Here are the Letter Boxed November 08, 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:
HTAOIVSEKCPN
The answers are:
CHOPSTICKKNAVE
CHOPSTICK – KNAVE in five minutes, shortly after trying to connect KVETCH.
Can’t wait to see you, Irim and RF! Happy Diwali to you, Irim, and all others who celebrate – have a great weekend!
INVENT-TECHNOSPEAK
Nice one, Kanishk, hon, and Diwali mubarak! Found TECHNOSPEAK immediately and was so entranced by it, decided to find a solution with that, come hell or high water. Took a couple of minutes to work out a word that didn’t have i & v next to each other, so I settled on INVENT.
INVENT-TECHNOSPEAK…I wonder who did! C’mon, RF!
Good luck, all, and have a great Sunday!
OA for me.
And just like that the triumvirate is complete. Well done besties! Woohoo! 🥳
Found chopstick quickly but missed knave.
Photokinetic cavas
Same here
INVENTS SHOEPACK, and not proud of it, since I stumbled onto the junk word on a word-check site.
PHOTOKINETIC CANVAS
INVENT-TECHNOSPEAK
(Played around with kvetch for too long, found technospeak and worked with that instead!)
CHOPSTICK-KNAVE
INVENTS-SHOEPACK
PHOTOKINETIC-CAVAS
TECHNOSPEAK-KIEVE
HEAVENS-SPITCHCOCK
CHINKAPIN-NONEVENTS
VASOSPASTIC-CHECKIN
CONVENIENT-TECHSPEAK
PHENAKISTISCOPE-EAVE
KINETOSCOPE-EVANISH
HOPSACK-KISTVAEN*
*OED
KAVAS-SPHENOTIC*
*OED
KINSHIP-POSTCAVAE*
*OED
PHOTOKINETIC-CAVASCOPE^
^MW
*SVASTIKA-ANTIPHONETIC^
*OED, ^MW
^VASOTONIC-CHICKPEA
^MW
PHONETICS-SVASTIKA*
*OED
PHENAKISTISCOPE-EVECTIC*
*OED
*KISTVAEN-NEPHOSCOPE
*OED
KNAVE-EPOCHIST+
+WIK
*PHONETICIANS-SVASTIKA*
*OED
*SVASTIKA-ACETOPHENONE
*OED
*KINETOSCOPIC-CHEVACHIE*
*OED
>PACHINKOS-STEVEN*
>CSW, *OED
PHOTOKINETIC-CISTVAEN*
*OED
OA after cycling through a few early promises. . .
OA after a brief flirtation with KVETCH
OA today
Chopstick & Knave
TECHNOSPEAK KIEVE (kiev was accepted in my version of the game.)
Also CHOPSTEAK* KISTVAEN**
*Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary & Reference Book. 1999
**a kistvaen is a tomb. MW.
Fanciful solution —
PAVANIST* TECHNIKONS**
*someone who writes pavanes. Rarely used, it is the title of a recent jazz album by Ben Fox.
**OED
NYT LETTER BOXED
November 8, 2026
Sides: HTA | OIV | SEK | CPN
SPOILER ALERT — SOLUTIONS BELOW
Verified 2-word solutions: 33
Sorted A–Z by Word1, then Word2
01. AVENS—SPITCHCOCK
02. CHINKAPIN—NONEVENTS
03. CHOPSTICK—KNAVE
04. CONVENIENT—TECHNOSPEAK
05. CONVENIENT—TECHSPEAK
06. HEAVENS—SPITCHCOCK
07. INVENT—TECHNOSPEAK
08. INVENTS—SHOEPACK
09. KINETOSCOPE—EVANISH
10. PHENAKISTISCOPE—EAVE
11. PHENAKISTISCOPE—EVANISH
12. PHENAKISTISCOPE—EVE
13. PHENAKISTISCOPE—EVEN
14. PHENAKISTISCOPE—EVENS
15. PHENAKISTISCOPE—EVENT
16. PHENAKISTISCOPE—EVENTS
17. PHENAKISTOSCOPE—EAVE
18. PHENAKISTOSCOPE—EVANISH
19. PHENAKISTOSCOPE—EVE
20. PHENAKISTOSCOPE—EVEN
21. PHENAKISTOSCOPE—EVENS
22. PHENAKISTOSCOPE—EVENT
23. PHENAKISTOSCOPE—EVENTS
24. PHOTOKINETIC—CANVAS
25. PHOTOKINETIC—CAVAS
26. SPITCHCOCK—KNAVE
27. TECHNOSPEAK—KIEVE
28. VASOSPASTIC—CHECKIN
29. VASOSPASTIC—CHECKINS
30. VENAS—SPITCHCOCK
31. VENETIANS—SHOEPACK
32. VENETIANS—SPITCHCOCK
33. VENTIS—SHOEPACK
Kvetch hispano(mw) for now
KINETOSCOPE EVANISH
Chopstick Knave
KNAVEISH* HOPSCOTCH
*17thC spelling — Shakespeare and Locke used it: also John Dryden in Amphitryon:
“This is some knaveish plot, I smell it.”