Saturday, August 28, 2021

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • deeding
  • defending
  • defied
  • define
  • defined
  • defining
  • defying
  • deified
  • deify
  • deifying
  • deign
  • deigned
  • deigning
  • denied
  • denying
  • died
  • digging
  • dignified
  • dignify
  • dignifying
  • dine
  • dined
  • ding
  • dinged
  • dinging
  • dingy
  • dining
  • dyeing
  • dying
  • eddied
  • eddying
  • edging
  • edified
  • edify
  • edifying
  • effigy
  • egging
  • ending
  • engine
  • eyeing
  • eying
  • feeding
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feigning
  • fending
  • fief
  • fiend
  • fife
  • fifed
  • fifing
  • find
  • finding
  • fine
  • fined
  • fining
  • finned
  • genie
  • genii
  • giddy
  • ginned
  • ginning
  • iffy
  • indeed
  • indie
  • indigene
  • innie
  • inning
  • needing
  • nine
  • ninny
  • yenning


Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 431

Number of Answers: 72

Points Needed for Genius: 302

Genius requires between 41 and 59 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 431 was in the 100th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on January 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 72 possible answers rank it in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 28, 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 113
  • noon 100
  • toot 97
  • naan 92
  • nana 92
  • lilt 79
  • till 79
  • tilt 79
  • tint 67
  • ratatat 65
  • tart 65
  • tartar 65
  • anal 64
  • attar 64
  • loon 62
  • lull 61
  • lulu 61
  • call 60
  • calla 60
  • dodo 59
  • tatty 59
  • mama 58
  • mamma 58
  • onto 58
  • root 58
  • rotor 58
  • toon 58
  • toro 58
  • tort 58
  • trot 58
  • array 56
  • mono 56
  • moon 56
  • nene 56
  • olio 56
  • allay 55
  • ally 55
  • loot 55
  • lotto 55
  • radar 55
  • roto 55
  • toll 55
  • tool 55
  • loom 53
  • moll 53
  • tact 53
  • nanny 52
  • poop 52
  • tall 52
  • papa 51


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • defi
  • deni
  • denning
  • didie
  • didy
  • dieing
  • diene
  • diff
  • digged
  • dinge
  • dingey
  • dinned
  • dinning
  • dynein
  • effendi
  • effing
  • eide
  • engined
  • engining
  • feeing
  • fening
  • fenning
  • fidge
  • fidged
  • fidging
  • figged
  • figging
  • finning
  • finny
  • geeing
  • genning
  • giddied
  • giddying
  • gied
  • gieing
  • gien
  • gigged
  • gigging
  • ginny
  • gynie
  • igged
  • igging
  • ignified
  • ignify
  • ignifying
  • indeedy
  • indene
  • indigen
  • indign
  • infeed
  • inned
  • neif
  • nide
  • nided
  • nidi
  • nidified
  • nidify
  • nidifying
  • niding
  • niff
  • niffed
  • niffing
  • niffy

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