How to play Pokennection

Every daily board contains 16 tiles divided into four hidden groups. A valid group is exactly four Pokémon connected by one category chosen for that board. The rule may be easy to spot, such as a shared type, or require you to use names, generations, regions, shapes, colours, or another piece of Pokémon knowledge. Two Pokémon can share several facts; the challenge is to find the specific connection that links four tiles on the current board.

A strong theory should account for all four members, not just the first two you notice. Scan the whole set before submitting, then check whether your idea leaves a sensible set of options for the other three categories. That quick cross-check can expose a tempting decoy before it costs a life.

Select exactly four different tiles and submit them together. The game judges the combination as a group, so tapping two or three likely matches does not test a theory; wait until you have four choices. If you selected an unintended tile, remove it and choose another before submitting. An incomplete selection is not a valid answer, while a wrong submitted combination uses one life.

When your guess is correct, the group locks in and its Pokémon leave the active board. The remaining tiles become easier to compare because one possible category has been removed. Solve all four groups to clear the daily puzzle. If all four lives are lost first, the run ends and the solution becomes available to review.

A standard wrong guess costs one of your four lives. The “one away” message has a precise meaning: exactly three of your selected Pokémon belong to the same unsolved group, and the fourth does not. It confirms that part of your idea is close, but it does not identify the category or tell you which tile to replace.

Treat the message as a reason to compare your choices, not as an invitation to guess randomly. Keep the three Pokémon with the strongest shared evidence and reconsider the fourth. If you cannot tell which three fit, pause and scan the full board again; every submitted guess should test a clear idea and help you make the next decision.

Images view keeps the Pokémon artwork visible. Use it to compare silhouettes, colours, shapes, and other visual patterns, while remembering that similar artwork does not always mean the tiles share the intended category. Names view hides the illustrations and asks you to work from Pokémon names instead. The board itself stays the same; only the information you use to solve it changes.

Normal, Hard, and Hard+ change the challenge level, not the four-group goal or the four-life limit. Start with Normal while learning the rhythm of selecting, submitting, and interpreting feedback. Move to Hard or Hard+ when you want to spend more time comparing categories and considering less obvious Pokémon knowledge. If you get stuck, changing the view can offer a fresh way to inspect the same tiles.

First, scan all 16 tiles without submitting. Name a few possible links, but keep them as hypotheses until you can account for four Pokémon. Next, test your strongest complete group and notice how the board changes when it clears. Then inspect the remaining tiles from the beginning; a connection that seemed uncertain may become clearer after another group is gone.

When two possible groups overlap, compare both before choosing. Ask which idea explains all four members and which leaves the most believable options for the rest of the board. Use Names view for facts you can recall and Images view for visual evidence. This method protects lives better than cycling through guesses, and it works across the daily puzzle’s Normal, Hard, and Hard+ settings.

The daily board changes at local midnight. Players on the same calendar date receive the same board, even though midnight arrives at different times around the world. Your in-progress board is saved in your browser, so refreshing the page normally keeps your current run available on that browser. Clearing browser storage or switching to another browser can remove access to that local progress.

Unlimited is a separate way to keep solving after the daily board. Choose a run of 8, 16, or 24 boards and clear as many as possible with one shared pool of four lives. Each cleared board adds 100 points. The Unlimited page lets you start a run and review your completed result.