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September 14, 2026 Puzzle Breakdown

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

We are starting off on solid ground today with four terms for rocks of varying dimensions. Whether you are skipping a pebble across water, stepping on a cobble, admiring a modest stone, or hauling a massive slab, they all describe geological chunks in differing scales. It was the easiest group of the day, designed to give you a firm foundation before things get tricky.

These four are ring royalty, whether you know them from body-slamming opponents in the WWE squared circle or their inevitable transitions into Hollywood blockbusters. You just needed to pair the mononyms and surnames with Dwayne, Hulk, John, and Stone Cold Steve to pin down this second-tier group.

You might have started mapping out geology, names, or celestial phenomena before realizing these are simply major cities in Colorado. Denver and Colorado Springs make the state fairly obvious, while Boulder and Aurora provide just enough camouflage to keep things interesting at the penultimate difficulty rank. Once the geography clicks, there is nowhere else for this cluster to go.

The hardest group today relied on you looking past the definitions and slicing the ends off each word. Chop the prefixes or starting letters away and you are left with pound, ounce, foot, and mile, giving you a tidy set of imperial measurements disguised in plain sight.