Connections Canvas

Connections Canvas is an unofficial scratch-pad for organizing your own guesses on a word-group grid while you solve the puzzle in the official game or elsewhere. MARK YOUR WAY Fill cards in yellow, green, blue, purple, and more, or add concentric rings when you're less sure. Long-press a color to swap it across the board or convert fills to rings. On iPad, use Apple Pencil to circle, scribble, or stroke marks. REPLAY YOUR THINKING Playback steps through every mark you made, in order. Long-press Undo or Redo to open it, then step back and forth. Share your board as a still image, GIF, or video. REARRANGE AND REMIX Long-press to drag cards Home Screen–style, move whole rows, sort by color, or reset the layout without losing your marks. Tap Shuffle to remix everything, or long-press it to shuffle only the unmarked cards. 4×4 AND 3×3 Work the daily 4×4, and on days with a 3×3, open a nine-card 3×3 worksheet. Each grid keeps its own marks. PORTRAIT OR LANDSCAPE Turn your device and the board stays steady beside the color chips, tools, and playback controls. On iPad, hypotheses and the calendar sit right next to the board. KEEP NOTES Jot hypotheses linked to a mark color, keep a notepad, and log the fours you tried that weren't a group. Notes are yours; the app never reveals official answers. LOAD A BOARD Load dated board faces when available, practice with built-in samples, type a grid in, edit words in place, or import a photo of a 4×4 or 3×3. Text recognition runs on your device, and you can fix any word before loading. On image puzzle days you can optionally show alt text (off by default). Choose whether the puzzle date follows your local time or a custom time zone. SAVE YOUR DAYS History saves each day with optional auto-save and private iCloud sync. If iCloud and this device disagree, you choose which to keep. Swipe between days or jump with the calendar. LEARN AS YOU GO Interactive tours walk through marks, days, and tools on a practice board that never touches your History. Optional Tip Jar: small, medium, or large tips processed by Apple. Tips never unlock features or remove limits. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with The New York Times. Does not provide answers or spoilers. No ads and no tracking. Respect the New York Times Terms of Service and only use content you're allowed to access.