Connections Bot F.A.Q.

We’ve launched a beta of Connections Bot, a new robotic companion to Connections. Want to know what it is and how it works? You’re in the right place.

What is Connections Bot?

It’s a tool that provides a daily, personalized analysis of your Connections game. Each day, the bot shows the difficulty of that day’s puzzle, and how your guesses compared with everyone else’s. It also computes a measure of your skill each day.

Because the bot knows how millions of people played Connections, it can calculate how tricky a puzzle was, which categories were easiest or hardest to find, and what the most common incorrect guesses were.

It can also tell you how your guesses compared with those of other players in a similar situation at every step in the game, and how distinct your solution to the puzzle was. (There are about 2.6 million different ways to solve Connections each day, so your guesses can literally be one in a million!)

How does the bot measure my skill?

The bot calculates your skill based on the number of categories you found, the number of mistakes you made, and the order in which you found the categories. The highest score is 99 points, which involves winning without any mistakes, and solving purple first, blue second, green third and yellow last; doing all those things consistently can be quite challenging.

Of course, many players aren’t trying to minimize mistakes or solve in a specific order every day, and may not care about playing competitively.