Word grouping games: the connections genre explained
The connections genre is built on a simple cruelty: every word belongs somewhere obvious, and also somewhere it absolutely does not.
Mon 3 Aug 2026 · 5 min readRead

The connections genre is built on a simple cruelty: every word belongs somewhere obvious, and also somewhere it absolutely does not.

Sort sixteen words into four groups, but four shared tiles belong to two groups at once and bend the puzzle into a loop. Our daily word-grouping game.