Saturday, August 31, 2024

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • afar
  • affair
  • affiant
  • antifa
  • faint
  • fainting
  • fair
  • fang
  • fanning
  • farina
  • faring
  • fart
  • farting
  • fating
  • fiat
  • fifing
  • fining
  • firing
  • fitting
  • frag
  • fragging
  • fragrant
  • frat
  • friar
  • fringing
  • frittata
  • gaff
  • gift
  • gifting
  • graffiti
  • graffitiing
  • graft
  • grafting
  • griffin
  • grift
  • grifting
  • infant
  • infringing
  • naif
  • raffia
  • raft
  • rafting
  • riff
  • riffing
  • riffraff
  • rift
  • rifting
  • tariff
  • tariffing
  • tiff


Number of Pangrams: 5

Maximum Puzzle Score: 300

Number of Answers: 50

Points Needed for Genius: 210

Genius requires between 23 and 44 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 94% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 60% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 300 was in the 94th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 29, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 50 possible answers rank it in the 78th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 28, 2024.
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 179
  • loll 172
  • toot 164
  • naan 158
  • nana 158
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 119
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 109
  • onto 106
  • toon 106
  • anal 105
  • boob 103
  • booboo 103
  • onion 103
  • anon 101
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • olio 100
  • baba 97
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • poop 96
  • dodo 95
  • mitt 95
  • allay 94
  • ally 94
  • tatty 94
  • ratatat 92
  • tart 92
  • tartar 92
  • attar 91
  • cocci 91
  • tact 91
  • mono 90
  • moon 90
  • nanny 90
  • loon 89
  • radar 89
  • tattoo 89
  • tutu 89
  • epee 88
  • peep 88
  • array 87


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • afrit
  • antifat
  • antigraft
  • faff
  • faffing
  • fagging
  • fagin
  • fain
  • fairing
  • fanga
  • fatting
  • fiar
  • figging
  • finnan
  • finning
  • firn
  • frig
  • frigging
  • frit
  • fritt
  • fritting
  • gaffing
  • graffiting
  • griff
  • infanta
  • infra
  • ingraft
  • ingrafting
  • naff
  • naffing
  • niff
  • niffing
  • raff
  • ratafia
  • taffia
  • tafia
  • tiffin
  • tiffing
  • tiffining

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