Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • bubbling
  • budding
  • budging
  • bugging
  • bugling
  • build
  • building
  • bulb
  • bulging
  • bull
  • bundling
  • bung
  • bungling
  • dubbing
  • dull
  • dulling
  • dung
  • dunning
  • glug
  • glugging
  • gluing
  • guiding
  • guild
  • gull
  • gulling
  • gunning
  • indulging
  • linguini
  • lubing
  • lugging
  • luging
  • lull
  • lulling
  • lulu
  • lung
  • lunging
  • nubbin
  • nudging
  • null
  • unbind
  • unbinding
  • unbuild
  • unbuilding
  • unbundling
  • undid


Number of Pangrams: 4

Maximum Puzzle Score: 282

Number of Answers: 45

Points Needed for Genius: 197

Genius requires between 22 and 39 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 90% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 61% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 282 was in the 91st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 23, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 45 possible answers rank it in the 66th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on February 24, 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 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 192
  • loll 183
  • toot 181
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 135
  • till 135
  • tilt 135
  • tint 134
  • nene 126
  • mama 125
  • mamma 125
  • acacia 118
  • acai 118
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • onion 113
  • anal 112
  • anon 109
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • baba 106
  • olio 105
  • dodo 103
  • lull 103
  • lulu 103
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • mitt 102
  • call 101
  • calla 101
  • poop 101
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • tattoo 99
  • tatty 99
  • tutu 99
  • attar 98
  • ammo 96
  • cocci 96
  • momma 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • epee 95
  • peep 95
  • loot 92
  • lotto 92


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • billbug
  • blub
  • blubbing
  • bludging
  • bluing
  • blunging
  • bubu
  • bulbil
  • bulbul
  • bulling
  • bund
  • bunging
  • bunn
  • dubbin
  • dubbining
  • duding
  • dunging
  • dunlin
  • guggling
  • guid
  • guiling
  • gunging
  • iglu
  • illuding
  • induing
  • indulin
  • inulin
  • lungi
  • nulling
  • unbid
  • unblind
  • unblinding
  • unbudging
  • ungluing

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