NBA Connections unlimited
The daily NBA Connections is one puzzle a day. Here you get a new puzzle every round, built and checked the same way.
Unlimited puzzle
Pick four players that share something, then submit.
How to play NBA Connections
- Tap four players you think share something, then press Submit.
- If all four belong together, the group locks in with its colour and its link. Yellow is the most direct, then green, blue and purple, the trickiest.
- A wrong four costs a mistake; you have 4. "One away" means three of your four belong to the same group.
- Every player fits exactly one group. Some will look like they fit two: that is the trap, so check the other groups before you submit.
- A new puzzle comes out every day at midnight UTC. Share your result as coloured squares, without spoilers.
What can link four players
Every link is a fact from the players' Wikipedia infoboxes, never an opinion or a stat leader board:
- A team: all four played at least one NBA season for that franchise (old names count, so Seattle SuperSonics seasons are Thunder seasons).
- Two teams: all four played for both.
- A position group: listed as a guard, a forward or a center. A player listed at two positions (a "SG/SF") counts for both groups, so he is never shown beside the other one.
- A college, a draft year or No. 1 overall picks, only for players whose infobox gives them.
- The decade of his first NBA season, 10+ All-Star selections, the Hall of Fame, five or more franchises, or one franchise for 10+ seasons and never another.
- A first name (only exact matches).
Where the facts come from
Teams, seasons, positions, colleges, draft lines, All-Star selections and the Hall of Fame come from the infoboxes of English Wikipedia's player articles (CC BY-SA 4.0), BAA and NBA seasons from 1946-47 to 2025-26; ABA seasons do not count. Before a puzzle is published, a script checks all 64 player-and-group pairs: each player must fit his own group and provably not fit the other three. If the data cannot rule a link out (no college listed, no draft line), that player is not used beside that group. A second script re-reads every fact from the raw data files to make sure the two agree.
NBA Connections unlimited: questions
How does NBA Connections work?
Pick four players you think share something and press Submit. A right group locks in with its colour (yellow is the most direct, purple the trickiest); a wrong one costs one of your four mistakes, and “one away” means three of the four belong together.
Can a player fit two groups?
No. Before a puzzle is published, a script checks every one of the 16 players against all four groups: he must fit his own and, by the data, none of the other three. When the data cannot rule a link out (for example, no college is listed for him), he is not used beside that group.
Where do the facts come from?
From the infoboxes of the players’ English Wikipedia articles (CC BY-SA 4.0): teams and seasons, positions, colleges, draft lines, All-Star selections and the Hall of Fame. Old team names count for today’s franchise.
When does a new puzzle come out?
Every day at midnight UTC, the same puzzle for everyone. Past puzzles stay playable from the archive, and each has an answers page.
Is this the New York Times Connections?
No. NBA Connections is AllStar Grid’s own game about basketball players. It is not affiliated with The New York Times or its Connections puzzle.
Is this the official NBA game?
No. AllStar Grid is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the NBA, its teams, the players’ union or any other grid game. Team names and logos are used only to say which franchises a question asks about; the logos are trademarks of their teams.
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Facts from English Wikipedia's player infoboxes (CC BY-SA 4.0); player ids from Wikidata (CC0). Team logos are trademarks of their respective teams; AllStar Grid is not affiliated with the NBA or any team. Logos via TheSportsDB. NBA Connections is AllStar Grid's own game: it is not affiliated with The New York Times or its Connections puzzle. Credits