Here are the Letter Boxed August 17, 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:
RYUENLBITMOK
The answers are:
BULKIERRETRONYM
BULKIER — RETRONYM
ROBOTLIKE — EUONYM
KNOB—BRETYLIUMʷ
EYEBOLT—TRINKUMʷ
NUMBERLIKEʷ—EYOT
REBUILT—TEKNONYMYʷ
NUMBERLIKEʷ—EYEBOLT
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REBUILT—TEKNONYMʷ
TOYON—NUMBERLIKEʷ
TRIKERIONʷ—NUMBLY
TUBERLIKEʷ—EUONYM
TEKNONYMʷ—MUMBLIER
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UNMILKYʷ—YOUTUBERʷ
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ʷ Wiktionary
Happy Monday!! Oof, that was way too much like hard work. Two hours!
I laughed hollowly when I saw Alice Liang’s solutions afterwards, no BULKIER-RETRONYM, but she had one I found earlier but wasn’t accepted, EYEBOLT-TRINKUM.
May tomorrow be less stressful – loving your finds! Happy Monday.
Happy Monday! ☕☕ Yes, it took EYEBOLT, that was a good one. I think today is a “dual day”, with only two solutions, although I’m double checking now. It feels like singular solution days may be more common than dual days.
My Smith solver found 87 potential solutions today, but still only two are LB-accepted. Here are some partial solutions that caught my eye:
Half-solutions:
BRONTEUMʷ—MILKY
BLUEMINKʷ—KEYNOTER
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Pseudo-solutions:
BYNUMʷ—METEORLIKEʷ
MYOTUBULINʷ—NUKERʷ
INTERKNOTʷ—TUMBLYʷ
MUNTRIEʷ—EBONYLIKEʷ
INTERLIMBʷ—BUOYLIKEʷ
INTERLUNIUMʷ—MILKBOYʷ
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ʷ Wiktionary
Correction: I found BRONTEUM in Merriam-Webster, not Wiktionary. 👍
BULKIER-RETRONYM
ROBOTLIKE-EUONYM
EYEBOLT-TRINKUM*
*OED
+NUMBERLIKE-EYEBOLT
+WIK
+TUMORE-EYEBLINK^
+WIK, ^MW
^TRIKERION-NUMBLY
^MW
+UNBOYLIKE-EROTEME+
+WIK
+UNREBUILT-TEKNONYMY*
+WIK, *OED
+NUMBERLIKE-EYOT*
+WIK, *OED
*TUMBEKI-INTERIORLY*
*OED
*MUTERE-EBONYLIKE+
*OED, +WIK
KILOBYTE-EMUNIREMINI+
+WIK
TWO HOURS – the longest time for a long time. BULKIER-RETRONYM after hanging on KILOBYTE, TEMBLOR, YOUNKER (that looked so promising), YOLKIER, BLINKER, you name it. So many words needed an a, but even if not, MO, ENL, IT, RYU, etc. just didn’t allow for so many possibilities. I was totally looking for words I could call Sam, I was so irimtated.
I was ready to give up, had BULKIER more than once but didn’t see RETRONYM until I thought RETRO and then, WTH, let’s try RETRONYM as a last shot. Lucky guess.
Oof, RF and Kanishk, my besties, hope to see you soonest!
Good luck, everyone, happy Monday.
Looks like I posted at the same time as you, played with many of the same words and thought I must be missing something obvious, especially with KILOBYTE.
Right?! KBY all gone, B and Y nicely tucked away, should have been a breeze. ENORMOUSLY? Ugh, no S.
TUMBRIL became an obsession too, because so many options left those letters behind, but couldn’t match it to anything.
As for Sam E, just discovered that “Ezersky doesn’t actually create the Spelling Bee puzzles from scratch. He chooses enjoyable puzzles from a massive computer database, which he likens to “dumpster diving.” But on that day, he picked a puzzle, thought it was everything it needed to be—tricky, but not too tricky, fun to play, clear.” (Baltimore Magazine, December 2023)
I’m sorry, Sam E, but you’ve been failing on LB for a while in that regard!
Have a great Monday, Samuel!
Failed today.
Good job Miss Irim. Kanishk-boy, still waiting on you…
Fail here as well had both Bulkier and Robotlike but could not find their ridiculously obscure pairs. Yuck.
Hope nobody wasted too much time on this one.
I did Sam.
ROBOTLIKE EUONYM
UNTOYLIKE* EMBROIL
*–“Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès’s Trip to the Moon” 2011
— Apollo journal of the arts. 1929
Bulkier retronym I’ll bet that’s NOT the OA. Wonder why LB wouldn’t accept metronym
Too tired to do more.well, what do you know!
OA – I saw retronym right away dismissed it. When I returned to it, about an hour later, Bulkier hit me in the face!