Here are the Letter Boxed April 18, 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:
AFNLBSOZEYRI
The answers are:
FRAILLAZYBONES
FORESAIL-LAZYBONES
FRAZIL-LAZYBONES
LAZYBONES-SIFREI*
*SIFREI good in Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
LAZYBONES-SERENIFY*
*SERENIFY good in OED, Wiktionary
Aerofoil – Lazybones
Aerofoil – lazybones
Same here
FORESAIL-LAZYBONES as well.
*BRONZIFIES-SALIFY*
*BRONZIFIES good in OED, Collins, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*SALIFY good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Scrabble US (TWL)
When the OA feels like not the OA
Exactly! As soon as I found FRAIL I saw LAZYBONES (the only other word I got before FRAIL was LAZIER so LAZYBONES was pretty self-evident. Sometimes I see options so clearly and immediately and sometimes I just dont!
LB defeated me today. The closest I came was
BRAZIERS FELONY which uses all the letters. But I had to connect them with SELF.
I also got BRAZIER/S and FELONY, and SELF. but not together. I got LAZY and LAZILY right away but never got Bones nor thought of LAZYBONES. Several 4w’s, hours later got a 3w which I ended up submitting: FRENZY YOB BASIL (14/3).
LAZYBONES—SERENIFY°
BRAZILIN°—NONSENSIFY°
🙂
FRAIL—LAZYBONES
AEROFOIL—LAZYBONES
FORESAIL—LAZYBONE(S)
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correction: foresail—lazybones.
I cannot justify: foresail—lazybone(s).
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Same here. Now I can’t get the Paul Robeson song out of my head!
OA.
Yup!
OA Today!
Frail-lazybones. Your take on some homeless people is all a matter of perspective.
Frail Lazybones
Super satisfying OA
OA
LAZYBONES?? Come on….
BRAZIER-REFLY-YONIS (17/3)
No clue what YONIS means but it got me a 3-solve.
Edit: YONIS is Hindu for vulva, as a symbol of divine procreative energy. The more you know!
Got stuck on BRAZIL, FLYBOY(S), BARFLY, BARFLIES
frail – lazybones
FRAIL — LAZYBONES
Found LAZY early on. Added BONES as a guess, and then couldn’t connect the S so I worked backwards on the L.
I also found BRONZIFY, which took care of the BZYF troublesome letters, but LB rejected it (it is in the OED).
Yeah, BRONZIFY was a double frustration because YEARLIES immediately pops out so plainly and cleanly you even think it’s the OA, that the OA will turn out to be BRONZIFY-YEARLIES, but not only does it reject BRONZIFY, but it also rejects YEARLIES. Now I know it takes DAILIES. I also know it takes WEEKLIES. But the corresponding word for annual periodicals, nope, which is ironic, given that LB is a puzzle of The New York Times, a periodical, even one that publishes several yearlies.
*Not WEEKLIES, obviously, since it has a double E, which is what I had orignally said, but then I got confused and screwed it up editing it. Sorry.
Yes, I finally found BRONZIFY–YEARLIES. Wasn’t going to let the odd gaps in LB’s wordlist deter me.
That’s a great, valid solve in my book!
Similar here. LAZYBONES looked too good not to be part of the solution, but took an embarrassingly long time to find FRAIL.
Aerofoil-Lazybones. Better TI off Frail-Lazybones. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
BARF FRENZIES SOLELY
and FLYBOYS SARAZINE*
*OED but archaic and obscure, derived from French. Hélas!
OA in less than a minute after finding LAZY right away
Tried 75 good words today including frail lazy lazily lazier bone bony bonier and never saw lazybones. Man this is a great game!
Btw, several “non” words accepted today such as nonbelief nonlife and nonlinearly
OA quickly today.
Frail/Lazybones
Surprised it took lazybones, one of my favorite words 🙂
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