Nounable #800 · March 11, 2026
The answer
Beyoncé
- Category
- People
- Par
- 26 guesses
Beyoncé was the secret proper noun for this puzzle: an entry from Nounable's People category, one of the roughly 35,000 well-known entities the game draws from.
How this puzzle worked
On March 11, 2026, every guess players made was ranked by semantic similarity to Beyoncé: the game compares text embeddings of the guess and the answer and counts how many of its ~35,000 known entities sit closer. A rank in the green band (1–300) meant a guess from the same neighborhood of meaning (think same category, field, or franchise), while ranks past 5,000 signaled a completely different part of the map. Solvers typically worked their way in by probing broad categories first, then following the warm colors toward the People cluster.
Par for this puzzle was 26, golf-style: finishing in 26 guesses or fewer (after adding any hint penalties of +2, +4, +6…) counts as beating the course. New to the game? Read the full how-to-play guide or try today's puzzle.