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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work more cleverly, not harder
The following sixteen words can be divided into four groups. Each group is of four words connected by a theme; the four themes are also related to one another.
ANTIC ASKEW BATTERS CARPER CASH CHALK ...
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Clueless Crossword, then Connect-Wall
Solve the following crossword that lacks most of the clues (but has some letters revealed), and then perform connect-wall to the resulting words.
Please note that this is an enigmatic-puzzle – One ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #18 (Sports and Leisure 3/4): Connected
This is part 18 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Sometimes one connect-wall puzzle just isn't enough... ...
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Triangular Connect Wall + Colouring In
Your task is to divide the 15 words shown into five categories and assign each word the correct colour.
Each category has a different number of words between 1 and 5.
All words within the same ...
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A lanolin-enriched puzzle
Many-time solver/first-time setter and so feedback is strongly solicited. This puzzle was written by me for a set of puzzles to celebrate a particular anniversary, but was not used.
Divide the ...
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"Pawn Placement" - a GCHQ word association puzzle (video game edition)
If instead of video games you're looking for board games, check out Stiv's "Guess Where?" puzzle! ;)
Instructions (adapted from The GCHQ Puzzle Book (2016) and the introductory puzzle here ...
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What does my wife want?
I asked my wife what she wants to do this weekend and she sent me this confusing message.
What does this all mean?
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What game do I play?
Find the game that I know,
Using the clues below.
Subtractive unit, toad hesitation;
Digital dungeon, show staircase;
Pop dancing, tropical mint;
Dog therapy, oil ring.
Once done, find the sun -
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Five languages to account for
Here's another connect wall, with the usual goal of putting four words into Group One, another four words into Group Two, four more into Group Three, and four into Group Four. This puzzle is also ...
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Connecting Wall with a New Gimmick
This is a connecting wall puzzle containing a gimmick that I am not aware of in PSE (or indeed anywhere else). If I learn otherwise then I would still be happy to claim “I did it better” 😊
Divide ...
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A sobering puzzle
Just a simple little connect wall ... I doubt the overall theme is all that hidden, but hopefully making the four groups of four will be entertaining!
Hint:
BACARDI
BELLINI
CIDER
COGNAC
DAIQUIRI
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A connecting wall for series 1?
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #12: mobile-friendly puzzles.
Resolve the novel connecting wall below into six groups of four connected words and discover the puzzle's hidden theme....
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Staying Connected
This is part 28 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a connecting wall puzzle similar to the ones used in the Only Connect TV ...
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Re-producing the 3D Connecting Wall!
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #11: Now in 3D. See Introducing the 3D Connecting Wall! for the original presentation of this puzzle type and further context. This post presents a ...
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Introducing the 3D Connecting Wall!
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #11: Now in 3D.
A typical '2D' connecting wall puzzle (as made popular by the BBC quiz show, Only Connect) involves dividing a group of 16 seemingly ...
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Literally-Connecting Wall
This puzzle is a variant on the well-known connecting wall puzzles. May contain traces of grid deduction and happy stars 😊
Rules:
Your goal is to fill all the empty squares in the main grid (left) ...
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"Where does sushi go?" - a GCHQ word association puzzle (anime edition)
No, the title does not refer to the card game Sushi Go; if you're looking for board games, check out Stiv's "Guess Where?" puzzle! ;)
Instructions (adapted from The GCHQ Puzzle Book (2016) ...
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Only Connect - all at once!
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #9: Game/Quiz Shows.
Did you see the glitch on Only Connect last Monday?* The one where all four of the rounds got merged into one?!
Effectively, ...
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"Where? Or is it When?!" - a GCHQ word association puzzle
Instructions (adapted from The GCHQ Puzzle Book (2016) and the introductory puzzle here on Puzzling Stack Exchange): The words in the following list can be partitioned into equal-sized sets depending ...
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A Message Of Encouragement
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #8: Cellular Automata.
This themed cryptic puzzle is dedicated to a user (from another website) who proposed to make March 23rd as a special holiday ...
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Get to the bottom of this Connect-Wall
Find the links to divide the words into four equal groups, then link the main word from all four links to get the one word answer.
Bird
BloodSource
Dancer
Estries
Family
Four
Magic
Mound
Orange
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A Connect Wall to Stymie You
Divide the words into four equal groups to discover what unites the groups.
Prefer no incomplete answers.
Always
Arachnids
Australia
Britain
Lakes
Lazy
Front
Hairbands
Hallelujah
Depression
Sea
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Personal Names Turn Around
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #8: Cellular Automata.
Life is like connecting dots...
ACE
BTS
GKH
HE
I
II
ING
LOAF
ME
MOON
POND
PV
QR
ROT
TUB
US
Can you identify the themes? ...
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"Guess Where?" - a GCHQ word association puzzle (board game edition)
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #7: Board games.
Instructions (adapted from The GCHQ Puzzle Book (2016) and the introductory puzzle here on Puzzling Stack Exchange): The words in ...
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A game of some consequence
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #3: Pencil and Paper Games
Last night, I played a game of Consequences with seven friends. In our particular version of the rules*, a game consists ...
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Something Commonly Searched For
This is a standard PSE connect wall in that you must find four groups of four.
Then find the commonality between those four groups (not a word that fits into all four groups, as some connect walls ...
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An abandoned Connect Wall
The 16 prompts below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which may be placed in all four of those groups.
Beaver
Cheat
Cod
Direction
Elf
Fuzzy Wuzzy
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The Moon and the Great Wall
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
Instructions for this modified connecting wall:
In the connecting wall below, each item as written contains one ...
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A colorful Connect Wall you can almost taste
The 16 prompts below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which may be placed in all four of those groups.
#F0F8FF
(240, 100%, 50%)
(255, 215, 0)
Aqua
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A Connect Wall to watch and seek answers about
The 16 words below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which can be placed in all four of those groups.
DANCE
ENTER
ESCAPE
HEROES
INSERT
JACKAL
LETTER
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Please, Identify the Ated Als
I seek his crypt and come to visit
the site of Humpty's fated falls
where definitions aren't explicit.
But as with most awaited walls,
connect the groups and you won't miss it.
Please, identify the ...
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A Connect Wall to be a proper knight
The 16 words below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which can be placed in all four of those groups.
GUN
JAY
KILL
LOCK
LODGE
MAZE
MIDNIGHT
MORE
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A Connect Wall to help you relax
The 16 words below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which can be placed in all four of those groups.
BEAN
BEE
BACK
CAN
EON
EYES
FLAG
HEART
INK
PEA
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A Connect Wall to start the day and motivate you
The 16 words below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which can be placed in all four of those groups.
ANON
BOARD
CANDY
CLOCK
CRAZY
DRUG
DRUNK
MARCH
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A Connect Wall to Conquer
The 16 words below may be partitioned into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a four-letter word which can be placed into all four groups.
ARROW
ATONE
BURN
DEALT
DISTRESS
FELT
HIP
LAND
MAGMA
MAGNET
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Some of All Parts
The 16 movie and TV roles below can be grouped into 4 groups of 4, with each group related by a common theme. In addition, the 4 themes are themselves related to each other by a common theme: one ...
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The Facebook (a double connect wall)
This is a double connect wall puzzle. The objective is to rearrange the sixteen people below in the 4x4 grid such that each row of 4 will be related by a common theme and each column of 4 will also ...
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It's a LITS! And a... um...?
I've combined two of my favourite puzzle types - a LITS grid-deduction puzzle and a, er... a, um... you know, I could have sworn I wrote it down here somewhere!
Click on the image for a resolution ...
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An unusual source of inspiration?
In each row of the table below, a word* is missing (in Column B). This word can be paired separately with the two either side of it (in Columns A and C) to form another English word or phrase, ...
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Connecting Wall: Pairing Up
This is a connecting wall with a twist. Instead of 16 single words, this connecting wall has pairs of words. As usual, find the four groups which connect the pairs, bearing in mind it might not be ...
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"Where should Jack go?" - a GCHQ word association puzzle
Inspired by Stiv's fantastic Where? word association puzzle, I decided to create my own. Special thanks to Stiv for test-solving and general feedback!
Instructions (adapted from The GCHQ Puzzle Book (...
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Introducing "Where?" - a GCHQ word association puzzle
Introducing the 'Where?' puzzle genre – a type of word association puzzle popularised by The GCHQ Puzzle Book (2016).
General instructions (adapted from the book): This puzzle type consists of an ...
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This connect wall is a security risk!
Unlike normal connect-walls which have four groups of four, this one has five groups of four. The five groups may each be summarised by one word and those five words are in turn related.
JADE
JAZZ
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Can you solve the connecting wall?
This puzzle is based on the "connecting wall" from the British tv show "Only Connect". The goal is to group the 16 words into 4 groups of 4 words that all share a property. Here ...
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I saw what's yours
Pair up the following ten words:
Arabic
french fries
gray
monthly
ninety-nine
paying
rent
smooth
whatever
yellow
Hint, added later:
Another hint, added even later:
Another hint, added even later:
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Connect The Wall-Words:
We have a group of 16 words here:
ACIDITY
TIME
MICROSCOPE
MARKS
LIGHT
SCALE
CHEMISTRY
CLAW
REAL
LEAD
INTEREST
BIOLOGY
DUCK
RADICAL
ACADEMY
LEAF
Goal: Group these $16$ words into $4$ groups, each ...
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Double Connect Wall - I'll Drink to That!
This is my first attempt at a Connect Wall. Your task is to find the connections between the following 16 words to form 8 groups of 4. No, I did not Muck up the Fath – there is one connection per row ...
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The Pub Quiz and the Passion, take two
My attempted pub quiz/Only Connect wall question never got very close to a true answer, so here's another try. The ultimate wall was solved in less than an hour over in the Only Connect Facebook ...
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A Connect Wall You Can Count On
The 16 words below may be partitioned into 4 groups of 4 connected words.
The resulting four words also have a connection which is a seven-letter word.
ONE
POTATO
PINK
FOUR
CORN
RANCH
SOY
SINGLE
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A beautiful connect wall
As usual, a connect wall is a $4\times4$ grid, which has 16 words inside it. They are broken into 4 groups of 4 words,and each group has a relationship. The four words defining the relations are ...
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