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Connections: Sports Edition might be tough today. But if you’re tuned in to a specific tournament happening this week, the blue category should be easy for you. Read on for hints and the answers.
Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta after making its debut on Super 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 app. Or you can continue to play it free online.
Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta
Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
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.
Yellow group hint: Whoops!
Green group hint: Hut-hut!
Blue group hint: Fore!
Purple group hint: More than two.
Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Yellow group: Lose control of the ball.
Green group: Football positions, abbreviated.
Blue group: Masters winners.
Purple group: Triple ____.
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What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?
The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for April 10, 2025, #199.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is lose control of the ball. The four answers are bobble, fumble, juggle and muff.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is football positions, abbreviated. The four answers are CB, DT, P and WR.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is Masters winners. The four answers are Couples, Players, Rahm and Woods.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is triple ____. The four answers are A, crown, double and play.
Quick tips for Connections: Sports Edition
#1: Don’t grab for the easiest group. For each word, think about other sports categories it might fit in – is this a word that can be used in football, or to describe scoring options?
#2: Second meanings are important. The puzzle loves to use last names and even college names that mean other things, to fool you into thinking they are words, not names.
#3: And the opposite is also true. Words like HURTS might seem like a regular word, but it’s also the last name of at least one pro athlete.
