Unlimited Connections: the archive and endless grouping puzzles
Updated October 22, 2026 · 1 min read
One board a day goes quickly. Here is what the New York Times offers for more, and the grouping games that let you keep playing, from user-made grids to a decoy-filled puzzle app.
The official archive
The Connections Archive opened in October 2024 with every puzzle back to the first one in June 2023, more than 450 at launch. It lets you resume unfinished games and see your stats, on the web and in the NYT Games app, and it is only for New York Times Games and All Access subscribers. There is no official random or unlimited mode.
A word about copies
Many sites call themselves Connections Unlimited or something similar and replay the New York Times' puzzles or imitate them under its name. They are not made by the Times, and we do not link to them. The games below are made by people and companies who put their own names on their puzzles.
Grouping puzzles you can keep playing
The biggest free supply: thousands of sixteen-clue grids made by players, rated for difficulty, with new ones added all the time.
Twenty-five puzzles come free with the app plus a daily one, and paid packs add up to 175 more in one bundle.
A calendar of previous games sits beside each day's puzzle, so you can work back through past grids.
Four new curated puzzles every day, and the full Codenames app has many more for players who want to keep going.
- Codenames Online
The official free browser version of the party game: two teams, a spymaster each, and one-word clues that link several words on the board. Best with friends on a video call, and you can play round after round.
Every past ladder is free in the archive, so a new player has months of hand-made puzzles waiting.
Questions people ask
Can I play old Connections puzzles for free?
Not officially: the New York Times keeps past puzzles in its archive for Games and All Access subscribers. PuzzGrid and the archives of the other games on this page are the free ways to play more.
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