Letter Boxed February 26, 2025 Answers

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Here are the Letter Boxed February 26, 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:

BCAOKMPTLRIE

The answers are:

PROBLEMATICCORK

96 thoughts on “Letter Boxed February 26, 2025 Answers”

        3. Bernie Horowitz

          Kip Problematic here. More efficient than the OA and about the same level of TI -namely, not much. So tantalizingly close to the Holy Grail! But thanks to that darn K, no ALIOW (in the alternate sense of All Letters In One Word vs At Least It’s Over With).

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        1. Matt

          Closest I think I’ve ever been to a one word solve. Had the OA, but changed it to COCK before submitting for the much more amusing TI.

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      1. Bruce

        Also had these first…
        Impolite, Armpit (leaving “cockblock” and an e 😂), Ebike, Cockpit, Rocket, Copilot, Politico, Corporate, Impartial, Proctoral, Climatic

        Close with… Cockpit – Temporal (No B)

        Crockpot, Prototail not accepted

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        1. Samuel Hanwich

          These ten or eleven-letter answers always bug the hell out of me! I’m assuming somebody must hit a one-word solution from time to time, have either of you guys ever hit the holy grail, or seen it done? The first time I ever played I saw GROUNDWATER right away (not the OA), and thought “This is a cinch”… Assumed I’d be racking up one or two-word solutions every time I gave it a look without breaking a sweat…

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          1. Mark

            Oh yes, they exist, but extremely rare. I’ve been here three years now and have only seen one or two. I’ve found other ones , like a 14/1 one time I think.

          3. Mvua

            Also, there is an unheralded piece of Jill writing that day.
            Shoutout Jill! (I think you’re still here). Your poems remain my favorite potential pleasure on this board.

            And (unrelated but important) a thank you to DAVEL who appears to be gone.

          4. Bill Duffin

            I think if you graph the total number of possible words using 1 to 12 letters, you’ll find relatively few at either end (1 and 12). Out of those relatively few 12 letter words, you will find a small fraction that have 12 *unique* letters. Out of that set, you will find words whose unique letters line up nicely in order to not only fit the matrix, but obey the cardinal rule of adjacent letters can’t be on the same side. I am sure that someone much smarter than me has written a program to find them. I would be curious to know just how many exist using the OED or any other dictionary.

  4. Mark

    LAMBLIKE—
    ECTOPROCT, ELECTROPOLAR, ELECTROTROPIC, EOLOTROPIC
    This is a rare case where LB accepts a ‘like’ word.
    ☕☕

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  9. DW

    First solution: MICROPARTICLE – EBIKE. But I play with the Scrabble word list. Even though LB accepted EBIKE, Scrabble did not. So on I marched to PROBIOTIC – CLAMLIKE*, which was fine with Scrabble but not LB.

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  10. Fishcake

    PROBLEMATIC-CLOCK
    What a joy to type in 11 letters in a row! And… I suspect in old English, problematic would have been spelled PROBLEMATICK (14/0). 🤔 In Gulliver’s Travels, for example, in the original version you find ‘publick’ and ‘politick’. Boom!

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  11. Bill Duffin

    LAMBLIKE — ELECTROPOLAR

    I don’t really like LIKE words, but most of my ELECTRO- words would not quite work, and LIKE allowed me to connect to the E.

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    2. DDOakland

      LB didn’t accept Crockpot, sad to say. So Emblematic — Crockpot a no-go (a trademark, I believe). But happily got the OA instead.

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  17. Judy

    I was just thinking the other day that we had a poster located in Greece. That was sota21, no? Thanks for the memory jog, MVUA.

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  22. SLC

    PARTAKE EMBOLIC. No idea why Crockpot was not okayed, and yesterday they allowed Rumbly, Mumbly, and even Majorly, but not Jumbly. Also Mumbojumbo was ok. Go figure!

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  23. Simon

    PROBLEMATIC COCKTAIL

    And PICKPOCKET TRAMBLE*
    (Tramble is an old word meaning
    “To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.”

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  24. Mos Jef

    Was looking for something to bolt onto POCKET, as well as an ~IBLE word. Completely missed MICRO~ as a prefix.

    Finally found PROBLEMATIC, and realized I had my share of options to use the K…

    After scanning the headlines, I also went with PROBLEMATIC – COCK. 🤷‍♂️

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  28. Fernando

    I also had PROBLEMATIC COCK (figuratively speaking). I also thought I had it with EMBLEMATIC CROCKPOT but LB didn’t want to recognise CROCKPOT, despite them being very common here in NZ.

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  33. Bernie Horowitz

    MVUA, yer breakin’ my heart. I think of Sota every time Greece is in the news or the OA is of Greek origin. Sorely missed. Ditto Davel. Sigh.

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