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Looking for the most recent<\/strong>\u00a0regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.<\/p>\n Today’s\u00a0Connections: Sports Edition\u00a0might be tough. Not sure how many people who play this are up on Six Nations Rugby. Read on for hints and the answers.<\/p>\n Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on\u00a0Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can continue to play it free online. \u00a0<\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0<\/strong>NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta<\/p>\n Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.<\/p>\n Yellow group hint<\/strong>: Big win.<\/p>\n Green group hint<\/strong>: Think scrums.<\/p>\n Blue group hint<\/strong>: Good catch!<\/p>\n Purple group hint<\/strong>: College towns.<\/p>\n Yellow group<\/strong>: Decisive victory.<\/p>\n Green group<\/strong>: Countries in Six Nations Rugby.<\/p>\n Blue group<\/strong>: Names of NFL WRs.<\/p>\n Purple group<\/strong>: Big 12 school locations.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Aug. 23, 2025.<\/p>\n <\/span> NYT\/Screenshot by CNET<\/span><\/p>\n The theme is decisive victory. The four answers are blowout, landslide, romp and runaway.<\/p>\n The theme is countries in Six Nations Rugby. The four answers are England, France, Ireland and Wales.<\/p>\n The theme is names of NFL WRs. The four answers are Ceedee, Ladd, Puka and Rome.<\/p>\n The theme is Big 12 school locations. The four answers are Ames, Lawrence, Manhattan and Morgantown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking for the most recent\u00a0regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s\u00a0Connections: Sports Edition\u00a0might be tough. Not sure how many people who play this are up on Six Nations Rugby. Read on for hints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[994,6500,991,993,834,832,992,831],"class_list":{"0":"post-17257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-answers","9":"tag-aug","10":"tag-connections","11":"tag-edition","12":"tag-hints","13":"tag-nyt","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-todays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups<\/h2>\n
Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups<\/h2>\n
What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?<\/h2>\n
The yellow words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n
The green words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n
The blue words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n
The purple words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n