Here are the Letter Boxed February 28, 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:
TDHIAONZPXRS
The answers are:
HAZARDSSAXOPHONIST
Instant OA. First two words found.
25/28, 32/39
Current streak: 4
My bad, 52/59
OA, too. But took me 52 minutes.
24/28.
53/59.
Current streak: 3
Well done, RF! Fingers crossed for a long streak this time 😉
Hopefully, Kanishk-boy. Good luck to the both of us. ☺😊
Well done, both, With Kanishk today – they were the first two words I found. Lazy Saturday combined with the news meant I’m very late.
Have a great day, both!
xx
OA in relatively short order. Took a few minutes to find Saxophonist after seeing Hazard and Haphazard. Caps off a perfect month! Curious where everybody is writing in from, given how many answers there always already are even if I’ve solved it quickly in the morning. I’m in New York. 57/59, 28/28, 31
You have an AMAZING streak, Matt! I’m thoroughly impressed. I can’t even imagine maintaining a streak as long as yours. I must say, well done – and here’s to another perfect streak next month!
I’m from India, so the puzzle becomes available each day at 1:30 p.m. I usually have lunch around the same time, which I know is quite late, but I like having something to work my brain on while I eat.
HAZARDS / SAXOPHONIST
Took 3 minutes! Not that I like to blow my own trumpet!
Izards Saxophonist…
Smooth Jazz.
(Izard = chamois: I only know this cause of previous puzzles).
(The first thing I thought of upon answering was: The Girl From Ipanema)
Hey, apparently I can comment as Mvus.
☺
Partisanship paradox
No Z
PartiZanship — Paradox. Accepted by LB.
Interesting find! Would have guessed this was a one solve puzzle.
Hazards Saxophonist
RHIZODONTS—SPADIX
IZARDS—SAXOPHONIST (and the OA)
RHIZOTAXIS—SANDPIT
PARTIZANSHIP—PARADOX
RHIZODONT—TROPOTAXIS
Couldn’t see hazards for the life of me, so took a massive detour and ended with Rhizopods-Saxophonist
RHIZO- was a productive prefix today.
The great ZARDOZ led me to
RHIZOPODS SAXITOXIN*
*MW
OA.
OXIDIZANT* TRANSHIP
* “The United States Dispensatory and Physicians’ Pharmacology.”
Paradoxists shnatz perfectly good Yiddish word( which Sam doesn’t mind using) for nap. Also can use shantz as a noun (slang) saw saxophone but didn’t think to add ist. Put in lot of time
Phonotaxis shahrzad (a name but in W)
I think kanishk will appreciate these tries:paraphrases phonotaxis phototaxis phantasms trophotaxis pirhanas prototoxins tzarina printshop shortstop handstands oxidants haphazard spritz partisanship transistor sophist hardship drop shot horizons antitoxin Zino Saz. Phiz and others
Paraphrasts
Phantasists wish I’d tried partizanship , would have saved lot of time.Matt, it’s 8:06 here in the land of magnolias
Impressive word list, Bill! I haven’t heard some of these words before.
Thanks Kanishk!you always impress!
Bawking(W) goulash just first thing seen, will look more
Unblanking(W) gongshow . Yes,LB accepted gongshow
Howls sunbaking