Here are the Letter Boxed December 02, 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:
FYODLIGHAECN
The answers are:
FLYINGGEOCACHED
OA… guessed it would be something else
Same here… really surprised when it turned out to be the OA when there seemed to be a lot of possibilities for this one.
“Seemed to be” being the operative phrase, because the moment you tried those possibilities, you were stuck with letters on the same side or it ‘wasn’t accepted’. This week’s YAKUZA was miles easier.
FLYING GEOCACHED
Cheating!
(pretty sure you’re supposed to hike.)
HOLED-DEFACINGLY*
*DEFACINGLY good in OED
*FEODA-ACHINGLY
*FEODA good in Wiktionary
ALGEDONIC-CHIEFLY
FLAYING-GEOCACHED
*DAYCHING-GOLFED
*DAYCHING good in Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
So cross DAYCHING wasn’t accepted!
What is DAYCHING? Tried to look it up, but got sent on an AI goose chase. A gaming term?
To daych is to thatch a roof.
Bloody hell, *what was that*? DLI and ECN basically screwed over most scientific options, FY was a pain for obvious reasons, and I needed GOLDFINCH, darn it! And the HA words it cut out, like HALOGEN. I was so sure something would work with DAYLONG.
Hours later, ALGEDONIC-CHIEFLY. Yeesh.
I got the same. I keep telling myself that this game is too algedonic to play but do I listen? Nah
HA! And today, no J, Z, or X, just fiendish placements!
I need an analgesic after this…
FELCHING GONDELAY*
*OED
Was hoping CHIEFLY YONGDA* might work. *Chinese word for “greatness of function.”
Also tried DOGFLY but no match.
LOAFINGLY was also a dead-end.
Actually YONGDA can’t work! Haha. Scratch that.
Any luck with DEFRAYING?
Sorry for above nonsense. I was having trouble with the screen. Typing problems and no puzzle to check by.
FLAYING GEOCACHED
Was pretty sure HEADACHING and DEFACING lead to sth, but to no avail
Here is a possible solution for dinosaur fans:
FLANGED DEINONYCHI*
*Wiktionary: plural of DEINONYCHUS.
Apparently the velociraptors were inspired by this creature.
Coached definingly(w) and defining golachy(w) I was never going to get geocached. Geological and glaciological headache achingly algological hedgehog and others but not geocache