Connections, the New York Times’ latest hit word game, was 2024’s top trending gaming Google search term, followed by its sister word game Strands. It marks yet another year where the media titan turned game publisher managed to edge out many of the year’s biggest (and more traditional) PC and console video games.
“It is the first time [Connections] has topped the list,” Google Data Editor Simon Rogers told Inverse. “Last year it was ranked at number 3.”
