Here are the Letter Boxed March 17, 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:
SEBRAOIKMTUV
The answers are:
MAKOOBTRUSIVE
Busker Remotivate…
playing for change.
*Laughs like a drain* Oh my GIDDY AUNT, I can’t BELIEVE IT.
*carries on laughing* Ok, ok, I’m back.
Blessed be my many Saffa (South African) friends, because they handed me today’s solution on a plate:
OBVIOUS-SITKAMER
Sitkamer (n.) – South African English for a lounge or sitting room, from the Afrikaans sit (sitting) + kamer (room) [you can see the Latin influence, with camera being ‘a vaulted room’]
Immediate and quite efficient. Given some of the words they DON’T accept, I was stunned by this one.
Congrats MVUA (the only one I can see so far), and good luck to everyone. Waiting on my besties, Kanishk (hope today is the start of a new streak!) and RF. Happy Tuesday, all!
Congrats on the immediate solve, Irim! Well done – and thank you for the new word. I’m quite surprised they accepted SITKAMER.
Memorising the periodic table came in handy today. I first spotted many prefixes and suffixes – -OUS, SUB-, OVER-, -IST, etc. Lots of compound words as well. After going through quite a lot of good words which seemed to lead me nowhere, including TRIUMVIR, OVERBAKE, etc. I stumbled across ERBIUM, and I had already jotted down MAKEOVERS.
So ERBIUM – MAKEOVERS with the T left over. And I went, “Hey… isn’t TERBIUM also an element?” It was! So here’s my answer: TERBIUM – MAKEOVERS. Quite inefficient, but it works.
Happy Tuesday to everyone! Good luck to everyone who are still trying, hoping to see RF soon, and well done to everyone who solved!
14/17, 66/76
Current streak: 1
Had MAKEOVERS too, and couldn’t make the connection… Kept going through those -IUM elements in my head, but would have never thought of that one!
Heheheh, I’m the last one to arrive among my besties. And I will ride on the same boat with Kanishk-boy. I got TERBIUM – MAKEOVERS. I spotted TERBIUM relatively early but after sometime I spotted MAKEOVERS on its own which made TERBIUM from the leftovers. I was afraid to lose my streak today. Took 1 hour and 19 minutes.
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Miss Irim, congratz on your Eureka moment for SITKAMER. I’m happy that my besties are successful today. 🤗😊
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Kanishk-boy, wishing you a longer streak starting today. 👍
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13/17.
66/76.
Current streak: 5
Woohoo!! We’re all here. Just responded to Kanishk, refreshed, and here you are. Congrats, my lovely, and I love that you’re twinsies with Kanishk.
May the week be a good one!
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Woohoo and welcome, hon – mubarak ho! TERBIUM – Tb 65 – well done, I’d have had to dig for that one. A win is a win, bhai, efficiency is just icing on the cake.
Really well thought out. I should think to write things out rather than just squinting at the screen.
Oh, I should have said – Happy St Patrick’s Day to all who celebrate. Congrats, good luck, keep those solutions coming!
OA after coming across OBTRUSIVE on a word-check site and then seeing MAKO. But absolved myself by coming up with MOVIEMAKERS SUBVERT on my own. (Surprised it was accepted!) I won’t even go for a TI here, sometimes things are just too obvious. By the way, what does TI even officially stand for? I thought it was “tie-in”, for the longest time, but I know there’s another meaning on this site.
TI: Thematic Integrity.
BASKETMAKERS – SAVIOUR
Tokamaks Subversive.
Was happy to see tokamak was accepted.