FOURSURE
October 3, 2026 Puzzle Breakdown
Four groups, four words each — here's the connections between today's words.
How everyone did today
Horror Video Games
Dead Space, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Until Dawn
We are starting things off on familiar ground today with four heavyweight titles from the horror video game canon. Whether you are dealing with necromorphs in Dead Space, zombies in Resident Evil, fog in Silent Hill, or bad teen decisions in Until Dawn, the common thread is trying to stay alive with a controller in hand. As long as you know your way around a survival horror franchise, this group was just a warm-up.
TV Time Slots
Primetime, Late Night, Daytime, Early Morning
These four terms carve up the broadcast schedule into standard TV time slots. Whether you are tuning in for the dawn news broadcast, mid-afternoon soap operas, evening flagship dramas, or monologues just before bed, each phrase defines a specific programming block on the daily television grid.
Famous U.S. "Hill"s
Capitol Hill, Beverly Hills, Chapel Hill, Rock Hill
These four entries all rely on a famous American geographic elevation to anchor their names. Whether you are navigating politics at Capitol Hill, celebrity estates in Beverly Hills, a college town in Chapel Hill, or South Carolina history in Rock Hill, the topographical suffix does all the heavy lifting. Spotting the shared peak makes this penultimate group a smooth climb.
Jackie Chan Movies
Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, Police Story, Rumble in the Bronx
Today's toughest category rounds up some of cinema's most painful stunt work, as all four of these titles are famous Jackie Chan movies. Whether paired with Chris Tucker in Rush Hour, Owen Wilson in Shanghai Noon, or performing death-defying leaps in Rumble in the Bronx and Police Story, the martial arts icon carried each of these films. Hopefully connecting them did not require you to break as many bones as he did filming them.
Why these four groups
The architecture here leans heavily on temporal and geographical decoys to keep solvers guessing. Silent Hill is an obvious temptation for the Hills group, while Until Dawn, Rush Hour, and Shanghai Noon flirt aggressively with the broadcast schedule of TV Time Slots. The difficulty curve holds firm because the Horror Video Games are instantly recognizable pop-culture monoliths, allowing players to isolate them quickly before the time-based bleed causes real damage. That clears the board just enough to leave the Jackie Chan films as an elusive final set, where martial arts classics masquerade as generic phrases until the very end.