The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 11 and 26 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 82% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 108 was in the
19th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 20, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 29 possible answers rank it in the
24th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 26, 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.
The last time this happened was on August 29, 2024.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.0.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.
Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!
The most common words in the Bee are:
There have been 89,940 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
10,227 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.
You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:
*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.
abandon
adobo
ankh
anon
baba
babka
baboon
banana
band
bandana
bandanna
bank
baobab
dank
doodad
haboob
hand
handbook
hank
hookah
kabob
khan
koan
naan
nabob
nada
nana
boba
haka