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
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Games like Connections and Strands you can play free
If you tore through Connections and Strands before lunch, here is where to go next.
Wed 1 Jul 2026 · 4 min readRead
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Introducing Looplink: Connections, Bent Into a Loop
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.
Thu 25 Jun 2026 · 5 min readRead
