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A tool (game) to practice vocabulary and grammar: Connections

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Recently, I have become dangerously obsessed with a new game "created" by The New York Times : Connections . Wyna Liu , creator and editor of Connections   says she was inspired by cartoonist Robert Leighton , and not by the BBC gameshow Only Connect , although the similarities are plenty . Anyway, I had no idea about the existence of the BBC gameshow, and since the Wordle acquisition I have been accessing the NYT Games quite frequently, and even more since Connections arrived about a year ago now. It was just a month later that the user and designer Swellgarfo  created in just a couple of hours a free archive of all NYT Connections  and a way to create your own Connections . I did not discover this masterpiece until a few weeks ago and since then I have been using it to create Connections for my family and friends. I have also been using it in my Spanish lessons and it works perfectly. You can make them work in pairs and show you their guesses with a mini-whiteboard, you c