The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 11 and 18 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 80% 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 119 was in the
22nd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 21, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 21 possible answers rank it in the
2nd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 05, 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 an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on August 20, 2026.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.9.
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 122,377 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
11,127 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.
avail
avid
avidity
avidly
diva
divvy
lava
livid
lividity
lividly
valid
validity
validly
vial
villa
vital
vitality
vitally
vivid
vividly
vividity
