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.
AMBIVERTS SOUK
Same
Busker – Remotivate
Busker — Remotivate, as well, in 10 minutes
BUSKER- REMOTIVATE
I tipped too😉
MOVIEMAKERS – SUBITO
Same
Meant BUSKER – REMOTIVATE
Same
*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!
Wow Terbium was a great find. Struggled with this one for well over an hour. Thought I’d be able to finish Takeover, Makeover, Overbake, Overtake, or Overmask, but no luck. Then saw Submersive, found out that’s not actually a word, but it triggered something and I saw Obtrusive and Mako came immediately thereafter. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 73/76, 16/17, 11, 36
MAKEOVERS–SUBITO
Took me long enough, but there it is.
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!
🤗
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.
MOVIEMAKERS-SUBVERT also
they boycotted the Oscars
(the TI, Sam 🙂)
BASKETMAKERS – SAVIOUR
Haha. Same here. One day I will have an original solution. One day. : )
Tokamaks Subversive.
Was happy to see tokamak was accepted.
Same here, a pleasant surprise!
Ambiverts – Souk
Busker Remotivate
Makeovers-Subito . No idea what the 2nd word is but it works. Can’t believe I couldn’t figure anything out with takeover(s) or overtake(rs)
AMBIVERTS—SOUK
MAKO—OBTRUSIVE
OVERSKATE—ERBIUM
BASKETMAKERS—SAVIOUR
MOVIEMAKERS—SABOTEUR
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☘️☘️☘️ and Happy Spring Break!
Personally I like
OVERSKATE-ERBIUM
as it reminds me that one small town in Sweden is the namesake for several elements, including at least two that can fit a two word solution to this day’s puzzle.
So, hat tip to Ytterby and all the elemental Ides it yielded. (There were three more for which the ore deposits of Ytterby were the source but where named for the Swedish capital Stockholm, holmium; for the ancient name for Scandinavia, Thulia, hence thulium; lastly there was Gadolinium, named for Gadolin who was instrumental in pointing the way to this discovery.
7 elements, all from one small village. Quite remarkable.
Thanks for that information, Simon. Interesting. ☕
Oh, that is really cool – thank you, Simon!
Risktakers-submove
Nice! I couldn’t pair RISKTAKERS.
MOVIEMAKERS SUBITO
Moviemakers subvert. Hollywoods motto.
OVERTAKES SUBITEM*
*MW
OVERTAKE ERBIUMS*
*good in MW, and Scrabble. But not OED.
ASTERISKS-SUBMOVE (16/2)
ASTERISKS-SUBMOVE, also.
Ambitious skrive(W)
MOVIEMAKERS SUBVERT
CG
RISKTAKERS
SUBMOVE
BASKETMAKERS SAVIOUR
Basketmakers Saviour
MASKS SUBVITREOUS*
*MW et al.
OVERSTIRS* SAMBUKE**
*both good in MW and Scrabble.
Sambuke is an ancient Greek musical instrument.
Makeovers subito! Avanti avanti 😉
Makeovers Subito
Makeovers subito – just before the end of the day
BACKYARDS SQUIRE