Today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle may be easier if you follow European soccer. This sports-focused version of Connections, the popular New York Times word game, challenges fans to find the “common threads between words.”
Like Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition resets at midnight, with a new puzzle becoming progressively more challenging. Use the hints and tips below to work through today’s game, or skip to the end for the complete solution.
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What is Connections: Sports Edition?
The NYT’s daily sports word game launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property covering sports. Connections: Sports Edition is available in web browsers and on mobile devices. Players must sort 16 words into four groups of four based on a shared connection.
The categories can include anything from book titles and software to country names and sports teams. Several words may appear to fit together, but each puzzle has only one correct solution.
Correctly identifying all four words in a group removes them from the board. An incorrect guess counts as a mistake, and players can make up to four mistakes before the game ends.
You can rearrange and shuffle the board to make connections easier to spot. Each group also has a color-coded difficulty level: yellow is the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. As with Wordle, you can share your results with friends on social media.
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Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories
Want a hint without revealing the categories? Try these clues:
- Yellow: AFC North
- Green: Host cities
- Blue: European champions
- Purple: Football Giants
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories
Need more help? Today’s groups fall into these categories:
- Yellow: An AFC North Player
- Green: European Cities to Host Olympics, Since 2000
- Blue: Champions League Winners
- Purple: New York Giants
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Today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers
This is your final chance to solve the puzzle before seeing the answers.
Drumroll, please! The solution to today’s Connections: Sports Edition #701 is:
- An AFC North Player: BENGAL, BROWN, RAVEN, STEELER
- European Cities to Host Olympics, Since 2000: LONDON, MILAN, PARIS, TURIN
- Champions League Winners: AJAX, JUVENTUS, PORTO, REAL MADRID
- New York Giants: BURNS, DART, HOLLAND, LIKELY
Don’t feel discouraged if you couldn’t solve today’s puzzle. A new sports edition of Connections will be available tomorrow, along with more hints and answers.
Are you also playing NYT Strands? See the hints and answers for today’s Strands.
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Not looking for today’s puzzle? Here’s the solution to the latest Connections game.
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