Friday, October 18, 2024

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • doff
  • doffing
  • duff
  • duffing
  • fifing
  • find
  • finding
  • fining
  • fogging
  • fond
  • food
  • found
  • founding
  • fudging
  • fugu
  • fund
  • funding
  • fungi
  • fungo
  • goof
  • goofing
  • guff
  • info
  • offing
  • unfound


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 114

Number of Answers: 25

Points Needed for Genius: 80

Genius requires between 11 and 22 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 81% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 114 was in the 22nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on October 13, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 25 possible answers rank it in the 12th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on October 13, 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 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

  • noon 184
  • loll 176
  • toot 167
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 123
  • mama 116
  • mamma 116
  • nene 111
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • onto 110
  • toon 110
  • anal 107
  • onion 107
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • anon 104
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • baba 99
  • papa 99
  • poop 98
  • dodo 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • mitt 96
  • allay 95
  • ally 95
  • cocci 95
  • ratatat 95
  • tart 95
  • tartar 95
  • tatty 95
  • attar 94
  • mono 92
  • moon 92
  • tact 92
  • epee 91
  • loon 91
  • peep 91
  • tattoo 91
  • tutu 91
  • nanny 90
  • array 89
  • nada 89


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • diff
  • fidging
  • fido
  • figging
  • finning
  • fino
  • fogdog
  • foin
  • foining
  • fonding
  • fondu
  • fonduing
  • fugging
  • fugio
  • fuguing
  • fundi
  • fungoid
  • funning
  • gonif
  • goniff
  • gonof
  • niff
  • niffing
  • nonfood
  • nuff
  • unfond

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