Thursday, January 30, 2025

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • diddling
  • digging
  • ding
  • dinging
  • dingy
  • dining
  • dizzying
  • dizzyingly
  • dying
  • gigging
  • giggling
  • gilding
  • gilling
  • ginning
  • gliding
  • idling
  • inning
  • lining
  • lying
  • niggling
  • ninny
  • zigging
  • zing
  • zinging
  • zingy


Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 163

Number of Answers: 25

Points Needed for Genius: 114

Genius requires between 15 and 20 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% 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 163 was in the 48th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on January 27, 2025.
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 January 2, 2025.
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 190
  • loll 182
  • toot 179
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 133
  • till 133
  • tilt 133
  • tint 131
  • mama 124
  • mamma 124
  • nene 123
  • onto 117
  • toon 117
  • acacia 116
  • acai 116
  • anal 111
  • onion 110
  • boob 108
  • booboo 108
  • anon 107
  • baba 105
  • olio 104
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • lull 102
  • lulu 102
  • mitt 102
  • dodo 101
  • poop 101
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • call 99
  • calla 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • attar 98
  • tattoo 98
  • tatty 97
  • tutu 97
  • ammo 96
  • cocci 96
  • momma 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • epee 94
  • peep 94
  • coot 91
  • loon 91


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • dindling
  • dingily
  • dinning
  • giddying
  • gigglingly
  • gillying
  • gingili
  • gingilli
  • ginny
  • igging
  • indign
  • indignly
  • inly
  • inlying
  • lidding
  • lignin
  • lindy
  • lindying
  • ling
  • lingy
  • linin
  • linn
  • linny
  • liny
  • lyingly
  • nidi
  • niding
  • nigglingly
  • niggly
  • nill
  • nilling
  • zizzing
  • zizzling

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