Questions tagged [connect-wall]
A puzzle involving a set of things (most often words) which must be divided into groups such that the things in each group share some connection.
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Directly Linked & Connected
These words can be sorted into four categories, each of which share a connection.
driver
soldier
bowl
monolith
megawatt
infinite
wing
Sweden
descends
skin
blazes
legendary
herself
rocks
grand prix
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This Connect Wall has some troubles
Divide these sixteen words into four groups based on something they have in common. You'll find that each of the four groups gives you a clue leading to something in particular. The words aren't in ...
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A Simple Connect Wall?
The 16 words below may be partitioned into 4 groups.
Additionally, the four groups may be connected to give a hint at a fictional character.
BUDGE
ROLL
BOW
BOSS
DIE
GRAVE
APSE
CRYPT
PRESS
FISH
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Four-and-twenty songs baked in a wall
The list of twenty-four songs below can be partitioned. Each partition is of four songs. The six rules of partition membership are related to one another: specifically, they can be thought of in such ...
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A Short Connect Wall
The 16 words below may be partitioned into 4 groups of 4 connected words.
Additionally, each of the four groups can be represented by a single group-word.
Finally, the four group-words are connected ...
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Relations among words
The set of sixteen terms below can be partitioned. Each partition is of four terms that have something in common. I invite you to figure out the partitions and commonalities. (The four commonalities ...
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A colorful little Connect Wall
This Connect Wall is pretty straightforward (?), but I thought it might be a fun mini-puzzle!
Connect Wall rules: Divide these sixteen words into four groups based on something they have in common. ...
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Double twisted connect wall
This puzzle continues on the trend of connect-walls (a bit late for the Topic Challenge #42, I'm afraid), but with some twists.
First, it's a double connect-wall! The following image can be separated ...
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Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #09 - āTheā Cryptic Movies
This is the ninth Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or ...
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A Connect Wall to Fly Over
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
The 16 images below may be partitioned into 4 groups of 4 connected images.
The overall connection between the groups this time ...
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Shingoki: An Exploration of Unicode
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls-- wait, what?
This is a Shingoki puzzle. The rules (paraphrased from puzzle-shingoki.com) are as follows:
The aim is to form a ...
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PRINCESS CONNECT! wall
I wanted to make an anime-themed visual connect wall, but chickened out from including copyrighted images...so here is a much harder version of it, that is also no longer visual. Never tried to make a ...
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Sports Connect Wall
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
The sports here can be grouped into four groups.
To solve the puzzle
With two of the four groups, form the following sport.
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Illiterate connectwall
The words here can be grouped into four groups. The groups taken together will hint at a 7 letter word. Good Luck!
RANGE
FRO
HANG
ASP
WHITE
WIND
SNAP
LOCK
LEGO
LAN
AND
BARB
SCRUB
THROAT
MAN
EASE
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Re-Venn-ge of the Connecting Wall
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
Today I created a connect-wall puzzle (for which a solver would need to partition 16 items into 4 connected groups of 4, and ...
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Connect Wall of Flags: Stimulants are Endless!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
Knockoff Gladys was quite happy about how their last puzzle was received. So happy, in fact, that I found a new note waiting for ...
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Kicking and screaming (a musical connect wall)
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
In this puzzle, the melodies of 16 songs are given in sheet music form. You first must identify the 16 songs from the melodies. ...
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A Tribute to Alex Trebek
This is a very sad day for puzzlers and Jeopardy! lovers alike. I decided to create this puzzle to commemorate Alex because he is the reason I got into making puzzles.
This is a typical connect wall, ...
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Please Don't Flag This Question
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
Today, I received a rather peculiar mail from L.B.G. (Low-Budget Gladys), Glady's cousin, thrice removed (and aunt to the ...
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Sergeant Sequence calls for back-up
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
"Sequence, get in here! Your man's definitely up to something!"
The mood at Headquarters was tense. Sergeant Sequence ...
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Yes, this is the legendary wall
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
This is it. This is the very wall.
His life, his work ā this wall was the center of it all. One simply cannot imagine his fame, ...
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History is written by the Connect Wall
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls.
Election Day in the United States, and my daughter is taking Civics, so we're watching the returns. It occurred to me ...
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Connect Wall - Grid Puzzles Edition!
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls.
Huge thanks to bobble and Deusovi for playtesting! ><
And hey, this one may also mark my 100-day puzzle here in ...
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Connect Wall: “Who's that Pokémon?”
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
Ash, on his expedition to Catch Em' Allā¢, came across a strange new PokĆ©mon! He pulled out his trusty PokĆ©dex to identify this ...
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What are these holes in my Connect Wall?
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
"Why on earth are there blank spaces in your connect wall?"
"In my defense, you just asked me to make categories ...
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Hanging on the Connect Wall
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
The sixteen paintings below can be grouped into four groups of four, each group being linked by a common theme. The four themes ...
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Connect Wall of Flags: Don't Embarrass Us
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
K. G. (Knockoff Gladys) surprised me today with a note.
Hey, bobble!
I took your advice and made a puzzle. Who knew that was ...
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Visual Connect Wall: Heads up!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
Rules: Organize the following sixteen images into four groups of four, based on categories into which they fit. The sixteen ...
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An amorphous connect wall
The set of sixteen items below can be partitioned. Each partition is of four items that have something in common. I invite you to figure out the partitions and commonalities. You'll find that the four ...
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Connecting Sixteen Shades
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
TASK: Partition these 16 colours into 4 groups of 4 based on shared properties. Then identify the only colour (not represented ...
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When designing a tougher Connect Wall, how to provide good entry points and signposting for a solver?
I'm still very new to Connect Wall puzzle design, and I don't want to make a puzzle that frustrates or confuses potential solvers, so I figured I would ask here for some advice.
Recently I've designed ...
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Film connections
The set of sixteen films below can be partitioned. Each partition is of four films that have something in common. I invite you to figure out the partitions and commonalities. You'll find that the four ...
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Connect Wall: I Don't Mind
A Connect Wall is a set of sixteen words/proper nouns/phrases which can be broken into four groups of four related items, where the relationship can be described by another word/proper noun/phrase. ...
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Another Visual Connect Wall
Inspired by this recent Connect Wall
The 16 words below may be partitioned into 4 groups of 4 connected words.
The resulting four words also have a connection, but in this case, the final connection ...
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Four groups, sixteen words
These 16 words can be separated into 4 categories... What are they? All of them have something in common... What is it?
Bean, Iron, Bird, Notorious, Cannonball, Ripper, Prince, Zodiac, Clown, Slim, ...
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A Titanic Connect Wall
UPDATE: It's been a day, so let's open this up to any interested solvers.
A recent Connect Wall I wrote seemed to attract some interest from newer solvers, so I'm putting together a few of these ...
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A connect wall where everybody wants to belong
A connect wall is usually a set of 16 words which can be split into four groups of four related words. Each of those groups can be described under a single over arching group as well. Unfortunately, ...
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A Mouldy Connect Wall
A recent Connect Wall I wrote seemed to attract some interest from newer solvers, so I'm putting together a few of these puzzles to provide a gentler introduction to this puzzle type. EXPERIENCED ...
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Groovy puzzle, man!
This is my first crack at making a Connect Wall puzzle - I designed it to hopefully be relatively straightforward and gentle, and an introduction to this type of puzzle for new solvers like me!
To ...
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Another freak in the wall
I love my auntie. This may not sound like a particularly shocking statement to you, but that is only because you don't know her...
Since I am a loving nephew, when she hinted that the walls of her ...
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This should be clear
The set of sixteen words below can be partitioned. Each partition is of four words that have something in common. I invite you to figure out the partitions and commonalities. You'll find that the four ...
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The Rock and Roll Connect Wall of Fame
UPDATE: It looks like no takers yet, so let's open this up to any interested solver. Good luck!
A recent Connect Wall I wrote seemed to attract some interest from newer solvers, so I'm putting ...
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A Gentle Connect Wall
My last Connect Wall seemed to attract some interest from newer solvers, so I
put together this puzzle to provide a gentler introduction to this puzzle type.
EXPERIENCED SOLVERS: please let some of ...
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A Connecting Wall off the beaten track!
This is an extended hybrid connect-wall puzzle which fuses components of the most common PSE strain (where group connections also have one final connection, which is the puzzle's answer) with a ...
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Famous connect wall
The 16 words below may be partitioned into 4 groups of 4 connected words.
Each of the 4 groups can be represented by a single word. These for group words can then be connected together to form the ...
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Connect Wall: Visual Edition
It feels like a while since the last Connect Wall, so here is one. As usual, there are 16 words which can be grouped into sets of four with each group associated with a word. The resulting four words ...
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Connect Wall V. S. Word Web
This post is a question about puzzles, not a puzzle in itself. There is nothing puzzly hidden inside it or the self-answer, posted at the same time. No lateral thinking is required.
Question 1: What ...
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What you gotta do?
You have 10 groups of 4 words:
DUO, IRON, LINKS, ROCK
ICE, LED, METAL, TIC
DRILL, PI, WIN, WOO
BRA, IGNITE, LOOM, RUBBISH
AIR, DUST, GO, PAT
AUDI, AURA, MEOW, SPEW
GRIMM, HOOT, MUD, TAIL
ASK, BELL, ...
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An Elementary Connect Fano Plane
I never thought I'd be able to make a connect Fano plane out of chemical elements, since there are so few to choose from. And I was right, but I got really close.
So if you haven't seen previous ...
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Connect Fano Plane - Mark 2
Despite my despair at creating a Connect Fano Plane in the spirit of a normal Connect Wall, I think I succeeded, thanks to the database of world cities I downloaded from Geo Data Source. In this ...