Connections Cache Builder
Make your own Connections grouping puzzle cache with a sharable play link.
Connections is a grouping puzzle. You pick four categories, each with four words, and a player sees all 16 words shuffled together. They sort them back into your four groups, four words at a time. Solving all four reveals your final coordinates or keyword. The groups and the final answer stay on the server, checked guess by guess, so nothing is hidden in the page for a player to peek at.
Save this link now. Without the key you cannot edit or delete this puzzle (only the site admin can reset it).
Your puzzle
Shown as the puzzle title, up to 48 characters.
Shown to players as a link to your cache page.
Only the site admin can see this, in case they need to reach you about your cache. Never shown to players.
The four groups
Each group needs a category name and four words. All 16 words must be different. Order the groups from easiest (yellow) to hardest (purple), that is the colour players see as they solve.
Tip: a good puzzle has one clean solution. Overlap words (a "red herring" that could fit two groups) make it harder, but avoid two words that could simply swap between groups, that creates a second valid solution.
Hint and intro
This is a one-off puzzle, so the 16 words never change. There is no mistake limit: players guess freely until they sort all four groups. The only help they get is whatever you write below.
On solve, reveal
Shown only after a player solves all four groups. Reveal either the final coordinates or a keyword, not both.
Where can I host an image for free?
Paste a direct https:// link to an image. Free image hosts that give a direct link include
ImgBB,
postimages.org, and
Cloudinary.
A geocaching.com image link works too. The link must start with https://.
Keep your cache in play to keep it live. Share the play link so people visit it; unused caches are cleaned up over time.