Here are the Letter Boxed April 02, 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:
BNQRYJUIEOAM
The answers are:
JOURNEYMENNIQAB
Fast OA here, got JOURNEYMEN fairly quick but NIQAB took some time (it was a complete guess) – never heard of it before. Even so, OA in ten minutes, but I’m 100% sure it’s yet another one-off and this one in particular is bound to make almost everyone furious.
Irim and RF, eagerly waiting for your comments, and good luck to everyone trying to solve this yet another fiendish array. A happy Thursday to all!
Slightly quicker than you, as my family is Muslim! Tried aequorin first, but ditched it quickly; knew I wanted J in the first word. Did NOT expect this to be the OA. Got it in under 5 minutes.
Just checked, and Alice Liang’s solver thinks it’s singular. Ouch.
Good luck to all attempting, congrats to all who solve! Looking forward to seeing you, RF!
A blessed Maundy Thursday/Triduum & Pesach sameach to all who celebrate and happy Thursday to everyone!
Failed today! Huhuhu…Gave up early because I had difficulty making long words with Q and J.
OA in about 5. Don’t know that I would have ever seen NIQAB just looking for words in the grid. But thankfully it is at least a word I have seen before if for no other reason than playing lots of Scrabble. So once I had journeymen it was an instant finish. 86/92, 2/2, 9, 36
NJE
AMD
SOP
CIL
Hint: 🏞️ (9, 5)
L _ _ D _ _ _ P _ – _ M _ J _
Journeymen Niqab
Landscape Emoji
LANDSCAPE – EMOJI
RF, indeed, LANDSCAPE – EMOJI!!
Congrats!! Well done! 🥳
Congrats, Allan! Well done!!! 🎉 🥳
You got the OA!! 🎊
LANDSCAPE – EMOJI
Journeymen Niqab
Oa. Took me a while.
OA. Niqab has been used before, but it’s still not an English word.
I too REMEMBER seeing it.
After sorting through all the MUMBOJUMBO, I hit upon:
JOURNEYMEN—NIQAB
as a suspected singular solution.
I think I REMEMBER seeing this word NIQAB here before but had forgotten it. My solver also found ‘naqib’. which is in Wiktionary as a standard noun. ☕
OA , had NIQAB fairly quickly but JOURNEYMEN took a bit more work.
I got journeyman right away and then just started punching in letters to get niqab…
Exactly the same process for me!
I accidentally opened this website thinking it was the dailyletterboxed page so I saw the OA before I even got started. Looks like a singular. So I came up with my own 3-word answer that almost works.
JIB BURQA ANONYME*
*Les Bons Mots: How to Amaze Tout Le Monde with Everyday French.” Eugene Erhlich.
Got JOURNEYMEN pretty quickly, never would have thought of NIQUAB. Another one where I’m glad I didn’t waste a lot of time on it.
Oops, NIQAB.
I’ll take it but truly just started throwing letters at the board when I was left with ABIQ remaining…
OA got journeymen long ago misspelled niqab first time as niquba and then wasted a lot of tries before going back to niqab. Another esoteric one off!!
SAI. LHO CGT KNU if anyone wants extra fun
LAUGHINGSTOCK
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Good one.
😊what I feel like some days!
Last fun one:NEA HOC RIN BLT. Clue- this is Sams mindset after he devises an especially fiendish puzzle
2n’s?
My bad! LTR HOC NIB ESA. Works , I believe(at work for me also) still same clue and answer
NONETHICAL LABORS?
ANTITHETICAL works too and is in the OED.
Those are very good descriptions! The actual OA is theoretic celebrations
Only theoretic, Sam can fool some all the time and all some of the time but not all all the time haha