Hints for HIVE #26

Difficulty: Hard

Spoiler-safe hints for the HIVE puzzle of October 13, 2026. Each hint is hidden until you open it; the answer stays hidden until you ask for it.

Hint 1

Today has 55 words (1 of them pangrams), worth 260 points in total.

Hint 2

Words per first letter: A 3 · B 31 · E 2 · L 4 · M 4 · R 7 · S 4

Hint 3

Words per first two letters: AB 1 · AM 1 · AS 1 · BA 15 · BE 10 · BL 4 · BR 2 · EM 2 · LA 4 · MA 2 · ME 2 · RA 1 · RE 6 · SA 3 · SL 1

The answer

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B · A E L M R S

able · amber · assemble · babble · bale · ball · balls · balm · barb · barber · bare · barrel · barrels · bars · base · baseball · bases · bass · beam · beams · bear · bearer · bears · beers · bees · bell · belle · bells · blame · blames · blares · bless · bras · brass · embarrass · emblem · label · labels · lamb · lambs · marble · marbles · member · members · rabble · rebel · rebels · remember · remembers · resemble · resembles · saber · sable · samba · slab

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HIVE

Seven letters, one in the centre. Make as many words as you can — every word must use the centre letter. Find them all for a perfect score.