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I think the main appeal of the 2025 puzzle, at least for me, is how much care was taken in coming up with entries that belong in one category but allude to another. It would not surprise me if every category represents 45 other categories with its entries. It's a bit like setting up a lot of puns. I was inspired to try to do something similar on a smaller scale. It was fun but taxing to keep all the possibilities in mind and form connections between them.
The following list of 225 things can be grouped into 15 categories of 15 things. To make it approachable, I'd say the puzzle is solved when all 15 categories have been identified, which doesn't necessarily require sorting all the things.
(Note: this is Version 2. The puzzle was last adjusted on 6/26/26 to replace 10 things and adjust another.)
- 11
- 311
- 400
- Aerie
- Alfa
- All fours
- Andalus
- Angerona
- Angers
- Anvil
- Archie
- Aria Math
- Arial
- Aries
- Arizona
- Arles
- Astros
- Atlas
- Ballad of the Cats
- Bastille
- Black Jack
- Bodhi
- Bond
- Bordeaux
- Born
- Bourré
- Boxing
- Brave
- Bravo
- Brest
- Bridge
- C4
- Caelum
- Caen
- Cambria Math
- Cancer
- Candara
- Canines
- Cardea
- Carpenter
- Cars
- Cascade
- Chae Chan Ping
- Chamaeleon
- Chant Royal
- Charles
- Charlie
- Coco
- Comforting Memories
- Concrete
- Court piece
- Cranium
- Crater
- Creator
- Crescent Dunes
- Créteil
- Crux
- Curie
- Danny
- Darwin
- David
- Delta
- Dirty Heads
- Dots
- Dusky
- Earth
- Elemental
- Elio
- Espinela
- Euphemia
- FangSong
- Faraday
- Fitts
- Foxtrot
- Fun
- Genius
- Georgia
- Glasser
- Golden Shovel
- Golf
- Gong Zhu
- Graham
- Gravel
- Green
- Groundhog
- Halls
- Hammer
- Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc.
- Hearts
- Henry
- Hollywood
- Hoppers
- Hotel
- Hucklebuck
- Human Rights
- Humphrey's Executor
- Impact
- Incubus
- Indus
- Inside Out
- Jane's Addiction
- Judge
- Jupiter
- Katz
- Key
- King
- Labor
- Leo
- Lightyear
- Lille
- Lima
- Limerick
- List
- Live
- Luca
- Luna
- Lunate
- Lune
- Lyon
- Madrigal
- Mandible
- Manes
- Måneskin
- Mangal
- Mania
- Marseille
- May
- Mendel
- Mensa
- Mercury
- Metcalfe
- Metz
- Mice on Venus
- Mila
- Minerva
- Minute
- Mizerka
- Monsters, Inc.
- Mumford & Sons
- Muse
- Nancy
- Napoleon
- Nerds
- New Year's
- New York Times Co.
- Nice
- Nirvana
- November
- Olympic
- Onward
- Oxygène
- Palatine
- Paris
- Pascal
- Pastila
- Patella
- Pedro
- Phat
- Pi
- Pictor
- Pitch
- Poiseuille
- Puzzlebox
- Pyxis
- Quebec
- Radius
- Ratatouille
- Remembrance
- Ribs
- Rod
- Romeo
- Rondeau
- Roth
- Rubedo
- Runts
- Saint Nicholas
- Saint-Denis
- Salus
- Scotus
- Sculptor
- Sell
- Serpens
- Sierra
- Smarties
- Snell
- Soul
- Star Wars
- Steno
- Sublime
- Sugar Ray
- Sweden
- Talus
- Tango
- Tears
- The Bop
- The Head and the Heart
- The Incredibles
- Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Times New Roman
- Ting Ting Jahe
- Tours
- Trapezium
- Triangulum
- Trident
- Trivia
- Trump
- Turrón
- Up
- Vani
- Vela
- Venilia
- Venus
- Verdana
- Viator
- Victor
- Victoria
- Villanelle
- Vira
- Virelai
- Vomer
- Weeks
- White
- Whoppers
- X-ray
- Yu Mincho