Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • cocci
  • coffin
  • coif
  • coin
  • concoction
  • confit
  • conic
  • fiction
  • finito
  • foci
  • function
  • icon
  • iconic
  • info
  • into
  • intuit
  • intuition
  • ionic
  • nonfiction
  • notion
  • onion
  • outfit
  • tiff
  • tinct
  • tint
  • tonic
  • tuition
  • tunic
  • tutti
  • unction
  • unfit
  • union
  • unit


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 166

Number of Answers: 33

Points Needed for Genius: 116

Genius requires between 16 and 29 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

  • September 21, 2020 (Center Letter: U)



    • How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

    Today's score of 166 was in the 63rd percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there was a score this high was on March 23, 2021.
    The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
    The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

    This puzzle's 33 possible answers rank it in the 45th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there were fewer answers than this was on March 20, 2021.
    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 7-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 100
    • noon 88
    • toot 85
    • naan 81
    • nana 81
    • lilt 66
    • till 66
    • tilt 66
    • ratatat 58
    • tart 58
    • tartar 58
    • attar 57
    • lull 57
    • lulu 57
    • anal 56
    • tint 56
    • root 55
    • roto 55
    • rotor 55
    • toro 55
    • tort 55
    • trot 55
    • call 54
    • calla 54
    • loon 54
    • loot 52
    • lotto 52
    • toll 52
    • tool 52
    • array 50
    • radar 50
    • mono 49
    • moon 49
    • onto 49
    • tatty 49
    • toon 49
    • allay 48
    • ally 48
    • dodo 47
    • mama 47
    • mamma 47
    • poop 47
    • coot 46
    • loom 46
    • moll 46
    • natant 46
    • tact 46
    • illy 45
    • lily 45
    • nene 45


    Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

    • cion
    • coccic
    • cofunction
    • coition
    • coni
    • conin
    • continuo
    • cuif
    • cunit
    • cutin
    • ficin
    • fico
    • finfoot
    • fino
    • foin
    • fuci
    • ictic
    • inconnu
    • inion
    • inti
    • intinction
    • inunction
    • nicotin
    • nicotinic
    • niff
    • ninon
    • niton
    • nonionic
    • nontonic
    • nonunion
    • nuncio
    • ontic
    • otic
    • otitic
    • tictoc
    • tiffin
    • titi
    • tofutti
    • toit
    • unci
    • uncini
    • uncoffin
    • unific

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