Pokémon Connections

Pokémon Connections takes the grouping puzzle made popular by NYT Connections and fills the board with Pokémon. Each day there are 16 of them, shown with their artwork and names, and four hidden categories link them in fours. A category can be a type, a colour, a shared Pokédex species name such as Poison Pin Pokémon, a generation or something trickier, from any of the nine generations of the games.

You pick four Pokémon you think belong together and submit them. Unlike the newspaper game there is no limit on wrong attempts: a counter at the top only records how many you used, so you can keep trying until all four groups are found. Groups are coloured by difficulty, yellow for the easiest, then green and blue, with purple the trickiest. A Hint button lights up two Pokémon that belong together when you are stuck.

The Daily is numbered and dated (No. 107 fell on 22 October 2026), resets at midnight UTC and is the same for everyone. Under the board you can switch between the Classic board, which has red herrings, and a No-overlap board without decoys, and between Normal and Hard. The day after, a page lists yesterday's answers for both versions.

Classic Daily wins count toward a Monday-to-Sunday weekly leaderboard, with separate streak and level boards, and an optional Google sign-in keeps your progress across devices. An Unlimited mode gives practice boards, players can make and share their own puzzles in the Community section, and the same site runs a daily Pokémon Wordle (Pokédle), a silhouette game and a daily riddle. The screens come in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Indonesian and Japanese. The game is free and shows an ad slot below the board. It is fan-made and not affiliated with Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Game Freak or The New York Times.