Sunday, September 8, 2019

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • cite
  • citizen
  • civet
  • civic
  • entice
  • evict
  • evictee
  • evince
  • incent
  • incentive
  • incentivize
  • incite
  • intent
  • invective
  • invent
  • inventive
  • invite
  • invitee
  • netizen
  • nice
  • niece
  • nine
  • nineteen
  • nite
  • tinct
  • tine
  • tint
  • vein
  • vice
  • vine
  • zinc
  • zine
  • ziti


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 160

Number of Answers: 33

Points Needed for Genius: 112

Genius requires between 15 and 29 words. You need at least a 8-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.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 160 was the in the 60th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 7, 2019.
The highest score ever was 444 on April 6, 2019.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

This puzzle's 33 possible answers rank it in the 44th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 5, 2019.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 21 on August 5, 2018.

It takes a 8-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are

  • toot 39
  • loll 36
  • naan 34
  • nana 34
  • ratatat 33
  • tart 33
  • tartar 33
  • attar 32
  • call 32
  • calla 32
  • noon 32
  • tatty 31
  • array 30
  • root 28
  • roto 28
  • rotor 28
  • toro 28
  • tort 28
  • trot 28
  • anal 27
  • lilt 27
  • till 27
  • tilt 27
  • allay 25
  • ally 25
  • itty 25
  • nene 25
  • natant 24
  • onto 24
  • tint 24
  • toon 24
  • nanny 23
  • tact 23
  • baba 22
  • loot 22
  • lotto 22
  • poop 22
  • tall 22
  • toll 22
  • tool 22
  • arty 21
  • coot 21
  • hath 21
  • ratty 21
  • tarry 21
  • tell 21
  • that 21
  • tray 21
  • lull 20
  • lulu 20


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • cine
  • civie
  • enceinte
  • etic
  • eventive
  • evincive
  • evite
  • ictic
  • inti
  • intine
  • nevi
  • niente
  • nieve
  • tectite
  • tein
  • tentie
  • titi
  • tittie
  • tizz
  • tzitzit
  • venin
  • venine
  • vinic
  • vive
  • zein
  • zetetic
  • zincic
  • zincite
  • zizit
  • zizz

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.