Here are the Letter Boxed October 31, 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:
AIXFWEURNMSL
The answers are:
INFLUXESSWARM
Influxes Swarm
Yah, kinda by definition.
👍
Same, OA plus…
Influxes – Swarm
Influxes – Swarmer
Influxes – Swarmers
Do these count as alternate answers, or is the OA a singular solution?
They all are accepted. If you pay for the service, you can play multiple times. Another way is to clear the cache on your phone multiple times but that’s a pita.
Sometimes the OA is a singular answer. Not today. Often there is the games answer and a multitude of other legitimate solutions. Additionally, some find solutions that were not accepted by the game, but were solved with words confirmed by other sources which most list.
INFLUXES – SWARM here, too.
Took a wee while, but INFLUXES-SWARM it is!
Bees incoming!
OA here as well. Took longer than it should’ve. Saw Fluxes quickly but took a long time to make the jump to Influxes, despite only seeing 6 other X words (not counting plurals) and instinctively looking for REFLUX… (FLEX, FLUX, LUXE, SEXUAL, MINX, FAUX). Happy to have it behind me. The TI reminds me of that really disturbing episode of Black Mirror, especially once you mentioned the bees…
influxes-swarm
Double infestation.
OA immediately for a change.
A bit disappointed that today’s answer wasn’t Halloween-themed, since all the previous ones were. Happy Halloween everyone!
What if it’s zombies, or trick or treaters? Scary!
OA – the infected in The Last Of Us
OA, seems like single solution?
INFLUXES – SWARM
Boooooooo… A little boring for Halloween 🎃
OA. Just enough searching not to be a total gimme. I’ll take it.
Agreed. Same here.
OA. Also thinking it should have been Halloween themed.
OA quickly. Hope it refers to the amount of trick or treaters
Got the OA in a NY minute. Happily.
Close but no cigar:
LAUWINES* SEMIFLEX* (missing R)
*both in OED.
Semiflexer alas is not an option.
Fanswarm milieux fanswarm from Bills dictionary of neologisms. Too tired to see influxes. Quit early. Happy Halloween to all.
Thanks Bill! You gave me an idea with your nonce word. 🤓
LAUWINE* EXFARMERS**
*Lauwine is another word for Avalanche. In OED.
**Exfarmers is not in any current dictionary I could find online but it appears often in Government documents and reports. E.g., “U.S.General Farm Bill of 1981.”
US Technical Report, 1993. “The exfarmers and their largely horse-drawn equipment…”
And in The Atlantic, 1925. “Our Embattled Farmers.”
“Most farm landlords are exfarmers.” Etc
👍Simon, if ever there was one,you are a true logophile! Which reminds me, I hope Bill Duffin is ok
Likewise!
OA here too.
WILFUL – LUMINARIES – SEX. Settled for three but like the story line :)))
OA. Not too frightening today, unless it’s a swarm of goblins we’re expecting. 👻