“Connections, the word/logic game from The New York Times, isn’t easy with a solve rate below 50 percent on some days. A new bot is using AI to analyze players’ mistakes and guess their thought process. The game presents a grid of 16 words to categorize into four groups with red herrings and multiple viable answers, making it tricky. After playing, players can check their skill score compared to others and see the most common incorrect guesses thanks to the bot. Your own mistakes may not appear, as there are millions of ways to group the grid. You need a Times account to track scores with the bot. This marks the Times’ newsroom publishing AI-generated text regularly, approved by editors before publication. While AI can’t reliably solve the game, it adds a new dimension to gameplay without the ability to cheat.”
