Daily Group Grid Answer — August 11, 2026
Full answer to our original Daily Group Grid puzzle for August 11, 2026 (Puzzle #223). 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 | Salad greens | ROMAINE, ARUGULA, SPINACH, KALE |
| 🟢 Green | Words for strength | BRAWN, MIGHT, MUSCLE, POWER |
| 🔵 Blue | Ancient Roman things | FORUM, TOGA, VILLA, SENATE |
| 🟣 Purple | Track & field events | JAVELIN, HURDLES, DISCUS, RELAY |
The purple trap: ROMAINE hides ROMAN and SPINACH suggests strength, but both stay in the greens group. The Roman group uses literal Roman nouns (FORUM, TOGA, VILLA, SENATE).
How the August 11, 2026 board comes apart
Start with Salad greens (🟡 yellow). ROMAINE, ARUGULA, SPINACH and KALE share the most literal link on the board — each one is a plain, dictionary-level example of “Salad greens”. Bank the safest group first: clearing four tiles early leaves every later decoy fewer places to hide.
Green is Words for strength (🟢). BRAWN and MIGHT usually surface first; the test is whether MUSCLE and POWER belong to “Words for strength” 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, Ancient Roman things, tends to need a second pass. FORUM, TOGA, VILLA and SENATE 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 “Ancient Roman things”.
Purple is Track & field events: JAVELIN, HURDLES, DISCUS and RELAY. Do not hunt for it directly — the “Track & field events” 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: ROMAINE hides ROMAN and SPINACH suggests strength, but both stay in the greens group. The Roman group uses literal Roman nouns (FORUM, TOGA, VILLA, SENATE). 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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