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Group By Vibe

daily card sorting puzzle · new puzzle every day · free

Group By Vibe is a daily sorting puzzle played with cards. Four groups sit on the table, each waiting for exactly four cards, and the sixteen cards are dealt into four face-down stacks. You can only see the top of each, so you decide where a card belongs before you see what is underneath.

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How to play

  1. Four labelled groups, each takes exactly four cards.
  2. Tap the top card of any stack to pick it up, then tap the group it belongs to.
  3. When a group fills up it closes.
  4. Four wrong placements ends the day.
One good tipSome cards could plausibly fit two groups. Play a different stack and leave the awkward one — the exactly-four rule settles it, because once one of the two groups fills up the card has to go in the other.

Questions

How is this different from Connections?

Connections shows you all sixteen words at once and asks you to find the groups. Here twelve of the sixteen are face down at any moment, so you commit to a placement before you have seen the rest — it is sorting under uncertainty rather than one big deduction.

What happens if I get one wrong?

You lose one of your four slip-ups and the card goes back on its stack, so you can think again or play a different stack. Four wrong placements ends the day.

Is it free?

Yes, and there is no account needed to play.

The rest of nom.quest

nom.quest is a small collection of tiny daily puzzles — one fresh puzzle in each game, every day, free and with no account needed.