Here are the Letter Boxed August 10, 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:
POLBCTRKHIUE
The answers are:
PROBIOTICCHUCKLE
OA after no joy with phobia
Phobic rather than phobia
PROBIOTIC – CHUCKLE
Laughing gas.
Probiotic— Chuckle in about 10 minutes
I got the OA and am ‘chuckling’ at your clever comment!
PROBIOTIC CHUCKLE(R)
I worked on HORTICULTURE first but couldn’t pair it off.
OA (PROBIOTIC-CHUCKLE) after playing with
PROCTOR
PICKET/THICKET,
TROUBLE(R) /ROUBLE
ETHIC
CRITIC /CRICKET
Words with CLUB- LUCK- PROBE which lead to PROTHETIC to PROBIOTIC
Republic was my bete noir today. Eventually arrived at the OA.
REPUBLIC / CHECKOUT here… I won’t say it 😉
OA. It wouldn’t accept Clucker.
Same… OA after playing with Phobic and others first. I thought for sure there was a “something-phobic” word.
Also distracted with… Thicker, Trickle, Troubler, Public, Crucible
OA after no joy with REPUBLIC.
I wanted republic or phobic to work too, but landed on PREBIOTIC – CHUCKLE
REPUBLIC-CHECKOUT
Glad to see somebody cracked REPUBLIC! Got stuck on it for way too long.
Ooh, that’s a good one; I got Republic, and other -out word/s, also Check/er, but not Checkout.
Republic checkout
OA
PROBIOTIC-CHUCKLE
*COURTLIKE-EPHEBE*
*COURTLIKE good in Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
*EPHEBE good in OED
COCKPIT-THURIBLE
ORTHOEPIC-CLUBLIKE*
*CLUBLIKE good in Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
PROHIBIT-TRUCKLE
PHLEBITIC-COURTLIKE*
*COURTLIKE good in Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
PREBIOTIC-CHUCKLE
*PUBLET-TORCHLIKE*
*PUBLET good in OED
*TORCHLIKE good in OED
*KLEPHTIC-COURB*
*KLEPHTIC good in OED
*COURB good in OED
REPUBLIC-CHECKOUT
PERLITIC-CHIBOUK
CHECKUP-PUBLICITOR
PHORETIC-CUBELIKE*
*CUBELIKE good in Wiktionary
TUBELIKE-EPICHORIC
*PHOTIC-CHERUBLIKE*
*PHOTIC good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins
*CHERUBLIKE good in Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
*BRUTELIKE-ECPHORIC*
*BRUTELIKE good in Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*ECPHORIC good in OED, Wiktionary
TELEROBOTIC-CHECKUP
OA Today!
PROHIBITER-RUCKLE
Yes that was mine! Tried for ages with CHECKOUT. and CHECKUP but then adding ER to prohibit got me to RUCKLE which didn’t know was a word!
Nice finds!!
Thanks!
Echo that Richie! You were in rare form today which is saying a lot.
BROTHERLIKE – EPICURE
CHOKE-ERUPTIBLE*
*ERUPTIBLE good in Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
OA
*BRICKLET-TOUCHUP*
*BRICKLET good in Wiktionary
*TOUCHUP good in Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble US (TWL)
PETRICHOR-REBUCKLE
Nice one!
Thanks!
LEPTOKURTIC—CHUB (+ many more)
REPUBLIC—CHECKOUT
COCKPIT—THURIBLE
PROHIBIT—TRUCKLE
PHOTOBIOTIC—CHURCHLIKE
PIBROCH—HUTLIKE
ORTHOEPIC—COCKLEBUR
PERIPHLEBITIC—CHECKOUT
PHILTER—ROEBUCK
BROTHERLIKE—EPICURE
LITHOTRIPTER—REBUCKLE
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TRUTHLIKE—EPIBIOTIC°
BIBLIOKLEPT°—TREBUCHET
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Brotherlike – Epicure. Only one day late with a two-word solve. 🙂
🎉
PROHIBIT TRUCKLE
same
PROHIBIT – TRUCKLE also.
Take the wheel.
Same here.
Lactose Intolerance.
Republic checkout
same here
Same.
Another REPUBLIC-CHECKOUT
CHECKUP-PUBLICITOR
PROBIOTIC-CHURCHLIKE
for a Sunday morning
PROHIBITER-RUCKLE
Yes mine too!
BROTHERLIKE — EPICURE
Found BROTHER and LIKE and on a whim joined them. I have really never seen BROTHERLIKE, but I guess that you can attach LIKE onto just about anything and get a word. Fast solve for a Sunday!
I take that back. LB doesn’t accept CHERUBLIKE, BRICKLIKE, or CUBELIKE.
It does take TUBELIKE, but I can’t connect it.
Publicitor recheck
Photobiotic-clucker
Same… super fast
brotherlike – epicure as well
Me too!
REPUBLIC CHECKOUT
The wonderfully efficient LEPTOKURTIC-CHUB.
A statistically risky fish.
republic-checkout
Another REPUBLIC-CHECKOUT here
REPUBLIC CHOTKI
Brotherlike/Epicure
COCKPIT THURIBLE
God is my co-pilot?
Regarding PHOBIC, I find it odd that a lot of phobias are in the dictionary, but not if one uses the adjective version containing phobic.
Cases in point
TELEPHOBIA and EPHEBIPHOBIC
Hence TELEPHOBIC* CHUCKER* (MW)
Or TRUCKLE EPHEBIPHOBIC*
And in the funny dept.
PHUCK is in Wiktionary as is PHUCKING.
But PHUCKER isn’t. Go figure.
Nevertheless PHUCKER* ROBOTLIKE could work one day in the age of AI.
Leptokurtic – Chub…….as you do!
BUHL – LEPTOKURTIC
TI: a skewed sample of tortoise shells
Missed the OA by one letter… added R to CHUCKLE
PROBIOTIC CHUCKLER
OA right after abandoning it this morning and coming back this afternoon.
Went down lots of promising paths, finally stuck THURIBLE on the end of COCKPIT as a whim, and when it turned out to be a legit word I sort of remembered running across it before (a censer, for burning incense).
OA but took quite a while, even after I got PROBIOTIC, kept missing by one letter, finally got it CHUCKLE. Whew!
OA
OA
Republic checkout here after several short episodes of “come back to” got republic early thought perceptible horticulture theoretic tubercule receptible crucible epicure rebuckle might work
OA
Is yes joy the opposite of no joy?
Quite pleased to get OA until I saw so many alternatives here!. Respect!