Updated October 22, 2026
What Connections offers beyond today's board, and free daily word and logic puzzles on Gamefinity for the rest of your morning.
A Connections board takes a few minutes, and then the day's puzzle is gone until after midnight. This page explains what the New York Times offers beyond the daily board, then lists Gamefinity's free daily puzzles that suit the same habit: one short set a day, shared by every player, with a single go at it.
The daily puzzle is free on the New York Times website and in the NYT Games app. Every earlier puzzle lives in the Connections Archive, which opened in October 2024 with more than 450 boards going back to the first one in June 2023. It lets you resume unfinished games and see your stats, and it is only for New York Times Games and All Access subscribers. There is no official unlimited or random mode.
Look up an unlimited Connections and you will come across sites that use its name to replay or imitate its puzzles. They do not come from the Times, and this page does not link to them.
These four deal one shared set a day and take a minute or two each, which makes them easy to line up after the grid.
Daily category prompts
Ten category prompts every day, answered in ten seconds each, then matched against a stranger who played earlier. Of the dailies here, it comes closest to the way Connections makes you think in categories.
DailyAbout 1 minPhone + desktop
Play Common GroundDaily ten-question quiz
A ten-question quiz column covering at least seven subjects, easy at the start and tough at the end, with one go a day and a line showing how many of today's players knew each answer.
Daily + endless1–2 minPhone + desktop
Play Daily TriviaDaily put-in-order puzzle
Five lists of five things to put in order by calories, latitude, age and more, ending on a trap, with the real values and their sources stamped on at each reveal.
DailyAbout 2 minPhone + desktop
Play Rank ItDaily which-came-first game
Sixteen pairs of inventions, companies, people and events, and you pick which came first. The pairs get closer and more misleading as the visit goes on.
DailyAbout 2 minPhone + desktop
Play Older Than You ThinkFor the part of you that enjoys finding the rule, these four hand out a small set of reasoning puzzles each day, rising from easy to hard, the same for everyone.
Daily pattern puzzles
Ten IQ-style puzzles a day, from number sequences to odd one out and paper folds; nothing is timed, yet every second spent lowers the points on offer.
Daily + endlessAbout 90 secPhone + desktop
Play Daily IQDaily balance logic puzzle
Five loads to balance on a brass beam, one weighing each and no clock, so every puzzle is a sum you check before you commit, much like a group before you submit it.
Daily + endless1–2 minPhone + desktop
Play Tip the ScalesSix number cards, one target and the four signs of arithmetic, with three sums a day that start small and end on a demanding three-digit target, each checked to have an exact answer.
Phone + desktop
Play ExactlyFive sheets of origami paper a day to fold into the shape on a card, within a set number of folds. Folds you undo still count against par, so it rewards picturing the answer before you try it.
Phone + desktop
Play FoldNothing here replays Connections boards. These four simply carry on after the daily set is done, free, whether through a practice mode, past editions or repeatable rounds.
Daily pattern puzzles
Switch to Timed and every test is newly generated, each question on its own short clock; earlier days' tests also stay open in the archive.
Daily + endlessAbout 90 secPhone + desktop
Play Daily IQDaily ten-question quiz
Once the daily ten are handed in, switch to Quick for random questions with a ten-second clock, as many as you want, or replay a recent edition.
Daily + endless1–2 minPhone + desktop
Play Daily TriviaWord-meaning speed game
An endless run of synonym pairs that goes on until your first wrong pick or an empty clock, so a sharp player can keep going for several minutes.
Endless1–2 minPhone + desktop
Play Synonym SprintAnagram word game
Each 90-second round deals a new rack of seven letters, and you can play as many rounds as you want, chasing a better score each time.
Play any time90 secPhone + desktop
Play Anagram BlitzNot an official one. The New York Times publishes one puzzle a day and keeps the rest in its archive for subscribers. The practice modes of the games listed above are a free way to keep puzzling after the day's board.
Each day after midnight. Several of the daily games on this page, including Common Ground, Daily IQ and Daily Trivia, start a new day at midnight Eastern Time.
Yes. They are all Gamefinity games, free in any browser on a phone or a computer, and each daily set is the same for every player that day.
