Here are the Letter Boxed August 21, 2024 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:
VKSPYIELURAO
The answers are:
PREVIOUSLYYAK
PREYS SOUVLAKI
Woah! Thatโs excellent!
Overplays souplike
Nice: saw Overplays and couldnโt match it..
Plyers Souvlaki.
Another Preys Souvlaki (a strangely specific carnivore) plus ๏ปฟOverplays Suki (and loses a regular customer). Also Overlays / Overpays / Overplays / Layovers Souplike (soup is very flexible!). One of the few โ-likeโ words LB likes.
OA, hooray! Couldnโt get LASCIVIOUS to work yesterday, so I gave up.
OA for me too.
Same
Iโve yakked previously, and Iโm still yakking today!
PREVIOUSLY โ YAK
Donโt talk back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7PwdUBecRs
Thatโs the spirit, THIS!
OA, very quick
OA. Wrestled with PREVAILS for a few minutes but then pivoted to PREVIOUSLY and solved it immediately thereafter.
OA. Tried SERIOUSLY and it was an easy transition to PREVIOUSLY.
SURMOUNT works following LASCIVIOUS. (That was the pair I came up with. Got the OA today. I come here only to verify that my answer is *the* answer. I was confident that PREVIOUSLY and YAK were it. After all, you rarely get a word that uses 10 of the puzzleโs 12 letters.)
I saw VALKYRIES* SOUP in a matter of seconds but LB wouldnโt make way for those riders. It took me a heck of a lot longer to uncover the OA.
I was also disappointed that VALKYRIES wasnโt accepted. It seemed like a perfect fit for this grid!
PREVIOUSLY / YAK Itโs Official!
OA
Previously Yak
PREVIOUSLY-YAK
what I was in my former lifeโฆ
OA and Steph *already spoke* the perfect TI.
Also, it is unacceptable to make โvalkyries soupโ but it is fine to be a โsupersaverโ, so at least you can get a good deal on the ingredients.
VALKYRIES is a PSW, so take the SOUP for the win!
VALKYRIES-SOUP here too.
OED and PSW have it, so Itโs good, couldnโt be bothered to look for another answer.
Also had Valkyries โ Soup, but eventually foundโฆ
[ Speakeasies โ Savourly ]
Took awhile found so many promising words
Also was close withโฆ
Polkas โ Savouries (no Y)
Polkas โ Survive (no Y)
Alkalisers โ Savouries (no P)
Alkaliser โ Resolver (no UPY)
Alkalisers โ Survey (no PO)
Wonder if anyone paired anything with Supervises or Seriously?
Ha! Same. A bunch of words not accepted (VALKYRIES, UPLAYS etc). Landed on OA finally after playing with PERVASIVE, PERVIOUS, POLKAS, EVASIVE, bla bla bla
Hey Bruce!
SERIOUSLY was seriously fruitless for me, though LB accepted it.
And OVERSERIOUS was also accepted by LB but i couldnโt find a match.
Then with OVERSERIOUSLY
LB drew the line and said No!.
But i could match it โ Davelโs #151, #186, #189.
I also spelled out
LAVOISIER
but turns out thatโs a name, not a word โฆ Lavoisier was the discoverer of oxygen and is considered the father of modern chemistry. Also he worked on water pollution and air pollution in Paris. His personal wealth enabled him to found the most advanced laboratory in the world and many young scientists studied there.
However, because he was rich the French Revolution charged him with taz fraud and cut off his head.
Less than two years later the French government declared he was falsely convicted, and โcompletely exoneratedโ him.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier
VALKYRIES*โSPURIOUS (less efficient, yes; Iโd found the later first, then paired with the former. Not such a fan of Wagner, anyway.)
Also, OVERPLAYSโSUKI. The S-word here was a shot in the dark, but evidently itโs the Thai version of hotpot.
same, tried suki as a shot in the dark and voila!
VALKYRIES โ SOUP was my original idea too, but LB didnโt accept it
But I eventually found REPLAYS โ SOUVLAKI
TI: a second helping
Valkyrie Espouseโฆ
Why is valkyrie not accepted as a word?? Waah!
SPEAKEASIESโSAVOURILY

I see a theme forming but I need some sleep first.
Absolutely fab!
I had the same thing without the โIโโฆ savourly
OA
Thought I had it immediately with VALKYRIES โ SOUP but it didnโt count, but got (OS)PREYS โ SOUVLAKI not long after
Ospreys souvlaki here as well!
OVERPLAYS SUKI (13/2)
SUKI was a guess as Iโve only heard of it as a name.
Thought Iโd share the other puzzles I do each day in case you guys were looking for recommendations:
Wordle, Plusword, Quordle, Polygonle, Quadragonle, Strands and Connections. Other puzzles I do now and again include Semantle, Squaredle and Squardle. Thereโs also a word game I found recently that some of you guys might like called Pilfer.
If anyone has any other recommendations, I welcome them.
PREVIOUSLY
YAK
I have tried hellowordl.net which lets you choose any word length, but even increasing only to six letter makes it exponentially more difficult (for me anyway). I will check out the ones on your list. Thanks.
contexto can be fun. Itโs one of those things you can start in the morning and go back to throughout the day as you have spare time to think.
Thanks guys. I gave hellowordl.net ago and itโs cool. Maybe I was lucky but I tried it for the first time with the longest word and got it in 3 in a few minutes which was quite satisfying.
Hey, KP,
Thanks for the Contexto game! I enjoyed it!
I reccomend Globle, itโs a fun geography game
I do Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Strands, and the non NYT Worldle, which is geography based. https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/.
Hey Peter
LetterBox, Strands, Connections, and Wordle are all i have time for lately, but i will definitely look up the others you listed!
In the Sudoku realm there is a game called 2048 that is fast paced and surprisingly hard, especially at the beginning. What makes it hard is keeping room to work in and the unpredictablity of the values of the numbers that the game will give you to work with. Itโs not at all like classical Sudoku but itโs often found by websearching โSudoku 2048โ. For me, i had to use a iPad to play it โ my phoneโs screen was too small.


Cheers!!!
Me too. Reminds of a song when I was a kid, โAh suki suki now. Cotton candy, sweet as gold, let me see you tootsie roll!โ
I want Candy!
Same.
OVERPLAYS SPRUIK
Wow, spruik? Gotta look it up!
Overplays โ suslik
A suslik being a โrather large central Eurasian ground squirrelโ
POKEYS* โ SURVIVAL. Think โMatildaโ or โThe Shawshank Redemption.โ
Nice!
VAPOURERS SILKY. Not sure what a vapourer would do other than make vapour, but there you go!
vapourers โ silky as well
Silky smooth butterfly!
Souvlakis spryer
PLAYERS SOUVLAKI
PRYERS โ SOUVLAKI: The people who kindly remove the meat from the kebab for you in posh restaurants
POLIOVIRUSES โ SPEAKEASY
Saw PREVIOUSLY, OVERSERIOUS, PAPRIKA
Oh boy!!

Nice! I had the OA, but not before finding VIRUSES and SPEAKEASY. Tacking on the POLIO is pretty impressive.
PAYERS SOUVLAKI
PURVEYALSโSOUVLAKI
Gyro joints
OA
OA
OA relatively quickly
Youโre awfully good at this for someone with a ruminant background.
^ Replying to Steph
Got nothing today. I got sidetracked by Speakeasy and Perilously and. . .
POKERS SAVOURILY
And maybe
KLAVIERS SPURIOUSLY
I didnโt get another turn to try it.
Alas, LB doesnโt like Klaviers.
Previously โ yak
and
Overplays โ suki
Guessed at sukiโitโs from Tagalog. Another new word for me.
I also found a definition of Suki as a buyer or seller in a commercial arrangement where a customer makes regular purchases in exchange for favorable treatment.
PREYS SOUVLAKI, also bit longer, PAYERS SOUVLAKI, or SOUVLAKIS SPRYER
I buy my lunch ahead of time.
PREPAYS SOUVLAKI
OA instantly. My fastest solve to date!
Okays-Supervisal
Here is the full list including Scrabble words:
** Donโt look at the list if you havenโt finished solving the puzzle **
(The first number is a count and the second number is the number of letters used)
1 โ 15 kayos / supervisal
2 โ 16 kayoes / supervisal
3 โ 13 keps / savourily
4 โ 14 koupreys / saliva
5 โ 14 koupreys / salvia
6 โ 15 koupreys / salvias
7 โ 17 koupreys / savourily
8 โ 16 koupreys / souvlaki
9 โ 17 koupreys / souvlakia
10 โ 17 koupreys / souvlakis
11 โ 16 koupreys / survival
12 โ 17 koupreys / survivals
13 โ 18 koupreys / supervisal
14 โ 16 kyloes / supervisal
15 โ 16 layovers / souplike
16 โ 14 layovers / spruik
17 โ 16 layovers / spruiker
18 โ 17 layovers / spruikers
19 โ 16 lokeys / supervisal
20 โ 15 okays / supervisal
21 โ 15 ospreys / souvlaki
22 โ 16 ospreys / souvlakia
23 โ 16 ospreys / souvlakis
24 โ 16 overlays / souplike
25 โ 14 overlays / spruik
26 โ 16 overlays / spruiker
27 โ 17 overlays / spruikers
28 โ 18 overlayers / souplike
29 โ 16 overlayers / spruik
30 โ 18 overlayers / spruiker
31 โ 19 overlayers / spruikers
32 โ 16 overpays / souplike
33 โ 15 overpays / souslik
34 โ 14 overpays / suslik
35 โ 16 overpays / souvlaki
36 โ 17 overpays / souvlakia
37 โ 17 overpays / souvlakis
38 โ 17 overplays / souplike
39 โ 16 overplays / souslik
40 โ 15 overplays / suslik
41 โ 17 overplays / souvlaki
42 โ 18 overplays / souvlakia
43 โ 18 overplays / souvlakis
44 โ 15 overplays / spruik
45 โ 17 overplays / spruiker
46 โ 18 overplays / spruikers
47 โ 13 overplays / suki
48 โ 14 overplays / sukis
49 โ 18 papovaviruses / silky
50 โ 20 papovaviruses / silkily
51 โ 14 payers / souvlaki
52 โ 15 payers / souvlakia
53 โ 15 payers / souvlakis
54 โ 14 pekes / savourily
55 โ 16 perukes / savourily
56 โ 15 players / souvlaki
57 โ 16 players / souvlakia
58 โ 16 players / souvlakis
59 โ 14 pokes / savourily
60 โ 15 pokers / savourily
61 โ 15 pokies / savourily
62 โ 14 pokies / savourly
63 โ 19 poliovirus / speakeasy
64 โ 21 polioviruses / speakeasy
65 โ 15 prepays / souvlaki
66 โ 16 prepays / souvlakia
67 โ 16 prepays / souvlakis
68 โ 13 previously / yak
69 โ 15 previously / yapok
70 โ 13 preys / souvlaki
71 โ 14 preys / souvlakia
72 โ 14 preys / souvlakis
73 โ 15 preyers / souvlaki
74 โ 16 preyers / souvlakia
75 โ 16 preyers / souvlakis
76 โ 14 pukes / savourily
77 โ 16 pukekos / savourily
78 โ 17 pureplays / souvlaki
79 โ 18 pureplays / souvlakia
80 โ 18 pureplays / souvlakis
81 โ 15 purveys / souvlaki
82 โ 16 purveys / souvlakia
83 โ 16 purveys / souvlakis
84 โ 14 repays / souvlaki
85 โ 15 repays / souvlakia
86 โ 15 repays / souvlakis
87 โ 15 replays / souvlaki
88 โ 16 replays / souvlakia
89 โ 16 replays / souvlakis
90 โ 14 souvlakia / apery
91 โ 15 souvlakis / spryer
92 โ 20 speakeasies / savourily
93 โ 19 speakeasies / savourly
94 โ 17 speakers / savourily
95 โ 16 splakes / savourily
96 โ 15 spokes / savourily
97 โ 18 spruikers / savourily
98 โ 17 spruikers / savourly
99 โ 14 vapourers / silky
100 โ 16 vapourers / silkily
101 โ 15 yokes / supervisal
102 โ 16 akoyas / supervisal
103 โ 16 oversays / souplike
104 โ 20 palaeolakes / savourily
105 โ 18 perukiers / savourily
106 โ 17 perukiers / savourly
107 โ 14 plyers / souvlaki
108 โ 15 plyers / souvlakia
109 โ 15 plyers / souvlakis
110 โ 15 polyuresis / sevak
111 โ 16 polyuresis / sevika
112 โ 18 polyuresis / souvlaki
113 โ 19 polyuresis / souvlakia
114 โ 19 polyuresis / souvlakis
115 โ 17 polyuresises / sevak
116 โ 18 polyuresises / sevika
117 โ 20 polyuresises / souvlaki
118 โ 21 polyuresises / souvlakia
119 โ 21 polyuresises / souvlakis
120 โ 15 prekes / savourily
121 โ 14 pryers / souvlaki
122 โ 15 pryers / souvlakia
123 โ 15 pryers / souvlakis
124 โ 15 pukers / savourily
125 โ 17 purveyals / souplike
126 โ 16 purveyals / souslik
127 โ 17 purveyals / souvlaki
128 โ 18 purveyals / souvlakia
129 โ 18 purveyals / souvlakis
130 โ 16 repayals / souvlaki
131 โ 17 repayals / souvlakia
132 โ 17 repayals / souvlakis
133 โ 16 repayers / souvlaki
134 โ 17 repayers / souvlakia
135 โ 17 repayers / souvlakis
136 โ 16 replyals / souvlaki
137 โ 17 replyals / souvlakia
138 โ 17 replyals / souvlakis
139 โ 17 reyokes / supervisal
140 โ 15 supervisal / lokey
141 โ 16 supervisal / lokeys
142 โ 16 yokers / supervisal
143 โ 17 yolkers / supervisal
144 โ 15 avisos / syruplike*
145 โ 13 avos / syruplike*
146 โ 16 avoures* / syruplike*
147 โ 15 avoyers* / souplike
148 โ 15 avoyers* / spurlike*
149 โ 16 avoyers* / syruplike*
150 โ 16 evovaes* / syruplike*
151 โ 19 kakapo / overseriously*
152 โ 17 kayoes / supervisals*
153 โ 16 kayos / supervisals*
154 โ 17 keavies* / spuriously
155 โ 14 klap* / perviously*
156 โ 14 klap* / previously
157 โ 18 klaviers* / spuriously
158 โ 15 koupreys / salival*
159 โ 15 koupreys / salivas*
160 โ 13 koupreys / silva*
161 โ 14 koupreys / silvae*
162 โ 14 koupreys / silvas*
163 โ 17 koupreys / slaveries*
164 โ 18 koupreys / souvlakias*
165 โ 19 koupreys / supervisals*
166 โ 14 koupreys / sylvia*
167 โ 15 koupreys / sylvias*
168 โ 17 kyloes / supervisals*
169 โ 16 layovers / spurlike*
170 โ 17 layovers / syruplike*
171 โ 16 okays / supervisals*
172 โ 17 ospreys / souvlakias*
173 โ 14 ovals / syruplike*
174 โ 17 overlaps / syruplike*
175 โ 16 overlays / spurlike*
176 โ 17 overlays / syruplike*
177 โ 18 overpays / souvlakias*
178 โ 16 overpays / spurlike*
179 โ 17 overpays / syruplike*
180 โ 19 overplays / souvlakias*
181 โ 17 overplays / spurlike*
182 โ 18 overplays / syruplike*
183 โ 18 oversails / syruplike*
184 โ 18 oversaves* / syruplike*
185 โ 17 overseas / syruplike*
186 โ 18 overseriously* / yapok
187 โ 16 oversup* / palsylike
188 โ 15 oversup* / playlike*
189 โ 19 pakoko* / overseriously*
190 โ 20 papovavirus / syruplike*
191 โ 22 papovaviruses / syruplike*
192 โ 19 paprikases* / savourily
193 โ 18 paprikases* / savourly
194 โ 17 paviours / syruplike*
195 โ 17 pavlovas / syruplike*
196 โ 16 payers / souvlakias*
197 โ 15 pekoes* / savourily
198 โ 13 perviously* / yak
199 โ 15 perviously* / yapok
200 โ 17 players / souvlakias*
201 โ 16 plyers / souvlakias*
202 โ 15 pokeys* / savourily
203 โ 16 pokeys* / supervisal
204 โ 17 pokeys* / supervisals*
205 โ 14 pokeys* / survival
206 โ 15 pokeys* / survivals
207 โ 14 pokies / surveyal*
208 โ 15 pokies / surveyals*
209 โ 15 poukes* / savourily
210 โ 17 prepays / souvlakias*
211 โ 18 presurveys* / souvlaki
212 โ 19 presurveys* / souvlakia
213 โ 20 presurveys* / souvlakias*
214 โ 19 presurveys* / souvlakis
215 โ 17 preyers / souvlakias*
216 โ 15 preys / souvlakias*
217 โ 16 pryers / souvlakias*
218 โ 14 pryses* / souvlaki
219 โ 15 pryses* / souvlakia
220 โ 16 pryses* / souvlakias*
221 โ 15 pryses* / souvlakis
222 โ 17 purveys / souvlakias*
223 โ 16 repays / souvlakias*
224 โ 17 replays / souvlakias*
225 โ 16 repryves* / souvlaki
226 โ 17 repryves* / souvlakia
227 โ 18 repryves* / souvlakias*
228 โ 17 repryves* / souvlakis
229 โ 16 salvoes / syruplike*
230 โ 15 salvos / syruplike*
231 โ 17 saviours / syruplike*
232 โ 18 savourers / syruplike*
233 โ 18 savouries / syruplike*
234 โ 16 savours / syruplike*
235 โ 14 savoys / spurlike*
236 โ 15 savoys / syruplike*
237 โ 16 souvlakias* / spryer
238 โ 18 souvlakias* / superlay*
239 โ 21 souvlakias* / superplayer*
240 โ 22 souvlakias* / superplayers*
241 โ 19 souvlakias* / syruplike*
242 โ 17 souvlakis / superlay*
243 โ 20 souvlakis / superplayer*
244 โ 21 souvlakis / superplayers*
245 โ 18 souvlakis / syruplike*
246 โ 20 superplayers* / souvlaki
247 โ 21 superplayers* / souvlakia
248 โ 22 superplayers* / souvlakias*
249 โ 21 superplayers* / souvlakis
250 โ 17 surveyals* / souplike
251 โ 15 syruplike* / evovae*
252 โ 16 syruplike* / evovaes*
253 โ 17 vakases* / spuriously
254 โ 16 valkyrie* / espousal
255 โ 17 valkyrie* / espousals
256 โ 15 valkyrie* / espouse
257 โ 16 valkyrie* / espouser
258 โ 17 valkyrie* / espousers
259 โ 16 valkyrie* / espouses
260 โ 15 valkyries* / sapour*
261 โ 16 valkyries* / sapours*
262 โ 17 valkyries* / sepalous*
263 โ 13 valkyries* / soup
264 โ 15 valkyries* / souper*
265 โ 16 valkyries* / soupers*
266 โ 17 valkyries* / souplike
267 โ 14 valkyries* / soups
268 โ 16 valkyries* / soursop
269 โ 17 valkyries* / soursops
270 โ 16 valkyries* / spousal
271 โ 17 valkyries* / spousals
272 โ 15 valkyries* / spouse
273 โ 16 valkyries* / spouses
274 โ 17 valkyries* / spurious
275 โ 19 valkyries* / spuriously
276 โ 18 valkyries* / superpose
277 โ 19 valkyries* / superposes
278 โ 15 valkyrs* / souplike
279 โ 16 valours* / syruplike*
280 โ 18 vapourers / syruplike*
281 โ 16 vapours / syruplike*
282 โ 18 vavasours / syruplike*
283 โ 15 violas / syruplike*
284 โ 15 volvas / syruplike*
285 โ 15 yaupers* / souvlaki
286 โ 16 yaupers* / souvlakia
287 โ 17 yaupers* / souvlakias*
288 โ 16 yaupers* / souvlakis
289 โ 17 yokers / supervisals*
290 โ 16 yokes / supervisals*
291 โ 15 yukos* / supervisal
292 โ 16 yukos* / supervisals*
OVERPAYS โ SOUPLIKE
OA for me too