Monday, March 9, 2020

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • alarm
  • amoral
  • armor
  • aroma
  • haram
  • harm
  • hoar
  • honor
  • hoorah
  • hora
  • horal
  • hormonal
  • horn
  • horror
  • manor
  • marm
  • maroon
  • molar
  • moor
  • moral
  • morn
  • moron
  • norm
  • normal
  • oral
  • roam
  • roan
  • roar
  • roll
  • room


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 109

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 76

Genius requires between 13 and 26 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 109 was the in the 28th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on March 7, 2020.
The highest score ever was 444 on April 6, 2019.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

This puzzle's 30 possible answers rank it in the 37th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on March 7, 2020.
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 6-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

  • loll 59
  • toot 57
  • naan 53
  • nana 53
  • noon 52
  • ratatat 43
  • tart 43
  • tartar 43
  • attar 42
  • lilt 40
  • tatty 40
  • till 40
  • tilt 40
  • call 39
  • calla 39
  • root 39
  • roto 39
  • rotor 39
  • toro 39
  • tort 39
  • trot 39
  • array 38
  • allay 37
  • ally 37
  • anal 37
  • natant 34
  • loot 33
  • lotto 33
  • nanny 33
  • onto 33
  • poop 33
  • tall 33
  • tint 33
  • toll 33
  • tool 33
  • toon 33
  • itty 32
  • loon 31
  • tact 31
  • coot 30
  • lull 30
  • lulu 30
  • mono 30
  • moon 30
  • nene 30
  • radar 30
  • mama 29
  • mamma 29
  • baba 28
  • ball 28


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • alar
  • amarna
  • haar
  • harl
  • horah
  • lahar
  • larn
  • loral
  • loran
  • lorn
  • maar
  • malar
  • malaroma
  • mara
  • marl
  • marram
  • marrano
  • marron
  • mora
  • morro
  • nonhormonal
  • nonmoral
  • nonnormal
  • nonoral
  • orlon
  • orra
  • ramal
  • ramona
  • roman
  • romano

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