A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45
Details
- External ID
- 46371486
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45
- Website domain
- thomaswc.com
- Launched
- Dec. 24, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 79
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8664122137404581
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
It's a a long puzzle, somewhat akin to a 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle. Solving it collectively with others is encouraged.If you are the sort that likes rules, the rules are you can use Google or whatever external sources you like for help. View page source, however, is cheating.Hat tip to Octagon and the TND crew for help in play testing and proposing categories.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive quiz and trivia games
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- puzzle game for 2025
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward, static web game consisting of simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript that matches words into categories.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Connections (NYT game), threeemojis.com/globs
Concerns raised: Ambiguous/subjective category connections make errors inevitable, Click logic is twitchy with certain input devices, Some entries fit multiple valid categories, Difficulty level very high for obscure references
Feature requests: Ability to undo/pop back last merge, Drag items around to reorder before grouping, Undo feature for mistakes, Optional hint system or category reveal
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 31 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.