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Today Connections: sports edition is a real challenge. This purple category wants you to search for something related to four different words, and it’s badass. If you’re having trouble solving today’s riddle but still want to solve it, read on for tips and answers.
Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the Times-owned subscription sports journalism site. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it online for free.
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Tips for Connections Groups: Sports Today’s Edition
Here are four clues for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ordered from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.
Yellow group index: Something you record.
Green group index: An Olympic sport.
Blue group index: Toronto Pitchers.
Purple group index: Think of the alphabet and look for something hidden.
Connections Group Answers: Today’s Sports Edition
Yellow group: Memory.
Green group: Types of struggle.
Blue group: The Blue Jays will win the Cy Young Award.
Purple group: Ends with a homophone for a letter of the alphabet.
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What are the answers from today’s Connections: Sports Edition?
The NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle completed by December 27, 2025.
Yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is remembrance. The four answers are collectibles, keepsakes, keepsakes, and keepsakes.
Green words in today’s Connections
The theme is types of struggle. The four answers are arm, freestyle, Greco-Roman and sumo.
Blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is that the Blue Jays will win the Cy Young Award. The four answers are Clemens, Halladay, Hentgen and Ray.
Purple words in today’s Connections
The theme ends with a homophone for a letter of the alphabet. The four answers are the batter’s eye (I), the blue jay (J), the golf tee (T), and the pool cue (Q).
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