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Hey there, folks! It’s time for another round of what’s quickly becoming an enjoyable addition to my daily games routine. Really hope the NYT adds music, movie and video game versions of Connections eventually too.
Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections: Sports Edition
Connections: Sports Edition is a free daily New York Times game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day and you can play on the NYT website. It works just like the regular Connections game, except everything is sports-related.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like teams in a certain city, athletes who won Olympic gold in a certain discipline or various sports terms linked by a color.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition Hints
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Here’s what the grid looks like:
Today’s 16 words and logos are…
- RUN
- DOWNHILL
- CANTON
- SLALOM
- COMBINED
- KICK
- STARSTRUCK
- WILDERNESS
- HEATHER
- SUPER-G
- COOPERSTOWN
- PUNT
- JETSAM
- PASS
- TORONTO
- SPRINGFIELD
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — things you can do on the gridiron
- Green group — places where you can learn about the GOATs
- Blue group — different rules for the slopes
- Purple group — look to the beginning for a familiar name
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition Groups
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — options with a football
- Green group — hall of fame locations
- Blue group — alpine skiing disciplines
- Purple group — starts with a team name
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers are…
- Yellow group — options with a football (KICK, PASS, PUNT, RUN)
- Green group — hall of fame locations (CANTON, COOPERSTOWN, SPRINGFIELD, TORONTO)
- Blue group — alpine skiing disciplines (COMBINED, DOWNHILL, SLALOM, SUPER-G)
- Purple group — starts with a team name (HEATHER, JETSAM, STARSTRUCK, WILDERNESS)
My third win in a row and I was glad (and surprised) to do so with back-to-back perfect games. Here’s how I fared:
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🔵🔵🔵🔵
🟢🟢🟢🟢
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The football terms were easy enough, even for a non-fan like me. I managed to get the blues next, thanks to DOWNHILL and SLALOM (I had to dig deep into the memory banks to remember that SUPER-G is a skiing discipline).
After that, I grouped up the obvious city names, even though I wasn’t aware of what they represented here (I have been to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, for what it’s worth). That left the purple group, which was one of those annoying wordplay ones that fans of regular Connections will be all too familiar with.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections: Sports Edition clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I was fortunate enough to see the greatest player of all time in the flesh once. He was only just starting to become well-known, but Lionel Messi was the star of the show when he and Barcelona played my team, Dundee United, in a friendly game. He scored a hat-trick and showed flashes of his absolute genius.
It was a fantastic day out with my dad (who, regrettably, is a Dundee supporter) as we got to see Barcelona on the cusp of them becoming arguably the best club team the world has ever seen. And hey, my guy Prince Buaben even opened the scoring for us against the Catalan giants:
