Here are the Letter Boxed March 25, 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:
LCREOBKGMZHA
The answers are:
HOGBACKKLEZMER
Considering this seemed like a single OA solution day – I’m sorry but this one (klezmer) doesnt seem anywhere near mainstream or commonly used.
Yes, this looks like a single OA solution. Sam may think he’s clever doing that, but really, it’s just very poor, self-indulgent puzzle design. A good design would challenge, but offer multiple creative and accessible solutions.
KLEZMER I at least recognized… But “HOGBACK”? By the way, it’s not even the back of a hog, it’s a hill or mountain. Either way, today’s OA not kosher…
I got the OA after a long struggle. So little that could be done with the Z. Finally the little fiddler on the roof of my shoulder was loud enough that klezmer came to me. I didn’t see an obvious solution though after that and just randomly tried hogback and sure enough I was done. Figured some people might have trouble with it though. Nice to be on the right side of one of these obscure ones for a change. 78/84, 21/25, 2, 36
Pure garbage. Glad I’m not wasting so much time on LB anymore, they used to be kind of fun… More than a few minutes these days, and I’m out. Maybe the thinking is that everybody these days uses online resources, so “Sam” is making the puzzles tougher?
I honestly don’t know what went wrong with Sam. I can’t comment on how different the puzzles were back then – for example two years back, I started playing in July of last year. But I feel there is still a considerable difference in the difficulty of puzzles from last year itself. I can’t recall solving a single grid this year which I found fun.
It seems to me as if Sam takes pleasure in making grids as restrictive as possible to make other people suffer. Miserable. Perhaps someone else should take his place, someone who is not as sadistic as he is.
How can he seriously expect people to know what a ‘klemzer’ is? Come on, man. Be realistic. I don’t even feel bad about losing on these now, mostly because of how garbage they are.
Well, we Jews had a definite advantage on this one. Klezmer music is the music of our people. Hava Negila would be a good example of Klezmer music. And it still took me quite awhile to see it in the grid.
HOGBACK-KLEZMER almost immediately, after an attempt with goalbreaker. Remembering Sam’s penchant for Yiddish words/culture because of the presence of C, H, and Z, I first went for MACHZOR, but H and Z on the same side nixed that. KLEZMER was next and I got the result.
Looking forward to seeing besties Kanishk and RF here soon, best of luck to all those trying, congratulations to all who succeed, and condolences to those who don’t. Going to check on whether it’s a single solution…will report back. Happy Hump Day!
Well done, Irim – I’m impressed! I failed today – and I blame myself for not getting this one, because I had made a list of Yiddish words not so long ago after realising Sam’s fondness of the same – and I forgot to memorise them.
But doesn’t memorising words just to solve a word puzzle seem to be a bit of a stretch? And just when I thought I was starting to build a long streak – Sam throws ‘KLEZMER’ at us, an absolutely ridiculous word almost none of us have heard before.
This last week has been brutal. I’m not going to maintain a streak from now on – or record my stats. There is simply no point in doing so. Almost three hours wasted today. I’m going to limit my time to a maximum of just thirty minutes from now on – I don’t care if I get the solution or not.
I’m taking a break from this game for a few days, mostly because we are going on a 10-day trip to the UK this evening, but I’ll still try to post as regularly as I can.
Happy Wednesday to all!
Congratulations, Miss Irim. You know your Yiddishes. Wow! 👍👏
I had zero Yiddish vocabularies before. It’s only this site that I’m introduced to such words and that they’re called Yiddish. 😅
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Kanishk-boy, I will follow suit. I won’t record my stats anymore too. I agree it’s useless.
I also failed today. I only got one solve in the last five days.
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Well, I just laughed it out when I find OA like these. Hahahah
Wait, you’re going to be here?! YAY! Wish there was a way to be in touch and meet up – have a wonderful time!
I am 100% with you on this.
I know my Yiddish, Kanishk and RF, my lovelies, because I taught at a Modern Orthodox Jewish school, so it’s well embedded.
*hugs* to and commiserations with you both.
Used to be days with hundreds of solutions.maybe Sam got bored or lazy. Maybe it’s just an AI now.
Same OA almost immediately.
OA after trying a ton of “able” words. Tough one today.
HOGBACK—KLEZMER
(suspected singular solution)
I didn’t know KLEZMER, but HOGBACK is a common term used here in Denver. It refers to the foothills of the Front Range, resembling the back of a hog.
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this New Yorker thinks HOGBACK is a much more obscure word than KLEZMER. and I’m not even Jewish
Yeah, totally with you on that one. I mean, seems like it should have something to do with the University of Arkansas. Their mascot is the Razorbacks. But they’re called “The Hogs”. Of course it apparently doesn’t.
Hogback klezmer. There will be justified complaining today. Is that what we call fatback around here?
Took a while to find klezmer. a word I know, but tried R connecteds a while. Then tried every made up Yiddish word I could come up with using lz , ch etc . Finall trie K connectors . First try back, left hog so took a chance . Voila!
Maybe Richie secretly took it over haha
Haha, maybe that’s why we don’t see him on this site anymore!
Last time I heard or said KLEZMER is never…
OA
Fake Words!
BREAKABLE ECHOGRAM MEZE … wasted too much time looking for 2 words! KLEZMER?!?
Robin, your good triple led me to a rare symmetrical triple-markable echogram meze or meze echogram markable
What a load of remarkable garbage
Well, we Jews had a definite advantage on this one. Klezmer music is the music of our people. Hava Negila would be a good example of Klezmer music. And it still took me quite awhile to see it in the grid.
in this case, a huge advantage i would say. i mean, anyone who lived in NYC / LA would inevitably pick up some yiddish along the way – kosher, kvetch, chutzpah, tchotchke, schmaltz, verklempt, etc. Klezmer is just a bit too uncommonly used in daily life for us goys to pick up lol.
Just making up words now, are we?
jk of course. But I’m not sure either of those words are part of common parlance