The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 12 and 21 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 80% 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 106 was in the
17th
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 24 possible answers rank it in the
10th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were fewer answers than this was on August 15, 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 15, 2024.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
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 90,674 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with
10,252 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.
attach
camp
catch
catchup
champ
chap
chat
chum
chump
chuppah
cuppa
cutup
hatch
hutch
match
matchup
much
pact
patch
tach
tact
thatch
matcha
captcha