Daily Group Grid Answer — August 9, 2026
Full answer to our original Daily Group Grid puzzle for August 9, 2026 (Puzzle #221). 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 | Coffee drinks | LATTE, MOCHA, AMERICANO, ESPRESSO |
| 🟢 Green | Cat coat patterns | TABBY, CALICO, TORTIE, TUXEDO |
| 🔵 Blue | Boxing legends | ALI, TYSON, FRAZIER, LISTON |
| 🟣 Purple | Grill / smoker brands | WEBER, TRAEGER, KAMADO, FOREMAN |
The purple trap: MOCHA sounds like a cat name and FOREMAN like a boxer, but MOCHA is the coffee and FOREMAN is the grill. Keep the four coffees and four boxers in their plain lanes.
How the August 9, 2026 board comes apart
Start with Coffee drinks (🟡 yellow). LATTE, MOCHA, AMERICANO and ESPRESSO share the most literal link on the board — each one is a plain, dictionary-level example of “Coffee drinks”. Bank the safest group first: clearing four tiles early leaves every later decoy fewer places to hide.
Green is Cat coat patterns (🟢). TABBY and CALICO usually surface first; the test is whether TORTIE and TUXEDO belong to “Cat coat patterns” 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, Boxing legends, tends to need a second pass. ALI, TYSON, FRAZIER and LISTON 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 “Boxing legends”.
Purple is Grill / smoker brands: WEBER, TRAEGER, KAMADO and FOREMAN. Do not hunt for it directly — the “Grill / smoker brands” 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: MOCHA sounds like a cat name and FOREMAN like a boxer, but MOCHA is the coffee and FOREMAN is the grill. Keep the four coffees and four boxers in their plain lanes. 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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