JoJo Connections: Strategy Guide and Tips

JoJo Connections gives you sixteen items in a 4×4 grid — character names, Stand names, locations, or other JoJo terms. Your task is to identify four groups of exactly four items that share a hidden category. Categories might be "Stands that can stop or manipulate time", "members of Passione", "Stardust Crusaders travellers", or something far more abstract.

Groups are colour-coded by difficulty: yellow (easiest), green, blue, and purple (hardest). You have a limited number of incorrect guesses — typically four — before the puzzle locks. Selecting a group that does not match costs one mistake; a correct selection removes those four items from the grid permanently.

Yellow groups are intentionally designed to be accessible. They usually share an obvious, well-known trait: "the Joestar protagonists", "Jotaro’s Egypt crew", or "characters from Part 1". Locking in yellow first gives you a confidence baseline and removes four items that might otherwise distract you.

If yellow is not immediately obvious, write out any groupings you are noticing and look for the one with the most certainty. Guessing yellow when you are only 75% confident is safer than guessing purple when you are 95% confident — the cost of a mistake on an easy group is the same as a mistake on a hard one, but yellow mistakes signal you have misread something fundamental.

Connections puzzles are designed with deliberate misdirection. A set of four famous Stand Users might seem like an obvious group until you notice that one of them also fits the purple category perfectly — at which point that character belongs to the harder group and the easier one needs a replacement you hadn’t considered.

The most common red herring type in JoJo Connections is family and Part overlap: characters connected to the Joestars may be grouped by their bloodline, their Part, their Stand type, or their relationship to a specific villain rather than the family itself. Always ask yourself: "could this item belong to a different category?" before committing.

Purple groups connect items through obscure lore knowledge: a shared Stand naming source (bands, albums, songs), a specific chapter or Part of first appearance, a common ability mechanic, or a thematic connection the game designers planted deliberately. They are designed to reward deep fans.

If you have solved yellow, green, and blue, the purple group reveals itself by elimination — the remaining four items belong together by definition. Use this to your advantage: if you are confident about 12 of the 16 items, the last four solve themselves. Avoid guessing purple early unless you are completely certain.

When genuinely stuck, think about the framing of the category rather than the surface content. "Stands named after rock bands" or "characters who wield a Requiem" are the kind of lateral connections that define strong purple groups.