The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 14 and 32 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Today's score of 124 was in the
24th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 15, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 36 possible answers rank it in the
40th
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 16, 2026.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
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 123,285 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
11,138 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.
ammo
amyl
familial
family
film
filmy
flimflam
foam
foamily
foamy
imam
lama
lima
limo
llama
loam
loamy
loom
mafia
mail
maim
mall
mama
mamma
mammal
mayfly
mayo
miff
mill
moil
moll
mollify
molly
momma
mommy
moola
