Here are the Letter Boxed January 28, 2025 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest trying to solve the game on your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
HRTLZBPIMAUE
The answers are:
UMBRAALPHABETIZE
RUMBA – ALPHABETIZE, instantaneously.
RUMBA – ALPHABETIZE
After brief flirtations with BRUTALIZE and PLURALIZE.
Same, plus Materialize and Parameterize
BRUTALIZE works with EPHEMERAL … (That’s what I came up with.)
Same
Another RUMBA – ALPHABETIZE
Tried with materialize for too long.
Brutalize Ephemeral
Just in time!
same
BRUTALIZE-EPHEMERAL for me too. A fleeting beating.
I got BRUTALIZE – EPHEMERAL as well. But you get bonus points for a rhyming TI! I can’t top that one!
Another RUMBA – ALPHABETIZE. But not after trying to make PERAMBULATE work.
Same here – surprised they didn’t see it first, unless they insist on the ‘rhumba’ spelling.
Ditto;-)
I have the more efficient Mura Alphabetize. Goes between Mule and Mute. Also found Brutalize Ephemera. I’m not quite sure how one would do that.
rumba – alphabetize as well
BRUTALIZE-EPHEMERAL
oxymoron
BRUTALIZE EPHEMERA
yes that’s better
Same here…
Brutalize – Ephemera
Also found… Pretzel, Tabulate, Ambulate, Marmalize,
BRUTALIZE – EPHEMERAL
Sucker punch.
BRUTALIZE EPHEMERA…
Superbowl Sunday.
BRUTALIZE – EPHEMERA
It won’t last long.
Brutalize-Ephemeral. Heavy road salting in advance of expected Southern snowfall.
LOL, Patrick
Same
BRUTALIZE-EPHEMERA
HAMULAR*-REBAPTIZE
* HAMULAR is good in Merriam-Webster, OED and Scrabble US (TWL) but not LB
Oa
Brutalize Ephemera
BILHARZIA-APTERIUM*
* APTERIUM is good in Merriam-Webster, OED and Scrabble US (TWL) but not in LB
Mura alphabetize
RUMBA-ALPHABETIZE for me too. Couldn’t make the ZEBRA work.
15/2.MURA ALPHABETIZE
Good on you for trying that combo! I dismissed it and came up with RUMBA – ALPHABETIZE, but so many words out there I didn’t know were words!
Same here. I kinda, maybe, thought that MURA was a word so I tried it out and it worked!
Me too, to my surprise!
Rumba Alphabetize
ALPHABET ⇄ TAMBURITZA
TAMBURITZA ⇆ ALPHABET
TAMBURITZA—ALEPH
TAMBURITZA—APHELIA
ALPHABETIZE—ERBIUM
ALPHABETIZE—EMBRUTE°
HEMATURIA—ALPHABETIZE
TARAHUMARA°—ALPHABETIZE
Comin’ with both barrels today, huh?
Locked and loaded. 😉
You had some good ones too I see. 👍
☕
I had Alphabetize-Erbium as well
Fire at will!
Oh, thanks
Love these circular ones, no -izes too. Congratulations.
Thanks Jenny, I love those too. Symmetric Pairs are my fav name for them. They don’t show up everyday. Maybe no more than once a week, if I were to guess. 🙂
I had brutalize but still failed. I got hung up on empath not working and then got really made at myself and then was out of time.
So snnoyed that Tubularize-ephemera didn’t work that I missed brutalize and had to settle for a 3.
So annoyed herpetarium–marbelize wasn’t accepted
Guessing (and hoping🤞) it may be some kind of sanitarium from centuries-past for people with herpes, I just had to look “herpetarium” up. As I’m sure you know, it turns out it’s a biodome for reptiles and amphibians instead, much to my dismay😂.
Anyway, GREAT WORD!!!👍
ALPHABETIZE — ERBIUM
ALPHABETIZE — EMURE* (OED but LB doesn’t accept)
Played with UTILIZER, AMBULATE
mura -> alphabetize
rumba alphabetize after too much perambulate ephemeral lateralize labialize premature etc
alphabetizer* rum ????
Should have utilized brutalize with ephemeral
Anybody find a pairing for PLURALIZE? I got hung up on that word for about 15 minutes before heading off in a different direction and found ALPHABETIZE.
14-letter 3-word solution:
HIT-TZAR-REPLUMB
👍 Good one Angela!
BRUTALIZE – EPHEMERAL So many great IZE words. RUMBA – ALPHABETIZE
Rumba alphabetize
After struggling with…. rapture, premature, perambulate, rematerialize,
Ooph, that one took a while. BRUTALIZE – EPHEMERAL, after PLURALIZE, MATERIALIZE, and PARAMETERIZE led nowhere.
My three comments seem to have been removed. No reason given. See y’all tomorrow.
Silly me. I posted on the wrong day. Here was my response:
PLUTE EMBERIZA* AHA
I also suggested TUBE EPHEMERALIZE* (which one could derive from EPHEMERALIZATION, a term coined by Buckminster Fuller.)
BAPTIZE – EPHEMERAL
Missing U!! duh…. lol
BRUTALIZE-EPHEMERA
After spending ages trying to find something to match up with UTILIZER