Here are the Letter Boxed December 12, 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:
OBDIUEGTPVRL
The answers are:
UPVOTEDDIRIGIBLE
Tupelo Overbridge
TUPELO-OVERBRIDGE here as well, after a very brief flirtation with PROVEDITOR(E)
TULEPO – OVERBRIDGE here as well. TULEPO was a lucky guess. I was annoyed when PLUTO was rejected (even though I know it’s a proper noun)!
Also tried to pair VERTIGO, OUTLIVED, PREORDER, TROUBLED, DIVERGE, TRIPLED, OUTBLED, OUTDRIVE, RETRIBUTIVE, DROPLET and BLUDGER.
*TUPELO. Arghh, I hate when this happens. Same thing happened two weeks back – I kept messing up YAKUZA and YAZUKA!
Tupelo — Overbridge fairly quickly
UPVOTED-DIRIGIBLE
TUPELO-OVERBRIDGE
GROUPED-DIVERTIBLE*
*DIVERTIBLE good in OED
OVERPRIVILEGED-DEBUT
POLITBURO-OVEREDGED*
*OVEREDGED good in Wiktionary
PLEDGOR-RETRIBUTIVE
BUTEO-OVERPRIVILEGED
POLITBURO-OVERGORGED
Overprivileged – debut here too.
*PREBUDGET-TIVOLI*
*PREBUDGET good in Collins
*TIVOLI good in Wiktionary
*BUPLEVER-RIDGETOP
*BUPLEVER good in OED
OVERBUDGET-TULIP
Same:
the Netherlands circa 1635.
Next time go Dutch treat.
Polio – Overbudget
Same—polio/overbudget
OVERBUDGET TULIP here too.
Same
Same!
Overbudget – Tulip
Lipo* – Overbudget
Lipo* – Overbudgeted
POLITBURO OVERGILD
Same
OA
Oh dear – I did it again! Could the kind moderators change my name to first name only?
Overbudget Triple
𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓮
POLIO—OVERBUDGET
OVERBUDGET—TULIP
UPVOTED—DIRIGIBLE
OVERBUDGETED—DIPOLE
POLITBURO—OVERGORGED
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some half-solutions:
LIPO^—OVERBUDGET
BLUDGER—REPIVOTʷ
GROUPED—DRIVEBELTʷ
ROPEBRIDGEʷ—EVOLUTE
TUBULIPOROID°—DIVERGE, —DIVULGE
TROUBLED—DEPRIVILEGE(D)°
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pseudo-solution:
LOVEBUGʷ—GLIDERPORT^
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° OED, ^ Merriam-Webster, ʷ Wiktionary
some more half-solutions:
VTUBERʷ—RIDGEPOLE
PILOTBIRDʷ—DIVULGE
GROUPED—DIVERTIBLE°
OVERBRIDGED°—DUPLET
OVERBUDGET—TURDPILEʷ
OUTLIVER—ROPEBRIDGEʷ
OVERPRIVILEGED°—DUBLET
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some more pseudo-solutions:
DRIVEBELTʷ—TOURGROUPʷ
OVERGROUPʷ—PILOTBIRDʷ
PREBUDGETʷ—TELEVIDIOTʷ
VEGIBURGERʷ—REPILOTEDʷ
TURTLEBURGER°—REPROVIDE(D)ʷ
OA pretty quickly
OVERPRIVILEGED – DEBUT. Who knew there was such a thing as being OVERPRIVILEGED?
Anyone who has ever visited the Duke campus.
OA for me today. Took longer than I was expecting with all the possible word combos available.
OVERPRIVILEGED DEBUT here as well. The debutante with the rich daddy.
Or Cornell.
POLIO OVERBUDGET
Overbudget tulip quickly. Going to be lot of solves today
Overprivileged debut
Overbudget triple / tripled/triploid
POLITBURO OVERBRIDGE
OVERPRIVILEGED DEBUT
(Brenda Frazier?)
OUTBID DEPRIVILEGE*
*W also “Deprivileging Art:
Seth Siegelaub and the Politics of Conceptual Art” Northwestern Univ.
Purtilo(W)/putilo(W) overbridge
OVERBUDGET TULIP came through at second glance.
Vitiligo outburped(W)
Overprivileged debuted
Lol. Good one
👍
OVERPRIVILEGED DEBUT
Vitiligo outburped outburped divulge/divulged
Overbudgeted diploid
Overprivileged Debut
Overprivileged- debut after innumerable solutions that left me with one letter and never the same letter.
UPVOTED DREDGIBLE*
*Chambers’s Encyclopaedia:
RUBIGO OUTDEVELOP*
*oddly this word appears in many books and political tracts but is not in any dictionary I can find.
POUTED DIVERGIBLE*
*term in engineering and in artillery, such as Divergible Trails.
PLEDGOR – RETRIBUTIVE
DIVERTIBLE not accepted despite being in MW and OED
Politburo Overbridge