Thanks to everyone for the kind words and patience the other day. The NYT changed the format of their Rankings pop-up, and it broke my page. Weirdly, they reverted to the old format sometime in the middle of the day.
Their new Rankings was pretty cool. Unfortunately, if they roll it out again (and I hope they do), it will break my site. I'll do a fire drill to fix the page. If by some very small chance you saved a version of the page from earlier today, please share it with me.
Now that I'm back in the code, I thought I'd see which features people are most interested in. I've put some of the most common suggestions in the poll above, but please add your own ideas too!
The official answers for today's puzzle are:
Genius requires between 29 and 53 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 73% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 69% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Today's score of 321 was in the
97th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high
was on January 14, 2023.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.
This puzzle's 62 possible answers rank it in the
93rd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more
answers than this was on January 7, 2023.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 17 on October 2, 2022.
It takes a 8-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.
Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!
The most common words in the Bee are
You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:
*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.