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September 15, 2026 Puzzle Breakdown

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

We start things off today with the easiest group on the board, featuring the central quartet from television's most famous show about nothing. Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine are the neurotic core of Seinfeld, making this a straightforward test of your nineties sitcom memory. If you spent any time debating whether these belonged together, you were definitely overthinking it.

A first-name basis was all you needed to spot the thread here. Newman, Simon, McCartney, and Rudd are all iconic Pauls spanning cinema, classic rock, and eternal youth. It sits at a breezy second position today, provided you were not distracted by the musical half of the quartet.

You might not immediately picture country club staples alongside beach games, but archery, golf, tennis, and volleyball are all contested under the five rings at the Summer Olympics. Golf is a relatively recent returnee to the program, which might have made this third-tier set feel a little less obvious. As long as you did not get bogged down sorting by country club versus sand court, you were in the clear.

For today's trickiest group, you had to look across wildly different contexts to realize that fence, guard, social media, and mark all describe various kinds of posts. Whether anchored firmly in the dirt, staffed by a sentry, scrolled past on a timeline, or stamped across an envelope as a postmark, they all resolve to the same underlying concept. Mixing the purely physical uprights with digital updates and postal terminology was the trap designed to keep you guessing until the end.