Here are the Letter Boxed March 20, 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:
LDKONCERIBUT
The answers are:
UNBROKENNUCLEOTIDE
Yes! Instantly! Which I never do
DEDUCTIBLE – ELECTROKINETIC
BIOKINETIC-CURLED
Sorry to be a whiner, but not crazy about some of the contrived OAs lately…. I got ROBOTIC CLUNKED.
I saw NUCLEOTIDE almost immediately, so I wouldn’t say it’s contrived; it’s just what you’re familiar with. My issue is with UNBROKEN rather than BROKEN. Who would put the UN in front of that with UN already in NUCLEOTIDE?
ROBOTIC CLUNKED is excellent.
INDUCTOR – ROBOTLIKE here, very inefficient, but not worse than the OA. I can’t believe I missed NUCELOTIDE; we had studied about them not so long ago. It took me quite some time to come up with this solution, after trying BLINKED, INTRODUCE, DEDUCTIBLE, DECIBEL, among others.
Waiting for RF and Irim, hoping to see your unique solutions soon! Have a great weekend everyone, and happy Friday!
17/20, 69/79
Current streak: 4
Ha, we posted at the same time! See my grumpiness below about why UNBROKEN when BROKEN is more efficient, but BROKEN NUCLEOTIDE here.
Almost immediate after wanting words like COLO(U)RBLIND and INTERLOCKED.
Well done, my lovely, and will check out your puzzle! Have a wonderful weekend. xx
FNT
UCD
IRL
HEG
Hint: Turn of the century (7, 10)
H _ N _ _ _ D – D _ F _ _ _ _ _ N _
HUNDRED DEFLECTING is the best I can do!
Congrats, Irim!! You got the OA!! 🎉 🥳
Not sure why the OA here is *unbroken* nucleotide – what do you need the ‘UN’ for? It’s IN ‘nucleotide’.
My immediate solution was BROKEN-NUCLEOTIDE
A genetic disaster.
Looking forward to seeing my besties, Kanishk and RF, successful and here shortly.
And we’ve made it to the end of the week – happy Friday, a great weekend, and good luck to everyone solving, congrats to all who succeed!
Ha, I didn’t even notice that at first! Yes, the UN- prefix is completely redundant. Not sure why Sam included it in the OA. Yours is much more efficient.
Well done, Irim! Have a great weekend 😉
KANISHK, didn’t want to post as a response to yours so it wouldn’t spoil it for somebody who was trying to solve it… Was it HUNDRED DEFLECTING?
Yes, it was! Congrats, Samuel!! 🎉
You found the OA!!
HUNDRED – DEFLECTING
RUINEDINDICTEDBLOKE… OK, UNKIND… Prince Andrew.