The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 13 and 28 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 91% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 62% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 138 was in the
32nd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 28, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 31 possible answers rank it in the
27th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 28, 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 August 31, 2026.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
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 122,597 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.
affiant
alfalfa
fail
faint
fall
fantail
fatal
fiat
filial
fill
fillip
final
finial
flail
flan
flap
flat
flint
flip
flippant
flit
infant
infill
lift
naif
pfft
pilaf
pitfall
plaintiff
tiff
antifa
