Here are the Letter Boxed January 30, 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:
PUXEIOMYCLZT
The answers are:
COMPLEXITYYUZU
OA in very short order.
Same after toying with POLITICIZE, COMPLICITY, EXOTICIZE, PLUMPY, CLUMPY, and others.
Same. Started out with UTILIZE but found COMPLEX shortly thereafter and then it all fell into place.
A featured dish in an Omakase dinner.
Complexity
Yuzu
Indeed! Complexity Yuzu is extra flavorful! I admit Yuzu was a stab in the dark. Is this a one-off answer?
Same. That was just so beautifully elegant after yesterday’s mess!
Complexity — Yuzu quickly…after yesterday’s fail
Ditto
OA here as well. Was a little disappointed I wasn’t done after finding Politicize. But a triumph nonetheless.
Felt the same after finding POLEMICIZE
Yup!
OA with YUZU just using (yuzing?) the leftover letters 🤷🏻♀️
COMPLEXITY – YUZU…
Some zest to bring the zing!
OA too
OA.
OA, nothing with EXOTICIZE
OA. Very au fait now with YUZU, thanks to LB!
And with Au Fait, thanks to Fishcake!
OA
suspected singular solution (SSS)
But I’ve seen before, later in the day, someone may pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat..
I would be astonished if there were another solution.
IMHO, Sam missed an opportunity today. If he had used S in place of Z, he could have gratified the Pittsboig crowd (“Youse wants ta go dahntahn, grab some sammitches, an’ watch the Stillers?”) and opened up a couple of very entertaining alternative solutions. Anyone want to have a go??
YOUSE, by the way, is a PSW.
Yes, I saw YOUSE.
😊✔☕
Pure Pittsburgh dialect would be YUNZE rather than YOUSE, but that would require an N (and it’s not a PSW).
It ain’t no hat they pulled that one out of…
OA. Bright, floral notes of grapefruit and mandarin tinged with hints of sweaty leather ball glove and cat litter.
OA eventually found Yuzu!
Found COMPLEXITY early on. Wasn’t familiar with YUZU: a round, yellowish citrus fruit with fragrant, acidic juice, used chiefly as a flavoring.
Complexity -yuzu
You need to watch more food network shows
It’s actually a complex flavor
COMPLEXITY — YUZU (I have used YUZU multiple times in the past).
Saw TOXICITY, MUCOLYTIC, LIPOLYTIC, COMPLICITY, EXOTICIZE, and COMPLICIT. Found COMPLEX, and COMPLXITY and remembered the Asian citrus fruit!
Fell into place! I had a yuzu sauce. So – yum.
COMPLEXITY – YUZU
Have never seen YUZU before and have no idea what it means. Just tossed it in to used remaining letters and, much to my surprise, it worked. My massive Webster’s Unabridged has no entry for that.
To continue my earlier post… had done a Merriam word search seeking any word containing YUZ. Finding words starting with Y revealed YUZU Who knew?
Found Complexity early on and fiddled with it at length without finding Yuzu.
Never heard of YUZU and couldn’t find it in my dictionary. Has it been used before?
POLEMICIZE EXECUTE EYE
Also LUMP PEYOTE EXOTICIZE
EXOTIC-CLUMPY-YEZ
MEXICOCITY is what jumped out for me… not helpful!
That seems like a reasonable linear progression
LUMP PEYOTE EXOTICIZE
That seems like a reasonable linear progression
Ha. Very true!
found YUZU only because I see it on the shelves as my local Trader Joe’s
OA.
Found YUZU right away but only after I found COMPLEXITY — that’s what took me some beaucoup time.
I found COMPLEXITY fairly quickly, but then I got stuck for a bit because I really wanted it to be YUTZ so bad that I couldn’t see the YUZU and went off fooling around with EXEMPT, POLEMICIZE, EXOTICIZE, AND POLTICIZE until I saw the YUZU and realized it’d work with COMPLEXITY.
It’s funny how we end up spending beaucoup time sometimes even after we’ve found one of the two and so the answer is right in front of us but we don’t see it.
I’ve found if I’ve spent considerable time on it, if I just walk away for a bit and then come back, I often come to the answer right away.
Yep exactly.program keeps running, marinating in the unconscious
Exoticize – Employ – Yum. Settled for 3 today. Complexity was the first word I came up with, but I’ve never heard of Yuzu.
15-letter 3-word solution:
PLUME-EXOTIC-COZY
OA. Started with -PLEX as a potential suffix, very close to MULTIPLEX being possible. Then found COMPLEX, then COMPLEXITY. The tried to match the ZU to the beginning (ZUC? ZUMIC? 🤷♂️), before realizing that more often in these situations Ezersky goes for the harder link. YUZU it was.
Got complexity in seconds,then spent hours on complexly toxicity politicize complicity and others before trying “made up “ words Ty I Yukon etc. wish I’d tried yuzu
Y u z o y u z I etc
So learned new word today! Yay
TIL what a yuzu is
MOLECULE – EPITOMIZE – EPOXY