The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 12 and 24 words. You need at least a 7-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 126 was in the
29th
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 28 possible answers rank it in the
21st
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 September 6, 2024.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
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 90,322 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.
city
clod
clot
cloy
cocci
codicil
coil
cold
coldly
colic
colloid
colt
cool
coolly
coot
coyly
cyclic
docility
icily
idiocy
idiotic
idyllic
illicit
illicitly
licit
licitly
loci
loco