Here are the Letter Boxed February 04, 2026 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:
DAVRYMIWCOUT
The answers are:
OVIDUCTTRAMWAY
OVIDUCT—TRAMWAY
Top single words, by length, fetched from the HTML of the LB site. In today’s case the Max Length=9. I’d like to automate this process, but today’s initial grab was just a copy and paste into Excel, then sort by word length:
ARAUCARIA, DOCUDRAMA, MORTARIUM, OVOMUCOID, RAYATWARI, TIMOCRACY, TRIUMVIRI,
OVIDUCT-TRAMWAY – given MY, which rules out anything ending in that or anything like MYOCARDIUM; no option for TORY, IC, MICRO, anything with OU/OUT (what the heck), AV, CITY, etc. – I suspect a singular solution, which is a shame really, and a bad habit. It should allow for a range of vocabulary without being too easy.
Not sure what people have put in Sam’s coffee!
Haha! Not sure either, but after today’s fiendish array I would happily pour a whole bottle of mayonnaise in his cup of coffee!
On a side note, Irim, your streak amazes me! From the time I joined this site, I don’t think there’s been a single puzzle that you’ve not been able to solve!
You’re being kind with the mayonnaise, I was thinking about the very spicy pachranga achar my mum would bring home (I grew up in the States) from Lahore and eat straight out of the jar!
I’m just very, very Punjabi stubborn and put it up behind my work in the morning and will play it all day if I need to. Some of my proclivities – like wanting the longest word to be first, getting rid of as many pesky letters in one word (today WVY) as possible, tucking hard letters in the middle – can get me into trouble. E.g., today, I dismissed tramway for quite a while because it ‘didn’t eliminate enough letters’…then I had to write OVDUCIT on piece of paper before recognising it. And I did biology; should have seen it right away. I was also too busy being cross at how many things he made impossible. I really wanted MYOCARDIUM!
But trust me, having missed many times before, I expect to do so many times in the future…this is just a good run. Best of luck tomorrow, hon – may we both do it in 2!
I, too, sometimes write leftover letters on a piece of paper and unscramble from there. Pays off most of the time.
I’m just as stubborn. Usually won’t give up until a little before midnight. Ironically today OVIDUCT Was the very first word I saw. It wasn’t until 10 hours later that I finally came up with TRAMWAY. 33/35, 5/5, 7, 17
My god. No words for this one. I was determined not to lose after yesterday’s failure, and it payed off. It took me HOURS to find a valid solution. Kept trying to make words with -WARD, -DUCT, -IUM, -DOM, -CRACY, -IVITY. Brutal puzzle today. Finally, got the OA after stumbling across OVIDUCT. IC and RM on the same sides were particularly frustrating. I suspect this is another one-off.
Does anyone else feel that these puzzles have become much more restrictive than before? Most of the arrays that have appeared recently cannot be solved without a necessary ‘base’ word (which Irim suggested), like yesterday’s HEXAGRAM.
30/35, 3/4
It does seem like that lately, but I still feel it’s random overall. Interspersed between days like today, they’ll historically be days of many hundreds of solutions, albeit most invalid. The range between singular solution days and LB-Bountiful days is an interesting pattern.
Hi, Mark,
I think it’s just that this last fortnight has felt like a streak of either required base words or singular solutions, so I’m wondering if it’s a trend. Hopefully, you’re right, and it’s just a blip.
I miss having more options.
YAY! You got it. Right? I found OU and the inability to do CITY or IC or MICRO a royal pain.
Agreed, this seems to be a long run of restrictive solutions, either singular or required base word; I’d be interested in doing a chart and seeing if that perception is right.
Congrats!
Surrendered early despite seeing TRAMWAY. The leftover letters spelled VIODUCT for me. In hindsight, I wish I tried to rearrange the letters of VIODUCT.
2/4.
31/35.
Same here! Found TRAMWAY early and went back to it a couple of times but just didn’t see OVIDUCT. Alas. At least I caved early as well. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow!
Same…did not ever get oviduct, only tramway…got stuck!
OA after getting very frustrated trying to assemble a list of eligible v words
OA, but only after stumbling across OVIDUCT on a word-check site, don’t think I’d have thought of it otherwise. Had already toyed with MYOCARDIUM, VIADUCT and TRAMWAY among others. I think somebody else had mentioned recently that they had noticed a pattern of puzzles with singular solutions and obscure words popping up more frequently on Wednesdays.
ACARIDOMATIUM* MAWVY**
*Collins, place on a plant for mites.
** Telegraphic Code for “Special Delivery.”
See: A B C Universal Commercial Telegraphic Code, 1920 ed.
OA. Yet again I accidentally learned a new word (“mowy”) which I will never use in conversation.
OA … but it took a ridiculous amount of time.
As for the OA- Egg-spress trolley line.
Also, FWIW, Atracurium is a legit word everywhere except here.