Here are the Letter Boxed January 23, 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:
SQIRLNETYFKU
The answers are:
FREQUENTLYYIKES

FREQUENTS – SLINKY. Super quick.
23/23
Same
FREQUENTS-SLINKY
Fast also…my first words today!
Took a few minutes. But got there. Not the OA but close enough. 22/23.
Same OA and more…
Frequents – Slinky
Frequents – Slinkily
*Skief – Frequently *MW
Same!
FREQUENTS–SKYLIT
SKI-INFREQUENTLY
since climate change
SKI – INFREQUENTLY too.
Yikes is right! Ski — Infrequently is much better than the OA!
👍
FLYSTRIKE-EQUINE
Nice work! OA here in about a minute. 20/23
Kicking myself because I had FREQUENTLY, but didn’t see YIKES- weird because I’m American, but I’ve lived in the UK for decades and have been trained out of it, maybe. Knew it was there, but was putting it in my back pocket for a bit, then saw this. Well done, one who is a ruler! 😀
KNIFERS SEQUENTLY
UNQUILTS-SKYSURFER
QUERENTS-SKINFLINTYILY
KEFIRS-SEQUENTLY
FREQUENTS-SKYLIT
*QUITRENTS-SKINFLINTILY
*QUITRENTS good in Wiktionary, Scrabble US (TWL)
FLYSTRIKE-ENQUEUES
Same here …
KEFIRS–SENQUENTLY
My spellchecker doesn’t recognize SEQUENTLY (!?). It’s apparently archaic.
Enquires skinflinty
Ski Infrequently
Same
OA… paying the bills.
😄
Frequents sulkily
Another SKI INFREQUENTLY
Same.
SKYSURFER ⇄ RELINQUENTS
RELINQUENTS ⇆ SKYSURFER
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FLYSTRIKE—EQUINE
FREQUENTS—SLINKY
QUERIES—SKINFLINTILY
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Frequents – slinky
Ski – infrequently (not!)
FLYSTRIKE EQUINE
FLINTLIKE ENQUIRYS*
*var of enquiries cited in OED, in works of John Locke and George Berkeley.
Flintlike is in MW
“Our Man Flint”, 1966
👍🏻A fave film.
Ski infrequently and frequents slinkily
FREQUENTS STINKILY*
*The Yale Literary Magazine
Remembering archegonia,perhaps humanity’s problem with pine pollen is that it amounts to sexual harassment from the plant kingdom, haha
Requests skinflintily lm surprised that’s even a word
Nice! I was hoping someone would make skinflint work somehow. I tried skinflinty but that didn’t fly.
Frequently Yikes
Enquiries skinflintily
Reinquires skinflintily
QUINTILES SKYSURFER
SKI-INFREQUENTLY
OA. First OA since November 30th.
SKI INFREQUENTLY
Ski Infrequently
OA. Some other good ones here too.
QUIRES-SKINFLINTILY
Infrequently Yikes
Same here. OA+ 🙂
KEFIRS – SEQUENTLY
Spellcheck didn’t recognize ‘sequently’ but it’s in the dictionaries and LB accepted it.