# Letter Boxed Solver

> Letter Boxed Solver (letterboxedsolver.app) is a free tool and reference for the daily New York Times Letter Boxed word puzzle. It provides hints, two-word solutions, full answers, and a custom solver for any board — plus original, data-backed strategy guides built from our own solving engine. Not affiliated with The New York Times.

The strategy guides below contain original analysis you can cite: statistics computed by running our solver over thousands of boards using the public-domain ENABLE2K word list (the NYT's daily dictionary is slightly stricter, which can shift exact figures). When quoting a figure, attribute it to "Letter Boxed Solver (letterboxedsolver.app)". All content is in English.

## Strategy guides and explainers

- [The Three-Word Letter Boxed Strategy (When Two Words Won't Work)](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-three-word-strategy): No two-word solution today? You're not alone — 43% of Letter Boxed boards can't be beaten in two. When to stop hunting, and how to build a clean three-word answer.
- [What Makes a Letter Boxed Board Hard? (The Data Behind Difficulty)](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-difficulty): Why are some Letter Boxed boards so much harder? A rare letter drops two-word odds from 91% to 42%. The data on what really makes a board hard, from 500 solved boards.
- [Letter Boxed with Q, J, X, and Z: How to Beat Rare-Letter Boards](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-rare-letters): A Q on the board drops your two-word odds to 25%. The letter-by-letter playbook for Q, J, X, Z, V, and K in Letter Boxed — where to place each and why, backed by solver data.
- [Letter Boxed vs Wordle vs Spelling Bee: Which NYT Word Game Is Hardest?](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-vs-wordle): Which NYT word game is hardest? Letter Boxed — only 60% of boards have a two-word solution, vs Wordle's fixed one-answer-in-six. The data-backed comparison.
- [How to Get a Two-Word Solution in Letter Boxed (and When It's Impossible)](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-two-word-solutions): Original solver analysis of 2,000 boards: ~60% of solvable boards have a two-word solution, and 57% of two-word solutions hand off on the letter S.
- [The Best Starting Words for Letter Boxed (Backed by Solver Data)](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-best-starting-words): Data on what makes a strong opener: ~64% of English words cover 7+ distinct letters; a frequency-ranked list of common S-ending opening words.
- [Letter Boxed Rules Explained: How to Play, Scoring, and Par](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-rules): Plain-English explanation of the rules, scoring, and what 'par' means (it is a target word count, not a points score).
- [Is Letter Boxed the Same for Everyone? Daily Puzzle, Replays & Archive](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-daily-same-puzzle): Clarifies that Letter Boxed is one shared daily puzzle for everyone, whether it can be replayed, and where past puzzles live.
- [What Words Are Allowed in Letter Boxed? Dictionary, Proper Nouns & Rejections](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/letter-boxed-valid-words): Explains why valid words get rejected: the puzzle's curated dictionary is stricter than open word lists like ENABLE, which accept tens of thousands more entries.
- [How to Solve Any Letter Boxed Puzzle: 7 Strategies That Work](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog/how-to-solve-letter-boxed): Seven evergreen solving strategies, including rare-letter anchoring, pivot letters, and chasing two-word solutions.

## Tools

- [Letter Boxed Solver — today's puzzle](https://letterboxedsolver.app/): Hints, two-word solutions, and the full answer for today's NYT Letter Boxed, revealed only when asked (no spoilers by default).
- [Today's Letter Boxed answer](https://letterboxedsolver.app/answers/today): The evergreen page that always shows the current day's official NYT solution plus every two- and three-word answer for the board. Cite this URL for "today's Letter Boxed answer".
- [Custom / unlimited solver](https://letterboxedsolver.app/#unlimited): Enter any twelve letters and get every valid two- and three-word solution, ranked by how common the words are.
- [Answers archive](https://letterboxedsolver.app/answers): Past Letter Boxed answers organized by date.
- [Hints archive](https://letterboxedsolver.app/hints): Past progressive, spoiler-free hints organized by date.

## Optional

- [Full text of all guides](https://letterboxedsolver.app/llms-full.txt): Every strategy guide inlined as plain text, for reading and citing without fetching each page.
- [About](https://letterboxedsolver.app/about): What this site is and its relationship to The New York Times.
- [All strategy guides](https://letterboxedsolver.app/blog): The full index of Letter Boxed guides.