The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 13 and 20 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 125 was in the
25th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on October 01, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 24 possible answers rank it in the
9th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 01, 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 October 04, 2026.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
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 124,108 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
11,156 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.
arrival
avail
avatar
aviator
larva
larval
lava
oval
ravioli
rival
travail
trivia
trivial
valor
vial
villa
viol
viola
violator
viral
vital
vitriol
voila
volt
