Here are the Letter Boxed February 17, 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:
AUHPNGTWSIOC
The answers are:
NIGHTCAPSSOUTHPAW
CHINWAGS—SPOUT
CATGUT—TOWNSHIP
GUNSHIPS—SNOWCAT
Ah, some nice ones there!
Thanks, Irim. I think there’s a lot more today. I’m checking now. Maybe the dry spell has broken?
Indeed! And if you’re Billy Joel, you might be having some…
UPTOWN-NIGHTCAPS
…I’ll show myself out.
Awesome find.
UNSOWN—NIGHTCAP
UPTOWN—NIGHTCAPS 🌆 🍸
CAPUCHIN—NIGHTGOWNS 🐒👗
😊☕
CATGUT-TOWNSHIP
Found this solve, nice surprise
Pucan – Nightgowns
Finally! Kept trying combinations of letters til I found Pucan. Nightgowns had to have a match.
It looks like it has, indeed! Hopefully it stays the same way. 😉
I also found and played with… Townships, Snowcat, Pitchout, Shotgun
Close with Captains – Shogun (no W)
Paintgun, Chinatown not accepted
OA here very quickly, after cursing out the impossibility of ING, GN(for GNOSTIC and other things), TION, IC.
Ah, well done, Irim! Late to this site because I had a math exam today, and I’m glad to see my solution is unique so far! UTOPIANS – SCHWAG here – these were the first two words I spotted in the grid so it was luckily a fast solve for me.
I’m glad I was able to put my recent knowledge to good use, SCHWAG is a word I recently discovered while playing around with the letters the day the OA contained BUSHWHACKING. I love learning new words!
15/17, 42/48
Current streak: 7
Oh that’s a fantastic, unusual solution – how was the exam?
Oh man, I haven’t heard ‘schwag’ in decades, since I moved from the US to the UK; it would never have struck me now, I think.
Learning new words is the absolute best.
Congratulations on your solve and hope the exam results are all you hope for.
Thank you! The exam went well. 🙂
Unsown Nightcap. And learning new words (schwag, for me) is a great aspect of this game.
UPTOWN – NIGHTCAPS.
14/17.
43/48.
Continuous streak: 7
Billy Joel FTW! Well done, RF!
Thanks, Miss Irim! 😊
You are so welcome, my lovely! Here’s hoping Kanishk makes it through, but I haven’t seen him yet!
Yeah
Can’t believe I toyed around with both NIGHTCAPS and SOUTHPAW, but didn’t spend much time on this one and missed the connection. Looked at a word-check site to see if I was missing anything obvious, which led me to CHINWAGS SPOUT, before I checked here and saw the OA, which made me doubt my mental faculties. I’m taking the win with an asterisk…
Hon, I just did the hard pips for almost *30 minutes* having found the right combination almost at the beginning…only to realise all I had to do was flip one domino to get it right. Not just you!
Gotta be that new moon eclipse.
Don’t worry, that happens to the best of us! I’m ashamed to admit that I accidentally calculated 2+8 as 6 in one of the questions on our math exam today; the entire problem went downhill from there. The exam went well overall though – I’m expecting a 97. 🙂
Catgut – Township …
Intestinal fortitude.
Found township but couldn’t link it. Good one!
Catgut-Township for me as well after battling it all day. 46/48 17/17 20/20.
One more for CATGUT—TOWNSHIP.
Unown nightcap
Unown looked very wrong when I wrote it.
Same here (though it’s NIGHTCAPS with an S). I tried UNWON first which seemed like a reasonable word, but was not accepted.
Same here. UNOWN + NIGHTCAPS. Tried UNWON first, then took a shot at UNOWN. Totally missed UNSOWN.
GUNSHIPS – SNOWCAT
A Pow Plow!
As for NIGHTCAPS SOUTHPAW… Whatever drinks are left, I’ll have them before I go to bed. (Get it?)
Maybe I should have added something about the whole pitcher…
I’ll join yah… Better than the Kool-Aid on the right.
Nice!
And a pretty quick OA today from a Southpaw on the left coast.
CHINWAGS SPOUT
I seemed to only come up with capitalized words today. SAGINAW, GOWANIS, CHINATOWN.
Settled for GUNWHIP* PHOTOSCAN
*word used in lots of Westerns and in several criminal court documents, but no dictionary I can find.
I got to the OA after getting stuck on hogwash because it eliminated the H, G, and W.
Unown nightcaps
UNWON* NIGHTCAPS
*OED, WM, Collins, and Scrabble.
SNOWCAP-PINCHGUT*
*PINCHGUT good in Collins, Merriam-Webster
I got PAWNSHOP-PINCHGUT*
Oddly, LB rejects CAPTAINSHIP.
Stuck with the –SHIP words and found CATGUT–TOWNSHIP.
CATGUT-TOWNSHIP
Tennis is popular here
i really wanted outasight, which was accepted, to work somehow