Connections Daily
About Connections Daily
Connections Daily is a free browser word-grouping puzzle that challenges you to find the hidden link between 16 seemingly unrelated words. Each day, 16 words are shuffled onto the board — your job is to identify four groups of four, each united by a secret category. Is BASS a fish, a guitar part, or a music genre? The categories are designed to tempt you with red herrings, test your lateral thinking, and deliver an 'aha!' moment on every solve. Each puzzle has four difficulty tiers — yellow (easiest), green, blue, and purple (hardest). Yellow categories are straightforward factual connections. Green and blue categories introduce wordplay and less obvious links. The purple category is always a twist: words that precede a hidden word, anagrams of a theme, homophones, or clever lateral connections that make you re-read the board with new eyes. You have four guesses before the game ends. Choose your four words wisely — if you are one word away from a correct group, the game gives you a subtle 'One away!' hint. After every game, you get a shareable emoji result card showing exactly how you played, in spoiler-light color-coded rows. New puzzle every day, same puzzle for every player worldwide. No account needed. Completely free.
How to Play
Click or tap a word tile to select it, select four tiles, then click Submit to guess. Use Shuffle to rearrange and Deselect All to start over.
Tips & Strategies
- ✓Start with the category you are most confident about to reduce noise on the board.
- ✓Watch out for red herrings — a word may seem to fit multiple categories but belongs to only one.
- ✓The purple category always involves wordplay — look for words that could precede or follow a hidden connecting word.
FAQ
Is this the same as NYT Connections?
Connections Daily is an independently created word-grouping puzzle inspired by the popular format. It is completely free to play with no account required and features a fresh hand-authored puzzle library.
Does the puzzle reset each day?
Yes — a new puzzle is available every day at midnight local time, and every player gets the same puzzle on a given day.
What does the purple category mean?
Purple is the hardest difficulty tier. These categories involve wordplay rather than factual connections — all four words might precede the same hidden word, or share a clever lateral link.