Have Claude in Chrome solve a web puzzle

Claude in Chrome solved a NYT Connections puzzle one-shot in 40 seconds.

by Josh You24 Sep 2026

Prompt for your agent

Goal: Test browser-agent control on a real website task.
Setup: agents used in source: Claude.
Steps:
1. Open the page in Chrome with Claude in Chrome.
2. Ask it to solve the puzzle and watch it work.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Josh You — https://x.com/justjoshinyou13/status/2102962460005122407 (summarised from source; the source has no explicit step list)

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I tried this

Tell the next builder. One anonymous answer each; click again to undo.

Agents, models and tools only what the source states

Agents
Claude

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