A daily word game about where words come from
If you like daily word games like Wordle and Connections, No Connections is a free puzzle with a twist: you group words that share an ancestor, not just a meaning.
Every day there's one new board. Find the word families, and leave behind the words that have no connections at all.
How to play
- Pick two to five words you think came from the same older word.
- Submit. If they're a family, they lock together and you see their shared root.
- Some words are loners. They look related but aren't, so leave them out.
- You have four lives. Find every family to win.
A family: three words, one Latin ancestor
hospitaleLatinHOTEL · HOSTEL · HOSPITAL
A loner: looks like DISH, but comes from dies mali, "evil days"
DISMAL
What makes it different
Most word games ask what words mean. No Connections asks where they came from. Words like hotel and hospital, or gentle and jaunty, split off from the same root centuries ago. Linguists call them doublets.
The twist is in the name: the words left over at the end are the ones with no connections.
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes. No account, no ads, no paywall.
- When is there a new puzzle?
- Every day at midnight, your local time. Everyone gets the same puzzle each day.
- What's a doublet?
- Two or more words in the same language that come from the same source word but reached English by different routes, like hotel, hostel and hospital.
- Is this made by The New York Times?
- No. No Connections is an independent game. It isn't affiliated with The New York Times, Wordle or Connections.