« Connections » is rarely a straightforward game, so Newsweek has the best tips to help you solve it.
When Connections was introduced in June 2023, it quickly became a hit game.
In fact, it was so popular it came only second to Wordle as one of the most played games on the New York Times games app and website.
The daily word puzzle is edited by Wyna Liu for the newspaper and she shared some playing tips with Newsweek ahead of the game’s first anniversary in June.
« My best piece advice is to wait as long as you can before guessing », she said. « You may see the board and have completely identified the category, seeing five words that could belong in that category. »
« Don’t try to guess the four words in that category, because even though you know what the fifth member is, you won’t know which of the four it might not be », which would ultimately waste a turn.
She recommended trying to solve another category first, because that will likely remove the words that could belong to more than one group, reducing a risk of a mistake, because « your four guesses go by extremely quickly.
