating a class of herbs or plants). The second element was altered by folk etymology.”
So, i guess “hune” eventually got changed into “hound”
The most surprising thing is LB accepted it as a word …
😎🐝🇺🇸
Of course the OA
HOUNDS SPARKPLUG
is more efficient, but i had already typed in
HOARHOUNDS when i saw SPARKPLUG and i didn’t bother looking for a shorter version.
But before “hounds” i really wanted to do something with “shark” … I especially wanted “loanshark” but today’s letter array doesn’t allow a NS sequence …
I typed in:
DOGSHARK
SANDSHARK
HOUNDSHARK
GROUNDSHARK
LB rejected all these … you see them listed in dictionaries and articles, but often as two words.
If LB had allowed it, i could have done:
PLOUGH HOUNDSHARK
PLUG GROUNDSHARK
or even
SPARKPLUG GROUNDSHARKS
and
GROUNDSHARKS
SPARKPLUG
😎🐝
HOUNDS – SPARKPLUG
It’s not the dog in the fight….
Also HANDHOLDS – SPARKPLUG
Speed climber champion
OA. 3 in a row.
Sparkplug Groundhog
Hounds Sparkplug
Started with groundhogs, then saw spark but L needed to clear. Sparkle, sparkling… Somehow I managed to see sparkplug. Reset, put sparkplug and hounds came naturally after.
A mercifully quick OA. Still smarting from last weeks 3 day losing streak.
An optimal 3 today,
DUNG – GRAPHS – SKOL (14)
A group of manure salesmen celebrate their record profits…
Swedish manure salesmen!
2 fast solves in 2 days. Guess I’m getting some of the time back from the grueling hours spent on the five previous solves. Off to delayed chores now 😊
hounds – sparkplug
OA, TG.
Got the OA too but only after trying PLOUGHS SANDSHARK which didn’t fly.
Also found DUOGRAPHS* SLUNK
I found: GRAPH / HOLD / DUNKS
Horndogs Sparkplug
SPARKPLUG GROUNDHOG
HANDHOLDS-SPARKPLUG
GROUNDHOGS SPARKPLUG too.
ODOGRAPHS-SLUNK.
I had GRAPH and SLUNK…trying figure out what to do with O-D so I took a stab at ODOGRAPHS and it worked!
OA
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 groundhogs / sparkplug
2 – 20 groundhogs / sparkplugs
3 – 18 handholds / sparkplug
4 – 19 handholds / sparkplugs
5 – 15 hodographs / slunk
6 – 19 hoarhounds / sparkplug
7 – 20 hoarhounds / sparkplugs
8 – 17 horndogs / sparkplug
9 – 18 horndogs / sparkplugs
10 – 15 hounds / sparkplug
11 – 16 hounds / sparkplugs
12 – 19 poundshops / sparkplug
13 – 20 poundshops / sparkplugs
14 – 17 sandhogs / sparkplug
15 – 18 sandhogs / sparkplugs
16 – 18 sparkplug / groundhog
17 – 19 sparkplug / groundhogs
18 – 17 sparkplugs / sandhog
19 – 18 sparkplugs / sandhogs
20 – 14 odographs / slunk
21 – 18 roadhands / sparkplug
22 – 19 roadhands / sparkplugs
23 – 17 hangdogs* / sparkplug
24 – 18 hangdogs* / sparkplugs
25 – 19 roundhands* / sparkplug
26 – 20 roundhands* / sparkplugs