Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • city
  • cultic
  • cyclic
  • diddly
  • dill
  • dilly
  • ditty
  • ductility
  • icily
  • idly
  • idyl
  • idyll
  • idyllic
  • illicit
  • illicitly
  • illy
  • itty
  • licit
  • licitly
  • lilt
  • lily
  • lucid
  • lucidity
  • lucidly
  • tidily
  • tidy
  • till
  • tilt
  • tutti
  • utility


Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 145

Number of Answers: 30

Points Needed for Genius: 102

Genius requires between 13 and 27 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 89% 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:

  • April 3, 2020 (Center Letter: T)
  • November 11, 2019 (Center Letter: L)
  • April 20, 2019 (Center Letter: Y)



    • How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

    Today's score of 145 was in the 42nd percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there was a score this low was on September 29, 2023.
    The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
    The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

    This puzzle's 30 possible answers rank it in the 29th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 23, 2023.
    The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
    The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

    It takes a 7-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

    • noon 154
    • loll 149
    • toot 140
    • naan 132
    • nana 132
    • lilt 114
    • till 114
    • tilt 114
    • mama 101
    • mamma 101
    • tint 100
    • nene 94
    • onto 91
    • toon 91
    • acacia 90
    • acai 90
    • lull 89
    • lulu 89
    • call 87
    • calla 87
    • poop 86
    • tatty 86
    • anal 85
    • boob 85
    • booboo 85
    • dodo 85
    • anon 84
    • mitt 84
    • allay 83
    • ally 83
    • olio 83
    • onion 83
    • papa 82
    • radar 82
    • array 81
    • baba 80
    • ratatat 80
    • tart 80
    • tartar 80
    • attar 79
    • loon 79
    • mono 77
    • moon 77
    • nanny 77
    • tact 77
    • epee 76
    • loom 76
    • moll 76
    • peep 76
    • coot 75


    Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

    • clit
    • clitic
    • culicid
    • culti
    • cyclicity
    • cyclicly
    • dicty
    • dicyclic
    • dicycly
    • didy
    • duci
    • duit
    • ictic
    • illitic
    • litu
    • ludic
    • lytic
    • tiddly
    • titi
    • titty
    • yill

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