33 thoughts on “Letter Boxed December 23, 2024 Answers”
Mark
December 23, 2024 at 9:33 am
VINEYARD—DROPOUT (oa)
🍇🚶✌️PROAVIAN—NEUTRODYNE
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Mark
December 23, 2024 at 9:49 am
From the OED:
proavian, adj. & n. Of or relating to a hypothetical animal forming an evolutionary link between fossil reptiles and fossil birds.
neutrodyne, n. A type of high-frequency valve amplifier in which neutralization is employed to prevent oscillation throughout a range of frequencies.Reply
December 23, 2024 at 5:56 pm
Hats off for finding a winner with Neutrodyne. Found that but couldn’t make it work and also got tangled up with all the prefixes—anti, inter, intra, retro, and made a bunch of crazy words with those but never did find OA. The humble Pivoter-Randy picks up all but U.
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December 23, 2024 at 8:34 pm
Also Vituperant*-Tody in protest for not allowing some version of Vituperate today
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Mark
December 24, 2024 at 2:05 am
Thanks. I knew proavian, but I had to look up neutrodyne. 👍
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THIS
December 23, 2024 at 10:18 am
Had DROPOUT, but not
VINEYARD – DROPOUT
Wine in a box.Reply
Bernie Horowitz
December 27, 2024 at 3:06 am
OA Vineyard Dropout here as well. I left the Sommelier program under a cloud.
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Bruce
December 23, 2024 at 2:38 pm
OA after toiling with other words and near misses with Vineyard. 🙄
Rainout, Outyard, Airport, Topiary,Outyard -Divine (no P)
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Original Steph
December 23, 2024 at 10:06 am
PRENOVA(?!)-AUDITORY
I’ll take it to compensate for all the real words LB rejected!Reply
Mark
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 am
Great solution!
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Original Steph
December 23, 2024 at 11:38 am
Thanks ☺️. High praise coming from an LB Master.
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Ras
December 23, 2024 at 10:47 am
Same here. Really needed auditory to work.
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Judy
December 23, 2024 at 2:54 pm
Super! I struck out with Auditory, only got as far as Pent – Trivia – Auditory. Finally gave up on it and eventually hit on OA.
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SLC
December 23, 2024 at 7:18 pm
Oh I like that one! I had a few 3w’s with AUDITORY including PEN NOVA AUDITORY. Missed any 2w today. Got Yard, not Vine somehow, -out or Out- (Outdone, Outran), Drop and Pout but missed Dropout too. Lots of 3w’s. My shortest was VARIETY YUP POND.
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Gab
December 23, 2024 at 10:20 am
Vineyard + dropout
Vineyard was the first I really considered but somehow missed dropout on the first look, after playing around with penitentiary and poutine I returned to vineyard and caught dropout 👍
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Mvua
December 23, 2024 at 11:35 am
vineyard dropout… a wine stopper.
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Lorraine
December 23, 2024 at 12:07 pm
Vineyard Dropout
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Bill Duffin
December 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm
VINEYARD — DROPOUT
I spent a lot of time trying to get INTRAUTERINE, PENETRANT, ANTINEUTRON, and PERPETUITY to work. Found YARD and then VINEYARD and DROPOUT was right there.
LB would not accept ANTINEUTRINO or DIPROTODON.
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SusanM
December 23, 2024 at 2:54 pm
Nice finds Bill! Not as long, but I also found NONPERPETUITY, REPUDIANT, OPERANDI, and VIRIDIAN before finally landing on the OA. Thought of a VINEYARD littered with inebriated college students 🙂
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Kathleen
December 23, 2024 at 4:37 pm
Kathleen got protein, nervy, yearend, propriety……couldn’t make anything work today
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Mark
December 23, 2024 at 3:03 pm
At least it does accept the ANTINEUTRON and the ANTIPROTON today. ⚛️ ✔
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Bill
December 23, 2024 at 12:40 pm
OA
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Robin
December 23, 2024 at 2:51 pm
vineyard – dropout
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Mark
December 23, 2024 at 3:27 pm
Some minimal triples (14/3):
AUDIT—TROPE—ENVY
AVID—DUE—ENTROPY
DUET—TROPIN—NAVY
PIVOT—TUAN—NERDYA symmetric triple ↘️ :
PIVOTER—RANDY—YUP
YUP—PIVOTER—RANDY
RANDY—YUP—PIVOTER☕☕
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Mark
December 23, 2024 at 3:39 pm
I wanted to add that triples almost always abound in LB. But when restricting to just 14 letters it is still a challenge. You can uncover rare 3- and 4-letter words.
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Bill Duffin
December 23, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Nice!
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December 23, 2024 at 5:16 pm
VINEYARD / DROPOUT
Took longer than I’d like to admit, being an advocate for both.Reply
Richie
December 23, 2024 at 6:10 pm
OA, spent some time with PROTERVITY to no avail
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Amber
December 24, 2024 at 12:08 am
VINEYARD – DROPOUT as well.
Had vineyard for awhile but no pair. Thought I was going to have to pass.
Then DROPOUT dropped in!Reply
MAL
December 23, 2024 at 6:11 pm
OA! (Two days in a row! That’s good for me!)
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Simon
December 23, 2024 at 6:19 pm
PRENOVA AUDITORY here too. I was playing around with NONAUDITORY which was not accepted (but is in MW etc) and then tried this one.
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DAVEL
December 24, 2024 at 6:59 am
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 – 18 neutropenia / avidity
2 – 15 vineyard / dropout
3 – 15 prenova / auditory
4 – 18 proavian / neutrodyne5 – 17 antependia* / avoutry*
6 – 15 induviae* / entropy
7 – 15 induviae* / eutropy*
8 – 18 ouvirandra* / antetype
9 – 20 ouvirandra* / antipyrine*
10 – 18 ouvirandra* / antitype
11 – 18 ouvirandra* / autotype
12 – 15 peponida* / avoutry*
13 – 16 peridinia* / avoutry*
14 – 17 vanadinite / eutropy*
15 – 15 viranda* / autotype
16 – 17 vivandiere* / eutropy*Reply
