Daily Group Grid Answer — August 1, 2026
Full answer to our original Daily Group Grid puzzle for August 1, 2026 (Puzzle #213). 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 | SNOW, HAIL, SLEET, FOG |
| 🟢 Green | Monopoly spaces | JAIL, CHANCE, BOARDWALK, UTILITY |
| 🔵 Blue | Taylor Swift albums | RED, FEARLESS, LOVER, FOLKLORE |
| 🟣 Purple | ___ drop | RAIN, DEW, GUM, EAVES |
The purple trap: RAIN reads as weather but belongs to '___ drop' (raindrop). HAIL/SNOW stay in weather; RED could be a color but it's a Swift album.
How the August 1, 2026 board comes apart
Start with Weather (🟡 yellow). SNOW, HAIL, SLEET and FOG 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 Monopoly spaces (🟢). JAIL and CHANCE usually surface first; the test is whether BOARDWALK and UTILITY belong to “Monopoly spaces” 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, Taylor Swift albums, tends to need a second pass. RED, FEARLESS, LOVER and FOLKLORE 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 “Taylor Swift albums”.
Purple is ___ drop: RAIN, DEW, GUM and EAVES. Do not hunt for it directly — the “___ drop” 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: RAIN reads as weather but belongs to '___ drop' (raindrop). HAIL/SNOW stay in weather; RED could be a color but it's a Swift album. 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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