I got it in four today.

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clm
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It’s a little frustrating that if you enter a solution you can’t go back and try to improve, so I just make a note of what my five or four is, and then keep trying for three.

It’s all about the vowels, and then seeing what other letter patterns are available, like “ing”.

Today’s vowels, and where they were located in the box were terrible.

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clm
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Only one vowel?

I was a fail today. I think that’s the first time I’ve never been able to use every single ladder.

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clm
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The fun thing about boxed is you can play the day’s challenge several times.

The annoying thing about boxed is you can play the day’s challenge several times.

At least the one a day games let you get on with the rest of your day.

For a complete time-suck, *do not *play tiles. Especially zen mode. OMG !

Managed it in four (below). Pretty sure three is impossible with just one vowel.

That’s odd because once I enter a correct answer to LetterBoxed I can’t play it again without a subscription.

First try today.

Stand
Darn
Naps
Scald
Dash

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Five words and no “F”?! What is this, amateur hour?

¿Que?

Did I break the rules?

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

 
The goal is to use up all the letters using a maximum of five words. Fewer words is more impressive.
Try again…

 Ok. I clearly didn’t get the point of the game.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

 
I mean, it’s not exactly complicated… 🙄

It helps if you read the rules. Which I did not bother doing. Rules are for chumps.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

I have a NYT subscription, so maybe that's it.... But it's still one a day for wordle, connections, strands, crosswords.

With today's H-A on the same side, getting one solution (took 5 words) is good for me for today. I ignored the Play Again button.


* scarf, flanks, spanks, stands, scratch

 

In three:
Outlawry - Yank - Kirby

In four:
Balot - Twin - Natural - Lanky

What the heck is an outlawry? And a kirby?

I did it in 5.

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clm
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The state of being outlawed. Old legal term. Kirby I just tried to see if it was a word!

brawl lout tiny yak

I enjoy this one more than Connections or Wordle ... multiple ways to complete the puzzle.

3 words
RUNABOUT TWIRL LANKY

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Great first word!

Buoyant
Twirl
Link

Jihad
Donors
Stud
Dacha

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clm
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Also in 4 out of 6:

Jurists shroud dacha ant

 
In 3:

Jurist - Touch - Hand

1st time playing, 3 words: judas stoic churn

I didn't think they would accept judas as they don't allow proper nouns, but looked it up afterwards and found a few other definitions on dictionary.com:

noun
1. Also called Judas Iscariot. the disciple who betrayed Jesus. Mark 3:19.
2. a person treacherous enough to betray a friend; traitor.
3. Also called Saint Judas, Saint Jude. one of the 12 apostles (not Judas Iscariot). Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13; John 14:22.
4. a brother of James (and possibly of Jesus). Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3.
5. (usually lowercase)Also called judas hole . a peephole, as in an entrance door or the door of a prison cell.

adjective
1. (of an animal) used as a decoy to lead other animals to slaughter:
A Judas goat led sheep into the abattoir.

So yeah I meant the peephole.
@Kid

Briny
Yet
Tug
Goal

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In 3..
guano obligate energy

Granulation noble eye -
… all letters except for the y in 2 tries. Arghh.

Granulation nobly yet
… all letters except for e in 2 tries. Close yet so far.

*and why this game is a huge time suck :-)

 
In 2:

Regulation - Nobly

Nice!

Trailer Rugby Yon

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

 
Still looking for three. Found a four:

Qualmy - yurt - thigh - hub

Yeah, I can get 4 pretty easy, 3 is not working for me.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Five for me.

quilt
thymy
yurt
tab
bag

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clm
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Quality
Yurt
Timbal
Light

Was one version

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Nice. The only interest I have in this game is trying for two or three- beyond that it is too easy.

I've not figured out a two word solution yet, well done.

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Suffer Well.

Prowl
Laid
Dam
Mint
Talc

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In 3:



Tropical - lawn - nimrod

 
Very good!

I only did it in four:
Micro - optimal - lawn - nimrod

Held
Doxed
Drain
Nick

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clm
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I had Optical-Lowdown-Nimrod

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Suffer Well.

CHILD
DOXED
DARKEN

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

My 3:

exhaled drained dock

chickened doxed drail

I had chickened and doxed but couldn't come up with the third. I really wanted to use CLAXON but couldn't make it work.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Klaxon niched darn … or niche earned
gets you there in 3

Fazed
Diving
Gown
Net

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Fazed - devoting - gown

 
wafted dozing give

fawned dozed deviating

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Suffer Well.

3:

Umbilical, lowes, sulfa

cafes - swim - mouls - sub

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focuses - swabs - slim

Joked - devil - licked - dart

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Deject
Travail
Lock

 
Violet - tracked - dojo

 

Stitch - honors - spunky

Stinky- yours - ship - pick

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clm
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Pot - trucks - shiny

Trying for two words…

made 2:


synchronous - stickup

Ah, good work!

 
Zenith - hawk - ketonic - cog

Working on three…

3:

caw - weight - tokenize

3:



mouthful - lovelorn - nub

trod - drawl - lupine

 
3:

Wetland - drip - proud

I had:

doula - apart - twine

3 for today:


Dumpling - grout - torquing (dumpling - grout, just strands the 'q'. there's a 2-word possibility to be found I think).

 
Only found a four so far:

Jack knob blur ramp

I can’t seem to get under four or five at all.

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Took a while to get in 4:

Jump prank knob block

Giving up on finding 3 .. a few 4s…

Jackal - labour - ramp - plan

Jackal - lump - pub - born

Journal - lock - knob - bump

 
3:

Habit - thuds - somebody

I think 2 might be possible today… will keep looking.

Myth - habituated - dotes

Habitat - thymes - studio

Finally 3!

Thought
Tuber
Rifled

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clm
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A 2:

Brought
Trifled

 
Nice!

Had:
Broth - huger - rifled

 
3:

Trow - waxes - slick

Waxes
Scowl
Likes
Start

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clm
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Should I get extra points for only using each letter once (apart from the compulsory end and start of linking words)?

extracts - slow - wick

Sure, I admire the simplest answer.

waxiest - tracklist- trow

I was one letter - o - away from solving in two, I still haven't figured out how to get that done on a puzzle yet.

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Suffer Well.

3 :

Oxtails - scrawl - locket

Finding a 2…. Yawn… lets use all letters in one go!

(Probably just jinxed myself from ever finding a 2 again)

3 for today . . .



Phenom - Mixtape - Enervate

struggled today, but ended up with a mix of long words and lil filler words

phi - important - trim - moxie - environment

fever - rowing - griped - dewy

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clm
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My 3 today…

Foreigner - reprieved- dewy

3

Founts - systems - smirk

Fount - trinkets - system

Keeping a streak of 3 going …


Fragile - eunuch - hub

 
3:

Fueling - gab - branch

3


Azure - etch - hosiery

 
2:

Blitzkrieg - graphite

Boom!

Nice!

I'm struggling to keep my streak of 3's going. Got a 4/6 with

kebab - blazer - rig - graphite

Quick 3…

Prickle - eastern - new

 
Same, v quick 3. Looking for a 2.

Wreck - kilts - snap

prickles - enters - saw

3

Cloudy - young - graph

Graph
Halcyon
Nurd

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

First and likely only time to get two!

CHOP -> PLAYGROUND

 
3:

Trainloads - sporty - you

A couple of 3s..

Spurious - stand - duly

Adults - sprint - toy

Three today

knows - squirm - mean

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3 I found…

Quake - emirs - snow

 
2:

Mineworkers - squeaker

2

Squirmers - snowmaker *

* nyt says it’s not a word ?? Merriam-Webster says it is. I’m going with the dictionary folks :-)

3

Closet - thins - somber

2

Climbers - shorten

Two is v good!

3:

Lithic - cretins - somber

3

Blinker - rewoven - naïf

 
3:

Fawner - revokable - enviable

today's 3

jives - subtitles - snick

and 2:

subjunctive - elk

Tough one today. Only found 4 so far:

Chaotic - chip - played - dew

I could only get 4 today.

Photoed - Dialed - Decay - Yaw

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Gahhh, I got off the page before I remembered the first word and I don't have a subscription to get back to the page

Got it in 3

?????? YELP PLACIDITY

Before this I did not know placidity was a word but needed to get the CIT in there

ETA - incognito mode to the rescue
HOWDY YELP PLACIDITY

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Found a 3 as well …

Played - dietetic - chow

3


Flaunter - rabid - ducat

Lots of possibilities today by making plurals

3

Sprouts - schisms - savors

 
3/

Puma - atavistic - chromo

No plurals! ;)

 
3:

Quinoa - apathy - yolk

 
2:

Vestibule - endow

Always good to get 2!
(Was looking for you your Z, then realized that was yesterday’s play, which I missed).



Limited options for today with Z, I thought…

but my 3 …

Urchins - samba - amazon

 
I had the same last word, but:

Chains - suburbia - amazon

Got a 2…

Zirconia - ambush

3

Trickle - eager - reknown

 
3 too:

Neckwear - reluctant - touch

3..... same 2nd word...

Knower - reluctant - throw

knuckler - rat- throw

3

Faxing - grub - balmy

And 2

Faxing - grumbly

3

Crumbles - snarl - limp

And 2

Crucible - encamps

Keeping 3 streak going …

Whodunit - trial - lap

 
Unprint - thaw - would

Looking for a 2…

 
2 today:

Figurative - expel

 
2 streak continues:

Jackpot - twirls

Nice... I had a variation...

Jackpots - swirl

3

Bozos - strikeout - throw

Nice!

Could only find a four:

Zits - skew - worth - hub

In 3;

Whether - revolute - embed


when trying for 2, seeing other 3s:

Vermouth - herb - bowled

Wherever - redoubt - tumult

3 today…

Henchman - nougat - topaz

Finally a 3!

monks - spite - each

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Thumbs up!

My 3

Snake - echoic - compete

2:

Champions - steak

 
Haha - ditto!

keeping a 3 streak going...

Multiple - exhumes - sow


actually, make that a 2!

Multiplexes - show :-)

3


Gauze - enrich - hype

2

Perching - gauzy

 
Impressive !

Panzer - reaching - gun - nay
😞

Streaks continue …

Juror- roundabouts - sky

3:

Big - graphs - stormy

Looking for a 2…

I don't do this one very often.

2:

bigamist - trophy

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Slowguy

(insert pithy phrase here...)

 

3:

Warzone - elfin - nimbly.

3

Exterior- rhymes - spigot

3

Hunched - dialer - rob

2

Broiler - relaunched

3 streak continues…

Revolvers - sticker - rend

I've decided this one isn't all that fun. Too much time just staring at letters.

Today was pretty easy to get in 3, bet there is a 2 solution in there.

Lovers Stick Kind

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

It can be frustrating but it’s one of the more cerebral puzzles.

Velocities - snorkel - lend

Found 2 2’s !

Diversions - stickler

Recidivists - snorkel