Here are the Letter Boxed August 09, 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:
NECTBYIURFAL
The answers are:
BEATIFICCULINARY

NIBFUL — LITERACY
BEATIFIC — CULINARY
FIBER — RELUCTANTLY
BIFTER — RELUCTANTLY
BARFIER — RELUCTANTLY
BEAUTIFIER — RELUCTANTLY
INTRACTABLE — EYEFUL
INTRACTABLY — YEARFUL
INTRACTABLY — YEARNFUL
UNBEAUTIFUL — LITERACY
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FUCI — INTERLIBRARY
FUNICULI — INTERLIBRARY
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Going for partials now… ☕
BINFULʷ—LITERACY
CABINFULʷ—LYRATE
INTERCLUBʷ—BARFY
BICYCLER—RANTFULʷ
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ʷ Wiktionary
UNBELIEF—FRANTICLYʷ
BINUCLEATE—ETERNIFYʷ
TABERNACLERʷ—REUNIFY
TETRACYCLIC—CABINFULʷ
ANTINUCLEARʷ—REFUTABLY
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ʷ Wiktionary
BINUCLEARʷ—RATIFY
UNBEREFTʷ—TACITLY
FUNICULI—ITERABLYʷ
INTRACTABLEʷ—EYEFUL
UNBEFITʷ—TETRACYCLIC
INFRANUCLEARʷ—RATEABLY
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ʷ Wiktionary
ARGGGGHHHH! I had YEARNFUL early on and didn’t see INTRACTABLY; I could have been done ages ago. So cross with myself!
WTH, how did I not see reluctantly. *Slapping myself with a rubber chicken*
Intractable – eyeful
Intractable — Eyeful, too
Same for me. Had Beatific on my word list. Never saw Culinary though. Took a long time today. Glad I finally got it.
BEATIFIC-CULINARY
found OA today
BEATIFIC-CULINARY
FIBER-RELUCTANTLY
UNBEAUTIFUL-LITERACY
NIBFUL-LITERACY
FUCI-INTERLIBRARY
INTRACTABLE-EYEFUL
BARFIER-RELUCTANTLY
INTRACTABLY-YEARFUL
BEAUTIFIER-RELUCTANTLY
FUCI-INTERLIBRARY
FUNICULI-INTERLIBRARY
INTRACTABLE-YEARNFUL
BIFTER-RELUCTANTLY
*FRANTICLY-YEUBIT*
*OED
#”INTERCLUB-BARFY
#SCR, “COL
*ACUTI-INFERABLY*
*OED
*BINUCLEAR-RATIFY
*OED
+BRAINFUL-LITERACY
+WIK
*CINABAR-REFUTABLY”#
*OED, “COL, #SCR
^ANTINUCLEAR-REFUTABLY”#
^MW, “COL, #SCR
*BICYCLER-RANTFUL+
*OED, +WIK
+ANTIBICYCLE-EARFUL
+WIK
OA. Took awhile until I admitted beautiful wouldn’t work. Then quick
*BUFET-TETRACYCLIN+
*OED, +WIK
BINUCLEATE-EFYR*
*OED
FIBER – RELUCTANTLY.
Besties Miss Irim and Kanishk-boy, come and join me here.
Great solution with real words! I got INTRACTABLE EYEFUL, and considered it a stretch…
Nice one, Samuel. Given that I AM intractable, I’m stunned that I didn’t see it!
Thanks, Samuel! 😊
Hey, bestie, well done! After the better part of an hour – because I didn’t see RELUCTANTLY (what even?!) or INTRACTABLY (I stayed stuck on YEARNFUL for AGES) and kept getting stuck on things like BEAUTIFY, which was useless, FILTER, FILTRATE, CUTLERY, etc.
Finally hit CULINARY and saw BEATIFIC straightaway – so cross that I missed the others; I’d have been done almost an hour ago. Ah well, so it goes.
BEATIFIC-CULINARY here, c’mon, Kanishk, hon, hope to see you! (And I am well, if busy).
Good luck, everyone, happy Sunday!
INTRACTABLY YEARNFUL
UNRETRACTABLE EYELIFT*
*Collins Dictionary
Intractable Eyeful
FUCI INTERLIBRARY
I was interested to discover that Scrabble accepts LYCRA. So, UNBEAUTIFUL-LYCRA. UNBEAUTIFUL-LITERACY works also.
UNBEAUTIFUL LITERACY
Unbeautiful & Literacy
Not so pretty but much better than yesterday’s LB.
Vetch is a new word for me too🙋♀️
Intractable Eyeful
Unbeautiful literacy for a start
Intractable eyeful
Unbeautiful lycra(PSW)
Unbefit (OED) treacly . I wonder if Simon posted that one already . Going to look soon