Connections Game Unlimited — Four Groups of Four

The connections game deals you a 4×4 grid of sixteen words that secretly belong to four groups of four — find them. Sounds easy until you notice that several words fit more than one category on purpose: that's the trap, and dodging it is the whole art. Our version is stocked with 60+ original puzzles written in-house (not copied from any newspaper), ordered from a gentle yellow group to a devious purple one in every puzzle. And it's unlimited: no waiting until tomorrow for the next grid — finish one, press play, get another. Free, no download, no account.

1. Tap four words you think belong together, then hit Submit group.
2. Right: the group collapses into its colored bar. Wrong: you lose one of four mistakes — "One away…" means three of your four were right.
3. Colors hint at difficulty: 🟨 easiest, 🟩, 🟦, 🟪 trickiest.
4. Find all four groups before your mistakes run out, then grab the next puzzle.

• Start with what you'd bet money on — lock the obvious group first and the traps get weaker.
• Suspect the too-obvious word: if MUSHROOM screams pizza topping, ask what else it could be (a cloud, perhaps).
• Count the candidates: if five words fit "fish", one of them belongs somewhere else — find which before submitting.
• Use Shuffle liberally — a new arrangement breaks false patterns your eyes invented. Word nerds should also try Wordle Unlimited.