Here are the Letter Boxed February 01, 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:
CLEPVTUOARGI
The answers are:
APOLOGETICCURVE
GULP PROVOCATIVE
GULP-PROVOCATIVE too
that made me blush
Me three!
Same here, Steph. Like a teacher first broaching the subject. . . 😊
Same
GULP PROVOCATIVE
Very quickly today. Now to finish off Strands.
GULP-PERCOLATIVE
Yes, GULP-PERCOLATIVE also.
The gulp that keeps exuding.
GULP PROCREATIVE
Same. Lots and lots of options for words with a V
How about PROVOCATEUR REGALIA?
Same here, provocateur/regalia
Another GULP PROVOCATIVE. I kept going to find another 2w, as I was so close, many just missing one letter. Lots of great words, and 3w answers with fun TI.
Same
GULP – PROVOCATIVE for me too, and a real saver for me today! I gave up on Spelling Bee after staring at it for too long (I only play Spelling Bee to find the panagram), and when I went to look up the answer, I accidentally came here and had the OA ruined for me. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ I didn’t see anything else though, so I played on hoping I could find an alternate (and that it wouldn’t be a singular solution day), and lo and behold, there was the supremely thematic GULP – PROVOCATIVE! 🎉
CORPORATIVE EPILOGUE. Bit cumbersome but I’ll take it. 😁
Reactive Epilogue
Overactive epilogue
Protractor Regulative
Same here
Curvature – Epilogue
Also found Cultivator with just (peg) left. I’m sure there is a solution here too.
PROVOCATE – EPILOGUE
curative – epilogue
Creative epilogue
Likewise.
same here
CAPITULATOR REGAVE.
same
Copulative Eager
That’s what I got. He finally gave in and returned the ill-gotten gain.
PREROGATIVE-ECRU
COPULATIVE-EAGER
COPER-REGULATIVE
VITUPERATE-ECOLOGUE
ECOLOGUE-EVAPORATIVE
PREVOCALIC-CATGUT
GEOTROPIC-CULTIVAR
PLACATIVE-ERUGO
COLPORTAGE-ELUVIA
PUPILAGE-EVICTOR
REPLICATIVE-ERUGO
COVERUP-PILOTAGE
VOCATIVE-EARPLUG
PROVOCATEUR-RAGTAIL
ARTICULATIVE-EPILOGUE
*OVERARTICULATE-EPILOG
*OVERARTICULATE good in Merriam-Webster, OED and Scrabble US (TWL) but not in LB
COPER-REGULATIVE
first find for me… also trying to get prerogative to work.
Nice, keep on truckin’
COPER -REGULATIVE for me too!
TI: mindful practices to keep your emotions in check in stressful situations
Coper-Regulative. The rules of horse trading.
PLAGUE—EVICTOR 13/2 Covid vaccine?
The next three share a common theme, which I shall not reveal 😉
CURVATE—EPILOG
COPULATIVE—EAGER
OVERVOLTAGE—EPICURE
Lucrative Epilogue…
Is the OA thrown out just to set DW (and friends) up for a home run?!
No, but you’re right, the OA rightly belongs in this grouping!
😊
You can imagine how pleased I am to see some variety in the solutions! 😊 I accept Sam’s apology.
Haha, DW. Wonderful that you were heard!
Plague Evictor also
CATALOGUER REPARATIVE
PLAGUE EVICTOR
ME TOO!
Plaguer Revocative
Galactic Coverup!
PLUTOCRATIC—COVERAGE
may belong here.
✔☕
PLUTOCRATIC – COVERAGE
The Wall Street Journal
VAGUER – REPLICATOR
Food adjacent.
Took me less than 1 minute to find this answer. Maybe conditioned by reading the news these days.
Same! Great scifi TI!
I exposed a
GALACTIC COVERUP
as well!!
GULP PROVOCATIVE
CAPITULATOR-RAVAGE
VAGUER – REPLICATOR
Apologetic Curative
VOLTAGE EPICURE
PROLOGUER REACTIVE really quickly.
CULTIVATOR – REPORTAGE
CULTIVATOR – REPEG
and 342 other options
GALACTOPOIETIC — CURVE
Nice!
Thumbs up!
GULP-PROCREATIVE
Mark and Richie…
found Cultivator with just (peg) left. I’m sure both of you can find a match?
Reportage would be one Bruce.
Nice job Bill 🍻
Paula found some too above. Although it wasn’t there just before I posted the challenge
Thanks Bruce. Haha , you and Paula have now unleashed Ritchie to post 342 more solves! And Richie, that is absolutely an admiring tease
Sorry meant Richie
Yes, impressive solves today, Richie!
APOLOGETIC and GEOTROPIC work too
Thanks!
Catalogue-evaporative
Me too! Catalogue – Evaporative
Creative. Epilogue
GULPER REVOCATIVE
Gulp provocative. Not oa but provocative seen in first try and there was gulp so today – confirmed multiple solves or, a cornucopia of meritorious solutions. Have fun!
GLOP – PROCURATIVE
Love the variety today!!!! Rabbit Rabbit all 😊
ARTICULATIVE-EPILOGUE
Voltage epicure
GLUEPOT – TRACTIVE
COPIER – REGULATIVE
First with this combo, always a feel-good moment!
CURATIVE EPILOGUE
Holy cow! So very many TWA today, I’m agog.
in the spirit of fun multiple solves I add, and it might already be there, I’ve lost track:
PROPAGATIVE- EPICUREAL
In under a minute, I went from seeing and drawing out GLOVER to the ER making me see REVUE to the RE suddenly making me see PRE- and then PRO- right on its heels to then starting over to draw out PROVOke but then to seeing no K and so to detouring up to C to then just ambling into drawing out PROVOCATIVE (towards the end of which I noticed PROVOCATEUR and made a mental note) and then to seeing GUL was all that was left and so to starting over with a GULP. And Bob’s your uncle.
PROVOCATOR – REGULI
Provocator – Regulative
Cannot believe i got to the end of this without seeing COLORATIVE EPILOGUE
ROGUER REPLICATIVE
Since I only ever go for one or two-word solutions, I’ve noticed the EASIEST PUZZLES tend to be actually the ones with solution(s) using the BIGGEST WORDS, unless it’s just one and it’s obscure, archaic, or nonstandard.
It seems counterintuitive that the hardest puzzles aren’t the ones with the biggest words, but to me, the puzzle’s difficulty increases as the size of the biggest words I can form decreases because the number of letters left for the companion word increases, generally speaking. It’s like the number of combinations exponentially increases as the number of letters left increases, but at the same time, the number of actual possibilities exponentially decreases, such that it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Anyway, this is just something I’ve noticed and I wondered if anyone else noticed it to or if it’s been anyone else’s experience.
Wow ! I’m more interested that one word answers exist. I don’t think I’ve seen one. I know I haven’t gotten one.
They do exist but are rather rare. In addition to the constraint of having twelve, unique letters, adjacent letters can’t be on the same side of the matrix. It’s more challenging than it seems, but I could be wrong.
PLUTOCRATICAL—LAVAGE
Cultivator – Reportage. Curative – Epilogue
I ended up with: Voltage – Epicure. I tried and tried to work with “Vituperative” but no go. Lots of good words to be found today with no match.
GEOPOLITICAL LUCRATIVE
Oligarchy
I guess Sam was paying attention to the comments on single solutions
CUP PREROGATIVAL
CATALOGUER-REPETITIVE. You know how redundant those cataloguers can be.