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Phoodle Classic hints for · #298

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Food clue

The connection is a meal and the way it is presented.

Sources (may reveal the answer)

Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “bento”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

Stronger clue

Think of a Japanese lunch packed into a box.

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Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “bento”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

Why this answer fits

BENTO can mean a Japanese boxed lunch. Its food connection is the packaged meal; it does not require one fixed combination of ingredients.

Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “bento”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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What it means
“A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

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How it starts
The middle letter
The middle letter is N.

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How it ends
Reveal the answer
BENTO

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Compare the letters after solving

For BENTO, the pattern B___O fixes positions 1 and 5. It matches 38 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: BABOO, BACCO, BALLO, BALOO, BANCO, BANJO, BARDO, BARRO ….

5 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: BENTS, BENTY, CENTO, LENTO, MENTO. Check that differing position before treating a familiar spelling as the solution.

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Food words can include ingredients, utensils, dishes and cooking terms. This independent solver checks letter evidence; it does not claim that every candidate is in Phoodle's answer list.

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Also on March 2, 2023

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