Daily Group Grid Answer — September 4, 2026
Full answer to our original Daily Group Grid puzzle for September 4, 2026 (Puzzle #247). 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 | Card games | POKER, EUCHRE, CANASTA, BRIDGE |
| 🟢 Green | London landmarks | EYE, SHARD, GHERKIN, TOWER |
| 🔵 Blue | Dental | MOLAR, ENAMEL, FLOSS, PLAQUE |
| 🟣 Purple | Royal headwear | TIARA, CORONET, DIADEM, CIRCLET |
The purple trap: BRIDGE looks like a London landmark but it's the card game; TOWER fits both yet sits in landmarks.
How the September 4, 2026 board comes apart
Start with Card games (🟡 yellow). POKER, EUCHRE, CANASTA and BRIDGE share the most literal link on the board — each one is a plain, dictionary-level example of “Card games”. Bank the safest group first: clearing four tiles early leaves every later decoy fewer places to hide.
Green is London landmarks (🟢). EYE and SHARD usually surface first; the test is whether GHERKIN and TOWER belong to “London landmarks” 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, Dental, tends to need a second pass. MOLAR, ENAMEL, FLOSS and PLAQUE 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 “Dental”.
Purple is Royal headwear: TIARA, CORONET, DIADEM and CIRCLET. Do not hunt for it directly — the “Royal headwear” 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: BRIDGE looks like a London landmark but it's the card game; TOWER fits both yet sits in landmarks. 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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