Spoilers in both images and some in the comment itself.
Visual aids on what Snowba11 mean:
"the order of the items doesn't seem to matter": https://imgur.com/rBSGnQz.
"they didn't turn to green links when I connected them together": https://imgur.com/iiO0JxT, "but once I connected that group of 4 to one of the other clues on the other set of 4 all links for the new group went green": https://imgur.com/0JsTh2b
Not sure what meant by "there were only 2 clues to connect to that would make all the links turn green." because I find out that as long as the "End Piece" of the previous one is connect to any piece in the finished group, they will all light up: https://imgur.com/DXWIZRI