Generate Connections Puzzle with an AI Assist

published by Mike Neumire on 11/6/2025

Connections puzzles are fun little puzzles popularized by the New York Times where you are give 16 seemingly random words that you need to organize into four groups of four words each, based on some hidden connection that you need to uncover. Sometimes those connections are fairly obvious and sometimes those connections are really well hidden. This puzzle format is a great thing to steal for your classroom, no matter what you're teaching. Luckily, we have some free websites that will let you create your own interactive puzzles to share with students, like Flippity. This makes it really easy to make a functional puzzle, but it's still mentally exhausting work to actually come up with the words and categories that will puzzle your students into learning. I sat on this problem for a while and decided to create a custom AI tool in Magic School. Its purpose is to ask you prompting questions and give you lots of creative puzzle ideas within your context. Check out the video below to see the whole workflow in action and start giving your students interesting puzzles to engage with your content!