The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 10 and 26 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 83% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 91 was in the
8th
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 September 1, 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 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 3, 2024.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.7.
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 90,092 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
10,228 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.
aargh
afar
agar
arhat
attar
augur
aura
fart
frag
frat
fraught
frug
graft
gruff
guar
guru
hart
hurrah
hurt
raft
raga
ragtag
ratatat
ruff
tart
tartar
truth
turf
ragu