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September 8, 2026 Puzzle Breakdown

Four groups, four words each — here's the connections between today's words.

We start today with the gentlest possible softball, featuring four fruits that literally end in the word berry. Whether botanical pedants consider strawberry, blueberry, cranberry, and raspberry to be true berries is irrelevant here. If you could read the suffixes, you had the easiest group of the day solved.

These four represent the original lineup of official Disney Princesses, introduced in chronological order of their film debuts from 1937 to 1989. While the modern franchise roster has expanded considerably, this group serves as the classic foundation of the animated royal court. As the second group on the board, spotting the royal lineage shouldn't have required a fairy godmother.

These four are all grains you might find stocking a well-curated pantry, specifically varieties of rice. Jasmine and Basmati likely gave the game away early, though Wild technically stretches the botanical definition if you want to be pedantic. Still, they all cook up into staples across global cuisines, landing this set in the penultimate difficulty slot for the day.

Taking you on a trip back to the dawn of the mobile age, the hardest group today features the titans that once dominated our pockets. Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola, and Ericsson were all pioneering mobile phone manufacturers before the modern smartphone era largely passed them by. If you were searching for produce or Scandinavian surnames instead, that was entirely by design.