Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • activate
  • activated
  • active
  • addictive
  • additive
  • advice
  • aviate
  • aviated
  • avid
  • cava
  • cave
  • caveat
  • caved
  • civet
  • civic
  • dative
  • deactivate
  • deactivated
  • deceive
  • deceived
  • dedicative
  • detective
  • deviate
  • deviated
  • device
  • diva
  • dive
  • dived
  • divide
  • divided
  • divvied
  • eave
  • eaved
  • evade
  • evaded
  • evict
  • evicted
  • evictee
  • ivied
  • titivate
  • titivated
  • vacate
  • vacated
  • vetted
  • vice
  • vied
  • vitiate
  • vitiated
  • vivace
  • vivid


Number of Pangrams: 5

Maximum Puzzle Score: 332

Number of Answers: 50

Points Needed for Genius: 232

Genius requires between 26 and 44 words. You need at least a 9-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 94% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 60% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 332 was in the 97th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 16, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 50 possible answers rank it in the 78th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on May 21, 2024.
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 9-letter word for genius. The last time that happened was on DATE.



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 172
  • loll 167
  • toot 155
  • naan 153
  • nana 153
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 114
  • mama 109
  • mamma 109
  • nene 104
  • acacia 103
  • acai 103
  • anal 102
  • onto 101
  • toon 101
  • anon 98
  • boob 98
  • booboo 98
  • lull 97
  • lulu 97
  • olio 97
  • onion 97
  • papa 95
  • poop 94
  • call 93
  • calla 93
  • dodo 93
  • allay 91
  • ally 91
  • mitt 91
  • tatty 91
  • baba 89
  • ratatat 89
  • tact 89
  • tart 89
  • tartar 89
  • attar 88
  • loon 88
  • radar 88
  • cocci 87
  • nanny 87
  • array 85
  • epee 85
  • nada 85
  • peep 85
  • tutu 85
  • coot 83
  • mono 83


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • advect
  • advected
  • advective
  • atavic
  • avadavat
  • aviatic
  • caveated
  • cavetti
  • cavie
  • cavitate
  • cavitated
  • cavitied
  • civie
  • davit
  • deave
  • deaved
  • deva
  • devi
  • deviative
  • evite
  • evited
  • ideative
  • teevee
  • tittivate
  • tittivated
  • vatic
  • vaticide
  • vatted
  • vedette
  • viatic
  • viatica
  • viced
  • vide
  • vidette
  • vita
  • vitae
  • vitta
  • vittae
  • vittate
  • viva
  • vivat
  • vive

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