Daily Group Grid Answer — August 5, 2026
Full answer to our original Daily Group Grid puzzle for August 5, 2026 (Puzzle #217). 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 | Months | MARCH, MAY, JUNE, AUGUST |
| 🟢 Green | Fast-movement verbs | RUSH, DASH, BOLT, SPRINT |
| 🔵 Blue | Goddesses / mythic names | JUNO, FLORA, IRIS, DIANA |
| 🟣 Purple | Fasteners / hardware | NUT, SCREW, NAIL, RIVET |
The purple trap: MARCH is a month and a verb; MAY/JUNE/AUGUST are months and names. They all stay in months — the curveball is mythic names (JUNO, FLORA, IRIS, DIANA), not the month-names.
How the August 5, 2026 board comes apart
Start with Months (🟡 yellow). MARCH, MAY, JUNE and AUGUST share the most literal link on the board — each one is a plain, dictionary-level example of “Months”. Bank the safest group first: clearing four tiles early leaves every later decoy fewer places to hide.
Green is Fast-movement verbs (🟢). RUSH and DASH usually surface first; the test is whether BOLT and SPRINT belong to “Fast-movement verbs” 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, Goddesses / mythic names, tends to need a second pass. JUNO, FLORA, IRIS and DIANA 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 “Goddesses / mythic names”.
Purple is Fasteners / hardware: NUT, SCREW, NAIL and RIVET. Do not hunt for it directly — the “Fasteners / hardware” 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: MARCH is a month and a verb; MAY/JUNE/AUGUST are months and names. They all stay in months — the curveball is mythic names (JUNO, FLORA, IRIS, DIANA), not the month-names. 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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