Letter Boxed
A refugee community for r/NYTLetterBoxed
Don’t put the answer in the title!
You can give a clue in the title of your post, but please don’t ruin the game.
Spoiler tag your solutions.
There are two ways to do this, take your pick:
1. NSFW your screencaps.
NSFW blurs images so answers aren’t revealed automatically when you load the front page.
(This is a workaround since Lemmy doesn’t support spoiler-tagging image posts.)
2. Use the body spoiler code.
If you don’t want to NSFW the whole post, you can spoiler within the body text and put your solution there. Here’s the format:
spoiler
You can upload your screencap directly into the body text. Just hit the picture icon in the formatting bar and it will insert that second line of code for you. So all you have to enter manually is the spoiler spoiler at the top.
(I understand this is a bit fidgety, so if you’d rather just stick to the NSFW method for now, that’s perfectly fine.)
Thanks and enjoy!
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Look out for affixes. For example, the past tense of most verbs ends in -ed. And many words also begin with the prefix de- so if you’ve got a d, that’s a decent place to start building your solution around.
Ditto for s, which is the most common plural suffix.
My personal strategy is to first take stock: How many vowels and liquids (L & R) do I have; are there any weird consonants to manage? (Q, W, Z, X, V)
I try to get as many of the difficult letters as I can in my first word, then build the second word out of the easier leftovers. The anchor letters (S & D as described above, among others) are key to connecting the words.
Another thing I like to do is look for 4 letter words that are commonly part of compound words -e.g boat. Or common suffixes - e.g “ful”, “tion” etc.