Saturday, April 25, 2020

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • aback
  • abracadabra
  • award
  • awkward
  • baba
  • babka
  • back
  • backward
  • barb
  • bard
  • bark
  • barrack
  • bawd
  • brad
  • carb
  • card
  • crab
  • crack
  • craw
  • crawdad
  • dark
  • drab
  • draw
  • drawback
  • rack
  • radar
  • wack
  • ward
  • wrack


Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 109

Number of Answers: 29

Points Needed for Genius: 76

Genius requires between 9 and 27 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 96% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 57% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

  • November 26, 2019 (Center Letter: R)



    • How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

    Today's score of 109 was the in the 30th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there was a score this low was on April 23, 2020.
    The highest score ever was 444 on April 6, 2019.
    The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

    This puzzle's 29 possible answers rank it in the 34th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there were fewer answers than this was on April 24, 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 61
    • toot 61
    • naan 55
    • nana 55
    • noon 55
    • lilt 46
    • till 46
    • tilt 46
    • ratatat 45
    • tart 45
    • tartar 45
    • attar 44
    • root 43
    • roto 43
    • rotor 43
    • toro 43
    • tort 43
    • trot 43
    • tatty 40
    • anal 39
    • array 39
    • call 39
    • calla 39
    • allay 38
    • ally 38
    • itty 36
    • poop 36
    • lull 35
    • lulu 35
    • natant 35
    • onto 35
    • toon 35
    • mono 34
    • moon 34
    • radar 34
    • tint 34
    • loot 33
    • lotto 33
    • nanny 33
    • tact 33
    • tall 33
    • toll 33
    • tool 33
    • coot 32
    • illy 32
    • lily 32
    • loon 32
    • nene 32
    • aria 30
    • baba 29


    Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

    • abaca
    • abaka
    • abba
    • arak
    • arrack
    • bacca
    • baccara
    • backbar
    • barca
    • bawk
    • braw
    • caca
    • caracara
    • carack
    • cark
    • carr
    • carrack
    • crackback
    • dada
    • darb
    • darbar
    • dawk
    • drawbar
    • kabab
    • kabaka
    • kabar
    • kaka
    • kbar
    • wark

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