The official answers for today's puzzle are:
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Genius requires between 8 and 26 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 85% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Other days with this pangram:
Today's score of 79 was in the
4th
percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on August 15, 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 September 18, 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 16, 2024.
Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.6.
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 90,801 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.
aeon
anew
anon
baboon
banana
bane
banjo
bean
been
bonbon
bone
bonobo
boon
ebon
jawbone
jean
naan
nabob
nana
nene
neon
none
noon
wane
wannabe
wean
noob
wanna