Here are the Letter Boxed August 14, 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:
KSZLMBCOUATG
The answers are:
GOBSMACKKLUTZ
GOBSMACK — KLUTZ
half-:
AMUZGOSʷ—SLOTBACK
ZALUTUMUMABʷ—BACKLOGS
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pseudo-:
AMUZGOSʷ—SLACKTUBʷ
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ʷ Wiktionary
That must be a singular, as Alice Liang’s solver says there are no two word solutions! And I think of GOBSMACK as a uniquely English word, so this wasn’t going to be easy for an American clientele anyway. As a UK resident, kicking myself for not seeing it earlier.
Nice one and high five!
👍Irim! Yep, my solver only found 6 or 7, some ruled out right away as being proper. I admit ZALUTUMUMAB is a stretch. That Wiktionary import I did still amazes me as to what it contains. Happy Friday to you.
It’s actually caught on here in the states in the last few years, I think there are (is?) a certain type of people who think sounding more “European” makes them seem cool. Like you, I circled around it a few times before it hit me… can’t believe I actually tried SMOGBACK before I saw it.
Fastest solve in quite some time. Maybe 3 minutes? Nice for a Friday. OA.
As the UK resident, you’d have thought I’d have gotten this quicker, but no! After ages with BACKLOGS (trying to shoehorn smutz in as shmutz, lol), also tried SLOTBACKS, but no joy. Knew there might be a Yiddish element so tried MAZUZA. Also tried MUZAK, MAZUT, before finally coming back to Yiddish and KLUTZ.
Took a while to see GOBSMACK, which I use all the time! So GOBSMACK-KLUTZ in about 20 minutes.
RF and Kanishk, hope to see you soonest, my lovelies!
Good luck, all, and happy Friday!
OA too for me.
Well done to us Miss Irim. I hope Kanishk-boy will complete a triumphant triumvirate today. 🤗
OA. Fast.id be surprised if there’s another answer
While I’ve seen “gobsmacked” plenty of times, I don’t recall having ever seen “gobsmack” in a sentence.
Absolutely, but it’s natural to assume that ‘gobsmack’ is the root and would be a real word.
Like
I gobsmack
You gobsmack etc
I gobsmacked etc
I will be gobsmacked
(Probable) etc
I would have been gobsmacked etc
And our favorite
The gerund
Gobsmacking
As in ” it was a day full of gobsmacking”
OA in what may be my fastest time ever. Maybe it’s because I had just dropped something and called myself a klutz before opening the puzzle. 🙂
OA I figured with no E, the TZ combo was most likely. Not much luck with TLZ so settled for KLUTZ. Counted on CK being together at the end. Saw GOBS and that was it. (I have also only heard past tense ‘gobsmacked’) Using your brain instead of solvers is awesome!
Using your brain to build a solver is awesome as well! I understand it is not everyone’s cup of tea on this site.
OA, figured it might have klutz early on but took a while to see gobsmack
I’ve read gobsmacked so many times that I didn’t resize it was a British colloquialism ?
Realize
Gobsmack— Klutz after about 5 minutes and assuming the ck ending before Klutz
Gobsmack Klutz
OA
GOBSMACK KLUTZ in a couple minutes.