The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 16 and 29 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 84% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Today's score of 183 was in the
56th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 19, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 33 possible answers rank it in the
33rd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 19, 2025.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.
It takes an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 19, 2025.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.9.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.
Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!
The most common words in the Bee are:
There have been 108,336 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
10,842 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.
You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:
*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.
