Here are the Letter Boxed March 23, 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:
EHNCITFWRAOY
The answers are:
CAFETERIAANYHOW
OA in 5 minutes – would have been earlier, but I kept pushing away my intuition that CAFETERIA was it, thinking it had too many repeating letters. Finally used it and kicked myself. Beautifully efficient!
Hope to see my besties, Kanishk and RF soon – good luck to all attempting and congrats to all who solve. Happy Monday, everyone!
Same here, Irim, OA in 21 minutes. Found some amazing words that led me nowhere – RHINOCEROT, INFOTECH, WATERCRAFT to name a few.
Came up with ANYHOW and I knew it must be part of the solution as it effectively buried the Y. When I failed to connect the W, I worked backwards – CIT was infuriating as TRIFECTA wasn’t possible. Shortly after I found CAFETERIA (I somehow forgot the spelling – was entering CAFETARIA at first!)
Good job, Irim, and hoping to see my other bestie, RF soon. Congrats to those who have solved and good luck to those attempting. Happy Monday!
19/23, 71/82
Current streak: 2
RHINOCEROT is a great word; hadn’t realised it was an alternative for rhinoceros! CIT was an absolute nightmare; EHN was also a pain in my backside, and no FR options, but still, it’s not PANJANDRUM.
Nice work, hon, and here’s to seeing RF soon. Have a great one!
INFOTECH—HATEWORTHY
CHIEFTAIN NOTEWORTHY
CHIEFTAIN NOTEWORTHY
Too
Chieftain Noteworthy too.
Was stuck with Chieftaincy for a while.
CHIEFTAIN NOTEWORTHY
Likewise. Took me 49 minutes.
17/23.
70/82.
Current streak: 1
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Well done, my besties! 🤗
Well done, my lovely – and RF & BSJ, that’s a fabulous solution. Great words. *hugs* and happy Monday afternoon/evening (I think?)
Thanks! 😉
Thanks, and well done to you all RF and Irim. And yes it is indeed afternoon here. Happy Monday anyways!
FEI
TLR
DOC
AWV
Hint: The reversed name of one of our friends on this site 😉 (6, 11)
F _ _ W _ R – R _ D _ _ _ C _ _ _ E
FLOWER-RADIOACTIVE…bring it in, RF!
Well done, Irim… 🎉
I expect everyone who has been fairly active on this site to get this one instantly 😉
Hahaha! That’s my name! I’m amazed that it fits into a letterboxed. 👍👏
And, I know just now! 😅
I was surprised too, RF! I noticed that the first and last letters of your username were the same – and I thought, “What are the chances that your name contains exactly 12 distinct letters?”
It also helps there are no consecutive repeating letters!
Amazing 😊
OA
CHIEFTAIN – NOTEWORTHY here.
Repeating my trivia question from yesterday. What two words in three Scrabble dictionary have never once been played in a Scrabble game?
Hi Sir DW. I missed you…
Nice to be back!
Aalii? 🙂
OXYPHENBUTAZONE is supposedly one, because it takes two players cooperating to set it up. How would they know if a word has never been played, though? When I used to play with friends we would frequently set up the board to leave possibilities for longer words. If we were aware of a challenge like that, I’m sure we would have tried for it. I’d think that with all the people in the world playing Scrabble, somebody would have gotten it (if that’s even the word you meant). There are at least two, though? What’s the other one?
I was thinking of PIZZAZZ and RAZZMATAZZ. There is no way to engineer four Zs. It does make me wonder why they are even in the Scrabble dictionary.
👍
Anchoret Townify
Rechant Townify
CHIEFTAIN NOTEWORTHY, not very efficient but it works
CHIEFTAIN NOTEWORTHY too.
WATERCHAT* TONIFY
*MW, a South American bird.
CHIEFTAIN NOTEWORTHY
CAFETERIA—ANYHOW
INFOTECH—HATEWORTHY
CHIEFTAIN—NOTEWORTHY
CHIEFTAIN – NOTEWORTHY
GERONIMO!
Finch hateworthy
Took forever, didn’t see cafeteria. Tried infancy inferior hierarchy tetrarchy anyhow twofer chancery towery refinance firewater rainwater recreate forewarn trochanter chorion whatnot watercraft anyhow iron ware contrary contrarian rotators careworn conifer chariot and more
Watercraft thorny
worthy – refinance
But no connecter letter.
Best I could do.
3rd straight fail. 76/82, 19/23, 0, 36
Dugouts salivary