Sports Puzzle Secrets Revealed
How to Play
Each day, The Athletic challenges you with Connections: Sports Edition—a brain-teasing puzzle that tests your sports knowledge. Hidden within four color-coded groups are words tied together by a shared theme. Your mission? Group them correctly before time runs out.
Where to Play: Exclusively in The Athletic’s app or on its website—not the NYT Games app.
Today’s Clues & Solutions
🟡 Yellow (Easiest)
Theme: Parts of a baseball hit cycle. Clues: double, home run, single, triple Answer: Hit Cycle Components
🟢 Green (Moderate)
Theme: Houston teams (singular nicknames). Clues: Astro, Cougar, Rocket, Texan Answer: Houston Sports Nicknames
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🔵 Blue (Challenging)
Theme: Former U.S. women’s national soccer team players. Clues: Foudy, Hamm, Lilly, Solo Answer: U.S. Women’s Soccer Legends
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🟣 Purple (Hardest)
Theme: MLB team names embedded in words (singular form). Clues: comet (Met), international (National), stranger (Ranger), stray (Ray) Answer: Embedded MLB Team Names
Pro Tips for Solvers
- Start with Yellow: The easiest group often unlocks the puzzle’s rhythm.
- Look for Patterns: Purple clues hide in plain sight—think suffixes and wordplay.
- Stuck? Re-examine the green and blue groups for singular/plural hints.
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