NYT Games Connections (Offline Clone)

Lightweight, offline-friendly version of the NYT Games "Connections" from https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections.

Play at https://rigwild.github.io/nytgames-connections

Not affiliated with or endorsed by The New York Times. This is an educational, minimalist reimplementation for personal use.

Features

• Works offline, after first load or by just opening the file locally
• Pure static site with no build step
• Random puzzle generation from bundled theme pools
• Shareable puzzle links
• Zero dependencies

Usage

Quick (local)

Download or clone the repo and open index.html in any browser.

Online

Use the GitHub Pages deployment: https://rigwild.github.io/nytgames-connections

Adding / Editing Themes

In the themes array inside index.html:

{
  id: '12345',
  theme: "All are ...",
  words: new Set(["WORD1","WORD2","WORD3","WORD4","WORD5"]),
}

Rules:

• Keep IDs unique (used in share links)
• Words are stored UPPERCASE
• For long words, separate them with a space (e.g. "BOOK KEEPER"), so that it does not overflow on UI

License

The MIT license