Sixteen terms. Four groups of four. Find the connection.
How to play
Sort the sixteen terms into four groups of four. Select four tiles, then check the group.
Each group sits at a tier from 1 to 4. Tier 1 is the gentlest, Tier 4 the meanest. You find out which tier you hit only once the group is right.
Get three of the four and you'll be told you're one off. You won't be told which one.
Four wrong guesses ends the grid and reveals the answers.
Several terms are placed to look like they belong somewhere else. That's the puzzle, not a bug.
New grid every morning, with the Digest.
Where these came from
Drift is expensive and invisible
A word rarely changes meaning all at once. It drifts: one team keeps using it the way they learned it, another borrows it for something adjacent, and for a while nobody notices because the two uses never sit in the same sentence. Then they do, in a shared dashboard, a renewal negotiation, a slide that goes to finance, and two groups of people discover they have been agreeing about nothing for months. The cost is never the misunderstanding itself. It is the fortnight spent reconciling numbers that were never measuring the same thing, and the credibility that goes with it. Knowing which sense of a word is in play is the quiet half of the job, and it is what sorting rewards.
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