Monday, February 17, 2020

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • afflict
  • alit
  • atilt
  • attic
  • cacti
  • catalytic
  • catalytically
  • catcall
  • cattail
  • cattily
  • catty
  • citify
  • city
  • facility
  • fact
  • facticity
  • fatal
  • fatality
  • fatally
  • fatly
  • fatty
  • fiat
  • fifty
  • fitly
  • flat
  • flatly
  • flit
  • illicit
  • illicitly
  • italic
  • itty
  • lactic
  • laity
  • licit
  • licitly
  • lift
  • lilt
  • tacit
  • tacitly
  • tact
  • tactic
  • tactical
  • tactically
  • taffy
  • tail
  • talc
  • tali
  • tall
  • tally
  • tatty
  • tiff
  • till
  • tilt


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 259

Number of Answers: 53

Points Needed for Genius: 181

Genius requires between 24 and 46 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 259 was the in the 92nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 2, 2020.
The highest score ever was 444 on April 6, 2019.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

This puzzle's 53 possible answers rank it in the 87th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on February 12, 2020.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 21 on August 5, 2018.

It takes a 8-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are

  • loll 56
  • toot 55
  • naan 52
  • nana 52
  • noon 49
  • ratatat 41
  • tart 41
  • tartar 41
  • attar 40
  • lilt 40
  • till 40
  • tilt 40
  • call 39
  • calla 39
  • tatty 39
  • root 38
  • roto 38
  • rotor 38
  • toro 38
  • tort 38
  • trot 38
  • array 37
  • allay 36
  • ally 36
  • anal 36
  • natant 34
  • nanny 33
  • poop 33
  • tint 33
  • loot 32
  • lotto 32
  • tall 32
  • toll 32
  • tool 32
  • itty 31
  • onto 30
  • radar 30
  • toon 30
  • coot 29
  • nene 29
  • tact 29
  • baba 28
  • illy 28
  • lily 28
  • loon 28
  • mono 28
  • moon 28
  • ball 27
  • blab 27
  • hath 27


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • acta
  • atactic
  • atalaya
  • atlatl
  • caitiff
  • calcitic
  • catalatic
  • catfall
  • clift
  • clit
  • clitic
  • cyclicality
  • cyclicity
  • facta
  • fattily
  • ictic
  • illitic
  • lati
  • latilla
  • litai
  • lytic
  • lytically
  • lytta
  • tactility
  • taffia
  • tafia
  • tala
  • talcy
  • tallit
  • tattily
  • tical
  • tictac
  • titi
  • titty

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.