Movie games like Connections
Hidden groups, film links or a six-movie lineup: choose the kind of connection you want to solve.
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If the pleasure of Connections is spotting a relationship you nearly missed, movie games offer several ways to find it. Some hide the category itself. Others give you two films and ask for a route between them. Cast Six shows its six categories at the start and asks you to find an arrangement that uses each movie once.
For hidden groups: CineLinkr and Filmclues
CineLinkr starts with sixteen movies and asks for four connected groups. Its rules allow four mistakes and describe hints and explanations after successful groups. Choose it when you want the extra step of discovering what the category is.
Filmclues also asks for four groups of four, with four mistakes available. Its film boards can include movie-related names as well as titles. That makes reading the whole set useful before deciding which kind of connection to pursue.
For routes between films: FilmLink
FilmLink asks you to connect two movies through their cast and crew. Finding a short route is a different challenge from assigning a fixed set of posters to categories: you have to supply the connecting films and people. Its site also offers multiplayer and a daily hard mode with an extra rule.
For more formats: CineNerdle
CineNerdle offers Puzzles, Battle and Trivia sections. It is worth exploring if you want several movie-game formats in one place. Read the instructions for the mode you choose; these labels do not describe the same rules as Cast Six.
For intersecting clues: Cinematrix and Movie Grid
Cinematrix is Vulture’s daily movie grid, with archived editions available.
Movie Grid puts movie clues on intersecting rows and columns. You supply a film for a cell rather than rearranging a fixed cast of six posters. Its interface offers an archive and several grid variants. Choose a grid game when recalling a suitable title is the part you enjoy.
Where Cast Six fits
Cast Six gives you the six movie titles and six clues up front. A film may fit more than one category, but each movie can be used only once. The challenge is making all six placements work together, with three checks and optional hints. You do not have to remember a title from a blank search box.
Try the example below without a timer or score. Then play the shared daily, or pick a themed pack. Daily and archive puzzles need no account; the library allows five different puzzles per Eastern day without signup. Email signup unlocks unlimited library play and daily puzzle emails. Unsubscribe anytime.
A quick rehearsal
Know these six?
Drag a poster to its matching clue, or tap a movie then a clue. No timer, score or streak at stake.
Pick any movie to begin.
Story clues for this example only. Daily puzzle data & credits.
Which should I try first?
Choose hidden groups if you like figuring out the category, a film-link game if you enjoy tracing credits, or a grid if you like recalling titles. Choose Cast Six if you want a visible set of movies to reason about and rearrange. These are independent games; this guide does not imply a partnership. Cast Six is not affiliated with The New York Times.