Upon opening the game, there will be a grid of 4x4, consisting of 16 words in total. The player’s role is to find combinations of four words to form a group that shares something in common. A group, or a category, can have different forms, and it’s up to the player to deduce the possible category name. Here are examples of categories:

Slow animals: loris, sloth, snail, tortoise

Worldly sins: envy, greed, lust, pride

Notice how “sloth” can fit into both categories? This is how Connections Game tricks you into forming the wrong groups!

After making your choice of four words, click on “Submit” to check if they belong to the same category. The category’s name will be displayed if the player guesses it right. On the other hand, players only have four wrong attempts before failing the puzzle. The game’s difficulty is automatically set to “Medium”, but you can also opt for other difficulties instead. To begin a new round, choose “Start New Game” to have a different set of words.

The puzzle is complete after you manage to sort all the words into relevant groups without making more than four mistakes.

Each category can only consist of four words.

Categories are more specific than something like “4-letter words”, “Adjectives” or “Names”. Regardless, it takes a lot of deduction to guess the category right!

Each category is assigned a different color. The brighter the color, the more straightforward the category.

Enrich your vocabulary with this fun puzzle game! 

A gentle brain-teaser that requires both logical deduction and creative thinking.

A brand new puzzle is available every day, but you can have unlimited games along with the puzzle of the day!

Each game only takes minutes to complete. Challenge yourself to complete the puzzle as fast as possible with the elapsed timer displayed above!

Three levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium, and Hard—catering for both new and veteran players!

Begin with monosemous words first: Monosemy refers to words with only one meaning. These words are your best bet if you want to guess a category right.

Connections Game may be tricking you: Sometimes, you can see many words that seem to be in the same category right off the bat. However, it’s highly likely that the game is trying to trick you! Check each word carefully to see if it can fit in other categories.

Think of the possible categories: As the game stated, a category needs to be more specific than something like “5-letter words”, so try to be more detailed. For example, there are multiple words that refer to “weather”, but with more deduction, they turn out to be in the “wet weather” category. This is especially helpful when your fourth word has multiple meanings.

Practice with different levels of difficulty: If you are new to the game, you can try out the easiest games in order to get used to the gameplay. For extra brain-teasing, you can increase the difficulty for more complicated categories.

Can’t get enough of the excitement after solving each puzzle? You can further train your brain and expand your vocabulary with our collection of puzzle games! Check out our list of word games:

Mini Crossword

Waffle

Wordle

Contexto

Or, if you prefer to enhance your computing skills, here are some puzzle games with numbers: