FOURSURE
October 24, 2026 Puzzle Breakdown
Four groups, four words each — here's the connections between today's words.
How everyone did today
At the pool
Water, Swimsuit, Sunscreen, Lounge Chair
We are starting off gently today with the easiest group on the board. Water, swimsuit, sunscreen, and lounge chair are the quintessential sights and essentials you will find at the pool. If you spent any more than a few seconds picking this one out, you were probably overthinking it.
Famous book/movie dragons.
Toothless, Smaug, Falkor, Elliott
Pop culture gave us plenty of overgrown lizards to choose from here, but these four are among the most famous dragons in cinema and literature. You have the gold-hoarding Smaug from The Hobbit and Pete's invisible pal Elliott, alongside the luck-granting Falkor from The Neverending Story and the decidedly cat-like Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon. They sit at a comfortable two on today's difficulty scale, provided you didn't confuse Falkor for a giant flying dog.
Colors used in emotions idioms
Blue, Red, Green, Pink
Human feelings have a way of borrowing from the palette, which you likely noticed if you felt blue or saw red trying to sort these out. Add in turning green with envy or being tickled pink, and these four hues conveniently map to our most vivid emotional idioms. It sat at the trickier end of today's board simply because plain colors are easy to overlook when you are searching for mood swings.
___ Moon
Full, New, Goodnight, Honey
Tack moon onto the end of each of these and you get a mix of lunar phases, a beloved children's bedtime story, and a post-wedding vacation. We made this the hardest group of the day because the lunar meanings of full and new were actively trying to bait you into looking for actual astronomy terms. Goodnight and honey were your cue to stop stargazing and start looking at compound words.
Why these four groups
What makes this grid hum is the tug-of-war between high fantasy and everyday poolside leisure, anchored by a few clever traps. Blue instantly tempts players looking at Water, Sunscreen, and Swimsuit to assemble an easy outdoor palette, while Honey and Green flirt with natural elements rather than their actual idiomatic homes. The difficulty curve holds because the pool items are too concrete to stay disguised for long, providing a steady foothold. From there, pop-culture recognition carries the dragons, leaving the abstract idiom colors to filter out before solvers must finally untangle the compound-word trickery hiding behind Goodnight and New.