Daily Group Grid Answer — September 13, 2026
Full answer to our original Daily Group Grid puzzle for September 13, 2026 (Puzzle #256). 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 | Breakfast foods | BACON, TOAST, EGGS, CEREAL |
| 🟢 Green | Make a toast | CHEERS, SALUTE, PROST, SKOAL |
| 🔵 Blue | Cartoon dogs | PLUTO, GOOFY, SNOOPY, ODIE |
| 🟣 Purple | Dwarf planets | CERES, ERIS, MAKEMAKE, HAUMEA |
The purple trap: TOAST is breakfast, not a cheer; PLUTO is a cartoon dog, not the dwarf planet here. Purple is the genuinely obscure dwarf planets (CERES, ERIS, MAKEMAKE, HAUMEA).
How the September 13, 2026 board comes apart
The opening move is Breakfast foods (🟡 yellow). Read BACON, TOAST, EGGS and CEREAL side by side and the category “Breakfast foods” announces itself. Lock it in before touching anything ambiguous — a solved yellow row shrinks the search space for the three harder groups.
Next comes Make a toast (🟢 green). The connection between CHEERS, SALUTE, PROST and SKOAL is still concrete, but you have to name it yourself rather than just spot it. Before committing, confirm all four genuinely fit “Make a toast” — not only the two that jumped out first.
Blue hides Cartoon dogs (🔵). None of PLUTO, GOOFY, SNOOPY or ODIE looks special alone; the giveaway is the pattern they form together. Say the candidate label “Cartoon dogs” out loud and check each word against it before you submit.
That leaves Dwarf planets (🟣 purple): CERES, ERIS, MAKEMAKE and HAUMEA. As usual the final group leans on wordplay or a hidden pattern, so it is safest solved by elimination — clear the other twelve tiles and take what remains.
Why the purple group misleads: TOAST is breakfast, not a cheer; PLUTO is a cartoon dog, not the dwarf planet here. Purple is the genuinely obscure dwarf planets (CERES, ERIS, MAKEMAKE, HAUMEA). 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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