![]() ![]() “One secondary strategy I use when I’m stumped is to keep mental track of which letters keep escaping my attempts,” Mr. Lots of words either begin or end with S.” Double down on the letters that you have trouble placing. “Sometimes it’ll be a red herring, but often it is the easiest way to connect two words and offers the most options of other words. If there is an S in the puzzle, hang on to it for dear life. Dickman both mentioned looking for prefixes such as EX- and suffixes such as -ED or -ING. “They can use a lot of unwieldy letters and often allow for combinations that are hard to find in more ‘normal’ words,” he said. Epstein also recommends becoming familiar with chemical compounds and elements. “So that might prompt me to try something like PAJAMAS, which is easier to connect to.” “It’s hard to take a word that starts with J and find anything that ends with J to connect to it from the front,” Mr. One of the rules in Letter Boxed is that the last letter in one word has to be the first letter of the next word, so players should try to form words where these uncommon letters are tucked inside the word. Koker and Jeremy Epstein of Brooklyn, N.Y., advise scoping out the puzzle for those high-scoring Scrabble letters. Look for the uncommon letters, such as F, J, Q or Z.īoth Ms. Trying for a 3- or 4-solve “makes it seem more manageable and helps with finding solutions,” she said. Koker also recommends setting reasonable expectations for yourself when starting out. If at first you can’t 2-solve, try for a 3-solve. In addition to starting with common words, she recommends thinking about whether these words might make a compound word with another one, or become a prefix or a suffix. Needless to say, I trust what she says implicitly. She plays five or six times a week and is one of the regular 2-solvers on Twitter. ![]() You may be able to add on to them.ĭeb Koker, of Bedford, Mass., has been playing Letter Boxed since it was introduced on Jan. ![]() Or maybe they just felt sorry for me, I don’t know. I don’t think I would be overstating things if I said that puzzle solvers are some of the kindest people in the entire universe, and they were very forthcoming. Jealousy does not get you a 2-solve, however, so I thought I would ask some of the regular players on Twitter how to improve my game. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ![]()
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