The October 22, 2025 NYT Spelling Bee used O, C, G, I, L, T, and X, with O in the center. The archived pangram is TOXICOLOGIC. The third-party archive lists 26 answers and an 83-point maximum.
October 22, 2025 hive and pangram
The hive letters were O, C, G, I, L, T, X, with O as the required center letter. The answer archive identifies Sam Ezersky as the constructor. Its pangram is TOXICOLOGIC, an 11-letter word that uses every hive letter.
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For a spoiler-light approach, begin with the center O and try short combinations built around common starts such as co-, lo-, and to-. Then check possible endings including -ic and -ot. Since letters may be reused, look for words that repeat O, L, or other hive letters. To find the pangram, make sure the word includes C, G, I, L, O, T, and X.
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All archived answers
The archive lists 26 answers. They are grouped below by length; the final entry is the pangram.
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Four letters
clog, clot, coil, colt, cool, coot, loci, loco, logo, loll, loot, olio, toil, toll, tool, toot
Five letters
cocci, colic, igloo, logic, lotto, toxic
Six letters
gigolo, googol
Seven letters
illogic
Eleven letters
toxicologic (pangram)
Scoring and archive context
NYTBee.com reports a maximum score of 83 points and a 58-point Genius threshold for this puzzle; its page also says at least one six-letter answer is needed to reach Genius. These are archive-reported figures, not independently confirmed NYT statistics.
Rank #2
NYTBee.com places the puzzle’s score in the fifth percentile and its answer count in the fourteenth percentile of its own puzzle dataset. It reports an average answer length of 4.8 letters for this puzzle, compared with 5.3 across all Bees in that dataset. Those comparisons describe the archive’s dataset rather than an NYT-published ranking.
Rules used for this answer key
A third-party answer page summarizes the familiar rules this way: form words from the hive, include the center letter, use at least four letters, and reuse letters as needed. It says obscure or proper nouns and hyphenated words are excluded. No accessible NYT rules page confirming this historical puzzle’s answer key was found, so treat the answers and scoring details as archive-reported rather than NYT-primary-source confirmation.
Quick Recap
Rank #4
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