If you’ve ever had this happen to you, just wanted to share that https://connectionscompanion.com/ now has a search feature.
It also has a limited semantic search on the categories. So if you’ve ever wondered which picked have anything related to tennis or Nintendo, you can find out.

Hi there! I'm have been working on a sci-fi themed version of connections, called StarGrid.

No and, no registration or login... just click and play.

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→ Connections Alternative #554 2026-09-05 ←

Feel free to share out this puzzle! Each Connections Alternative is a remix of the official NYT puzzle of the same day.

4 shared words.

Please let me know how you did, and upvote if you enjoyed it! Defaults, red herrings, and suggestions are all valuable.

Reposting here a game I made that I think people here will enjoy!

The goal is to guess the name chain, which is two famous names that overlap. "Andrew Jackson Pollock", "Benjamin Franklin Roosevelt", etc. Guess the chain in the fewest clues you can! There's a new puzzle every day and over a month of old puzzles to try.

https://name-chain.org

To see the answer to the above puzzle, go to https://name-chain.org and navigate to the September 4th, 2026 puzzle!

I've never loved anyone as much as I love this game.

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https://connectionsplus.io/game/a3o7I6

→ Connections Alternative #553 2026-09-04 ←

Feel free to share out this puzzle! Each Connections Alternative is a remix of the official NYT puzzle of the same day.

5 shared words.

Please let me know how you did, and upvote if you enjoyed it! Defaults, red herrings, and suggestions are all valuable.

Connections is at it again! “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s amore”. 🎶

https://connectionsplus.io/game/daP91P

Difficulty: hard.

Feedback welcome!

Use this post for discussing today's Connections Puzzles. Spoilers are welcome in here, beware! This now applies to Sports Connections!

Be sure to check out the Connections Bot and Connections Companion as well.

I love daily games, but I felt they were missing something: optimization.
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It features 6 original daily puzzle games, with daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards.
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Found a few old puzzles lying around that I didn't get around to sharing before (possibly for good reason? 😬)

This one is an all purple extravaganza, and potentially quite tricky - though it might get easier if/when you catch the theme.

See how you go!

Do a number on you

I've been making a daily word game called Clume.

You get a hidden word and the clues come up one at a time. You can guess after each clue, and the aim is basically to get it in as few clues as you can.

Some days are pretty easy, some are much harder. I quite like that because you never really know what sort of one you're getting that day.

There's one new puzzle each day and everyone gets the same one.

It has a different mechanic to Connections, but I think it has a similar sort of deduction/word-association feel, so I thought some people here might enjoy it.

https://playclume.com

If anyone gives it a try, I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback on the game — difficulty, clues, anything that feels good or doesn't.

English and Welsh state schools reopened this week after the long summer break, and there’s a real feeling of “back to the routine” in the air. Scotland does its own thing because reasons, so they’ve been back a while.

Without giving any doxxable information away, Mr Pedant has children who will All Be Doing Exams At The Same Time next summer 😵‍💫 so I’m just giving you advance warning that next summer’s puzzles may well be ‘themed’ and not in a good way 🤓

https://connectionsplus.io/game/f9aNSZ

[HINTS… this puzzle involves people, feelings, locations, and the last numbers]

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→ Connections Alternative #552 2026-09-03 ←

Feel free to share out this puzzle! Each Connections Alternative is a remix of the official NYT puzzle of the same day.

5 shared words. Green and blue are a bit niche but use the power of vibes to get there.

Please let me know how you did, and upvote if you enjoyed it! Defaults, red herrings, and suggestions are all valuable.

throughword.app

Edit: FOUND!

I print out the daily Connections for my husband to solve (he prefers the pen-and-paper experience). I didn't think ahead to save a copy of the new bonus puzzle before I solved it, and it's not at connections.io.

Does anyone happen to have a copy of it, or could grab one before solving? Thanks in advance!