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Answer & explanation
Just the spoken lines.
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
9,200
words
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Start with the runtime, about an hour and a half. How much of it is talking? It's a cartoon with chases and music, so call it two thirds, at maybe 150 words a minute.
- Runtime
- ~90 min
- Talking about 2/3 of it
- × 2/3
- Words a minute
- × 150
- 90 × 2/3 × 150
- ≈ 9,000
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- Most-shared dialogue transcript (GitHub copy), counted
- 9,157 words
- Science Leadership Academy blog copy, counted
- 9,478 words
- TeraBox Bee Movie script guide, dialogue only
- ≈ 9,200 words
- ≈
- 9,200 words
Reference cited by Fermi: The widely shared Bee Movie (2007) dialogue transcript, about 9,200 words (TeraBox's Bee Movie script guide gives the same figure)
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