Here are the Letter Boxed September 15, 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:
JUMSHNIQYKGR
The answers are:
HIGHJINKSSQUIRMY
NYT LETTER BOXED
September 15, 2026
⚠ SPOILER ALERT — SOLUTIONS BELOW ⚠
Sides: JUM | SHN | IQY | KGR
Verified 2-word solutions: 1
Sort: alphabetically by Word1, then Word2
1. HIGHJINKS — SQUIRMY
Mark your spoiler alert didnt really stop me seeing the solution. Luckily it was singular today and I had already got it
What did you think of the Rot13 approach? Or leaving it till 1pm before you post? Or are you worried Hal might post before you?
I haven’t been playing Letterboxed nearly as long as most players on this site but I have been playing long enough to observe multiple players disparaging Mark for using his computer program and its value. It doesn’t deter him so, please stop.
In my opinion, Mark has compromised by separating his Letterboxed accepted solutions and his partial solutions. The former has proved helpful.
I don’t look at the comments until I have a solution. If I did, every comment would be a spoiler alert.
The bickering is what spoils the Comment section and the fun of the game.
HIGHJINKS-SQUIRMY
(got it in 30 seconds!)
Well done! I’d always thought high jinks was two words, so dismissed it once I remembered it! (I’ve been using hijinks for too long)
Same. Easy today
HIGHJINKS-SQUIRMY here after using the shorter spelling ‘HIJINKS’, having forgotten the original spelling for a hot second! About 15-20 minutes. What a fiendish array: 2 vowels, JQK in the same grid, JU and SH forbidden. Oof.
Kanishk and RF, hope to see you soonest, my besties!
Good luck with the array from hell, everyone, and happy Tuesday!
Same answer for us all:
HIGHJINKS – SQUIRMY.
Good job to us Miss Irim. I hope to see you soon Kanishk-boy.
Exactly my thinking today with hijinks and highjinks
Had HIJINKS and SQUIRMY, just didn’t even think to use the weird spelling, so bailed early. I’m counting it as a solve with an asterisk. On second thought, I’m removing the asterisk… As I was typing this, I checked my go-to word-check site, and HIJINKS is accepted by all ten sources, and HIGHJINKS by none of them.
With you on that. That would be because ‘high jinks’ is two words or it’s hyphenated:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20jinks
HIGHJINKS is playable in Scrabble, interestingly.
According to the “Anagrammer” word-check site I went to, it’s not accepted by any for any of the five Scrabble dictionaries, whether US/Canadian or British.
Oops, typo, but you get it…
Highjinks Squirmy
OA fairly quickly
OA quickly. Accdg to “The Dictionary of Americanisms” 1877, High Jinks is two words. “A great frolic”
“Slang and Its Analogues” 1893 has it as “hy-jinks,” a game of dice.
“A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant” 1888 uses it as “to play on the high jinks” — to take up an arrogant position.
“The author of the 1959 book “The High-Jinks of L. Frank Baum” hyphenated it.
Highjinks squirmy. Had no trouble whatsoever scrolling right to the answer box on my phone ( peripheral vision? ) without seeing any other comments or answers . Is it colors? Context? Pattern recognition? Mark , you keep on doing what you’ve always done. You’ve always commented with politeness and goodwill and you don’t spoil any of the fun of the hunt. I’ll enjoy comments when I don’t want to search anymore, and today that will be after one find it looks like. And I enjoy everyone’s inputs on here . Keep it up!
OA Today
Ditto.
According to Merriam Webster, High Jinks is two words, not one. The derivative of that phrase, hijinks, is one word.
I thought Hijinks was a word and High-jinks was hyphenated. I tried Highjinks after Hijinks – Squirmy left the letter G.
Highjinks – Sqirmy
Highjinks squirmy – also struggled a bit while spelling highjinks without the g, but backed up and retried. Solved pretty quickly. Another day not wasted!
Same without, then eventually with, the “G”
Addendum:
HYJINKS* SQUIRMING
*A Dictionary of the English Language. Samuel Johnson. 1828. “Drinking by lot.”
Well, then now I can claim another shoulda-solve… Tried that combination.
Like a lot of others, I saw Hijinks-Squimy right away and couldn’t see what to do with that pesky G. Took a few minutes to try Highjinks. I’m still wondering who spells it that way. . .
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G u r n I n g
Highjinks-squirmy
worm partay
It’s a no solution letter box. High jinks is always 2 words. Hijinks is one. Any of the “gotcha” comments are relying on incorrect grammar