- cheep
- cheeped
- chip
- chipped
- cupid
- cupped
- deep
- dipped
- dupe
- duped
- epee
- epic
- hiccup
- hiccuped
- hiccupped
- hippie
- peed
- peep
- peeped
- pepped
- piece
- pieced
- pied
- pipe
- piped
- puce
- upped
Note:
The NYT rolled out the new rankings format on Valentine's Day. As I mentioned, I had to make some changes when they finally did that.
I think I got it. I've also built the code so that if they switch back, we should be okay. There's not much room for testing with no notice from the NYT. So we're testing in prod.
It's very late (early?), and I'm heading to bed.
If you are still seeing yesterday's page, rest assured that I am on it.
The official answers for today's puzzle are:
Genius requires between 12 and 24 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 93% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 60% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Today's score of 127 was in the
33rd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low
was on February 5, 2023.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.
This puzzle's 27 possible answers rank it in the
22nd
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer
answers than this was on January 30, 2023.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 17 on October 2, 2022.
It takes a 7-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.
Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!
The most common words in the Bee are
You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:
*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.