Monday, February 21, 2022

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • check
  • checked
  • cheek
  • chick
  • childlike
  • click
  • clicked
  • deck
  • decked
  • deckle
  • deke
  • deked
  • dike
  • eked
  • heck
  • heckle
  • heckled
  • hick
  • hike
  • hiked
  • keel
  • keeled
  • kick
  • kicked
  • kidded
  • kiddie
  • kill
  • killed
  • leek
  • lick
  • licked
  • like
  • liked


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 139

Number of Answers: 33

Points Needed for Genius: 97

Genius requires between 15 and 29 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

Other days with this pangram:

  • January 30, 2021 (Center Letter: H)



    • How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

    Today's score of 139 was in the 44th percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there was a score this low was on February 19, 2022.
    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 42nd percentile of all puzzles.
    The last time there were fewer answers than this was on February 19, 2022.
    The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
    The lowest number of answers was 19 on October 3, 2021.

    It takes a 6-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 119
    • noon 116
    • toot 108
    • naan 99
    • nana 99
    • lilt 89
    • till 89
    • tilt 89
    • tint 76
    • ratatat 69
    • tart 69
    • tartar 69
    • attar 68
    • onto 68
    • toon 68
    • anal 67
    • mama 67
    • mamma 67
    • loon 66
    • array 65
    • call 65
    • calla 65
    • lull 65
    • lulu 65
    • tatty 65
    • dodo 64
    • nene 63
    • olio 63
    • root 63
    • rotor 63
    • toro 63
    • tort 63
    • trot 63
    • allay 62
    • ally 62
    • loom 62
    • moll 62
    • loot 60
    • lotto 60
    • mono 60
    • moon 60
    • toll 60
    • tool 60
    • itty 59
    • radar 59
    • boob 58
    • booboo 58
    • tact 58
    • tall 58
    • baba 57


    Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

    • cheeked
    • chickee
    • cleek
    • cleeked
    • deckel
    • dick
    • dicked
    • dickie
    • dikdik
    • diked
    • eellike
    • hickie
    • icelike
    • keck
    • kecked
    • keckle
    • keckled
    • keek
    • keeked
    • kidlike
    • kike
    • killdee
    • killick
    • killie
    • klick
    • klik
    • leechlike
    • leke
    • lekked

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