Here are the Letter Boxed February 13, 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:
MWTIHOAEYSBC
The answers are:
BOMBASTICCHEWY
THEMATIC—COWBOYS
MATHEMATIC—COWBOYS
BOWSIE—ECTHYMA° 13/2
WATCHET°—TOMBOYISH
WATCHET°—TOMBOYISM
METATHETIC—COWBOYS
CHEMOTACTIC—COWBOYS
METACHEMIC°—COWBOYS
HEMISYSTEMATIC°—COWBOY
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Systematic chaos swob
Not two words but able to fit a dream theater album. Last word just to finish
HEMATIC – COWBOYS
Is that similar to blood brothers?
The Blues Brothers, the blues blood brothers.
😊
Went the longer way with Hemostatic-Cowboy(s). Jerry Jones’s offseason plans to stop the bleeding.
🙂 I’m waiting for the Broncos to make their triumphant return. 🏈
Jerry Jones’ pursuit of mediocrity is relentless.
Oh if only i thought JJ had a plan
This Texan mathematician roped and tied
MATHEMATIC COWBOYS
in a matter of minutes.
Way to go!
Same here. Some very analytical lassoing.
MATHEMATIC—COWBOYS
Soooo easy today…SFDude is a Texan Mathematician!
Same. So easy. Especially next to yesterdays funfest
I also came up with THEMATIC — COWBOYS
Thematic Cowboys too, pardner
Spent a long time with
Bewitches
Cashews
Tomboyish
MATHEMATIC—COWBOYS for me today.
Really wanted STOMACHACHE to help me but to no avail.
Mathematic Cowboys for me. Countin’ the dogies. The OA is particularly tasty today. An apt follow-on from yesterday’s round table discussion.
MATHEMATIC – COWBOYS.
📐🤠✔
Thematic Cowboys
Ditto!
Same!
Also Thematic Cowboys
HEMATIC – COWBOYS
Lotsa cowboys today. 👍
Taylor Sheridan must be nearby.
I don’t get why STOMACHACHE is accepted, but not STOMACHACHES.
Definitely strange
Both are playable in Scrabble.
Maybe it’s Letter Boxed’s glossary has it listed as an adjective but not a noun (e.g. stomachache remedy). Just spitballing.
THEMATIC-COWBOYS
*WOMBIEST-THATCHY*
*WOMBIEST good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Scrabble US (TWL) but not LB
*THATCHY good in OED, Scrabble US (TWL) but not LB
*AMEBOCYTES-SWISH
*AMEBOCYTES good in OED, Scrabble US (TWL) but not LB
Nice catch with AMEBOCYTES! ☕
Thanks!
HEMOSTATIC-COWBOY
BOYISMS-SWATCHES
*WOMBIEST-THEOMACHY
*WOMBIEST good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Scrabble US (TWL) not LB
WOMBAT – THYMES – SIC
Last Wombat in Mecca. Take 1
Hemostatic Cowboy
Mathematic cowboys
A rancher asked one of his buckaroos how many cattle were in a nearby pasture.
The young man answered: well sir, 200.
Rancher: how’d ya figure?
Buckaroo: counted all the legs and divided by 4 on my cowculator, got 196. Then I rounded em up.
I need a laughing + eyeroll emoji 🙂
Love this! Starting my day off with a quick win (HEMATIC COWBOYS) and a much needed chuckle. Thanks MVUA!
*BOWIES-STOMACHY*
Both good in OED but not LB
I really enjoyed the article Richie! Thanks for sharing that.
Sure thing, you’re welcome. Scott Price, who was a senior staff writer for SI at the time, wrote a wonderful piece.
Am I the first with the OA?
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😊
BOMBASTIC – CHEWY
Not to make a meal of it.
another OA here but the other solutions are great fun
Same here… OA after coming close with Chatbot – Timewise (no Y)
Also found… watches, witches, batches, Behemoths, Timebomb
mathematic – cowboys
OA rather quickly.
Camboys-Switches
I really liked Cowboy(s) but wound up settling for OA.
MATHEMATIC — COWBOYS
I was bummed that I couldn’t add an S to MATHEMATIC, but COWBOYS was right there. Also saw SOMETIME(S), WITCHES, TOASTIES, SOMEWHAT.
CAMBOYS – SWITCHES
Stunned that LB accepted it. It’s not in any Oxford dictionary (OED, ODE or OLD) so it must have been added by Sam. But it’s not in any professional (i.e. not crowd-sourced) dictionary either so what is his basis for adding it? Sorry Sam, Not a Word (yet). 🙂
My solve as well. Honestly, I just went around the square using every letter in front of AMBOYS hoping that one would be accepted and was surprised to see that CAMBOYS was. I’ll take the win.
Per Wiktionary:
A boy or man who publishes webcam photographs or videos of himself.
You can argue with this source, but it is out there,
Over the past few years of playing LB, I have noticed that it is NOT perfectly based on the OED. I have found hundreds of perfectly acceptable words in the OED that LB shouts out “Not a Word.” I have also used words that are not in the OED (usually if they are there, they are hyphenated) that LB says “Genius!” to. I just let LB be LB and go with whatever is accepted/denied. Otherwise, you will drive yourself crazy, and the whole point is to have a little fun every morning, correct?
Case in point is today’s BOWSIE. It’s not in OED nor MW, but it shows up in Collins, Dictionary.com, and Wiktionary.
Not the same, Mark. BOWSIE° comes from the ODE (Oxford Dictionary of English), which I believe is the first (but not the only) component of the Oxford word list. CAMBOY is not in the OED or ODE.
° bowsie noun
Irish a low-class or unruly person .
Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)
Current Version: 2015
Ah, good. I remember you (or might have been CR, apologies if so) explaining about the different OEDs in play. ✔
Good memory. CR is the one who started me down that path.
OA plus thematic cowboys. A strategic u would have put whataboutism in play today
Thymectomy + swab
Wasted ton of time looking for a match for tomboyish
Meant thymectomies
Nice!
Boyisms and swatches.
Started out with ASTHMATIC COWBOY then tried HEMATITIC which is in OED and on my vitamin container. But no go. Finally figured out Thematic and Cowboys. Thought it would be OA.
Also COWBOYISH* HEMATITE
Hematic cowboys
Mathematic cowboys is slightly longer than hematic.
MATHEMATIC – COWBOYS
Really thought is was going to be SYSTEMATIC in there somewhere…
First got AMOEBOCYTES* – SWISH but since the first is not accepted, went on to find HEMATIC – COWBOYS.
Used THEMATIC and COWBOYS. Found it rather quickly for a change.
OA right off the bat, never happens
For tomorrow GUMBO OXIDIZATION seems likely to be OA