{"id":828773,"date":"2025-02-21T13:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/todays-nyt-connections-sports-edition-hints-and-answers-for-dec-28-96\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:12:23","slug":"todays-nyt-connections-sports-edition-hints-and-answers-for-dec-28-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/todays-nyt-connections-sports-edition-hints-and-answers-for-dec-28-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Dec. 28, #96"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Looking for the most recent<\/strong>\u00a0regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints<\/a>, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.<\/p>\n

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Connections: Sports Edition<\/a>\u00a0wasn’t terribly tough today. If you’re used to reading team abbreviations on scorecards or standings, you probably aced the blue category. Read on for hints and answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle.<\/p>\n

For now, the game is in beta, which means the Times is testing it out to see if it’s popular before adding it to the site’s Games app. You can play it daily for now for free \u2014 and then we’ll have to see if it sticks around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more: <\/strong>NYT Has a Connections Game for Sports Fans. I Tried It<\/a><\/p>\n

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups<\/h2>\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>Pull it in<\/p>\n

Green group hint:<\/strong> Grappler vocabulary<\/p>\n

Blue group hint: <\/strong>Like MIN or SEA<\/p>\n

Purple group hint:\u00a0<\/strong>Not small.<\/p>\n

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups<\/h2>\n

Yellow group: <\/strong>Catch<\/p>\n

Green group: <\/strong>Wrestling terms<\/p>\n

Blue group: <\/strong>NFL teams, on scoreboards.<\/p>\n

Purple group:\u00a0<\/strong>Big ____<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words<\/a><\/p>\n

What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?<\/h2>\n
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The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for Dec. 28, 2024.<\/p>\n

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The yellow words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n

The theme is catch. The four answers are grab, nab, snag and snatch.<\/p>\n

The green words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n

The theme is wrestling terms. The four answers are fall, pin, reversal and takedown.<\/p>\n

The blue words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n

The theme is NFL teams, on scoreboards. The four answers are CAR, DEN, JAX and WAS.<\/p>\n

The purple words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n

The theme is Big ____. The four answers are 12, Dance, Fly and league.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Gael Cooper
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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. Connections: Sports Edition\u00a0wasn’t terribly tough today. If you’re used to reading team abbreviations on scorecards or standings, you probably aced the blue category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,3494],"tags":[16351,9656],"class_list":["post-828773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-connections","category-todays","tag-connections","tag-todays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}