Here are the Letter Boxed April 01, 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:
AUTRKSIYCBFE
The answers are:
BACKFIRESSECURITY
BREAKFASTS – SECURITY
Same
Same, immediately
Same here.
Same!
Same – immediately. Which tells you where my head is most times! 😀
I also thought I had it with Breakfast, but failed bc I didn’t add the S. When I finally let go, I found the OA. Such a workout sometimes!
Same. 🙂
Fruitcakes-sybarite
Buckets scarify
Me too
Buckets scarify too
Same here!
Me too.
While solving I like to come up with words-that-should-be. Today I found FAIRYBUCKETS that not only used all letters but invoked, at least to me, a happy little image.
Wonderful, Molly!
Me too.
Same! A lovely combination of words!
Haha!
Fruitcakes Sybarite also
I was trying to make one with fruitcakes!
BREAKFASTS – SECURITY also.
Backfires Security – an extremely limited warranty.
I got Backfists Surety
Same: BACKFISTS. SURETY
Same here, too
Breakfasts — Security, that is
Backfires Surety
In light of Sunday’s brouhaha…. I wish it had taken “Fuckery” 🤣
backfires – surety as well
Got BREAKFAST(S), did not see SECURITY! Came up with BUYBACK – KITESURF* (to kitesurf is to surf or foil with kites – yet another valid term not recognized by LB!)
Same. Took me a while to add the “S” to the first word but once I did, my success was SECURE.
BREAKFASTS / SECURITY too.
BACKFIRES – SUETY
Me too
What does suety mean though
Same
Breakfasts Security-lots of eggs in the fridge
BREAKFASTS SECURITY
I got it right away.
JOURNALIST TOXIC
Ditto
BARFY—YUCKIEST (13/2)
BUCKETS—SCARIFY
BACKFIRES—SURETY
BACKFIRES—SECURITY (OA)
I miss Richie, and DaveL, where are you guys?
I got knocked down, but not knocked out.
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When I first started getting on here, I thought Davel worked for the puzzle’s creators, since he would always post an exhaustive list of solves at the end of the day. I would always check to see if he included mine (and I believe all but once he did!)
He had a pretty cool setup, different from mine. He pulled the words from the HTML on the NYT site, and then matched them up for 2-word solutions. Later he managed to include Scrabble non-LB words. When I started to lean on the OED resource, he had asked me for that list, but I did not have it. I’m looking into APIs to see if I can get on top of that. Right now it’s just one word at a time for me. Great fun when one finds an OED word that was LB-rejected! It’s kind of like beating the game.
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Haha. When I first got on the site, and Davel would post 100’s of solutions some days , I thought he was some kind of savant. Later I pictured him as AI, lastly as a smart regular person who just tired of posting so many solves
Once I realized that the OA and “valid LB” words were hard-coded, it made sense that there were discrepancies between “just the OED” and what LB accepted. It also accounts for the speed (I.e. no API to access). I would like to know the upstream process that goes into populating the HTML with any given day’s word list, but I doubt that they will ever give that up.
WTF has happened to Ritchie?
I hope he’s ok!
+ BACKFIST(S)
+ BRACKET(S)
Good ones Nicole!
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I too found some compound words using fist that LB doesn’t accept. Go figure…
BACKFIRES-SURETY. Trump’s tariffs?
Backfires suety. Sounds messy!
RUSTBUCKETS SCARIFY
breakfasts-security
BACKFIRES – SURETY
buckets scarify
Likewise.
buckets scarify…
There’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza!
April fools dear Henry!
FRUITCAKES SYBARITE
Nice, Viswa. I knew there was a match for FRUITCAKES but just could not see it.
Nice!
BACKFIRES – SURETY
BACKFIRES – SECURITY
Co-signer’s lament.
BACKFIRES – SUETY
Ozempic withdrawal.
BREAKFASTS – SECURITY
FURBABY-YUCKIEST
they’ll never leave the pound 😕
Sad state of affairs 🙁
Backfists and surety.
Bracket-Trustify.
Another BREAKFASTS – SECURITY.
FIRETRUCK – KABAYAS*. I bet they sell such things in Kuala Lumpur.
BACKFIRES — SUETY
Played with BAKERIES, FAKERIES, FRACKER, SUBTRACTER, and TREASURES/TREASURY
Breakfasts security
BACKFISTS – SURETY
I’ve been lurking here for a year – this is the first time I ever got an original!
The racy elephant in the room: F*CKERIES-SYBARITE
fantastic
OA today!
BACKBITES SURFACEY
And
KAYAKER RECTIFIES SUB
Barfy Yuckiest (without any assistance)
First time no one else had it!
Went with the slightly more efficient BACKFIRES-SURETY
Likewise
BACKFIRES-SURETY, and FRUITCAKES-SYBARITE
BACKFIRES-SURETY
Didn’t get a solution, only two unappetising solves that didn’t join up.
Fruity crabcakes and freaky biscuits.
Ha! Sounds like a good party to hear about after the fact.
BACKBITES-SURFY
After I found BREAKFAST-SECURITY
Sorry, *BREAKFASTS-SECURITY
No luck on this one. I looked at lots of possibilities and was excited when I found BREAKFAST, but could not find a pair for it. I should have thought of SECURITY, so that was dumb.