NYT Connections Solver
Paste the 16 words from any Connections grid. If it's one of the 1,144puzzles published so far, you'll get hints one level at a time — starting with a nudge and ending with the answers, only if you ask.
How to solve Connections without spoiling it
Find the four-per-group constraint first. Every word belongs to exactly one group. If you can place eight words confidently, the remaining eight often sort themselves out by elimination — which is cheaper than trying to name the last two categories.
Solve the yellow group before you guess.Yellow is the most literal category. Locking it in removes four words from the grid and, more importantly, removes four red herrings from the categories you haven't cracked.
Distrust any word that fits two groups.That overlap is the puzzle's design, not a coincidence. Park the ambiguous word, solve around it, and let the last group claim it.
Expect purple to be wordplay. If three categories are about meaning and four words are left over, the link is usually structural — a shared prefix, a hidden word, or a fill-in-the-blank partner.
Connections solver FAQ
How does the Connections solver work?
Paste the 16 words from your grid and the solver matches them against every NYT Connections puzzle published since 12 June 2023. When it recognises the grid you get a graded hint ladder — a nudge toward each theme, then how each category works, then one word per group, then the full answers — so you can take only as much help as you want.
Can it solve a Connections grid it has never seen?
Not by meaning, and it will not pretend otherwise. Grouping arbitrary words by theme needs world knowledge that no word list can supply, and a confidently wrong grouping is worse than none. For an unrecognised grid it reports the structural signals a human solver actually uses: shared prefixes and suffixes, hidden words, common compounding words, and groups of four with matching lengths.
Does it spoil the puzzle straight away?
No. Every level of help is behind a separate click, and the full answers are the last thing you can open. Most players never need to go past the second hint.
Does the order I paste the words in matter?
No. The grid is matched as an unordered set, so you can type the words in any order — which matters because NYT shuffles the board differently for each player.
What is the purple group in Connections?
Purple is the hardest of the four categories and is almost always the wordplay group — hidden words, fill-in-the-blank pairings, homophones or anagrams — rather than a straightforward set of related things. It is usually the last group to fall, and the solver flags which of today's categories work that way.
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