Here are the Letter Boxed August 23, 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:
NKURLGAOFDCY
The answers are:
DRAGONFLYYUCK
DRAGONFLY—YUCK
DRAGONFLY—YUCKY
CUCKOLD—DRAGONFLY
ANDROGYNAL—LUCKFUL
CUCKOLD DRAGONFLY
for me today.
Easy OA Today….less than 15 seconds….notice, each letter was only used once, except for connector!
Yep, 13/2 👍
OA in less than 1 min second time ’round today!
Played with
ONCOLOGY
-CLOCK
DARK-
LOCKFUL
LUCKFUL
FLOCK
KALOCK
And DOCKYARD!
Cuckold-Dragonfly here as well. Took me awhile though.
Like it more than the yuck I got.
Typo:
ANDROGYNAL—LOCKFUL
👍
I got that too!
Stuck on androgyny for a bit. Laryngology too.
Where is the Sunday reveal?Quadratic Cowboy
Thanks – spoiled that one for me!!
You’ve just spoiled it for me … I was looking for the day before (23rd) and you’ve spoiled the 24th
DRAGONFLY-YUCK
DRAGONFLY-YUCKY
CUCKOLD-DRAGONFLY
NYT wouldn’t allow me to play a 5-letter word starting with F and ending with A that’s in OED with ANDROLOGY. Didn’t know we were playing with a sanitized version.
ANDROGYNAL-LOCKFUL
OA
Also applies to 5-letter word starting with F and ending in Y that’s in OED with YARDLONG.
ANDROGYNAL-LUCKFUL*
*LUCKFUL good in Wiktionary
It’s gonna be alright.
I got it but try to do 3 words too. Lackful, laryngology, yod. Still waiting to see it show though. Andrology didn’t have an easy ending.
Oa
OA.
a quick find today.
OA immediately, after GYRFALCON wasn’t an option.
Gyrafalcon is respectable.
DRAGONFLY – YUCKY
Flyswatter aftermath.
Hahaha…
OA
DRAGONFLY — YUCK
Found DRAGON, DRAGONFLY, and YUCK was right there.
I also spent time with LARYNGOLOGY, ORACULAR, ANDROLOGY, and LOCKFUL
Also
OA
Dragonfly Yucky
NARCOLOGY is a word but couldn’t make it work.
dragonfly – yuck
Hit a roadblock today, even though my first word was GADFLY
Came up with
FRAUD DRACONOLOGY* YAK
But submitted GULF FROND DOCKYARD
Had a hard time until tried dragon. Got dragonfly immediately and knew it would be answer. Before yuck, got cuckold dragonfly
Sometimes in LB (as in life), less is more. Couldn’t solve it at breakfast before early bike ride, but on ride cuckoldry came to me. Played it when I got back and still couldn’t solve until I backed it off to cuckold and dragonfly magically appeared.
Dr. Sahar Yousef proclaims that the brain needs the subconscious mind to work the problem behind the scenes.
Always walk away and come back to it with fresh eyes!
I sometimes call that “ letting it percolate” perhaps some problems require the brains brute computing programs to run longer. Reminds me of when I can’t remember a name or something and it pops up later”out of nowhere”
A couple of years ago a snippet of music popped into my head, no lyrics , just melody. Tried everything possible to figure it out, enilisted others etc, never did after six months of trying, so just quit and forgot about it, convinced myself I was misremembering another song
Absolutely!
Totally works!!
Spent time on “ck” “ful” “ology” tried lanyard dockyard gadfly longful dry land oncology lackaday frugal augury and others before spotting dragon
I also went down most of this road.
Gandolfry yuck! Says Sauron
😄, Bill
OA.
Another puzzle:
COULD DAYLONG GOLF. FRAUD. DORKY.
Who is it ?
These are funny. Spent a couple hours on and off trying to crack this one, fell asleep for a nap, woke up, went back to it and saw it right away.
CUCKOLD-DRAGONFLY
I must have been dreaming about insect infidelity.
Happy Saturday.
Good one, has my vote over yuck
Oh, my! 😯
Made myself blush with some of the combos tried.
DRAGONFLY / YUCKY
Cornflaky yardgourd was not a popular holiday dish as it turned out.
A year and a half later, while working, I HEARD IT! It was part of Coldplay’s TALK, which I’d heard 20 years ago.the song is convinced myself I was just misremembering turned out interestingly to be Coldplay’s Paradise. They made me nostalgic for when my kids were a certain age
I d even looked up Coldplays top ten hits upon hearing Paradise but Talk wasn’t listed. So that one never got solved by the programs but it never left the subconscious memory.
Total failure on this one. I just couldn’t make any progress toward useful words. The closest I got to OA was the word FLY. :-/ I kept trying to use the G in words with -ANG- or -ONG- so completely missed DRAGON. I don’t know why it is so hard to think of even ordinary words in some of these puzzles but not others.