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 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 100 was in the
12th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 09, 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 09, 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 07, 2026.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
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 123,044 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
11,135 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.
cake
caked
check
checked
cheek
chick
chickadee
deck
decked
deke
deked
dike
eked
hack
hacked
hake
heck
hick
hike
hiked
khaki
kick
kicked
kidded
kiddie
haka
