NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for August 24, 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.
Today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a bit easier with some baseball knowledge. The game, brought to you by The Athletic, requires players to identify the common theme linking four words each round. With 16 words across four categories, players earn points by correctly grouping words and accumulate mistakes if they choose incorrectly. The game resets every midnight, presenting a new, increasingly challenging set of words.
Today's categories are categorized by their difficulty: yellow (scoring), green (stadium food), blue (all-time offense), and purple (alternative baseball). Here's a clue for today's categories: Yellow - Make a shot, Green - Food served in a baseball helmet, Blue - Members of the 700-HR club (familiarly), Purple - Banana Ball teams.
The solution to today's Connections: Sports Edition is as follows: Make a shot - BURY, DRAIN, DRILL, KNOCK DOWN; Food served in a baseball helmet - FRIES, ICE CREAM, NACHOS, TENDERS; Members of the 700-HR club (familiarly) - ALBERT, BABE, BARRY, HANK; Banana Ball teams - BANANAS, CLOWNS, PARTY ANIMALS, TAILGATERS.
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