Letter Boxed March 05, 2025 Answers

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Here are the Letter Boxed March 05, 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:

PLNRHMKOSATY

The answers are:

MONTHSSPARKLY

81 thoughts on “Letter Boxed March 05, 2025 Answers”

      4. Lyla

        I got the OA in about a minute. Sparkly was the second word I tried. That left Month right there in plain sight. I like a day that has an easy solution once in awhile

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    2. Mark

      PROTONYMPHAL—LOANSHARK
      He sounds like a real character! 😊
      Loanshark was hyphenated in OED, but LB took it.

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      1. DW

        LOANSHARK is more evidence that Sam was blowing smoke when he said the world list is from the OED. LB didn’t accept MALARKY today, either, which is both in the OED (as a variant of MALARKEY) and the Scrabble word list. I remain mystified.

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        2. Oscar

          Yes Malarkey was a solve on May 17 ‘23 but seems random when alternatives are accepted or considered too obscure ( this week in spelling bee arrant was deemed a part of the word list…grrrr)

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        3. Mark

          As I do too DW. Over the years we’ve seen many exceptions, and even “reverse exceptions”. Some players here have some keen insight into the various online dictionaries. I still lean towards the OED, but try to remain flexible, otherwise it’ll drive me crazy, as it has sometimes.

          If the solution presents itself, I’ll check LB, then OED, then MW. If it fails all those, and I really want to play it, I’ll search elsewhere.

          ☕☕

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        4. Benjamin

          I noticed that too about MALARKY, especially since that’s how I spell it. But when I realized it meant its companion word had to start with Y or end in M and contain S, H, O, P, N, and T, I moved on pretty quickly, which I imagine you did too for the same reason.

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          1. Benjamin

            What I mean by “move on” is when a word that I think should be accepted isn’t, I’ve noticed sometimes it gets me mentally stuck on it and I have a hard time moving on, like my mind keeps going back to it and being all, “Why didn’t it take that?” including doubting myself that maybe I entered it wrong and entering it agian. Yes, I’m a crazy person. 🙂

        1. Matt

          Funny that Phantom shows up on back to back days. Part of my solve yesterday, but went with the more efficient OA today. Curious what percentage of you guys (and girls) use pen and paper to keep track of words you’ve found, and how often you find it necessary to use that. I’d say I resort to that about a third of the time. Always happy for days like today where accessories aren’t necessary.

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          1. Mark

            I noticed that about PHANTOM too. Words do repeat, but I don’t think I’ve seen it happen consecutively.

            I don’t use paper. I use a database. It’s pushing 500,000 words now, thanks to all the LB activity.

            ✔☕😊

          2. LWM

            in answer to Matt’s question, I’ve been maintaining a list of my 2-word solutions along with the daily OA in my phone’s notebook. I’ve done it for a coupp of years now but I seldom refer to it when trying to solve new puzzles.

    5. LWM

      Yesterday someone posted PHANTOM MARIGOLD as an excellent alternate solution.

      Today I found
      PHANTOM SPARKLY.

      Spooooky!!

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  2. Jill

    MIDPOINT

    A Miltonian grandma’s armload of gold
    An idiot pilgrim’s mantra ahold,
    Handgrip mandolin, adagio harp,
    Pintail dahlia for a grand ol’ tramp.

    Noah’s ptarmigan, intaglio-gram
    Migrant mailman’s rigid hologram
    Trainloads of dirt, seeds of tamarind
    And a phantom marigold’s diagram.

    All words except for the little ones are from the array of March 4th.

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      1. Benjamin

        My timewaste was LOANSHARK.

        Also, SMART-, because this puzzle seems to like to use webby, techy words and because I’ve noticed that it’s those ones that people often miss and I like finding a unique solve.

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      2. Benjamin

        Other prefixes I found in addition to those you listed, which you may have found too but just didn’t spend much time on them like I didn’t, were HOMO-, HYPO-, MORPHO-, PRO-, PROPYL-, PROTO-, TOPO-, AND TRANS-.

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  9. Bill Duffin

    LYMPHOMA — ASTRAKHAN

    Found LYMPHOMA and then added the S for LYMPHOMAS but couldn’t connect, so backed off the S and found ASTRAKHAN (which I believe that I have used previously). I couldn’t do anything with PHOTOTROPHS or PHOTOTROPHY and LB didn’t accept KARYOLYMPH.

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    1. Mike GL

      Exactly the same for me, crazily enough. Tried various photo- words, and karyolymph. That led me to Lymphomas, and then LYMPHOMA-ASTRAKHAN

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      1. Bill Duffin

        I tend to rush and add as many unique letters as possible (S and other suffixes), but this isn’t the first time that I couldn’t connect until I backed off and went with the shorter word.

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  13. Simon

    KAHALA* APTRONYMS
    *Hawaiian fish, listed in Merriam Webster.

    Also
    APTRONYMS SHALK* (Old English)

    Speaking of MALARKEY, I just was reading POMPEII by Robert Harris, set in ancient times. One of his characters uses the word Malarkey even though it was coined in the 1920s. I thought that was a bit odd.

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  14. AKB

    LYMPHOMA – ASTRAKHAN

    Saw LYMPHOMA early and was determined. Consulted a word list for the second word though I had never heard it before.

    And Jill. Wow! Your poem is creative genius. Thanks for sharing.

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  19. jim

    OHSNOTPALMALARKY: Not good in Collins, Oxford, MW, Scrabble or the internet. Also not good for LB. But it’s a real thing so it’s good enough for me. I’m just never shaking hands with a job interviewer again.

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  21. Ric

    PHANTOMS – SPARKLY Took me ages: by the time I found SPARKLY I’d forgotten I’d found PHANTOMS earlier. Doh!

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