Here are the Letter Boxed May 08, 2025 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:
AGOYMRSXENIT
The answers are:
NASTYGRAMMOXIE
AXIOMS-SYNERGIST
first try around the box 🎊
AXIOMS – SYNERGIST too, but can’t claim first attempt. Impressive.
Same! (Also after a little effort. First try round the box was Marxists… which isn’t allowed)
Oxygenate Emirs
OXEGENATE-EMIRS in about a minute.
MeToo!
I found OXYGENATE – EMIRS as well
OXYGENATOR RIMS
Another OXYGENATE-EMIRS
Me too! OXYGENATE – EMIRS (rather quickly)
Yup. What emirs means? I have no idea!
Oxygenator
Rims
Another Axioms Synergist, infusing Scripture with Aesop. Also Taxonomists Synergy / Strategy – I’m sure they have one.
LB declined Tyger, or it would have been the TI-rich Taxonomist Tyger…
I will note the OA is a doozy! As a Mainer (okay, I’ve only lived heah foah fifty yeahs, so I’ll never be a Mainuh), I’m embarrassed to have missed Moxie, but it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. Nastygram indeed! I’ll gobsmacked if anyone reports in with it (practically guaranteeing that someone will).
as many on this site have alluded, very weird how the brain works. does not make up for the times I don’t see the most ordinary words after spending will-never-admit-how-long trying
I assume you’re talking about a word like AXIOMS or SYNERGIST, but in my case I can safely say I’d *never* discover NASTYGRAM (which isn’t in Merriam-Webster, BTW).
TAXONOMERS-SYNERGIST
“Good wits doe jumpe” Belchier, 1618. Or, “Great minds think alike” Unlaskey 1816
Or as I frequently say to the spouse (also named Bill as it happens): “Two great minds with barely a thought between them“.
Axioms-Synergist for me too. Was a minor struggle though. Got stuck on Taxonomist for quite awhile.
Mine was TAXONOMISTS – SYNERGY, so definitely some gold in them hills!
Same here. I’m going to write a nastygram to Sam Ezersky if he thinks that’s a real word.
Mister reoxygenate
Taxonomists Strategy here
Similar! TAXONOMERS – SYNERGIST
TAXONOMISTS—SYNERGY for me too.
Oxygenators, sim
Same here.
Ditto
AXIOMS SYNERGIST(S)
First time around for me too!
Same here…
Axioms -Synergist
Mangers – *Sixtyone ?
OXYGENATORS-SIM
Same, and loving the efficiency of it!
Same, and almost instantly today.
Me too!
Same
Same here!!! Good words today. But couldn’t figure out MOISTENERS. Got MOXIE. And TAXONOMISTS or TAXONOMERS…
Same! Took me ages though
Oxygenate Emersion
Mister, reoxygenate
AXIOMS / SYNERGIST as well.
Oxygenate emirs
MISO – OXYGENATOR.
MISO – OXYGENATOR.
The latest kitchen essential!
OXYGENATE EMIRS
Same
Same
Same
TAXONOMISTS – STRATEGY
Same.
OXYGENATOR-RIMS
fastest uve ever gotten it
Synergist – Taxonomer
Taxonomists Synergy
Ditto! NASTYGRAM was never gonna happen. Glad there were multiple answers 🙂
synergist – taxonomer as well
Taxonomers Synergist
Gismo Oxygenator
Gismo with an S! Excellent find! I’ll store that one away for future use.
MISTER REOXYGENATE
Same😃
Same here
GEOMETRISTS SAXONY. SAXONY was a guess. Didn’t think there was a common noun with that spelling. Wasn’t happy with that so tried again and got TAXIMETERS SONGY. SONGY was another guess. Wasn’t happy so tried again and got MISTER REOXYGENATE. Finally two words I knew.
Likewise, finally found Taximeters – Songy (who knew Songy was even a word?!) after I tried Axioms – Synergy (no T), Taximeters – Strange (no Y), or Strategy (no N). Always one letter off.
Also same
Same.
Oxygenators – sim
Oxygenate – emirs
OXYGENATE EMIRS
after half a dozen times around the box 😄
Taxonomists – Synergy
mixmasters songy
Oxygenator – Rims
Same here.
Easy one today. All the answers here are better than Nastygram, which does not look like a real word to me!
👍
Same here. Haven’t solved in a while but this one came pretty quickly to me.
Oxygenators – Sim
same
OXYGENATORS – SIM
Which is a real thing for training surgical staff.
MISO – OXYGENATOR
Which is not a real thing for training soup chefs.
AGO—YMR—SXE—NIT
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SYNERGIST ⇄ TAXONOMISTS
TAXONOMISTS ⇆ SYNERGIST
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O₂—
OXYGENATOR—REGIMENS
REOXYGENATE—ENERGISM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
—O₂
GISMO—OXYGENATOR
IRONMASTER—REOXYGENATE
STEREOISOMER—REOXYGENATE
TRANSMIGRATOR—REOXYGENATE
Good one with IRONMASTER!
Thanks, Richie. Not a bad LB day! I’ve been liking how you’re exploring other dictionaries besides MW and OED. ✔
The searching mind is a healthy one.
SYNERGIST-TOXAEMIA
MONAXONS-SYNERGIST
*SIXMO-OXYGENATOR
*SIXMO good in Merriam-Webster, Collins, Scrabble US (TWL)
TAXONOMERS-*STYGIAN
*STYGIAN good in Merriam-Webster, Scrabble (TWL)
STATEMONGERS-*SYNAXIS
*SYNAXIS good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
Taximeters, songy.
OXIMETERS-*STYGIAN
*STYGIAN good in Merriam-Webster, Scrabble US (TWL)
OXYMETERS – SYNERGIA
taxonomists-strategy
MAST – TRIOXYGEN*
TAXONOMISTS – SYNERGY
OXYGENITORS – SIM
TAXONOMERS-*STYGIAN
*STYGIAN good in Merriam-Webster, Scrabble (TWL)
TAXONOMERS – SYNERGISM/SYNERGIST
Even Mark & Richie haven’t put in NASTYGRAM In their list of answers…..sure it must be a made up word 🤣
Right? WTH kind of word is that??
Even Mark & Richie haven’t put in NASTYGRAM In their list of answers…..sure it must be a made up word 🤣
MISO — OXYGENATOR
Fast solve after seeing OXYGEN, OXYGENATE, OXYGENATOR. I’ve had miso soup in Hawaii and really enjoyed it.
OXIMETERS – SYNERGIA. I liked all the possible combinations related to oxygen. It reminded me of my days working in Respiratory Care.
My choice for part of the answer was Oximeters, the devices that measure oxygen saturation levels. Synergia was the only word I could find that used the remaining letters.
Btw, Nastygram sounds like a made up word. I looked it up and its a real word. Still surprised it was part of the OA.
Fairly quick solve for today.
Well I’ve never been to Hawaii( or Heaven, or Spain) but I’ve been to Oklahoma
Close enough! 🙂
Taxonomies Synergy
TAXIMETERS-SONGY pretty quickly today.
Even though I am a mathematician I totally missed AXIOMS (!) but after I saw MAXIMA and AXIS, I noticed TAXIS and then TAXIMETERS. I didn’t know SONGY was a word, but tried it to use up the remaining letters and it worked.
I never noticed TAXONOMER, OXYGENATE, or SYNERGIST.
Oops, that was my answer and comment. Not sure how “RE” got in there.
Added TI: It was a musical ride in the cab!
As usual, not OA. Mister reoxygenate- mobile pulmonary resuscitator co.
Moister reoxygenate. ours is better due to the right vapor!
Isomer reoxygenate. We have an effective patented ingredient!
AXIOMS-SYNERGIST (15/2)
I propose that we officially shun today’s OA.
Oxygenator rims . Oxygenator retrim(s) Oxygenator restrim(s)
Oxygenator sim(s) Oxygenator s strim(s)
Miso oxygenator
Miso oxygenate
Misto oxygenate
Misto oxygenator(s)
Tried remonstrators monergists also
Oxygenator-Rims
Pretty easy one today.
Nastygram, really??
Taxonomers and synergist.
Taxonomists/Strategy
(Nastygram? Seriously? Sheesh!)
It takes a lot of moxie to use nastygram as an answer.
reply to Jill… love your reply. Other than this puzzle, I wonder what source would recognize NASTYGRAM as legitimate word.
MY AI program Gemini liked it but I say pfffffft!
Maybe we need to send a nastygram to the NYT editor.
OXYGENATE-EMIRS
TAXONOMISTS-SYNERGY
I couldn’t get taxonomists to work , dumb me
Went with MIXMASTERS- SONGY
Can’t believe songy is a word but it sings with mixmaster
We got oxygenators and SIM
I love it when you find alternative words to the official answers!
TAXIMETERS SONGY
PS Never heard of a Nastygram (fortunately)
MIASMA-unpleasant or unhealthy smell.Voters turn up their noses when MARXIST MONSTERS MIGRATE into, MIX with, and MERGE into the SYSTEM and TAX us to death.
OXYGENATOR-RIMS
Another TAXONOMISTS SYNERGY here.
AXIOMS SYNERGIST
Oxygenators-Sim
On OA, Sam channels Buffalo Springfield- “nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong”
Got Nasty and Gram, but would never have got “Nastygram”! Tons of 3w’s, finally a 2w: TAXONOMERS SYNERGIST. Now I see it could be SYNERGIST TAXONOMER, wee bit shorter.
Me, too! AXIOMS-SYNERGIST
First time playing in a while, so nice to be able to solve it fairly quickly!
OXYGENATOR / RIMS
OXYGENATE-EMIRS
NASTYGRAM is a word?
I’m pretty sure this site is not part of the nyt, so there is no official answer. The idea of that is stupid.
They give the official answer for the previous day in the actual puzzle every day. It’s always the same as this one.
TAXONOMERS – STYGIAN*
but since LB would not accept STYGIAN I had to go with
TAXONOMERS – SYNERGIA
Never mind miso Misto oxygenate. No R
Last tries matrimony gemstone naysayers stray orgiast stoner meiosis metronome
Oxygenate Emirs
MIXMASTERS – SONGY. I did not realize until today that SONGY was a word.
Taxonomists Synergy. Great puzzle today.
Oxygenate emirs
OXYGENATORS-SIM
Moister Reoxygenate
An essential part of any healthy skin regimen. Patrick Bateman’s springs to mind.