Daily Group Grid Answer — June 20, 2026
Full answer to our original Daily Group Grid puzzle for June 20, 2026 (Puzzle #171). Want the latest day instead? Head to today's answer, or just need a nudge — try the progressive hints. Tap a blacked-out box to reveal it.
Hints (no spoilers)
- Yellow: the easiest, most literal group.
- Green: a small twist on the obvious.
- Blue: trickier — think category, not surface meaning.
- Purple: the curveball; expect wordplay or a hidden pattern.
The Answers
| Group | Theme | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 🟡 Yellow | Birds | JAY, FINCH, WREN, SPARROW |
| 🟢 Green | Batman characters | ROBIN, JOKER, BANE, ALFRED |
| 🔵 Blue | Church titles | CARDINAL, BISHOP, DEACON, FRIAR |
| 🟣 Purple | Atlanta sports teams | HAWKS, BRAVES, FALCONS, DREAM |
The purple trap: ROBIN looks like a bird and CARDINAL like one too, but ROBIN is Batman's sidekick and CARDINAL is a church title. The bird group is the four plain ones (JAY, FINCH, WREN, SPARROW).
How the June 20, 2026 board comes apart
Start with Birds (🟡 yellow). JAY, FINCH, WREN and SPARROW share the most literal link on the board — each one is a plain, dictionary-level example of “Birds”. Bank the safest group first: clearing four tiles early leaves every later decoy fewer places to hide.
Green is Batman characters (🟢). ROBIN and JOKER usually surface first; the test is whether BANE and ALFRED belong to “Batman characters” just as cleanly. If one of the four feels forced, that word probably serves another group and you are one tile off.
The blue group, Church titles, tends to need a second pass. CARDINAL, BISHOP, DEACON and FRIAR only click once you stop reading each word at surface level and ask what single category could hold all four at once — here, that shared frame is “Church titles”.
Purple is Atlanta sports teams: HAWKS, BRAVES, FALCONS and DREAM. Do not hunt for it directly — the “Atlanta sports teams” link is built to stay invisible until the easier groups are gone. Solve around it and let the last four tiles confirm themselves.
Why the purple group misleads: ROBIN looks like a bird and CARDINAL like one too, but ROBIN is Batman's sidekick and CARDINAL is a church title. The bird group is the four plain ones (JAY, FINCH, WREN, SPARROW). Whenever a word seems to fit two groups, park it and finish the group that has four unambiguous members — the leftover placement resolves itself.
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