Daily Group Grid Answer — August 27, 2026
Full answer to our original Daily Group Grid puzzle for August 27, 2026 (Puzzle #239). 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 | Weather | DRIZZLE, GALE, FROST, THUNDER |
| 🟢 Green | Car body styles | SEDAN, COUPE, WAGON, HATCH |
| 🔵 Blue | Trees | CEDAR, WILLOW, ASPEN, POPLAR |
| 🟣 Purple | Greek letters | GAMMA, THETA, KAPPA, LAMBDA |
The purple trap: ASPEN reads like a ski resort but it's a tree; FROST tempts to a poet but it's weather.
How the August 27, 2026 board comes apart
Start with Weather (🟡 yellow). DRIZZLE, GALE, FROST and THUNDER share the most literal link on the board — each one is a plain, dictionary-level example of “Weather”. Bank the safest group first: clearing four tiles early leaves every later decoy fewer places to hide.
Green is Car body styles (🟢). SEDAN and COUPE usually surface first; the test is whether WAGON and HATCH belong to “Car body styles” 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, Trees, tends to need a second pass. CEDAR, WILLOW, ASPEN and POPLAR 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 “Trees”.
Purple is Greek letters: GAMMA, THETA, KAPPA and LAMBDA. Do not hunt for it directly — the “Greek letters” 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: ASPEN reads like a ski resort but it's a tree; FROST tempts to a poet but it's weather. 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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