The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 16 and 33 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 141 was in the
38th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 10, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.
This puzzle's 38 possible answers rank it in the
49th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on September 10, 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 12, 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 90,593 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
10,251 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.
cell
celli
chicle
chicly
chiefly
chili
chill
chilly
cicely
clef
cliche
cliff
cycle
cyclic
eely
feel
fell
filch
file
fill
filly
flee
fleece
fleecy
heel
hell
hill
hilly
icicle
icily
illy
lech
leech
lice
life
lily
lychee
yell