Make Your Own Minecraft Connections Puzzle

Pick four categories, pull four blocks into each, publish.

Each colour is a difficulty — yellow is the group most players spot first.
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Trap levelToo easy · decoys: 0
16 more blocks to go

Publish

Fill all four groups and fix any issues first — then publishing takes one click.

Cover block
Shown on the puzzle’s card in Community. Any block works — pick one that sets the mood, not one that gives a group away.
Language of your labels
Labels you typed yourself are never translated. Players can filter by language.

You cannot edit a puzzle after publishing, because changing it would scramble the score grid of everyone who already played it. You can take it down at any time.

Sign in to publish — puzzles carry their author. Your draft stays right here.

Creator guide

Building a puzzle, step by step

  1. Give each of the four bars a category. Pick one of ours and it comes with a ready-made label in six languages; type your own and it stays in the language you wrote it in.
  2. Pull four blocks into each group. The picker hides anything that would also fit one of your other categories, so you cannot build a broken puzzle by accident.
  3. You do not have to rank them. The colour of a bar is its difficulty, and one tap sorts all four by how common each category is — the arrows are there only if you disagree.
  4. Preview it. The preview is the real board with the real shuffle — a puzzle that looks fine as four tidy rows can look very different once the sixteen blocks are mixed.
  5. Publish. You need an account for this, because a published puzzle carries its author. Your draft lives in this browser until then, so you can build the whole thing signed out.

Why the editor blocks some blocks

A Connections board only works if there is exactly one way to split the sixteen blocks into four groups. The game accepts a group only when all four blocks match, so if a second sensible split exists, a player who finds it gets told they are wrong. That is not a hard puzzle — that is the game lying to them.

Minecraft makes this easy to get wrong, because a single block belongs to a surprising number of categories at once. A lantern gives off light and is crafted from iron nuggets; a smoker is a villager job site and is mined with an axe. Turn the safe filter off and you can still build whatever you like — the editor will just tell you, block by block, which one is standing in two groups at the same time.

357 blocks belong to no category at all — those can never clash.

The category pairs that clash most

These pairs share the most blocks, so putting both on the same board is the fastest way to end up with two valid answers. It is the single most common way a hand-built puzzle goes wrong, and it is almost impossible to notice by eye.

crafted_glass×crafted_leather16 blocks in common
mine_with_shovel×tag_concrete_powder16 blocks in common
tag_bee_food×tag_small_flowers15 blocks in common
emits_light×light_source_craft12 blocks in common
mine_with_axe×tag_planks12 blocks in common
crafted_redstone×redstone_component10 blocks in common
edible×tag_meat9 blocks in common
crafted_gold_ingot×tag_piglin_loved7 blocks in common
mine_with_axe×villager_job_site7 blocks in common
emits_light×tag_lanterns6 blocks in common
mine_with_axe×tag_non_flammable_wood6 blocks in common
tag_fishes×tag_wolf_food6 blocks in common

How many blocks each category holds

The number next to a category is how many blocks are in it. A wide category is easy to fill but easy for players to guess; a narrow one forces your hand. All counts come straight from the same data the daily puzzles are generated from.

You mine these with an axe60Crafted with glass38You can eat these38You mine these with a shovel34Bees pollinate these29Crafted with iron28Crafted with leather25These give off light24Piglins will not attack you for holding these24Only found in the Nether21Crafted with redstone19Redstone components18An enderman can pick these up18Bundles17Shulker boxes17Flowers17Terracotta17Brewing ingredients16Concrete powder16Dyes16Wool16Ores you mine14Blocks that light up your base13Villager job site blocks13

What makes a community puzzle good

  • Aim for one group that looks obvious and is. Players need somewhere to stand before the floor moves.
  • One group answerable by looks alone is plenty. Two and the board turns into a colour-matching exercise.
  • A whole group of one colour family — every wool, every concrete — reads instantly. Use it as your easy group or not at all.
  • The best trap is a block that clearly belongs to a group it is not in. That is allowed and encouraged — what is not allowed is a block that genuinely fits two of your categories.

FAQ

Do I need an account to build a puzzle?

Only to publish. You can build the whole thing signed out; the draft is saved in this browser and is still there after you sign in.

Is my draft saved across devices?

No. It lives in this browser only, and it is cleared once you publish. Keeping drafts on the server would mean two copies of the truth for the sake of one rare convenience.

Can I write my own group labels instead of using the categories?

Yes, and some of the best puzzles do. Be aware of the trade-off: a label you typed cannot be checked for a second valid answer, and it is shown only in the language you wrote it in.

How many puzzles can I publish?

A hundred live at a time, and a few per minute. Both limits exist to keep a script from filling the list, not to slow down anyone building by hand.

What happens if my puzzle gets reported?

Enough reports hide it from the community automatically. It stays in My puzzles, clearly marked as hidden, so you always know what happened — and it can be restored if the reports were wrong.

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