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Puzzle #753: Woody Harrelson → Tom Cruise

Monday, September 7, 2026

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On Monday, September 7, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Woody Harrelson and Tom Cruise. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 23 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.

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The shortest solution

Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
  1. Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney in Now You See Me (2013), which also stars Morgan Freeman as Thaddeus Bradley.
  2. Morgan Freeman as Beech in Oblivion (2013), alongside Tom Cruise as Jack.

The full chain: Woody Harrelson → Now You See Me (2013) → Morgan Freeman → Oblivion (2013) → Tom Cruise.

Other ways to solve it

Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
  • Woody Harrelson → The Hunger Games (2012) → Wes Bentley → Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) → Tom Cruise
  • Woody Harrelson → Now You See Me (2013) → Mark Ruffalo → Collateral (2004) → Tom Cruise
  • Woody Harrelson → The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) → Philip Seymour Hoffman → Mission: Impossible III (2006) → Tom Cruise

About Woody Harrelson

Born
July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas, USA
Film career
1986–2025
Widely seen films
80 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

About Tom Cruise

Born
July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, USA
Film career
1981–2026
Widely seen films
47 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain: