Here are the Letter Boxed May 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:
FJOERAUIHLNG
The answers are:
FLUGELHORNNINJA
The FLUGELHORN—NINJA emerged from the NONAGONAL fog beneath the ancient HOROLOGE, his mournful FUGUE echoing across the GULF like a prophecy from some forgotten EONIAN empire. Dockside ROGUES and GIGOLOS fell silent as the glowing GORGONEION began to rise from the black water, while the NINJA tightened his cloak and whispered, “Before dawn, even the OLIGOHALINE depths shall remember this melody.”
A flagon on this honorial furlough !
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All very well except my website doesn’t accept FUGELHORN as a valid word.
NYT too clever by half today.
OA (singular?) after about 35 minutes. AER and JO were real nightmares. Tried FURLOUGH, FLUORINE, and anything possible to get there. Finally remembered FLUGELHORN and saw NINJA straightaway.
Can’t wait to see you here, Kanishk & RF, with your solutions.
Good luck, everyone, and happy Monday.
Agent Smith sez singular..
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Miss Irim, I failed today. Gave up after 1 hour because there’s nothing much to be done with the ‘J’. There’s no way for me to have found the OA. It’s my first time meeting FLUGELHORN. I only found LEGHORN which can be paired with NINJAFUL which is not accepted. I hope Kanishk-boy is familiar with FLUGELHORN.
Well done Miss Irim. 👍
I’m not familiar with FLUGELHORN unfortunately, RF, and failed on this puzzle too. First time hearing this word. Gave up after an hour as well.
Irim, congrats on solving this fiendish puzzle! I’m thoroughly impressed. Well done!
Since you wanted us to post our three-solves (coming up with one doesn’t take up any time at all, anyways):
I came up with FLOUR – ROUGHEN – NINJA.
Hoping the triumvirate comes back on track tomorrow.
Oh, Kanishk and RF, I’m so sorry! Honestly, I feel there is no point to puzzles with singular solutions with esoteric words.
Here’s to getting back on track tomorrow and I’m going to say that technically, even if the spelling is slightly different, it’s still the same word, and so I think of it as a singular solution.
Best of luck tomorrow, my besties – may we be back on track.
Was a miracle I got this. Could hardly find anything with J. Had a total of 5 J words – Jail(or), Ninja, Juror, and Jugal. After Jugal I saw life, which left H-O-R-N. So I tried Lifehorn which if course didn’t work. Then ai saw Leghorn. Which is actually a word, but I was just messing around because of Foghorn Leghorn the cartoon character. All that was left was F-U and Ninja. 2 neurons happened to bang into each other at that point and I was like, Is a Flugelhorn a thing? An this a puzzle was solved. Divine providence. 133/145, 24/25, 23, 36.
Not singular. I looked it up, and discovered that FLUEGELHORN is an alternate spelling.
Flugelgorn Ninja
Flugelhorn Ninja
After trying Hornful which was not accepted I thought of other horny words. Luckily I hit on Flugelhorn. Got the OA. 30 mins. Didn’t we have Ninja recently?
Flugelhorn-Ninja. Chuck Mangione in a black suit.
JUNIOR ROUGHAGEFUL?
Too much time at the school salad bar. If such a thing exists nowadays.
Did not get today! Never heard of flugelhorn either… also really dislike ERA on same side!! Well LNG too for that matter. Grrr! Sam got me good today!
This was not a good day. My first word which I saw immediately was Furlough. I used Junior as my J word. But at the end of the day, I could not pair two words together.
I have never heard the word Flugelhorn.
Pretty hard to sneak around in the dark while playing a flugelhorn.
Thought about bailing after a lot of promising words, but came back to it and got the OA.
Flugelhorn ninja. If I hadn’t been off for Memorial Day and it’s been raining constantly, I wouldn’t have spent the time.
Tried frugal jugal haji ninja roughen honorial laugh junior jane huffily gainful geni jig jag legion air horn hairline logo fair organ fluorine neuronal and other promising avenues
FUGELHORN-NINJA