Connections Game!

Connect the 4 Word Association

Ratings

Age

4+

Word

Languages

English

Latest Version

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Connections Game is a daily brain-teaser that tests your logic and vocabulary. Each level presents you with 16 words, and your goal is to sort them into four groups of four. Each group must share a specific common thread—whether it's a category like 'States of Matter' or more abstract associations like 'Words starting with a body part.' With only four mistakes allowed, every selection counts. Can you find the connections before you run out of lives?

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

90/100

Connections Game is an absolute triumph of minimalist puzzle design. It takes the viral word-grouping format and expands it into a comprehensive mobile experience that is both intellectually demanding and immensely satisfying. As an expert in word puzzles, I was impressed by the 'layers' of logic; the game often presents red herrings that seem like a perfect fit for one category but actually belong to another. This forces you to analyze all 16 words as a whole before committing to a single group.

The daily refreshed puzzles keep the experience fresh, and the ability to review past solutions provides a great way to learn more complex associations. The UI is clean and fast, with zero unnecessary friction. It’s the kind of game that sparks immediate conversation and high-score sharing. If you enjoy testing the boundaries of your vocabulary and lateral thinking, this is currently the best word-game on the App Store.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

Daily Refreshing Puzzles

Strategic Word-Grouping Logic

Clean, Distraction-Free UI

Detailed Solution Archives

Tips & Walkthrough

Identifying Red Herrings

Before you tap your first four words, look for words that could fit in two different categories. If you see 'Orange' and 'Apple,' they could be fruits or colors. Look for the other 14 words to see which category is 'stronger.' If there's only one other fruit but three other colors, 'Orange' likely belongs with the colors.

Gameplays

Level Difficulty

The groups are color-coded by difficulty: Yellow is the most straightforward, followed by Green, Blue, and finally Purple (which often involves wordplay or complex puns). Try to solve the Yellow and Green groups first to narrow down the possibilities for the more abstract Purple group.

Screenshot

Q&A

There is one main daily puzzle, but the Pro version unlocks a vast archive of thousands of previous levels.

Ratings & Reviews

Makes my brain work

Sat Jul 12 2025 Brooklyn2915

I love this game because it makes my brain work and how come right after the first level there’s an ad at least make the ads after the 13th level PLEASE

Needs more…

Tue Aug 05 2025 jayresm

It’s OK. The biggest challenge I have with the game is that it doesn’t have an “end” function. If you get stuck and can’t finish a line, there’s no way to quit the game and start over. You have to close then re-open the app. Other games give you a certain number of tries and when you lose, you can see the context of the lines you missed. In this game you’ll never learn the correct answer for the lines you missed. There’s plenty of similar apps that have these two missing functions so there’s no good reason why they’re absent here.

Need 2 extra words in each game

Sun Jun 09 2024 arby523

When you get 3 sets of 4, the last guess is automatic. If there were 2 extra words in there it would be more of a challenge.

It’s not what I thought

Tue Mar 11 2025 Jaleen

I was looking for something , I could do with my grandchildren. I was hoping it would encourage them to use their mind, but it’s a little harder than they can do it’s sometimes a little hard for me to do. ( But the challenge is nice )Let me know if there’s something out there that elementary school can do.

Needs a hint button

Mon Aug 11 2025 cherrylovesu

This app is really good for working your brain but I wish there was a “hint” option. It would help tremendously with how difficult the levels are!

No way to lose a game and move on

Mon Dec 30 2024 Trolley Molly

If I'm totally stumped, I'm happy to throw in the towel, take a loss, and move onto another game. There's no way to do that. So I tend to back out of the game and not come back for weeks. Wish you would do it like the NYT version with four or so chances to get it right - or lose. That's a better game.

Could go on forever

Mon Apr 08 2024 Wordgamer newbie

There is no way to move on until you have arrived at the correct groups. There needs to be a way to quit a game or get a hint on what to do next. There are thousands of possible combinations. I forgot the math for that calculation. 16 things taken 4 at a time…….divided by 16-1 or something like that

Amazing game, too many ADS

Fri Jun 06 2025 Eric Schiele

Game is amazing, fun, and challenging, but that ads come after every single level. Some level are like 30 seconds and boom another ad. No option to pay to remove ads. Games have just become ad farms.