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NYT Connections Sports Edition Hints and Answers for August 29, 2026

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle should be a little easier for baseball fans. The daily sports-themed word game from The New York Times challenges players...

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle should be a little easier for baseball fans. The daily sports-themed word game from The New York Times challenges players to find the “common threads between words.”

Like Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition resets at midnight, with a new set of increasingly difficult words each day. Use the hints below to help solve today’s puzzle, or scroll to the answer if you want the solution.

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What is Connections: Sports Edition?

Connections: Sports Edition is a daily word game launched by The New York Times in association with The Athletic, the newspaper’s sports-focused property. It is available on web browsers and mobile devices.

Each puzzle contains 16 words that must be divided into four groups of four words with something in common. The categories may include names, nicknames, sports, titles, or other related terms. Although several words may appear to fit together, there is only one correct solution.

Correctly identifying a group removes its four words from the board. Incorrect guesses count as mistakes, and players can make up to four mistakes before the game ends.

Players can rearrange and shuffle the board to make the connections easier to spot. The groups are also color-coded by difficulty: yellow is the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. As with Wordle, players can share their results on social media.

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Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories

Want a clue about the categories without revealing them outright? Try these hints:

  • Yellow: To box
  • Green: Legendary big man nicknames
  • Blue: Famous White Sox
  • Purple: US-based sports and games

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories

Need more help? Today’s four categories are:

  • Yellow: Boxing Terms
  • Green: Nicknames of Hall of Fame Centers, With “The”
  • Blue: White Sox in the Hall of Fame
  • Purple: American____

Looking for Wordle today? Here’s the answer to today’s Wordle.

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition answer

Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to solve today’s puzzle before the solutions are revealed.

The solution to today’s Connections: Sports Edition #705 is:

  • Boxing Terms: CROSS, HOOK, JAB, UPPERCUT
  • Nicknames of Hall of Fame Centers, With “The”: ADMIRAL, BIG ARISTOTLE, BIG DIPPER, DREAM
  • White Sox in the Hall of Fame: FISK, FOX, MINOSO, THOMAS
  • American____: FOOTBALL, LEAGUE, NINJA WARRIOR, PHAROAH

Don’t worry if you didn’t solve it today. A new Connections: Sports Edition puzzle will be available tomorrow, with more hints to help you along the way.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.

Looking for more puzzles? Visit Mashable’s games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crosswords, and more.

Not looking for today’s puzzle? Here’s the solution to today’s Connections.

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