About CraftConnections

CraftConnections is a free, fan-made Minecraft Connections game. It is not an official Minecraft product and is not connected to Mojang, Microsoft or The New York Times. One person builds it; everything on it — the puzzles, the artwork pipeline, the leaderboards — is made from scratch.

The item artwork is rendered at build time from the game’s own textures, so a block on the board looks like that block — no hand-drawn approximations. Around 900 blocks, items and mobs are in the pool, filtered down to the ones an average player actually recognises.

Puzzles are generated from tagged game data, then audited: no category may repeat too often, no item may appear too often, and a solver has to confirm the board admits exactly one answer. Boards that fail any of those checks never reach you.

How to play Minecraft Connections · Answer archive · Leaderboard

Ways to play

One puzzle a day is the main event, but there are three more ways into the game.

• Daily puzzleThe board above. Six mistakes, one board a day, the same for everyone — this is the one that counts towards your streak and the leaderboards.
• Unlimited practiceEndless Minecraft Connections boards with no streak and no pressure. It never reuses the current day’s puzzle, so practising cannot spoil the daily.
• Answer archiveEvery expired puzzle with its full solution, day by day — all four groups, every item and the reason they belong together.
• LeaderboardsWins this week, longest streak and level. Finish in the top three and the honour badge stays yours for good.