The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 11 and 23 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 83% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 105 was in the
14th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 14, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 26 possible answers rank it in the
13th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 15, 2026.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.
It takes a 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 17, 2026.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.
Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!
The most common words in the Bee are:
There have been 123,489 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
11,142 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.
You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:
*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.
anal
anally
annal
anneal
baleen
banal
banally
banana
bane
banyan
bean
beanball
been
elan
enable
jean
jellybean
jenny
lane
lean
leanly
naan
nana
nanny
nene
enby
