The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 8 and 16 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 86% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Today's score of 78 was in the
3rd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 14, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 18 possible answers rank it in the
0th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 05, 2026.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.
It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 20, 2026.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 123,507 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
11,143 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.
ennui
equine
equinox
nene
neon
nine
none
nonunion
noon
noun
onion
oxen
queen
quinine
union
unique
xenon
innie
