Friday, June 25, 2021

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • defend
  • defended
  • defund
  • defunded
  • duff
  • duffel
  • duffle
  • engulf
  • engulfed
  • feed
  • feel
  • fell
  • felled
  • fend
  • fended
  • fennel
  • feud
  • feuded
  • fled
  • fledge
  • fledged
  • flee
  • flue
  • fluff
  • fluffed
  • flung
  • fuddle
  • fuddled
  • fudge
  • fudged
  • fuel
  • fueled
  • fugu
  • fugue
  • full
  • fund
  • funded
  • funnel
  • funneled
  • gleeful
  • guff
  • gulf
  • needful
  • undefended
  • unfed
  • unfledged
  • unfunded


Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 238

Number of Answers: 47

Points Needed for Genius: 167

Genius requires between 22 and 41 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 81% 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 238 was in the 85th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 22, 2021.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

This puzzle's 47 possible answers rank it in the 75th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 23, 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 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 106
  • noon 94
  • toot 91
  • naan 90
  • nana 90
  • lilt 71
  • till 71
  • tilt 71
  • ratatat 62
  • tart 62
  • tartar 62
  • anal 61
  • attar 61
  • tint 61
  • lull 59
  • lulu 59
  • call 58
  • calla 58
  • loon 57
  • mama 57
  • mamma 57
  • root 56
  • rotor 56
  • tatty 56
  • toro 56
  • tort 56
  • trot 56
  • roto 55
  • onto 54
  • toon 54
  • array 53
  • dodo 53
  • loot 53
  • lotto 53
  • nene 53
  • radar 53
  • toll 53
  • tool 53
  • mono 52
  • moon 52
  • allay 51
  • ally 51
  • poop 51
  • tact 51
  • papa 50
  • itty 49
  • loom 49
  • moll 49
  • olio 49
  • coot 48


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • defuel
  • defueled
  • defuelled
  • delf
  • duffed
  • effulge
  • effulged
  • enuf
  • feued
  • flued
  • fuelled
  • fugged
  • fugle
  • fugled
  • fugued
  • fulled
  • funned
  • funnelled
  • gulfed
  • luff
  • luffed
  • lungful
  • nuff
  • unneedful

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