The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 14 and 31 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 79% 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 127 was in the
30th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 5, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 35 possible answers rank it in the
41st
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 5, 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 5, 2024.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.9.
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 90,294 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
10,233 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.
accept
acetate
affect
apace
cafe
cape
efface
effect
effete
epee
face
facet
fate
feat
feet
feta
fete
pace
pate
payee
peace
peat
peaty
peep
peppy
petty
tacet
taffeta
tape
teat
teepee
teff
tepee
type
typeface