Monkey Wrench Daily Puzzle

May 17, 2026All Answers Revealed

Complete answers for every Monkey Wrench category on this date — Daily Puzzle, Bonus Round 1, and Bonus Round 2.

Daily Puzzle — 5 categories Bonus Round 1 — 6 categories Bonus Round 2 — 6 categories
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Daily Puzzle
Category
Asian Capitals
01 Dhaka
02 Kuwait City
03 Kathmandu
Category
Birds
01 Crane
02 Partridge
03 Penguin
Category
Ballets
01 Romeo and Juliet
02 Sleeping Beauty
Category
Half of a Pair
01 Earring
02 Maraca
03 Segway Tire
Category
— Sauce
01 Bechamel
02 Brown
03 Spaghetti
Bonus Round 1
Category
Edison Inventions
01 Phonograph
02 Movie Camera
Category
Lauren Bacall Movies
01 The Big Sleep
02 Key Largo
Category
Red Birds
01 Scarlet Ibis
Category
Things That Pop
01 Balloon
02 Bright Color
03 Cork
Category
New England US States
01 Maine
02 Vermont
03 Connecticut
Category
Characters With Big Ears
01 Mickey Mouse
02 Scrappy
03 Doo
Bonus Round 2
Category
Hotel Chains
01 Comfort Inn
Category
Farming Tools
01 Hoe
02 Plow
Category
*Little Women* Girls
01 Amy
02 Meg
Category
Famous Ancient Greeks
01 Aristarchus
02 Herodotus
Category
Countries Starting With J
01 Jamaica
02 Japan
03 Jordan
Category
R.E.M. Songs
01 Everybody Hurts
02 Orange Crush
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About this puzzle

Monkey Wrench May 17, 2026 — How to Use These Answers

The Monkey Wrench puzzle for May 17, 2026 includes three timed rounds: the main Daily Puzzle and two Bonus rounds. Each round presents a themed category — players search a honeycomb grid for hidden words that match the theme, tracing paths through adjacent hexagon tiles from a fixed starting cell.

All answers above are verified against the live game for May 17, 2026. If you’re stuck mid-puzzle, look up the specific category name in the list above — the answers are ordered as they appear in the game. Once all words in a category are found, that round is marked complete. To keep playing, visit the daily archive and pick any date — we store every daily puzzle back to 2021.

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Pro tips

3 Tips for Monkey Wrench

01

The board is the constraint

Every answer here is built from what the puzzle shows you and nothing else, so reading the board first eliminates more candidates than any amount of guessing.

02

Clear the certain answers first

Each answer you are sure of constrains the ones around it. Spending the opening minute on those beats spending it on the entry that stopped you.

03

Neighbouring puzzles help

Difficulty moves gradually, so the puzzles either side of this one reuse its patterns and are usually the most useful hint available.

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How to play

How to Solve a Monkey Wrench Puzzle

The order that clears a Monkey Wrench puzzle fastest.

STEP 01

Read what you are given

Letters, clues or grid — the constraint on screen is the whole puzzle. Count it before you start.

STEP 02

Anchor with the easy entries

Short and obvious answers hand you letters that narrow everything they touch.

STEP 03

Work outwards

Each confirmed answer makes its neighbours easier. Follow the chain rather than jumping around the board.

How we check

Verified Answers, Not Guesses

How we verify this puzzle

The answers on this page are read from the game's own puzzle data rather than retyped from elsewhere, and the page is rebuilt when the source updates.

Reviewed by Priya Raghunathan, Word Games Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.

Last checked — Sep 6, 2026
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