Saturday, October 31, 2020

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • aback
  • abracadabra
  • award
  • awkward
  • baba
  • babka
  • back
  • backward
  • barb
  • bard
  • bark
  • barrack
  • bawd
  • brad
  • carb
  • card
  • crab
  • crack
  • craw
  • crawdad
  • dark
  • drab
  • draw
  • drawback
  • rack
  • radar
  • wack
  • ward
  • wrack


Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 109

Number of Answers: 29

Points Needed for Genius: 76

Genius requires between 9 and 27 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 96% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 57% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

  • April 25, 2020 (Center Letter: A)
  • November 26, 2019 (Center Letter: R)



    • How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

    Today's score of 109 was the in the 30th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there was a score this low was on October 25, 2020.
    The highest score ever was 444 on April 6, 2019.
    The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

    This puzzle's 29 possible answers rank it in the 34th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 27, 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 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

    • loll 80
    • toot 74
    • naan 72
    • nana 72
    • noon 72
    • lilt 56
    • till 56
    • tilt 56
    • ratatat 55
    • tart 55
    • tartar 55
    • attar 54
    • lull 50
    • lulu 50
    • root 50
    • roto 50
    • rotor 50
    • toro 50
    • tort 50
    • trot 50
    • anal 49
    • array 48
    • radar 47
    • call 46
    • calla 46
    • tint 45
    • allay 44
    • ally 44
    • tatty 44
    • mama 43
    • mamma 43
    • loon 42
    • loot 42
    • lotto 42
    • mono 42
    • moon 42
    • natant 42
    • onto 42
    • toll 42
    • tool 42
    • toon 42
    • illy 41
    • lily 41
    • poop 41
    • roar 40
    • aria 39
    • coot 39
    • dodo 39
    • itty 39
    • papa 39


    Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

    • abaca
    • abaka
    • abba
    • arak
    • arrack
    • bacca
    • baccara
    • backbar
    • barca
    • bawk
    • braw
    • caca
    • caracara
    • carack
    • cark
    • carr
    • carrack
    • crackback
    • dada
    • darb
    • darbar
    • dawk
    • drawbar
    • kabab
    • kabaka
    • kabar
    • kaka
    • kbar
    • wark

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