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October 12, 2026 Puzzle Breakdown

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

If you spent any part of your childhood learning anatomy through choreography, the easiest group today practically solved itself. Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes are the four titular body parts from the ubiquitous nursery rhyme, running in exact descending order. Consider this your gentle, warm-up stretch before the rest of the board demands actual thought.

If you found yourself staring down a military stockpile, that was entirely by design. Arms, ordnance, munitions, and artillery are all terms for heavy-duty military weaponry and the explosive supplies that feed them. It sits comfortably at the second difficulty tier today, provided you were not distracted by the anatomical reading of the first word.

You might know a couple of these better for soap or skin care, but pantene, garnier, dove, and Neutrogena all line the hair care aisle as shampoo brands. The trick here was getting past the bird and the moisturizer to see what they all lather up into. At rank three today, it likely took a second rinse to get the right read on them.

Taking the top spot for difficulty today, this set asked you to look past the anatomy of the body or general agricultural volume and focus entirely on corn. Ears, kernels, bushels, and cobs are all plural units used to measure, count, or handle the crop at various stages of harvest. If you got bogged down thinking about body parts or generic farm containers, that was entirely by design.