The straight clone: sixteen words, four hidden groups, free and unlimited. The closest thing to a second Connections grid on days one is not enough.
The Best Connections Alternatives
Top daily word games like Connections
Connections gives you sixteen words hiding four groups of four, one grid a day, and the daily argument over which trap category got you. The eleven games below keep the grouping instinct working after the purple row falls: some clone the format, some bend it toward sports, logic or pure trivia.
11 games · Updated daily
Games like Connections
VennectionsWORD
Grouping with overlap made literal: categories that share members, read through Venn-diagram logic instead of clean quartets.
Sports ConnectionsSPORTS
The Connections grammar rebuilt entirely from sports: group the athletes, teams and terms before the trap category gets you.
The NYT's own sports spin-off: same four-groups-of-four ritual, drawn from the sports pages instead of the culture desk.
StrandsWORD
The same NYT stable, different geometry: the theme hides inside a letter grid you trace, with a spangram tying it together.
PinpointWORD
The reveal inverted: LinkedIn's category game deals members one at a time, and the earlier you name the group, the better the score.
CategloriousWORD
Category deduction played for glory rather than survival: name what binds the items across rounds of escalating obscurity.
OutlierWORD
The mirror question: instead of assembling the group, find the one item that does not belong and say why.
MetaFourTRIVIA
Four-part groupings with a trivia backbone, the quartet format aimed at facts rather than wordplay.
linqedTRIVIA
Find what links the items. A leaner daily connections puzzle that lives or dies on its final link.
Daily TripletsLOGIC
Trios instead of quartets: assemble three-item sets under the same which-reading-is-intended tension.