NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for August 8, 2026
Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle.
Connections: Sports Edition is today's featured New York Times word game, which tests sports knowledge. The game resets every midnight with increasingly challenging word sets. For today's puzzle #684, players must identify four words that share a common connection within four categories. A hint suggests that the categories are related to game beginnings, a youth baseball championship, award-winning pitchers, and what comes before "Final".
The categories are categorized by color - yellow for easy, green for youth baseball, blue for AL Cy Young Award winners, and purple for what precedes "Final". To play, players must group the 16 given words into these four categories. For example, a yellow category might include FACEOFF, FIRST PITCH, JUMP BALL, KICKOFF; a green category could contain LEAGUE, LITTLE, SERIES, WORLD; blue might feature BLUE, COLE, COLON, VIOLA; and purple could include QUARTER, SEMI, STANLEY CUP, WORLD CUP.
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