NYT Connections asks you to find four groups of four matching words. Don't Connect asks the opposite: build four new groups that each contain exactly one word from every hidden category — without ever accidentally matching one by mistake.
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Instead of matching four-of-a-kind, every correct guess is a "rainbow" — one word from each of the four hidden categories, locked in and removed from the board.
Guessing two or more words from the same hidden category costs a mistake, Connections-style — four mistakes and it's over.
Solved groups stay color-blind until the game ends, so locking one in doesn't leak which words share a category.
A Connections-style emoji grid you can copy or share, one row per guess — a run of four different colors means a rainbow, a repeat means a mistake.
Static HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript — no framework, no build step, no dependencies. Game state persists per day in localStorage the way NYT's own dailies do.