Here are the Letter Boxed October 16, 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:
IUTRWNKOASCV
The answers are:
VICTORIOUSSWANK
*VICTORIANAS-SWUNK*
*VICTORIANAS good in Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*SWUNK good in OED
TOWTRUCKS-SAVIN
KNOCKWURSTS-SAVIOR
VICUNA-ARTWORKS
Nice but doesn’t vicuña have a tilde?
Eat and be saved!
KNOCKWURSTS SAVIOR
ASTROVIRUS-SNOWCOCK
*COCKSWAINS-STRUV*
*COCKSWAINS good in Merriam-Webster
*STRUV good in OED
KNOCKWURST TRIVIA. just in time for Oktoberfest
Best answer.
Love this
OA.
OA as well. Hilary at the 2000 and 2005 Oscars
OA here too
Everyone is thinking what it sounds like but too scared to say
Silent S.
😀
VICTORIOUS – SWANK : gold medals
VICTORIOUS – SWANK
or silver spoon.
Or, uh, brass monkey?
OA after a lot of getting stuck with WSKT and not being able to do stickwork or scutwork etc etc. CORONAVIRUS was the favoured initial word, but had to move off that sharpish.
So, VICTORIOUS SWANK it is; a winner’s spoils.
COVARIANT TOWTRUCKS
Knockwurst trivia
Bavarian game.
KNOCKWURST – TRIVIA also.
juicy details
Was looking for a sausage TI too, but couldn’t see the link.
TOWTRUCKS – SAVIN
A new word added to my vocabulary! Had no idea what a SAVIN was.
OA-right away-hooray!
KHOCKWURST — TRIVIA
Got caught up with CONSTRUCT/CONSTRUCTS, CONSTRICT/CONSTRICTS, CONSTRICTOR/CONSTRICTORS, VASOCONSTRICTOR/VASOCONSTRICTORS, but I just couldn’t connect them. Anyone find a connector to VASOCONSTRICTOR/S?
Found CARAVANS and AVARICIOUS but no luck.
Found KNOCK, KNOCKS and finally KNOCKWURST, and TRIVIA was right there.
LB didn’t accept VICTORIAN/S or CONVOCATOR/S.
I believe VASOCONSTRICTORS – SKUNKWORKS works.
Wow, thanks! I didn’t even see SKUNK or SKUNKWORKS.
P.S. I love long, inefficient solves the best!
Amazing use of all the letters multiple times! TI = stress reaction to having your dog skunked, once again!
Fortunately stumbled onto the OA fairly quickly today which was a birthday treat after yesterday’s epic failure with not knowing or guessing GRAWLIX. At least I learned a new word!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Susan!
Me too re Grawlix…what?!?
🎂
Eat and be saved!
KNOCKWURSTS SAVIOR
OA instantly today.
OA but spent so much time on CORONAVIRUS..
OA. Very fast. There has to be something between yesterday and today.
Invariant towtrucks
KNOCKWURSTS SAVIOR here too, as if by some miracle… I never sausage a thing!
COVARIANTS-SKUNKWORKS here. Doing statistical analyses on stealth jets?
OA on first try.
TOWTRUCKS SAVIN
Spent way too long on TRACKWORK and STARSTRUCK but finally thought of TOWTRUCK SAVIN as well.
Or:
NOVIST* TOWTRUCK
* OED
VISIONIST* TOWTRUCK
*COLLINS
Yikes. I must be going blind. No A’s.
How ‘bout NOVAIST? Lol. One could say the late Mr. Zabar was a first-rate Novaist.
NAIVIST works too.
TANKWA* AVARICIOUS
According to its own entry on Wikipedia:
“A tankwa is a type of Ethiopian reed boat made from papyrus.”
OA
Variant towtrucks