Answers · Puzzle #182 · Monday 9 November 2026
Borg Queen sat in 226 wrong guesses on a Monday board
Answers and explanations for Stargrid #182, plus how the Borg Queen pulled green's engineers into the wrong guesses.
Monday's puzzle gave the Borg Queen a place in 226 wrong guesses, 54% of all those made. Of 78 players who finished, 68 solved the board, an 87% solve rate, and 5 made no mistakes. The average was 4.85 wrong guesses, up from 4.61 in the previous puzzle, when 87.6% solved it. Median time was 2:35.
The answer board
Each puzzle has one group per colour. Yellow is the most direct connection and purple the most abstract.
The four groups
Planet Express Crew
- Professor Farnsworth
- Bender
- Leela
- Fry
Fry, Leela, Bender and Professor Farnsworth make up the delivery crew of Planet Express in Futurama. This was the easiest group by some distance.
Farnsworth owns the company, Leela pilots the ship, Bender is the assistant manager and Fry is the delivery boy who thawed out in the year 3000. Most players started here.
The Engineering Deck
- Rom
- Barclay
- Cochrane
- Geordi
Rom, Barclay, Cochrane and Geordi are all Star Trek engineers. This was the hardest group of the day.
Rom fixes systems on Deep Space Nine. Barclay is the anxious Starfleet engineer nicknamed 'Broccoli'. Cochrane invented warp drive, which brought the Vulcans to Earth. Geordi La Forge is chief engineer of the Enterprise-D. Cochrane is the odd one, since he isn't Starfleet crew.
Time Machines
- Bill & Ted's Phone Booth
- Epoch
- Waverider
- TARDIS
Bill & Ted's Phone Booth, Epoch, Waverider and TARDIS are all vehicles that carry passengers through time.
Epoch is the ship from Chrono Trigger, and the Waverider is what the Legends use to repair anachronisms. The booth and the police box are the more familiar pair.
Visible Wires
- Borg Queen
- Davros
- Scorpius
- Songbird
Borg Queen, Davros, Scorpius and Songbird are defined by visible machinery on the body.
Davros is fused into a life-support chair with a mechanical eye. Scorpius wears a cooling suit with tubes and a mask. The Borg Queen is partly mechanical and wired into the Collective, while Songbird is a giant creature of metal plating and rivets guarding Elizabeth in Columbia. Most players left this group for last.
Wrong guesses per group solved
Each wrong guess counts against the group it came closest to, divided by how many times that group was solved. Higher means harder.
Dashed line: one wrong guess per group solved.
View data as a table
| Group | Wrong guesses nearest | Times solved | Per solve | One tile away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Engineering Deck | 202 | 53 | 3.8 | 101 |
| Time Machines | 122 | 73 | 1.7 | 91 |
| Visible Wires | 82 | 72 | 1.1 | 68 |
| Planet Express Crew | 15 | 87 | 0.2 | 11 |
The Borg Queen and Geordi kept getting paired
The most common wrong pairing across groups was Borg Queen with Geordi, guessed together 143 times. One of them is purple and the other green. The single most common wrong guess, made 30 times, was Barclay, Borg Queen, Cochrane and Geordi: three of green's engineers with the Borg Queen standing in for Rom.
Green's wrong guesses were mostly misses by one tile, 101 of the 202 near this group, and the Borg Queen accounted for 140 of the wrong guesses on tiles from purple. Davros followed with 60 and Scorpius with 43. We can't tell why players reached for her. It may be that a Star Trek character looked like an engineer's neighbour, but the data only shows what they chose.
Which tiles ended up in wrong guesses
How many of the 421 wrong guesses included each tile.
- Planet Express Crew
- The Engineering Deck
- Time Machines
- Visible Wires
View data as a table
| Tile | Group | Wrong guesses containing it | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borg Queen | Visible Wires | 226 | 54% |
| Geordi | The Engineering Deck | 192 | 46% |
| Davros | Visible Wires | 161 | 38% |
| Barclay | The Engineering Deck | 144 | 34% |
| Cochrane | The Engineering Deck | 142 | 34% |
| Scorpius | Visible Wires | 130 | 31% |
| Rom | The Engineering Deck | 123 | 29% |
| TARDIS | Time Machines | 119 | 28% |
| Bill & Ted's Phone Booth | Time Machines | 115 | 27% |
| Waverider | Time Machines | 101 | 24% |
| Songbird | Visible Wires | 97 | 23% |
| Epoch | Time Machines | 60 | 14% |
| Bender | Planet Express Crew | 24 | 6% |
| Leela | Planet Express Crew | 24 | 6% |
| Fry | Planet Express Crew | 14 | 3% |
| Professor Farnsworth | Planet Express Crew | 12 | 3% |
By the numbers
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 #182 is still playable there.