Track your Connections scores with friends
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Share your Connections result to Scordle and it lands in your club's feed, builds your streaks and stats, and counts in any Connections competition you're playing.
About Connections
Connections lays out sixteen words to sort into four groups of four. You can make four mistakes before the board is lost, and the groups get trickier from yellow to purple.
How sharing Connections works
- Solve today's ConnectionsPlay as normal, on its own site.
- Share your result to ScordleUse the game's Share button, or copy the result and paste it in.
- Your score is read on your phoneScordle reads how many groups you found and how many mistakes it took, then posts it to your clubs.
What a Connections share looks like
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See every Connections you've played
- Your score distributionEvery result counted, for the week, month, year or all time.
- Tap a scoreTap 6 and the calendar lights up every day you made par.
- Tap again to clearOr tap a day for its result and who else played.
Par and score names
| Score | Name | Means | Competition score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Eagle | Solved with no mistakes | 4 |
| 5 | Birdie | Solved with one mistake | 5 |
| 6 | Par | Solved with two mistakes | 6 |
| 7 | Bogey | Solved with three mistakes | 7 |
| X | Wipeout | Lost with two groups found | 9 |
| X | Wipeout | Lost with one group found | 11 |
| X | Wipeout | Lost with no groups found | 13 |
Your score is 4 plus your mistakes, so a perfect board scores 4. A lost board always scores worse than the scrappiest win.
Smart Streaks for Connections
Alongside your days-played streak, Scordle counts how many days in a row you've reached each level, with your best ever beside it.
- 4Eagle
- 5Birdie or better
- 6Par or better
- 7Bogey or better
- 8Double bogey or better
Missed a day? Grace days keep the streak alive. A Wipeout still ends it.
Compare with your friends
- Pick a club-mateScordle lines up the games you both play.
- Score for scoreYour Connections results beside theirs, from Eagle to Wipeout.
- Ratings, win rates and streaksSide by side, so you can see who's really ahead.
An example competition
Group Therapy, you against Tess and Jordan on Daily Wins: the lowest score wins the day, and the most days wins the week.
| Player | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Days won |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Tess | 4 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Jordan | 6 | 5 | 4 | X (9) | 7 | 1 |
You take the week with three days. Tess and Jordan share second on one day each. The card in your club feed shows the final standings. How to set up a competition
Connections questions
Do mistakes count against me?
Yes. Your score is 4 plus your mistakes, so a perfect board scores 4 and three mistakes scores 7. More than half of players solve with no mistakes at all.
What's par for Connections?
Par is 6. Eagle is the best grade you can earn.
Can you fail Connections?
Yes. A lost game is a Wipeout. It ends your Smart Streaks for the day, and in a competition it scores 9 or worse.
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