Saturday, January 20, 2024

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • bedded
  • been
  • begged
  • begone
  • bell
  • belle
  • belled
  • belong
  • belonged
  • bend
  • bled
  • bleed
  • blend
  • blended
  • blob
  • blobbed
  • blog
  • blogged
  • blond
  • blonde
  • blood
  • blooded
  • bobbed
  • bobble
  • bobbled
  • bode
  • boded
  • bogged
  • boggle
  • boggled
  • bold
  • bolded
  • boll
  • bolo
  • bonbon
  • bond
  • bonded
  • bone
  • boned
  • bong
  • bongo
  • bonobo
  • boob
  • booboo
  • boodle
  • booed
  • boon
  • boondoggle
  • boondoggled
  • debone
  • deboned
  • ebbed
  • ebon
  • ennoble
  • ennobled
  • glob
  • globe
  • gobble
  • gobbled
  • lobbed
  • lobe
  • lobed
  • lobo
  • noble
  • noob
  • oblong
  • oboe


Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 327

Number of Answers: 67

Points Needed for Genius: 229

Genius requires between 31 and 58 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 83% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 327 was in the 97th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on December 31, 2023.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 67 possible answers rank it in the 97th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on December 31, 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 161
  • loll 159
  • toot 149
  • naan 143
  • nana 143
  • lilt 121
  • till 121
  • tilt 121
  • tint 107
  • mama 106
  • mamma 106
  • nene 100
  • acacia 97
  • acai 97
  • onto 97
  • toon 97
  • anal 94
  • poop 93
  • lull 92
  • lulu 92
  • olio 92
  • papa 91
  • anon 90
  • boob 90
  • booboo 90
  • call 90
  • calla 90
  • onion 90
  • dodo 89
  • tatty 89
  • allay 88
  • ally 88
  • mitt 88
  • baba 84
  • nanny 84
  • array 83
  • epee 83
  • loon 83
  • peep 83
  • ratatat 83
  • tart 83
  • tartar 83
  • attar 82
  • radar 82
  • tact 82
  • cocci 80
  • mono 80
  • moon 80
  • nada 80
  • tutu 80


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • beblood
  • beblooded
  • bedel
  • bedell
  • beebee
  • begoggled
  • belon
  • bended
  • bendee
  • bene
  • benne
  • bleb
  • blende
  • bobo
  • bogle
  • bole
  • bolled
  • bonebed
  • bonged
  • bonne
  • boobed
  • boodled
  • dobe
  • doblon
  • doob
  • glebe
  • globed
  • gobbed
  • gobo
  • gobonee
  • leben
  • nobble
  • nobbled
  • nonbonded
  • nonnoble
  • obol
  • obole

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