Thursday 3 September 2026 · daily word connections puzzle
Spoilers below: all four groups and their words. Want to try it first? This puzzle is still free to play in the archive.
Yellow - the most straightforward groupDIVERGENT, CONVERGENT, TRANSFORM and PASSIVE are all tectonic plate boundaries - the most direct link on the board.
Green - mediumSPRING, AUTUMN, FORWARD and BACK all fit the group daylight saving.
Blue - harderSANDY, ROCKY, COASTAL and POLAR are all desert types.
Purple - the trickiest groupADVECTION, RADIATION, OROGRAPHIC and STEAM all fit fog varieties. As the purple group it is the hardest link to spot, often because some of these words look as if they belong elsewhere.
Cluster gives you 16 words that hide four groups of four. Yellow is the most straightforward group and purple the trickiest, with green and blue in between. You can make four mistakes. New to it? Read how to play Cluster.