Here are the Letter Boxed February 15, 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:
NPLKAICDHERU
The answers are:
KNUCKLEHEADDRIP
KNUCKLEHEAD(ED)—DRIP
PRINCIPAL—LUNKHEAD
PRICK—KNUCKLEHEAD
LUPULINIC°—CRACKHEAD
What a cast of characters today!
Another shady character showed up:
DIENCEPHALIC—CRACKUP
Uncephalic* – Cracked
Unclicked left only (harp). Did anyone pair?
Unhip – Prickled (no A)
Unheard – Delipickle not accepted 😂🤪
PRAHU — UNCLICKED
noun: prahu
a type of sailing boat originating in Malaysia and Indonesia that may be sailed with either end at the front, typically having a large triangular sail and an outrigger.
To be honest, I had never heard of PRAHU, and just played with words containing HARP and ending in U.
KNUCKLEHEAD—DRIP… yeah, those snot-nosed bullies.
Knucklehead-Drip. The current drizzle of drivel from on high.
PRICK-KNUCKLEHEADS is what I got. The TI writes itself.
KNUCKLEHEAD / DRIP
But took way too long today…
PRINCIPAL—LUNKHEAD
Yup
Ha! Indeed.
I also ended up with principal lunkhead.
PRINCIPAL LUNKHEAD(ED)
was my knuckleheaded solution. Let’s hear Three Stooges’ Woop Woop Woop Woop Woop!
Took me all damn day. Finally got Principal-Lunkhead. Had Knuckle early and had all kinds of head words. Did not come up with Knucklehead though.
I am gobsmacked by the high quality of the OA and shamefaced for having missed it completely.
All I have is Prickled / Crackled / Crinkled Dauphin. High-and-mighty yet fragile and shriveled. In short, a royal Knucklehead Drip.
PICKLED DAUPHIN. Sozzled French nobleman?!
PRICKLED DAUPHIN uses the R
I love that one, but in fact I didn’t get it. I got crinkled. My bad.
Prickled — Dauphin here, quickly
I was there but I thought it was spelled dauphine and LB rejected.
Crackled dauphin.
CRINKLED-DAUPHIN
PARHELIC-CHUNKED
PRICKLED-DAUPHIN
NEPHRIC-CAULKED
Same and wasted no time getting there. Nice and efficient too.
My response above was incorrect, darn it. I liked it too. I also had CRINKLED DAUPHIN in fact.
CRINKLED-DAUPHIN
that’s what comes from so much inbreeding
No raisins and no porpoise.
PARAPHILIC-CHUNKED
PRINCIPAL-LUNKHEAD
PRINCIPAL – LUNKHEAD
Eternal high school face-off.
LINKUP – PRICKHEAD°
Said to a high school lunkhead in a rugby scrum.
°OED: The first set of antlers of a fallow deer. (which is what I was going for when I tried it).
I dunno, THIS, I think the political overtones of Principal Lunkhead are inescapable. Heck, it’s not even overtones, it’s plain old tones
UNRANKED-DIENCEPHALIC
Hey Richie, careful with that chunking!😊
PRICK-KNUCKLEHEAD
LB just clutched its pearls and fainted, Richie!
Me too!
CRINKLED DAUPHIN
Me too! CRINKLED – DAUPHIN
Clearheaded duckpin If I had thought duckpin would work I might have truncated the first word, but I was on a roll. But it worked so now I can’t go back on to find some more…
Same!
Same here!
Yet there was a thrill, too, back in the days before I sprang for the NYT Games subscrip. One-and-done really raises the stakes, and requires (and rewards) close attention and careful planning. I almost miss it.
PRICKLED – DAUPHIN. Possible quote from Henry V?
So many close calls, couldn’t get past thinking I was missing something obvious with HANDPICKED and three “easy” letters… So close to DIURNAL, etc. for the hook-up.
I thought handpicked was a surefire winner as well.
These are all great, and seem timely.
I’m going to add to the mix and sneak in a double-letter, for
HANDPICKED DULLARD
Yep, he’s part of that crowd.
👍👍👍
Handpicked Dracula wasn’t allowed either
Crinkled dauphin here also
and here.
Oa
RHINENCEPHALIC — CLUNKED
DIENCEPHALIC — CRACKUP
Found CRACKED, CRACKHEAD, and then from ENCEPHALIC, I found ANENCEPHALIC, EPENCEPHALIC* (OED good, LB not so good), as well as the two above that I could connect.
Another Crinkled Dauphin. There’re more of them about than I would’ve thought!
Me too. I thought I’d have a unique answer
Same!! LOL
Principal lunkhead. That cannot be OA, so w/o looking at anyone’s answers, going to look some more. There will not be an SS today
CRINKLED-DAUPHIN
Prick knucklehead and knucklehead drip who are principal lunkheads younger brothers
Surely they’re his sons, Jr and Eric?
Handpicked. draculin lb doesn’t but that is the anticoagulant in vampire bat saliva
Doesn’t accept weather is really messing this up!! Anyway, a real word
Draculin is definitely a real thing — great find!
Thanks,high praise from a true logophile indeed!
prickled dauphin
Ditto.
First tried Handpicked Dracula (Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee?) Didn’t know Draculin.
Went with CRINKLED DAUPHIN
and less likely UNCRINKLED* DAPHNE
Tried that too, DRACULIN never occurred to me. Same with DAUPHIN after I had PRICKLED. Don’t know how I missed OA today.
PARAPHILIC – CLUNKED
Crackled – Dauphin and OA
If I may be permitted a double l , I saw pellucidar in todays letters, a fascinating land Edgar Rice Burroughs took me to, many years ago
That’s great. Loved his books on Mars. All I saw was Paducah.
To many of us, Paducah IS Mars.
Wanted to use pellucidar too. Ended with PIRANHA-CAULKED with no connector, just cause I like it.
principal-lunkhead
HARDPACK – KNUCKLE
Very unusual (for me) to find a unique solution this late in the day (7:30PT)
I feel like a Knucklehead for missing that word! Early on I got KNUCKLED DRIP PAH, but didn’t like it.Had a made-up 2w “HIPRACK (not a word) KNUCKLED” Later I came back to it, found some compound words, also Handicap and Pendular.
Some 3w’s: HANDLE EPIC CRACKUP (which might describe my efforts with today’s puzzle) CLEANUP PARKED DIEHARD, HIP PENDULAR RACK, etc.