Monday, October 9, 2023

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • chilling
  • chinning
  • cinching
  • citing
  • clinching
  • cling
  • clinging
  • gigging
  • giggling
  • gill
  • gilling
  • gilt
  • ginning
  • glint
  • glinting
  • glitch
  • glitching
  • high
  • highlight
  • highlighting
  • hilling
  • hinging
  • hinting
  • hitching
  • hitting
  • icing
  • igniting
  • inching
  • inciting
  • inclining
  • inning
  • itching
  • light
  • lighting
  • lightning
  • lilting
  • lining
  • niggling
  • nigh
  • night
  • nightlight
  • thigh
  • thing
  • thinning
  • tight
  • tiling
  • tilling
  • tilting
  • tinging
  • tingling
  • tinting
  • tithing
  • titling


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 364

Number of Answers: 53

Points Needed for Genius: 255

Genius requires between 31 and 42 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 73% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 69% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 364 was in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 24, 2023.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 53 possible answers rank it in the 83rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 5, 2023.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

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

  • noon 154
  • loll 149
  • toot 140
  • naan 132
  • nana 132
  • lilt 115
  • till 115
  • tilt 115
  • mama 101
  • mamma 101
  • tint 101
  • nene 94
  • onto 91
  • toon 91
  • acacia 90
  • acai 90
  • lull 89
  • lulu 89
  • call 87
  • calla 87
  • poop 87
  • tatty 86
  • anal 85
  • boob 85
  • booboo 85
  • dodo 85
  • mitt 85
  • anon 84
  • olio 84
  • onion 84
  • allay 83
  • ally 83
  • papa 83
  • radar 82
  • array 81
  • ratatat 81
  • tart 81
  • tartar 81
  • attar 80
  • baba 80
  • loon 79
  • mono 77
  • moon 77
  • nanny 77
  • tact 77
  • epee 76
  • loom 76
  • moll 76
  • peep 76
  • coot 75


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • chinching
  • ching
  • chining
  • chitling
  • ginch
  • gingili
  • gingilli
  • gitch
  • gittin
  • gitting
  • higgling
  • hight
  • highth
  • highting
  • hilting
  • igging
  • intitling
  • lichting
  • lighttight
  • lignin
  • lignitic
  • ling
  • linting
  • niching
  • nighing
  • nilling
  • ticcing
  • tincting
  • ting
  • tining
  • tinning

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