Here are the Letter Boxed June 18, 2026 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:
AUEICXBLOTNG
The answers are:
BULGOGIINEXACT
BUGLE—EXACTION
BULGE—EXACTION
BUGLE-EXACTION here
Same
BEGUILE – EXACTION
BUGLE-EXACTION here
CUBAGE—EXALTATION, —EXULTATION
CONCUBINAGE—EXALT, —EXULT
EXTUBATION ⇄ NEGLIGENCE
NEGLIGENCE ⇆ EXTUBATION
XEBEC—COAGULATION
BULGINEʷ—ECOTAX
BIGLUCONATEʷ—EXON
BIGLUCONATEʷ—EXTINCTION
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EXTUBATE—EIGENCOILʷ
AGLUCONE—EXABITʷ
GIGAXONINʷ—NITECLUBʷ
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ACETABULA—AGONOXENINEʷ
TOXOGENINʷ—NUBECULA
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BINUCLEIʷ—IOXAGLATEʷ
TAXATIONALʷ—LACEBUGʷ
EXOCULATIONʷ—NUTBAGʷ
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OXBANEʷ—ECOGUILTʷ
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LOVE that solution, Mark – completely missed XEBEC!
Thanks K, it was nice to lead off with the X.
BULGE-EXACTION
CUBAGE-EXALTATION
COAGULATE-EXTUBATION
BULGOGI-INEXACT
GLACE-EXTUBATION
CONCUBINAGE-EXALT
XEBEC-COAGULATION
EXTUBATION-NEGLECT
AGLANCE-EXTUBATION
GALACTOCELE-EXTUBATION
INELEGANCE-EXTUBATION
CAGOULE-EXTUBATION
BEGUILE-EXACTION
CONCUBINAGE-EXULTATION
AGLUCONE-EXTUBATION
NEGLIGENCE-EXTUBATION
OUTBALANCE-EXAGITATE*
*OED
*BIOGENE-EXULTANCE*
*OED
*GLUCONATE-EXEBITION*
*OED
COXALGIA-ABUTEN*
*OED
*BAGLE-EXECUTION
*OED
*BULGINE-EXACTION
*OED
*BACULITE-EXOGEN*
*OED
*BUGE-EXOCULATION*
*OED
Glace extubation
Nice one! Extubation is always the best way to end… Be it a case or the letter boxed. I got Cubage-Exultation relatively quickly despite the brain being pretty fried after a night of in house call.
Cubage— Exultation fairly quickly
BULGE – EXACTION.
Looking forward to see Miss Irim and Kanishk-boy with their solutions. Good luck besties! 😊
BULGOGI – INEXACT (OA) in under four minutes, and I love this solution, because of ‘I’ being the connecting letter. Love XEBEC – COAGULATION more though, kicking myself right now for missing XEBEC!
I have no idea what BULGOGI means, going to look it up now – the reason I remembered it for today’s puzzle is because it has appeared in a previous OA, if memory serves me right.
Congrats, RF, well done, and waiting eagerly for you, Irim with your solution. Happy Thursday to all!
CUBAGE-EXALTATION here, almost immediately. Late to the party because I had to lead Morning Prayer and help a group get ready for a workshop.
Well done, triumphant triumvirate! Kanishk, I’m with you – wish I’d seen XEBEC – it’s a great word!
Good luck, everyone, and happy Thursday!
Oh, Kanishk, bulgogi is an amazing Korean dish made of thinly sliced grilled meat – it literally means ‘fire meat’. I love it.
CUBAGE EXULTATION, and not proud of it… Recognized the OA when I saw it, but probably would never have occurred to me.
Cubage Exaltation
GLACÉ EXTUBATION
Bulge exaction
Beguile & Exaction
So many words that end with Tion.
action, agitation, agitational, alienation, coagulation, concatenation, concoction, cunctation, election, elation, enation, exaction, extinction, extubation, gelation, inaction, incubation, inoculation, initiation, lactation, lection, legation, lenition, libation, ligation, litigation, lunation, natation, nation, negation, negotiation, notation, notional, nutation, taxation, titubation, tuition, ululation, unition
CUBAGE EXALTATION
GLANCE EXTUBATION
Also BEIGE EXOCULATION*
*OED
I found
Beige – Executional*
Bulge exaction
Beguile exaction
OA
GIBE EXECUTIONAL*
*OED and “A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.”
Cubage exultation
Quick BULGE – EXACTION here. Got a late start today, maybe I’m better off not sitting down first thing in the morning to do all the word games as is my routine. Maybe the brain cells need a little time to wake up 🙂
Elegance Extubation
bulge exaction
forcible polyp removal