Here are the Letter Boxed February 10, 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:
ELBYAPIGDROH
The answers are:
GOPHERRIBALDRY
POLYHEDRA—AIRBAG
LOGOGRIPH—HEADBOY
POLYHEDRA—ABIOLOGY
12-, 11-, 10-:
BREADBOARDED, HARDHEADEDLY, BIODEGRADED, BODYBOARDER, PERIODOLOGY, PERIPHERIAL, BALDHEADED, BAREHEADED, BIODEGRADE, BREADBOARD, DEADHEADED, HARDHEADED, PEDOPHILIA, PERIPHERAL, POLYHEDRAL, REDEPLOYED, BIOGEOLOGY, GEOBIOLOGY, PERIPHERAD, PHILOLOGER
GOPHER—RIBALDLY
GOPHER—RIBALDRY
POLYHEDRA-AIRBAG immediately, after briefly bemoaning no GRAPH or HYPER or PHOBE possibilities. I really wanted to be able to do HYPERBOLA/E or any number of ‘graph’ solutions.
Great, thematically. I like it better than the OA. ☕
But the OA is a party animal!
“So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”
OA(ish). GOPHER-RIBALDLY.
I’m alright
Nobody worry ’bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can’t you just let it be?
Love the Caddyshack reference, MVUA.
39/41, 10/10, 13, 16
Good job, Irim.
Fail today. Found ABIOLOGY, ALDEHYDE, HERBOLOGY, BIODEGRADED, PERIPHERAL, PHILOLOGY, PEDOLOGY, PHILOLOGER, REDEPLOYED, BIPEDAL, and GHARIAL which lead me nowhere. It must have been over two hours when I finally gave up. Extremely cross with myself right now, because I am familiar with POLYHEDRA and I would have seen AIRBAG immediately had I gotten it. I failed to notice the POLY- prefix. And the H was one pain in the neck.
I didn’t get either word of the OA, didn’t see GOPHER and wasn’t familiar with RIBALDRY. And right?! I was so cross at them for cutting off so many possibilities, like GRAPH, HYPER, PHOBIA, HYDRO-, etc.
8/10, 35/41
Philologer ribaldly
Oh, hon, I’m sorry – and what a wonderful list of words! I’d say Y could be a pain too, on the end of a word, but I was so looking for the particular suffixes & prefixes you mentioned – HYDRO too, I’d forgotten – I hadn’t yet worried about the H. GOPHER wasn’t even on my radar yet. I get cutting off GRAPH but leaving the others, or vice versa, but to cut them all off? Achar in Sam’s coffee for sure!
I get the being extremely cross with oneself – the times I’ve gotten one word, but not the other, ARGH! Best of luck tomorrow, may we triumph together!
OA
I knew it. GOPHER must be part of the OA coz it took care of the pesky H which was the center of my focus. I maybe right but I struggled to complete it.
I never have a satisfying solve lately, maybe 2 months already. It’s either quick or I gave up after two hours. And, quick solves are not satisfying for me.
Gave up today.
7/10.
36/41
I feel the same way, RF. The latest (and only one this year) satisfying solve was OVIDUCT – TRAMWAY on the fourth of this month, because I was almost ready to give up after hours of trying and then the OA clicked into place. And yes, either there are puzzles that take me just few minutes to solve, or else I give up.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I personally feel like these puzzles are getting harder day by day. The possibilities are narrowing down. And that’s not a good thing, because puzzles are never fun when there are just 7 or 8 valid solutions (or even less). It seems like Sam is trying to make every single puzzle as fiendish as possible.
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Oh, RF, I’m sorry. And Kanishk, hard agree. Like they used to cut off ING, but you’d still have GRAPH and HYPER. I agree, it was far more fun to see myriad solutions and go, wow, that is really cool.
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I don’t mind difficulty. I do mind low frequency words like oviduct. These should be solvable at a college freshman reading level.
Agreed, also Yiddish words are too common and certain perfectly fine words (bitch, for instance) are not accepted. Polyhedra Airbag for me today.
The reason I’m familiar with OVIDUCT is because it’s in our current biology syllabus. I don’t mind low frequency words as long as there are alternate solutions. Most puzzles these days require a supporting word without which it is impossible to solve.
I can list over a hundred words that have appeared in an OA that I’m not familiar with. GRAWLIX, KINKAJOU, AVOIRDUPOIS, etc. And yes, Sam’s obsession with Yiddish is becoming tiresome. It’s fun figuring out puzzles only when they don’t rely on extremely obscure words which we haven’t heard once in our lifetimes.
On the bright side, though, these puzzles definitely help increase my vocabulary!
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PHILOLOGER-RIBALDY (or RIBALDRY)
EPHEDRA ABIOLOGY. Knew Ephedra from time spent in the Great Basin (Ephedra = the native “Mormon tea” shrub) but abiology was a complete hail mary.
PHILOLOGER RIBALDLY
I got stuck on HYDERABAD which I know is a proper noun but it led to Polyhedra but I did not see Airbag.
Just for fun:
GARBOPHILIA* AGEDLY
*This was a thing back in the day. Although I was immune to her charms.
I can believe it was a thing.She was beautiful. For me it was always Sophia Loren.
Gopher ribaldry . It’s all on the down low!
POLYHEDRA AIRBAG
OA. I think it was also the title of a Love Boat episode guest-starring Wayland Flowers and Madame.
OA
Six more weeks of lewd humor
Dummy, that’s a groundhog
POLYHEDRA ABIOLOGY
OA after trying for a while with HERBOLOGY, GEOBIOLOGY, and POLYBAG. Bummed that I didn’t see POLYHEDRA. I also wondered if there would be a good -PHAGY suffix.