Connections Companion

Plan your NYT Connections groups, assign colors, and auto-submit in reverse rainbow order. Pauses on any miss to save your guesses.

Chasing the reverse rainbow badge in NYT Connections? Connections Companion helps you plan the whole puzzle before spending a single guess. Instead of submitting groups one at a time and hoping you remember the right order, you bank all four groups up front and let the extension submit them for you — automatically, in reverse rainbow order: Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow. HOW IT WORKS 1. Select 4 tiles on the board, then click a color swatch in the Companion panel to bank them as your guess for that color. Banked tiles get a colored outline so you can see your plan at a glance. 2. Repeat for all four colors (or fewer — partial plans work too). 3. Hit "Submit in reverse" and watch. The extension selects and submits each group in Purple → Blue → Green → Yellow order, waiting for the game to confirm each result before continuing. NEVER WASTE A GUESS If any submission comes back wrong, the run stops instantly. The offending group is highlighted in red, the panel shows the game's feedback ("One away…") and how many mistakes you have left. Reset just that group, rework it, and submit again — groups you already solved are skipped. If a group solves but turns out to be a different color than you predicted, the panel tells you which color it actually was, so you know whether the reverse rainbow is still alive. MORE FEATURES • Swap mode: click a banked group's swatch with nothing selected on the board to arm it (⇄), then click another swatch to trade colors — or click an empty color to move the group there. Click the same swatch again to cancel. • Draggable panel — park it anywhere, handy if you play zoomed in. Position is remembered. • Collapsible — click the panel header to shrink it to a title bar between moves. • Works on the daily puzzle and archived puzzles. • No data collection, no accounts, no external servers. Everything runs locally in your browser on the Connections page only. Connections Companion is an independent fan-made tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by The New York Times.