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REVIEW
Connect a Way is a tidy path-connection puzzler with no ambitions beyond the couch.
Mobile Joypad's square-grid pipe-routing puzzle lands on LG webOS as a free, ad-supported filler — competent, narrow, exactly the size it needs to be.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Connect a Way is a free path-connection puzzle from Mobile Joypad that lands on LG webOS in the form the genre has settled into over a decade of mobile iteration. Small square grid, coloured endpoint pairs, draw non-crossing paths until every cell is filled. There is no narrative wrapper, no character to upgrade, no economy to grind — only boards, in increasing sizes, presented one after the next.
That is both the appeal and the ceiling. On a smart-TV platform where the puzzle aisle is mostly aggressive free-to-play traps, a clean implementation of a known logic-puzzle format is worth installing. The Magic Remote’s pointer-and-drag input is genuinely the right control scheme for this kind of game — closer to the touch interaction it was designed for than a Roku or Tizen directional-pad version could ever be. The visual design stays out of the way. The pacing on the early boards trusts the player.
It will not become anyone’s favourite app. It is a couch-side filler that does its job for an evening or two and then waits to be reopened during the next commercial break — which, on a TV, is honestly all the category needs to be.
Connect a Way is what a Flow Free clone looks like when nobody tries to dress it up as something larger.
FEATURES
Connect a Way is a square-grid path-connection puzzle. Each board shows a small grid of cells with coloured endpoint pairs; the goal is to draw a non-crossing path between each pair so every cell ends up covered. The mechanics map directly to Flow Free and the dozens of derivatives on mobile — same rules, same difficulty curve, same logic-puzzle satisfaction when a stuck board finally collapses into the right routing.
On LG webOS the input is the Magic Remote: hover the pointer over an endpoint, hold the wheel-click, drag through the cells you want to claim, release. Boards start small (4×4 with three pairs) and expand from there. Mobile Joypad lists the app as free on the LG store, and the three preview screenshots show standard banner-ad placement between levels — a category norm rather than a complaint.
No login, no cloud save, no daily challenge, no leaderboards. The game is the boards and nothing else.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The visual presentation reads well from across a living room. High-contrast endpoint dots on a flat dark grid, no fussy animated backgrounds, no distractions on the periphery — important on a TV puzzle app where one viewer is usually doing something else in the same room. The pointer-and-drag input is the right primitive for the genre on this platform; a directional-pad port of the same game would feel like punishment.
Pacing on the early boards is correctly calibrated. Connect a Way teaches its rules in three or four small grids without forcing a tutorial overlay, then trusts the player to scale into the harder boards on their own. That restraint is welcome.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
There is no metagame to speak of. No daily puzzle, no themed pack rotation, no time-attack mode, no progression that survives a TV profile change — the same flat shelf life that defines this entire category of webOS puzzle ports. Players who clear a hundred boards in a week will run out, and nothing pulls them back the next month.
The square-grid template also means Connect a Way competes directly with every other Flow Free clone on every platform the household owns. Without a hook of its own — a twist mechanic, a striking art direction, a daily ritual — there is no reason to come back to this specific version once a mobile equivalent is on a phone in the same room.
CONCLUSION
Connect a Way is a reasonable free puzzle filler on a smart-TV platform where the alternatives are largely mahjong clones and slot reskins. Install if you want a quiet square-grid logic puzzle to chip at during ad breaks. Skip if you already play Flow Free or its descendants on a phone — Connect a Way is the same game with worse persistence and a banner ad between levels.