Here are the Letter Boxed July 16, 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:
EKRWTIOLANCB
The answers are:
BROWBEATENNIBLICK
Browbeaten nickable…..rarely do I get the OA. Close today. And quick! Happy days.
CENTROBARIC / COWLICK
Didn’t think CENTROBARIC would be accepted.
TRICK-KNOWABLE
Very efficient. Good link. Impressed. Now we have a free day ahead.
TRICK – KNOWABLE, too. Now, off to Word Salad.
TRICK – KNOWABLE…
Sooooo… not a trick.
Trick – knowable here too.
and less efficient KNOWABLE-ELECTRICIAN
Same and love the efficiency, quite surprised TRICK KNOWABLE wasn’t OA, it’s much easier than the given OA!
Same. Took a while to get to TRICK – KNOWABLE. OA after little out in left field?!
BACKTRACK
BACKCRAWL
ELBOW
WRINKLE
CRACKLE
RACETRACK
BOWLINE
BRICK
BANKABLE
BANKNOTE
NOTEABLE….
Same here.
Trick Knowable
I like TRICK-KNOWABLE, but I found KNOWABLE-ELECTRIC. Unfortunately much longer.
Love it! Didn’t even think of an E-starter after I got KNOWABLE. I focused on words ending with CK and TRICK was pretty obvious. Very creative solution!
Trick knowable
As Simon says!
Trick — Knowable definitely beats the OA. Niblick? Seriously?
According to OED, knowable is 80 times more likely to be used in modern English (0.8 times per million words) than niblick (0.01 times per million). So we can deduce the person working on this was probably a golfer and maybe Scottish as well!
Nice statistics, thanks!
Amen. Answers with super obscure words make me not want to do this puzzle.
TRICK-KNOWABLE also!!
Yep, that was my LB in 2 solution. I like the simpler ones. Good thinking!
Knowable-Electric
Same and timely since I recently enjoyed a crash course in resetting a breaker switch.
BROWBEATEN – NECKLINE
Are you really wearing THAT?
BROWBEATEN NECKLINE
For me too.
I thought of KNOWABLE when I walked away for a while but I forgot to plug it in when I came back.
Again?
Browbeaten-Neckline here as well. Took longer than I was expecting but got there eventually.
BROWBEATEN-NIBLICK
TRICK-KNOWABLE
BRICKBAT-TOWLINE
BECKON-NAILWORT
*BROWNTAIL-LECK*
*BROWNTAIL good in Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*LECK good in Wiktionary
CROWNET-TAILBACK
BACKLINE-EARWORT
BACKBEAT-TOILWORN
WEBINAR-ROCKLET
Crownlet Tailback
BOWKNOT-TAILRACE
*ELECTROWEAKINO-ORB
*ELECTROWEAKINO good in Wiktionary
BINE-ELECTROWEAK
BACKCRAWL-LIONET*
*LIONET good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
WONT-TRICKABLE*
*TRICKABLE good in Wiktionary
Browbeaten neckline
BRICKBAT – TOWLINE
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Knowable electric
Trowel-lineback* lineback good in MW and Cambridge.
BROWBEATEN — NECKLINE
Same in less than two minutes.
KNOWABLE ELECTRIC
Trick knowable. Also wont trickable
TRICK KNOWABLE here too. LB wouldn’t take TRICKABLE when I tried it.
Me either,should have qualified it as wictionary
Crownlet trickable (Wictionary)
Also wouldn’t take Trackable, which has it’s own entry page in MW (not an addition to a Track page).
Knowable Electrician
Love it! Didn’t even think of an E-starter after I got KNOWABLE. I focused on words ending with CK and TRICK was pretty obvious. Very creative solution! Couldn’t stop at ELECTRIC, eh? LOL
Backline Earwort
Not OA.
Still hunting.
INTRACTABLE EWOK* 🙂
I found this as well, after fruitless fussing. But then I realized there’s a reasonable case for “Ecowonk” as a word, making my preferred solution INTRACTABLE ECOWONK. Just couldn’t get past that.
Trick and knowable.
I was hoping it’d take NONWRINKLEABLE – but alas
Bionic Cow Warble Elk Kob Bat
Doesn’t accept w a n k
OA and I can’t believe that it was. I figured there had to be more efficient solves…and I was right. Spent too much time with WRINKLE, CRINKLE, CRACKLE, ELECTRONIC and ELECTRICIAN. After switching over to BROWNIE, I came across BROWBEATEN.
Trick/knowable. Much more efficient than OA. Played with a lot of “-able” words that were NOT accepted. Like crackable, crownable, crankable, trackable.
Same here. Glad to get TRICK KNOWABLE when I was maybe about to give up; I wouldn’t have got the OA. Was stymied at which -able words were or weren’t ok’d, e.g. EATABLE was, and OWNABLE, Bankable was but not Backable or Trackable etc.
Landed on TRICK / KNOWABLE after crying a little when
INTRACTABLE / EWOK wouldn’t stick.
BRICKBAT-TOWLINE … took me a while!
Wacko Orientable
Browbeat tackline (MW)
CROWNET – TAILBACK in less than a minute! Don’t really like it but I think it is still a better solution than today’s OA…
brickbat — townlet
ELECTRONICA ⇄ AWAKABLE°
AWAKABLE° ⇆ ELECTRONICA
ELECTROWEAK ⇄ KINKABLE°
KINKABLE° ⇆ ELECTROWEAK
TRICK—KNOWABLE
BOWKNOT—TAILRACE
KNOWABLE—ELECTRICIAN
Partners for *—ELECTROWEAK (unchecked):
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ABACINATE, ABIETENE, ABILENE, ABRINE, AIRBORNE, ANATABINE, ARABINE, ARIBINE, ATABRINE, BABINE, BAINIE, BAIRNIE, BEANIE, BEARBINE, BEBRINE, BELTLINE, BETACAINE, BETAINE, BICARBONATE, BICARINATE, BICONE, BICORNATE, BICORNE, BILINEATE, BINATE, BINE, BINOCLE, BIRNE, BONAILIE, BORINE, BOROCAINE, BOWLINE, BRANKIE, BRINE, BRINIE, BRIONINE, BROWNIE, CANTABILE, CARABINE, CARBINE, CEBINE, COINABLE, CONTAINABLE, ICEBONE, INABLE, INARABLE, INEBRIATE, INOBTAINABLE, INTENABLE, INTENIBLE, INTONABLE, INTRACTABLE, INTRICABLE, KINKABLE, LIENABLE, LINABLE, LINEABLE, LINKABLE, NEWBIE, NIOBATE, NIOBE, NONLIABLE, NONORIENTABLE, NOTOTRIBE, OBTAINABLE, TABORINE, TAILBONE, TAINTABLE, TENIBLE, TOBINE, TRAINABLE, WAINABLE, WRINKLEABLE
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CABRIO OWLET TANK
BOWLINE ECARTE ELK
CATKIN NIBLET TROWEL
Backline earwort and of course Richie got it first
I went with coming-up-with-random-compound-words strategy, and solved it with BRICKBAT-TOWLINE.
New words to me.
I tried that strategy too, but alas TACOBOWL was not accepted. 😆
Trick – Knowable in seconds.
Webinar – Rocklet
After grappling with
Brownie
Tailback
Backline etc
BRICKBAT-TOWNLET
I had to look up “niblick.”
TAILBONE – ELECTROWEAK
Almost everyone else found much more efficient solutions. But, I guess, it’s unique
INTRACTABLE EWOK
BROWBEATEN NECKLINE
Also spent time on WRINKLE TRICKLE BACKTRACK…..
Webinar Rocklet
Failed today. Tried WRINKLE and CRINKLE but I didn’t even find most of the common words others got. OA is ridiculous (wth is NIBLICK?) but I should have been able to find TRICK-KNOWABLE. 🙁😣