NYT Connections Helper is an unofficial Chrome extension that recreates the behavior of the existing NYT Connections color-cycler userscript and adds configurable category settings.

Features

• Cycles cards through NYT's native selected state and custom category colors.
• Adds bulk toolbar buttons for applying a category color to the currently selected cards.
• Lets you change the number of active categories, each category label, each category background color, and each category text color.
• Includes "Restore defaults" actions in both the popup and the options page. The defaults match the original userscript's four categories.

Default Categories

1. Yellow - #f9df6d
2. Green - #a0c35a
3. Blue - #b0c4ef
4. Purple - #ba81c5

Each default category uses text color #1d1d1d.

Load Unpacked

1. Open chrome://extensions.
2. Turn on Developer mode.
3. Click Load unpacked.
4. Select this repository root.

Supported URLs

• https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections*
• https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/connections*

Privacy Policy

The extension's privacy policy is available in PRIVACY.md.

Verified against the current codebase:

• The extension only runs on the two New York Times Connections URL patterns declared in manifest.json.
• The extension stores only basic category settings in chrome.storage.local.
• The extension does not transmit extension data to developer-controlled or third-party servers.
• The extension does not load remote code, remote scripts, analytics, or tracking code.

Disclaimer

NYT Connections Helper is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The New York Times Company.