The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 11 and 20 words. You need at least a 7-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 116 was in the
20th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 22, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 23 possible answers rank it in the
6th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 22, 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 30, 2026.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.7.
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 123,931 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
11,156 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.
heed
heeded
heme
hemmed
hoed
home
homed
homey
homonym
homonymy
hone
honed
honey
honeyed
honeymoon
honeymooned
hood
hooded
hoodoo
hooey
hymen
hymn
yoohoo
