Today's Connections: Sports Edition features a variety of categories, including an Olympic sport in the challenging purple group. This edition is available through The Athletic's app, although it is not included in the NYT Games app, allowing users to engage with the puzzle online for free.
Hints provided for the categories range from basic to complex, assisting players in navigating the puzzle. For the yellow group, players will look for baseball abbreviations. The green group hints at something related to tigers, while the blue group focuses on members of the Los Angeles Lakers. The most difficult purple group centers on winter Olympics sport.
Answers for today's puzzle reveal four distinct categories: the yellow group identifies MLB teams as CIN, MIL, PIT, and STL; the green group lists Clemson, Detroit, LSU, and Memphis as tigers; the blue group includes Doncic, James, Smart, and Vanderbilt as Lakers members; and the purple group provides curling terms such as bonspiel, end, house, and stone.