Saturday, March 18, 2023

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • acacia
  • acai
  • airport
  • aortic
  • apricot
  • arctic
  • aria
  • atria
  • attic
  • cacti
  • capacitor
  • carioca
  • carpaccio
  • carpi
  • ciao
  • circa
  • cirri
  • citric
  • coati
  • cocci
  • coir
  • critic
  • croci
  • iota
  • octopi
  • optic
  • oratorio
  • pair
  • partita
  • patio
  • patriot
  • patriotic
  • pica
  • piccata
  • picot
  • pipit
  • piratic
  • pita
  • pitapat
  • portico
  • portrait
  • priapic
  • prior
  • raita
  • ratio
  • ricotta
  • riot
  • roti
  • tacit
  • tactic
  • tapioca
  • tapir
  • tiara
  • tiptop
  • topic
  • tori
  • toric
  • torii
  • trait
  • traitor
  • trattoria
  • tricot
  • trio
  • trip
  • tropic


Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 352

Number of Answers: 65

Points Needed for Genius: 246

Genius requires between 34 and 55 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 352 was in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on December 25, 2022.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.

This puzzle's 65 possible answers rank it in the 96th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on February 13, 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.



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 141
  • loll 138
  • toot 128
  • naan 117
  • nana 117
  • lilt 104
  • till 104
  • tilt 104
  • tint 88
  • mama 87
  • mamma 87
  • onto 82
  • toon 82
  • dodo 81
  • acacia 80
  • acai 80
  • call 80
  • calla 80
  • lull 80
  • lulu 80
  • nene 79
  • poop 79
  • boob 78
  • booboo 78
  • tatty 78
  • anal 76
  • papa 76
  • radar 76
  • allay 75
  • ally 75
  • array 75
  • mitt 75
  • olio 75
  • anon 74
  • ratatat 74
  • tart 74
  • tartar 74
  • attar 73
  • loon 73
  • mono 73
  • moon 73
  • onion 72
  • baba 71
  • loom 71
  • moll 71
  • itty 70
  • root 69
  • rotor 69
  • toro 69
  • tort 69


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

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

  • acari
  • acratic
  • acrotic
  • airt
  • apocopic
  • apoptotic
  • aporia
  • apotropaic
  • apparitor
  • appropriator
  • apractic
  • aprotic
  • atactic
  • ataractic
  • atopic
  • atrip
  • attrit
  • capita
  • capri
  • capric
  • capricci
  • capriccio
  • catoptric
  • citator
  • coccic
  • coria
  • crip
  • crit
  • iatric
  • ictic
  • iritic
  • irritator
  • occipita
  • ocicat
  • octroi
  • oiticica
  • otic
  • otitic
  • pappi
  • paprica
  • paratactic
  • parotic
  • parotitic
  • participator
  • picara
  • picaro
  • picric
  • picritic
  • pipa
  • pitot
  • pitta
  • poori
  • practic
  • priapi
  • propitiator
  • propria
  • protatic
  • ptotic
  • raia
  • riata
  • ricrac
  • riprap
  • tartaric
  • tictac
  • tictoc
  • tipcart
  • tipcat
  • tipi
  • tiro
  • titi
  • titrator
  • toit
  • topi
  • topoi
  • triac
  • triactor
  • tricrotic
  • trictrac
  • tripart

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