Party Times

Custom Connections-style party game

Play a Connections-style game with friends

Categories turns the word-grouping puzzle into a live party game. Build a board from inside jokes, family names, kids birthday themes, office trivia, or pop culture clues, then let every player solve it on their phone.

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See how Categories plays

A 24-second animated introduction.

Animated explanation with illustrative sample play. Instrumental music; no spoken dialogue.

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Sixteen word tiles form a mixed board. APPLE, PEAR, PLUM and PEACH are selected, then gather into FRUIT. The remaining tiles organize into INSTRUMENTS, PLANETS and DANCES. Players tap four related words and submit a guess; solve all four groups to finish. Create a lobby and invite friends to solve the same board from their own phones.

How to play Categories with friends

  1. 1The host builds or loads a 16-word board with four hidden categories.
  2. 2Guests join the room from their phones.
  3. 3Players tap four related words and submit guesses.
  4. 4The first players to solve all four groups climb the leaderboard.

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