⚾ MLB CONNECTIONS

Find four groups of 5 baseball players that share a connection

MLB Connections: Baseball Grouping Puzzle

A daily puzzle where you group baseball players by what connects them: same team, same award, same country, or same era.

Twenty players, four hidden groups, one wall of trouble. Connections hands you a grid of names and asks what secretly ties them together: a franchise, an award, a country.

The twist is size. Groups run five deep instead of four, which means more cover for the traps and a better feeling when one locks in.

How to play MLB Connections, a free daily baseball grouping puzzle

Scanning twenty names for a theme

Scan all 20 names and hunt for a theme you trust.

Selecting five players and submitting

Tap exactly 5 players to select them, then hit submit.

What a correct or wrong five does

A correct five locks in with its theme and color. A wrong five costs a life.

Reading the four difficulty colors

Colors grade the difficulty: yellow is the gentle one, then green, blue, and purple for the group built to hurt.

Clearing all four groups before your lives end

Find all four groups before your 4 lives run out.

MLB Connections rules for groups, lives and the daily puzzle

Four groups of five players each

Each puzzle holds exactly 4 groups of 5, and every player belongs to exactly one group.

Four lives, spent only on wrong guesses

You get 4 lives, and only a wrong submission costs one.

What happens when your lives run out

Run out of lives and the remaining groups reveal themselves.

The daily puzzle and Unlimited mode

The daily puzzle is the same for everyone and flips at midnight Eastern. Unlimited deals random puzzles from the pool.

MLB Connections walkthrough: a Yankees overlap and a purple finish

Spotting the overlap in the Yankees group

You spot five obvious Yankees and nearly submit, then notice one of them also fits a cluster of 500 homer guys. That overlap is the whole puzzle. So you chase the safest read first, and it locks in yellow.

Working backward to solve purple last

A life dies on the Yankees trap later, but the miss exposes the decoy. You work the leftovers backward and purple falls last, two lives to spare.

MLB Connections tips for reading themes and the leftovers

Never submitting the first theme you see

Never submit the first theme you see. These puzzles are built so a name or two straddles two believable groups.

Clearing the leftovers when themes tangle

Work from the leftovers. When three themes feel tangled, find the five that fit nowhere else and clear them first.

Shuffling names for free before submitting

Selecting and deselecting is free. Shuffle names between candidate groups until only one arrangement makes sense.

MLB Connections FAQ: group size, colors and running out of lives

Why five per group instead of four?

This version scales the format up to 20 players in four groups of 5. Bigger groups leave more room for overlap bait.

What do the colors mean?

Difficulty. Yellow is the easiest connection, green and blue sit in the middle, and purple is the sneakiest, usually hiding behind a decoy theme.

What happens when I run out of lives?

The unsolved groups reveal themselves so you can see what you missed, and the daily locks until a new puzzle arrives the next day.

Is MLB Connections free to play?

Yes. MLB Connections is free to play on DoUKnowBall, right in your browser. No download and no signup needed.

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