Connections Daily

About Connections Daily

Connections Daily is a free browser word-grouping puzzle where you find the hidden link between 16 seemingly unrelated words. Each day the board holds 16 words, and your job is to sort them into four groups of four, each tied together by a secret category. Is BASS a fish, a guitar part, or a music genre? Red herrings, wordplay and lateral thinking are all part of the fun, and every solve ends with an 'aha!' moment. Every puzzle has four difficulty tiers: yellow (easiest), green, blue and purple (hardest). Yellow is a straightforward factual link, green and blue add wordplay and less obvious connections, and purple is always a twist, such as words that precede a hidden word, anagrams or homophones. You have four mistakes before the game ends. If you are one word away from a group, you get a quiet 'One away!' hint, and repeating a guess shows 'Already guessed!' without costing a life. A run is built to be played in one sitting or across a day. Your progress is saved after every guess, so a reload brings back your solved groups, your remaining words and your lives, with no free retries. When the last group lands, the board holds for a moment. If you win, all four colour banners stay on screen. If you run out of guesses, the groups you missed are revealed one by one in their true colours, so you see exactly what you overlooked. Then your result card appears with a coloured emoji grid, every category and its words, your streak, and a live countdown to the next puzzle at local midnight. Share Result copies a spoiler-free emoji summary to paste to friends. Want more? Practice mode gives you unlimited extra puzzles, and Forge lets you build your own board and play it straight away. The daily puzzle is the same for everyone worldwide. No account needed, and it works on phones and desktop alike. Completely free.

How to Play

Click or tap a word to select it (one tap, one toggle), pick four, then press Submit. Shuffle rearranges the board and Deselect All clears your picks. Works with mouse and touch. No keyboard shortcuts or gamepad.

Tips & Strategies

• ✓Start with the group you are most sure about. Clearing it removes red herrings from the board.
• ✓If you see 'One away!', swap just one word. Keep the other three selected and try each leftover candidate.
• ✓Use Shuffle when you are stuck. A new layout often breaks the false patterns your eyes locked onto.
• ✓Purple is always a twist, so look for words that share a hidden word before or after them.
• ✓Your progress saves after each guess, so you can leave and come back, but a lost life stays lost. Think before you submit.

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