Here are the Letter Boxed August 17, 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:
HKGTBNAUOIML
The answers are:
THINGAMABOBBULK
THINGAMABOB-BULK
*KOHA-AMBULATING
*KOHA good in OED
*HOGUM-MULTIBANK*
*HOGUM good in Wiktionary
*MULTIBANK good in Merriam-Webster
THUNKING-GAMBOL
TALKATHON-NUMBING
THUMBING-GOLAKTALU*
*GOLAKTALU good in Wiktionary
KINGBOLT-THINGUMABOB
*THUMBKIN-NOGAL*
*THUMBKIN good in Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*NOGAL good in OED
MONOBATH-HULKING
KOHANGA-AMBULATION
KINGBOLT-THUMA*
*THUMA good in OED
Yes! Got THUNKING GAMBOL quickly. Didn’t even see thingamabob….
Thunking Gambol it is!
Don’t like it, but I’ll take the win! 😞
My thoughts exactly!
Thunking Gambol
Noises in the night
*BLUNKING-GAMOTH*
*BLUNKING good in OED
*GAMOTH good in OED
*THINGUMBOB-BALK
*THINGUMBOB good in OED
INKBLOT-THINGUMABOB
*BLOKI-INHUMATING*
*BLOKI good in Wiktionary
*INHUMATING good in OED
I had KOHA-AMBULATING also!
I tried HOKA first but it is actually spelled HOOKAH 🤣. Then I tried KOHA for fun and it was accepted. I found out koha is a gift or donation.
I can’t believe i missed THINGAMABOB!!
Same. I found AMBULATING and played around with the remaining letters to find KOHA and it was accepted.
HULKING-GAMBIT. Thought for sure it had to be the OA. Much more efficient…
..haha oops missed the o… back soon.
You put the O in your pocket?
🤣
KOHA accepted in LB too.
TALKATHON – NUMBING
Me too
TALKATHON NUMBING
Same here talkathon-numbing
I wish I found TALKATHON. Been trying for -THON words but failed.
TALKATHON – NUMBING
Yes dear, whatever you say.
Thingumabob blank
Did not think that word would be accepted.
Same – and they took both spellings!
THINGUMABOB – BLANK
Which is when I use it in a sentence.
LOL
OA very quickly after trying ‘ambulating’ and ‘Batiking’.
OA.
OA.
Thinking gambol
Thunking gambol
THUNKING GAMBOL
It feels good to have a 2-word solution after many recent failure’s. Got it quickly too.
Me too! I usually agonize over it and then give in on 3! Got thinking gambol quickly today.:)
THINGAMABOB-BULK (OA) after noodling around with lambkin and inkblot
Bulking-Gotham*
I know Gotham is not acceptable, but I had to try to give Batman more support.
Spend a lot of time with kingmaking, thumbing, and other words ending with ing. I was trying to make gumbo work. Ended up finding talkathon – numbing.
KOHA — AMBULATING
Found AMBULATING and just tried different combinations of the remainders. I have never seen/used KOHA, but it’s a solve.
Looked at BOINKING, THUMBING, NATIONAL, BOMBING, THINKING, etc.
Almost the exact route I took, although I stumbled onto AMBULATION first and KOHA AMBULATION was just a few steps away!
I feel like they’re just messing with us with THINGAMABOB.
BTW KOHA is a New Zealand Māori word for gift or offering.
I started with MULTINATIONAL, really wanted it to work, yet didn’t progress further.
Then landed on TALKATHON – NUMBING.
THUNKING GAMBOL
Ray Bolger dancing in Wizard of Oz?
BLANKING GUM MOTH
And MULTIBANKING* GOTH
*shows up in books on economics, dataprocessing and architecture
OA
Thunking gambol -just what I saw in first couple of minutes-cannot be the OA! So,look more.
Thumbing golak(W) Sikh
GOT OA – THINGAMABOB – BULK (What a way to start the week!)