Groups·16 (doce.games)

Groups·16 puts sixteen words on the board each day, hiding four groups of four. You select four you think share a link and submit them. A right group is lifted off the board with its name, such as Greek letters; a wrong one counts as a mistake, and the game tells you when you were one word away. Four mistakes end the game.

The four groups are not equally hard: the page says one is a gift and the last one misleads, and a scale of patterned squares from easiest to hardest shows which you found. You can shuffle the board or clear your selection. The clock starts when you press Start and keeps running even if you leave, and when you finish you can see the groups, share your score as a plain text grid or send a challenge link to someone.

It is one of the daily games on doce.games, a small site with no accounts, no ads and nothing to install, in a plain black and white design. Groups·16 can be played in Spanish, English, German, Portuguese and Italian. The boards come from a fixed bank cycled by date (36 in English), so a regular player will meet a board again after about five weeks. A streak counts the days you play in a row.

It suits Connections players who want a timed version with a challenge link, or a grouping puzzle in Spanish, German, Portuguese or Italian.