Sunday, August 26, 2018

The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • affront
  • afoot
  • annotator
  • aorta
  • arrant
  • atom
  • attar
  • font
  • foot
  • footman
  • formant
  • format
  • fort
  • frat
  • front
  • frontman
  • manta
  • mantra
  • marmot
  • mart
  • matron
  • moat
  • moot
  • mortar
  • motor
  • motorman
  • motto
  • narrator
  • natant
  • nonart
  • nonfat
  • onto
  • orator
  • ottoman
  • raft
  • rant
  • ratatat
  • rattan
  • root
  • rotator
  • roto
  • rotor
  • tantara
  • tantra
  • taro
  • tarot
  • tart
  • tartan
  • tartar
  • tattoo
  • tomato
  • toon
  • toot
  • torn
  • toro
  • tort
  • tram
  • trot

Maximum Puzzle Score: 259

Number of Answers: 58

Points Needed for Genius: 181

Genius requires between 26 and 50 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 259 was the in the 89th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 15, 2018.
The highest score ever was 315 on July 6, 2018.
The lowest score ever was 76 on July 27, 2018.

This puzzle's 58 possible answers rank it in the 96th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on July 8, 2018.
The highest number of answers was 65 on July 6, 2018.
The lowest number of answers was 21 on August 5, 2018.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.

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