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The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 9 and 19 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 85% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 87 was in the
7th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on July 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 21 possible answers rank it in the
2nd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on July 16, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on July 16, 2024.
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 88,354 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
10,167 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.
dink
dinky
dunk
inky
kiln
kind
kindly
kink
kinkily
kinky
link
lunk
ninny
nudnik
null
undid
unduly
unkind
unkindly
unkink
unlink