Here are the Letter Boxed January 26, 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:
HTNXASRLPIOC
The answers are:
CHINSTRAPPHLOX
CHINSTRAP—PHLOX
CALTROPS—SPHINX
TOXINS—SCHOLARSHIP(S)
TOXINS – SCHOLARSHIP, too.
26/26
Tight array today. I have many potential solutions but almost all are unaccepted.
PATRIARCHSHIP—PHLOXIN
Cool let’s just stick to legitimate solutions that you come up with using your brain
@Wilson, I did use my brain when I built my solving system, which I’ll continue to use. Sometimes I’ll include non-LB words that are in OED, Merriam-Webster, and/or Wiktionary, as others do here as well. Thanks. ☕
TOXINS – SCHOLARSHIP
TOXINS-SCHOLARSHIP also
Chlorinators-Sphinx
Crotals Sphinx
TOXINS SCHOLARSHIP
Same
PATRIARCHALIST-TOXIN
So frustrating, had CHINSTRAP, didn’t see PHLOX.
Looks like we commented at the same time (and got the same solution)! What a coincidence ;D
Great minds – high five! Hope all is well. Yeah, I knew it was something around ‘TOXINS’ (AX on the same side was devilish) or ‘OXTAILS’, kicking myself for not seeing scholarship, but when I had CHINSTRAP, I stared for ages, knowing it or CHINSTRAPS had to work. I was more a zoologist than botanist in my degree, so that’s my only excuse!
Happy Monday, hope all is well!
Darn it, should have read my whole note through before posting. Or be consistent in where I put ‘all is well’. 😀
CALTROPS-SPHINX. Took all damn day. 25/26.
PATRIARCHALIST – TOXIN. Not happy with my inefficient solution. Tried to pair SPHINX for what seemed like hours to no avail. PHLOX is a new word for me. 23/26
CHLORINATORS–SPOX
Same here! SPOX was just a guess.
Toxins scholarship
Same. Much better than the OA
I agree.
CHLORINATORS SPHINX
Me too. Sure there must be a shorter word to pair with sphinx but that’s what I got
CROTALS – SPHINX
Crotals is shorter, but Chlorinators is sexier!
Jumbo Overhyped
Toxins scholarship (thought it would be the OA so looked for sonething to match Phlox, but did not see Chinstrap.)
ANARCHIST TOXOPHILIA*
*”love of arrows”
also related to poisons
*A Nurses’ Handbook for Hospital, School and Home.
Actually it is love of bows or archery, not arrows per se.
Good find!I wanted to match anarchist. How about sponsoring and piscatorial
Thx Bill. No luck with Piscatorial!
I did find PARATOXINS* SCHOLAR
* treatment for tuberculosis. “The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, 1909.”
NOTAPHILIST TRACTRIX
Took a while
Unique solution!
I didn’t know the word NOTAPHILIST, but I’ve encountered TRACTRIX in calculus.
☕☕
Yes, happy calculus! 😀
PHOTOTOXINS* SCROTAL
*Wikipedia;
Haschek and Rousseaux’s Handbook of Toxicologic Pathology.
CALTROPS – SPHINX here after many failed attempts to pair PHLOXIN. Kudos to those of you who found SCHOLARSHIP. Having 2 daughters in college I can’t believe I missed that invaluable asset!
Same, found sphinx fairly fast but took a while to pair it with something
OA after fooling with OXTAILS and PHOTOTOXINS, etc.
Choralists(OED) sphinx
Choralists spanx a brand or proper noun I think but also in some dictionaries and slang
CALTROPS-SPHINX