Here are the Letter Boxed January 11, 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:
LUWOHEITDRXG
The answers are:
WELTERWEIGHTTUXEDO
OA
Yep… Tom Cruise at the Oscars.
I can’t believe I got the OA since it’s 18/2.
😎 Wanted to be a cruiserweight.
Cruiserweight, heh heh.
Same
Oh, hey Tom. Thanks for coming.
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OA. Athleisure wear.
WELTERWEIGHT / TUXEDO too.
Me too
I finally punched my way to the OA but only after several knockdowns.
i was trying to find a match for EXTERIOR and stumbled on
GOLDWROUGHT … which LB doesn’t like, but nevertheless is all over Amazon, Alibaba and Fandom … so my 2-worder is
GOLDWROUGHT TRIXIE.
LB didn’t have a problem with Trixie … go figure!
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WELTERWEIGHT—TUXEDO
WIGHT—TUXEDO—ORL (14/3)
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ORT—TWILIGHT—TUXEDO
TUXEDO—ORT—TWILIGHT
TWILIGHT—TUXEDO—ORT
WORDLE°—EIGHT—TUX
Ha! Wordle not accepted in LB.
WELTERWEIGHT – TUXEDO
Fit like a glove.
Another OA. Welterweight Tuxedo, classes up the pre-bout. Feels like a one-off.
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WELTERWEIGHT — TUXEDO
Found WORTHIER, THROUGH, OUTWEIGH, HIGHWIRE, TWILIGHT, TWILIGHTED, WEIGHT, LIGHTWEIGHT, and then found TUXEDO but that left a dangling R. I then found TEXTURED, but that left a dangling O. That’s when I thought of WELTERWEIGHT. The X is difficult today.
Found WORTHIER — RELIGIEUX but no D
so DEW – WORTHIER — RELIGIEUX for the three.
3 for me:
DELIGHT – TUXEDO – OWER
+ WROUGHT, DROUGHT!
Nice!
Agreed! Lots of combination possibilities with Light, Right, World, Worth, While, Wrought, Delight, etc. But I did keep feeling like Tuxedo was the right X word so I just kept on trying.
OA
OA. But I really wanted to find a pairing for WHIRLIGIG.
Ditto! but at least whirligig led me to weight and after lightweight proved fruitless I found the OA. Didn’t take too long!
Yeah, WHIRLIGIG leaves TUXEDO but no way to connect. I haven’t seen many other solves today.
Yes, I ended up with whirligig-tuxedo as well. I’m sticking with it as a winner
anyway. Too good to ignore.
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An attempt at rhyming minimal quads (15/4). Not easy, or I’m rusty. All words were in OED, at least, maybe 😉
OLD—DWIGHT—TUR—REX
TRIG—GLOW—WHUD—DEX
WIGHT—TOLD—DUR—REX
WORTH—HUG—GILD—DEX
WILD—DROGH—HUT—TEX
GIRL—LOWTH—HUD—DEX
WOLD—DUR—RIGHT—TEX
GUT—THROW—WILD—DEX
LIGHT—TOWD—DUR—REX
HILT—TRUG—GOWD—DEX
LOD—DWIGHT—TUR—REX
WROTH—HUG—GILD—DEX
OA-SugarRay Robinson’s wedding attire
Was sure there must be a 2w with TUXEDO but I never thought of Welterweight, although I got LIGHTWEIGHT after a while, (Lightweight-Tuxedo-Our) Tons of 3w’s: I went with 14/3 WORD-DELIGHT-TUX. Early on got WRIGHT-TUXEDO-OIL. Also: WEIGHTED-DOXED-DOLOUR, ROT-TWILIGHT-TUXEDO, TWIRL-LIGHT-TUXEDO, WHIRLIGIG-GOUGED-DETOX, WHIRLIGIG-GUT-TUXEDO, WHIT-TUXEDO-OGLER, EXTRUDED-DELIGHT-TOW or TWO, EXILED-DUGOUT-THREW, EXILED-DEW-WROUGHT, EXILED-DROUGHT-TOW or TWO, LIGHTWEIGHT-TOURED-DOX, LIGHTWEIGHT-TEXTED-DOUR, WORDED-DELIGHT-TUX, TOWERED-DELIGHT-TUX, URTEXT-TWILIGHT-TOLD. For fun I made up a 2w with “TOWERLIGHT” TUXEDO.
Nice triples!
EXTRUDED DROUGHT TWIRL
If I’d looked at pic of my black & white cat, I might have thought “TUXEDO” but I doubt WELTERWEIGHT would ever come to mind.
Is this based in UK or simply using UTC as time reference? Seems to be five hours ahead of my local time here on east coast.
I usually play this very early EST and there are many folks that post several hours ahead of me, so maybe it gets put up just after midnight EST?
It renews at 0800hrs UK time, so 0100hrs EST.
No it renews at 0300 Eastern
Got the OA pretty quick.
Wanted WILE EXDROUGHT (could only find a few examples of EXDROUGHT in Google Books, mostly agricultural journals, but no dictionary entries.) AI didn’t like it. Nor EXWILD DROUGHT
I did find WROUGHTE in a list of New Year’s Eve gifts given to Queen Elizabeth in 1578/9 “wroughte with blacke silk” etc. So WROUGHTE EXILED would have worked then. 🙂
Played around with a few 3’s.
WHIRLED DEXTER ROUGH
WILD DROUGHT TEXT
Also GLOW WORTHWHILE EXUDE which sounds like a fortune cookie.
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My 3 word solution was
TWILIGHTED – DETOXED – DRUG
Someone’s having a rough night.
I could not get it in 2 words. I am not sure if I’m ever read the word “welterweight.” 🤔
Despite my aversion to compound cheaty words I went for one of the lovely worts…
Lightwort tuxedo
but not allowed 😞
I take it that this is an only OA 2w solve today
Welterweight/Tuxedo
Beautiful Loser
TUXEDO-OILRIG-GILDED-DROUGHT-TOW