4×3

4×3 (four by three) is a daily word puzzle that Hank Green writes and runs on his own website. It takes the grouping idea behind Connections and changes the shape. The board holds only nine words. They make four categories of three, and one hub word sits in all four of them.

You select three words and submit them as a group. Since the hub is in every category, it is one of the three each time, and the other eight words split into four pairs. A correct group is named in its colour under the board, from the easy yellow to the hard purple. The tiles stay where they are, so the hub keeps its place while you hunt for its next pair. Two mistakes are allowed. The third wrong group ends the day.

Each win starts at 100 points. Mistakes cost points, and bonuses reward style: leading every guess with the hub, solving the purple group first, a reverse rainbow order, or finishing in under 90 seconds. A daily streak adds a point a day, and the result can be shared as a grid. Some players are also trying Call It, a test mode where you stake the whole board on naming the hub before your first guess.

The board changes at midnight in your own time zone, and progress is saved in the browser, so a refresh picks up where you left off. The archive replays every board since June 2026. A community page holds puzzles made by players, rated and sorted by top and new, and anyone can build one. The same site also hosts Smush, Hank Green's daily letter game.

4×3 suits Connections players who want a quicker board with a deduction step of its own. Most days take a few minutes.