Word Connections

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Find the four hidden groups of four words. Some words look like they fit more than one group, so choose carefully: you can only make four mistakes.

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Find four groups of four words.

How to Play

  1. Pick four words that you think share a hidden connection.
  2. Press Submit. If all four belong to the same group, that group is revealed with its title.
  3. If they don't, you lose one of your four mistakes. "One away" means three of your four words belong together.
  4. Keep going until you've found all four groups, or until you run out of mistakes.
  5. Groups range from easiest (yellow) to hardest (purple). Every word belongs to exactly one group.
  6. Daily gives everyone the same puzzle each day. Practice lets you play puzzles from the archive.

Tips & Strategy

  • Look for the red herrings first: words that could fit two groups are usually the key to the puzzle.
  • Solve the group you're surest of first, which leaves fewer words to sort.
  • Think beyond meanings: hidden words, anagrams, rhymes and "___ word" phrases all show up.
  • Use Shuffle when you're stuck. Seeing the words in a new order can make a link jump out.

Frequently Asked Questions

It's an independent puzzle in a similar style, with its own hand-written puzzles. It is not affiliated with The New York Times.

At midnight in your own time zone. Everyone gets the same puzzle on the same calendar date.

They show difficulty: yellow is the most straightforward group, then green, blue, and purple, which is usually the trickiest. Each solved group also shows its title, so colour is never the only hint.

After the daily puzzle, Share result copies a grid of coloured squares, one row per guess, that shows how you did without giving away any words.

Games played and your daily streak are stored in your browser's local storage on this device only. Nothing is sent to a server.

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