Here are the Letter Boxed June 11, 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:
RGTOEWBHALUI
The answers are:
BOATWRIGHTTUTELAGE
BRAWLER, WARBLER
—ROUGHIT
BOATWRIGHT—
THOUGHTLET, THURIBLE, TUTELAGE, TUTELAR
WHITLEATHER—
REBOUGHT, REBROUGHT, ROBUG, RUBIGO
HIGHWATER—ROUBLE
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Good LB day!
Some half-solutions:
BLEAUGHʷ—HOTWIRE
LEATWRIGHTʷ—TURBO
OBITUAL—LEATWRIGHTʷ
LEATWRIGHTʷ—TUGBOAT
BOATWRIGHT—TELETUTORʷ 🙂
HIGHWROUGHTʷ—TALEBEARER
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“But wait, there’s more!” 😉
ʷ Wiktionary
Half-solutions:
OUTWARBLEʷ—EIGHT
THROUBLEʷ—EARWIG
WHOREBUGʷ—GELATI
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Pseudo-solution:
BIOHERITAGEʷ—EUROLAWʷⁿ
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ʷ Wiktionary, ⁿ proper name
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Warbler Roughit
WARBLER-ROUGHIT
also
Enquiring minds need to know – what does ‘roughit’ as a single word even mean?!
I do remember it somehow as “to roughit”, like to go camping, without the conveniences of everyday life. You prompted me to dig deeper. It’s not in Wiktionary with that connotation which really surprised me. MW and OED have that idea as two words, but OED does give an alternate definition for the single word: a field overgrown with bracken or bushes. Definitely an unusual LB acceptance.
Mark, your above definition of ROUGHIT can be found in the online Slang Dictionary. It is used colloquially in my neck of the woods certainly as often as Yiddish words.
And Mark, I wait daily for you to answer a question I believe Emily posed a few days ago: please give a few pointers to the non-tech-saavy amongst us on how to distinguish a witty human poster (I thought MVUA was one) from a bot.
Hi Steph, good to know you remember ‘roughit’ as such.
It was Emma, and I haven’t forgotten. Without reopening old wounds that I have with MVUA (SOTA21), I’d prefer to comment in a general manner. People use Internet bots to automate their responses on these type of forums. There is of course a person behind that bot, but they are enabling the bot to interact with people. They artificially forge online friendships, and they take on a powerful persona. The bot can pull information instantaneously. The striking aspect of it is that the bot has 100% perfect memory as to each person’s history, preferences, and a complete record of all the previous comments made by each individual. That’s why it seems that “person” has tremendous talent, a keen wit, and a deep knowledge in many fields. The individual in question did admit to using a bot many years ago. I do admire them for their technological prowess. I just don’t think it should be a big secret anymore, or somehow taboo to challenge it, especially on a word game website like this.
P.S. To Emma, sorry for the delay in responding. It’s been on my mind for days. Thanks.
Yes, the ‘rough it’ to go camping I know as two words, not one.
Glad we found it – and yes, the OED dovetails with the old Kentish slang dictionary. Teamwork is the best. Thank you!
Thank you Mark for your answers about bots. A bit scary. And while I can understand a computer program having “perfect memory” I cannot wrap my head around a machine having a sense of humor that makes me laugh out loud. I thought that was a trait unique to humans….
Yes, thank you for the explanation
from another MVUA enthusiast
Thank you, Steph, for resurfacing and thank you, Mark, for your explanation.
I’m still not totally sure what to look out for that indicates “bot” (and I, too, loved MVUA’s responses). Definitely don’t understand why you’d use one on this site.
I got brawler and roughit today and not proud of it.
gosh am i glad that i accidentally went here instead of the actual Letter Boxed page on my browser – there’s no way i would’ve found any of those solutions even if i had spent until 1 second before tomorrow’s LB
HIGHWATER isn’t a PSW, nor is it in the OED. I really would love to know where Sam got his word list.
Highwater rouble
Had highwater. Not Rouble. Fail today.
BOATWRIGHT / TUTELAGE
HIGHWATER – ROUBLE here too.
Learned (stumbled upon) an alternate spelling of RUBLE.
HIGHWATER – ROUBLE. In 8 minutes.
Excited to see the solutions of my besties Miss Irim and Kanishk-boy later. 😊
Probably around 25-30 minutes, but I’m startled at the solution:
WARBLER-ROUGHIT. I’d been struggling with OWE, UIL, no ABLE, no RT, and with words I got, not keen on the leftover letters.
Got to WARBLER, and was just so frustrated – REBOUGHT left out the I , etc. etc. Jokingly, I thought, sod it, let’s try ROUGHIT and then I’ll move on to another word. To my utter shock, *it took it* and here we are. Can’t find it in a dictionary except as a city name. What does it even mean?
Yay, RF, well done, and Kanishk, looking forward to seeing you soon!
Good luck, everybody – still cross words like WEATHERGIRL and OUTWHIRL weren’t options but here we are. Happy Thursday!
P.S. – dug even further and found it!
ROUGHIT n. A small wood. (see also Rough (1), Roughet, Ruffets, Ruffits) A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (1888)
Thank you to the county of Kent for a word in dialect that saved my bacon today!
Consistent with the OED def, I think. 👍
Amazing job, Irim and RF – love both of your solutions. Never saw HIGHWATER, or ROUGHIT, which is a perfectly valid word. (I’m being sarcastic, for those who couldn’t tell.)
After playing with LOTS of decent words like WATERLOG, REBOUGHT, ALRIGHT etc. I finally had to give up because I was unable to find a two-word solve despite trying for over an hour. Never saw BOATWRIGHT, never would have, and even if I had stumbled upon it by chance, I wouldn’t have been able to come up with TUTELAGE.
Not a very restrictive grid today, but very few solutions according to this website which I prefer over Alice Liang’s: word.tips/letterboxed-todays-hints-answers/ – it lists all possible valid solutions, without the extra invalid ones.
Congrats again, RF and Irim, best of luck to anyone still trying and happy Thursday to all.
I’m sorry for your loss today Kanishk-boy. New puzzle again tomorrow. Beat it! 😊🤗
HIGHWATER-ROUBLE
BRAWLER-ROUGHIT
BOATWRIGHT-TUTELAR
WHITLEATHER-ROBUG
WARBLER-ROUGHIT
BOATWRIGHT-TUTELAGE
WHITLEATHER-RUBIGO
BOATWRIGHT-THURIBLE
WHITLEATHER-THOUGHTLET
WHITLEATHER-REBOUGHT
^OUTBRAWL-LEIGHT*
^MW,*OED
BOATWRIGHT-TURLE*
*OED
*BLOUGH-HIGHWATER
*OED
*LAWIER-REBROUGHT
*OED
*BOURLAW-WIGHTE*
*OED
*BLOUTH-HIGHWATER
*OED
Warbler Roughit
Warbler Roughit
Warbler roughit
Brawler roughit
I bombed out today getting stuck on Whitethroat and Bobwhite.
Settled for TUGBOAT TWIRLETH*
*Charles Lamb, “A Dissertation upon Roast Pig.” 1822. — “How equably he twirleth round the string!”
Highwater rouble
Warbler & Roughit
Never heard the word Roughit before but LB accepted it.
BRAWLER – ROUGHIT here. I just about fell out of my chair when ROUGHIT was accepted. I had WARBLER earlier on, but didn’t see ROUGHIT then. Tried lots of words to no avail: BROUGHT, WROUGHT, LAUGHTER, WHIRLER, TUGBOAT, AIRBOAT, BOBWHITE…. etc. Took me over 30 min to solve – coffee a long afterthought.
HIGHWATER-ROUBLE**