Answers · Puzzle #179 · Friday 6 November 2026
Stargrid #179 answers: Immortan Joe, CLU and other tyrants
Avengers, Star Wars pilots, sci-fi tyrants and characters with replacement limbs or eyes, with the tiles and sources for each group.
Friday's puzzle had two Marvel and Star Wars staples and two groups that crossed a wider range of stories. Four tiles were founding-era MCU Avengers. Four were Star Wars characters known for flying. Four were absolute rulers from different franchises. The last four were characters missing an arm or eyes.
The answer board
Each puzzle has one group per colour. Yellow is the most direct connection and purple the most abstract.
The four groups
Avengers
- Captain America
- Iron Man
- Vision
- Hawkeye
These are four members of the MCU's Avengers team, running from the super-soldier to the archer. Steve Rogers leads on the field, Tony Stark helps assemble the team and pays for it, and Clint Barton holds his own beside gods without powers.
Vision joins the roster later. He is a synthetic being powered by the mind stone.
- Captain AmericaSteve Rogers, the super-soldier who wakes from the ice and leads the Avengers on the field.
- Iron ManTony Stark, the armored billionaire who helps assemble the Avengers and bankrolls them.
- VisionA synthetic being powered by the mind stone, who joins the Avengers' roster.
- HawkeyeClint Barton, the powerless master archer who holds his own on the Avengers beside gods.
Star Wars: Ace Pilots
- Biggs
- Luke Skywalker
- Sebulba
- Chewbacca
All four are Star Wars characters known for flying. Biggs and Luke both fly X-wings in the Death Star trench run, and Luke is the one who lands the proton torpedo shot.
Sebulba is the podracer who cheats to beat Anakin at Boonta Eve. Chewbacca co-pilots the Millennium Falcon for Han Solo. Three different kinds of craft, then, in one group.
- BiggsBiggs Darklighter, Luke's friend, flies a Rebel X-wing in the Death Star trench run.
- Luke SkywalkerLuke flies an X-wing and blows up the Death Star with a lucky proton torpedo shot.
- SebulbaSebulba races podracers at breakneck speed and cheats to beat Anakin at Boonta Eve.
- ChewbaccaChewie is Han Solo's co-pilot on the Millennium Falcon.
Tyrants
- Immortan Joe
- Mustafa Mond
- Darth Sidious
- CLU
Each of these four rules a whole society absolutely, through control and fear. Immortan Joe holds the Citadel by rationing water. Mustafa Mond is a World Controller who keeps the World State's rigid social order in place.
Darth Sidious is the Emperor who crushes the Republic under an iron-fisted regime. CLU runs the Grid and wants to build a perfect system.
- Immortan JoeImmortan Joe rules the Citadel and keeps its people obedient by rationing water.
- Mustafa MondMond is a World Controller who enforces the rigid social order of the World State.
- Darth SidiousDark lord who rules the galaxy as Emperor, crushing the Republic under a brutal iron-fisted regime.
- CLUCLU rules the Grid with an iron hand, bent on building a perfect system.
Lost a Limb
- Jet Black
- Silverhand
- Furiosa
- Sylveste
Every character here is missing a natural body part and relies on a cybernetic or artificial replacement, in arms or eyes. Jet Black lost an arm as an ISSP cop. Johnny Silverhand's chrome left arm is his signature look. Furiosa has a mechanical prosthetic where her arm was.
The odd one out is Dan Sylveste, the archaeologist from Revelation Space, whose entry is about the loss of his eyes.
- Jet BlackJet has a cybernetic arm, a replacement for the one he lost as an ISSP cop.
- SilverhandJohnny Silverhand's chrome left arm is his signature look as a rockerboy rebel.
- FuriosaFuriosa has a mechanical prosthetic in place of her missing arm.
- SylvesteDan Sylveste, Revelation Space's archaeologist, is a Lost a Limb fit through the loss of his eyes.
Play it yourself
Stargrid is a daily sci-fi connections puzzle: sixteen characters, ships and worlds, four hidden groups, ten wrong guesses before it ends. Every puzzle goes into the archive once its day is over, so #179 is still playable there.