How do I make my own Connections puzzle?

Enter four categories, and four words for each category (16 words total). Click Save & share, and PuzzlePage builds a playable Connections-style puzzle at its own link that anyone can solve online or print.

Is the Connections puzzle maker free?

Yes. Creating, sharing, and playing puzzles is completely free. Free puzzles include a small PuzzlePage credit line. Want to keep your puzzles? Create a free account to save, edit, and republish them anytime.

Can students play my Connections puzzle in their browser?

Yes. Anyone with the link can play the grouping puzzle in their browser — nothing to install, no app. That makes it ideal for Google Classroom, newsletters, and class warm-ups.

Can I print my Connections puzzle?

Yes. The shared page has a print button and a PDF download with a 16-word grid plus a separate answer key page, so you can hand it out on paper too.

How is this different from the New York Times Connections?

PuzzlePage lets you CREATE your own Connections-style grouping puzzles with any categories you choose — the NYT version only lets you play one editor-made puzzle per day. PuzzlePage is not affiliated with The New York Times.

How many words does a Connections puzzle need?

Exactly 16 — four groups of four. Each of the 16 words must be unique so the puzzle has a single correct grouping.

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Extreme Connections Maker

The normal Connections is 16 tiles. Extreme goes to 32 (8 groups) or 64 (16 groups) — a genuinely hard team challenge. Build one, share a link, and watch your group chat suffer. Anyone can play for free.

Board theme

Preview · 8 groups · 32 tiles

Colored by group so you can see the theme; players see them shuffled and uncolored until solved.

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What is Extreme Connections?

Extreme Connections is a harder version of the classic word-grouping puzzle. A standard board has 16 tiles in 4 hidden groups; Extreme scales to 32 tiles in 8 groups or 64 tiles in 16 groups. More groups means more decoy overlaps and a much tougher solve — a real team challenge for finance training, onboarding, offsites, classrooms, and study groups. See how finance teams use it →

How to make one

Choose a 32-tile (8 groups) or 64-tile (16 groups) board.
Name each hidden group and enter four words each, adding a decoy that overlaps another group.
Pick a decorative theme and watch the live preview update.
Share the live link or export a printable PDF — anyone can play free.

Frequently asked questions

What is an Extreme Connections puzzle?

An Extreme Connections puzzle is a word-grouping game with 8 groups (32 tiles) or 16 groups (64 tiles), instead of the usual 4 groups (16 tiles). You sort every tile into its hidden category, with deliberate overlaps that make it far harder than a standard board.

Is Extreme Connections free?

Playing any shared Extreme Connections puzzle is free in your browser. Creating your own 32- or 64-tile puzzles is a Premium feature, which also unlocks decorative themes and printable PDF export.

How many tiles is a 32-tile vs 64-tile board?

A 32-tile board has 8 groups of 4. A 64-tile board has 16 groups of 4 — enough to cover an entire vocabulary unit in one 'mega review' puzzle.

Can I print an Extreme Connections puzzle?

Yes — premium creators can export any board to a printable PDF with an answer key, ideal for offsites, classrooms, and study groups.

What are Extreme Connections puzzles good for?

They shine as team-building challenges, finance and vocabulary training, onboarding icebreakers, classroom review, and study-group quizzing.

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