Friday, April 19, 2024

Answers to yesterday's bee


The official answers for today's puzzle are:

  • gown
  • gowning
  • grow
  • growing
  • grown
  • ingrown
  • ironwork
  • ironworking
  • kiwi
  • know
  • knowing
  • known
  • nonworking
  • owing
  • owning
  • rowing
  • wigging
  • wiki
  • wing
  • winging
  • wining
  • wink
  • winking
  • winning
  • winnow
  • winnowing
  • wino
  • wiring
  • wonk
  • wooing
  • work
  • working
  • worn
  • wowing
  • wring
  • wringing
  • wrong
  • wronging


Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 216

Number of Answers: 38

Points Needed for Genius: 151

Genius requires between 18 and 34 words. You need at least a 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 90% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 61% of the remaining points to reach genius.



How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 216 was in the 74th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on April 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 38 possible answers rank it in the 50th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on April 17, 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 8-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.



Haven't I seen these letters before?

Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!



Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are

  • noon 170
  • loll 166
  • toot 153
  • naan 148
  • nana 148
  • lilt 126
  • till 126
  • tilt 126
  • tint 113
  • mama 108
  • mamma 108
  • nene 104
  • acacia 103
  • acai 103
  • onto 100
  • toon 100
  • anal 98
  • onion 97
  • olio 96
  • anon 95
  • boob 95
  • booboo 95
  • lull 95
  • lulu 95
  • poop 94
  • dodo 93
  • papa 93
  • call 92
  • calla 92
  • allay 91
  • ally 91
  • mitt 90
  • tatty 90
  • radar 88
  • ratatat 88
  • tart 88
  • tartar 88
  • attar 87
  • baba 87
  • loon 87
  • tact 87
  • cocci 86
  • nanny 86
  • array 85
  • epee 85
  • peep 85
  • nada 83
  • tutu 83
  • coot 82
  • mono 82


Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • gowk
  • ingrowing
  • nongrowing
  • nonwinning
  • nonwork
  • ringwork
  • wonning

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.