Here are the Letter Boxed February 26, 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:
BCAOKMPTLRIE
The answers are:
PROBLEMATICCORK
PROBLEMATIC—
CLICK, CLOAK, CLOCK, COCKPIT, COCKTAIL, CORK, CROAK, CROCKET, CROCKPOT
KEMP, KEP, KIP
—PROBLEMATIC
Kip Problematic
Problematic Cork
Problematic Cock
The hens are complaining.
So are some wives
Same
Also Musk’s romored medical issue.
PROBLEMATIC CORK, plus several other C… words for me as well. Solved very quickly too.
Same
KIP-PROBLEMATIC
Same.
Also chose Kip to be problematic today… that guy.
IMPARTIBLE-EARLOCK
👍 Building off that earlock:
BIPALMATE°—EARLOCK
These ten or eleven-letter answers always bug the hell out of me! I’m assuming somebody must hit a one-word solution from time to time, have either of you guys ever hit the holy grail, or seen it done? The first time I ever played I saw GROUNDWATER right away (not the OA), and thought “This is a cinch”… Assumed I’d be racking up one or two-word solutions every time I gave it a look without breaking a sweat…
Oh yes, they exist, but extremely rare. I’ve been here three years now and have only seen one or two. I’ve found other ones , like a 14/1 one time I think.
Accepted one word answer LEXICOGRAPHY on 13 Nov 2022. Funny thing though; it was not the OA! Also, not funny, I didn’t play that day!
https://letterboxedanswers.com/?s=November+13+2022
Bernie, your comment! + for the OGs if you read the comments be prepared to miss sota21.
Also, there is an unheralded piece of Jill writing that day.
Shoutout Jill! (I think you’re still here). Your poems remain my favorite potential pleasure on this board.
And (unrelated but important) a thank you to DAVEL who appears to be gone.
I think if you graph the total number of possible words using 1 to 12 letters, you’ll find relatively few at either end (1 and 12). Out of those relatively few 12 letter words, you will find a small fraction that have 12 *unique* letters. Out of that set, you will find words whose unique letters line up nicely in order to not only fit the matrix, but obey the cardinal rule of adjacent letters can’t be on the same side. I am sure that someone much smarter than me has written a program to find them. I would be curious to know just how many exist using the OED or any other dictionary.
As I tell my students, Mark, you can’t build “off” something! 😊
Ok, then onto.
😊
… And MVUA, Sota21 is gone but not forgotten. 🇬🇷
Yes. Sota21 sadly missed. 😔
PRPOB;EMATIC-COCKBOAT
Oops, PROBLEMATIC-COCKBOAT
KIP / PROBLEMATIC
PROBLEMATIC / COCK
Yikes!?!
PROTOCOL-LAMBLIKE
PROTECTORAL-LAMBLIKE
Richie, PECTORAL— also. 🏋️
PECTORAL – LAMBLIKE
Pushups for pushovers.
PROBLEMATIC -CLOCK
Why I was late for work.
LAMBLIKE—
ECTOPROCT, ELECTROPOLAR, ELECTROTROPIC, EOLOTROPIC
This is a rare case where LB accepts a ‘like’ word.
☕☕
PROBLEMATIC
CROCK
Hard to cook with one.
Same – so annoyed I didn’t see the slightly more efficient CORK.
PROBLEMATIC – CLOAK
Partake-embolic
OA
PARTAKE-EMBOLIC
payola dinner about the latest clotbuster
First solution: MICROPARTICLE – EBIKE. But I play with the Scrabble word list. Even though LB accepted EBIKE, Scrabble did not. So on I marched to PROBIOTIC – CLAMLIKE*, which was fine with Scrabble but not LB.
I love that solution DW!
MICROPARTICLE—EBIKE
I was just at REI looking at them. The technology was incredible.
MICROPARTICLE EBIKE too. Happy with that!
PROBLEMATIC-CLOCK
What a joy to type in 11 letters in a row! And… I suspect in old English, problematic would have been spelled PROBLEMATICK (14/0). 🤔 In Gulliver’s Travels, for example, in the original version you find ‘publick’ and ‘politick’. Boom!
I know I tried it (just in case).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/problematick
LAMBLIKE — ELECTROPOLAR
I don’t really like LIKE words, but most of my ELECTRO- words would not quite work, and LIKE allowed me to connect to the E.
Problematic cock. Very fast, even racy answer today! Hey , I’m talking about a rooster!
ROPELIKE–EMBLEMATIC
Wow, awesome, another accepted ‘like’ suffix.
Yeah, can’t you put LIKE after just about anything?? 🙂
LB accepted BEAKLIKE as well.
LB also accepts BEARLIKE, CORKLIKE, ROPELIKE, APELIKE, etc. I’m sure there are lots of others.
Emblematic crockpot
KIP – PROBLEMATIC.
I was just thinking the other day that we had a poster located in Greece. That was sota21, no? Thanks for the memory jog, MVUA.
PROCTORAL LAMBLIKE