NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Tue 23 June)

Connections Sports Edition is even harder than the regular Connections puzzle, unless you're fully up to date with all your sports-related trivia! And even then, it's still no walk in the park.

Luckily, you've got us, and we've got all the hints and answers you need to knock today's puzzle out of the park!

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Connections: Sports Edition hint for Tuesday 23rd June

Here are today’s Connections: Sports Edition hints:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Think MLB geography.
• 🟩 Green hint: The path changes after contact.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Saturday afternoons, marching bands, and loud crowds.
• 🟪 Purple hint: The last letter is there on paper only.
• Extra hint 1: The trickiest set relies on pronunciation.
• Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'C'

Need an extra hint or two? Click the spoiler tabs below to see one word from each group:

• 🟨 Yellow: Kansas City
• 🟩 Green: Ricochet
• 🟦 Blue: Kinnick
• 🟪 Purple: Croquet

Spoiler warning! The answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle are listed below! Continue at your own risk.

Today's Connections: Sports Edition groups

If these hints aren’t quite cutting it, we’ve got more below. Here are the four correct Connections: Sports Edition group themes, a.k.a. the ideas that link all four words together.

Here are the Connections: Sports Edition groups for today:

• 🟨 Yellow: AL Central Teams
• 🟩 Green: Deflection Off A Surface
• 🟦 Blue: Big Ten Football Stadiums
• 🟪 Purple: Ends In A Silent 'T'

Now that you’ve got all our hints, try the puzzle again and see how you go! Otherwise, check the full answers below.

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections: Sports Edition answers lie ahead!

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers

Here are the answers for today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle on Tuesday 23rd June:

• 🟨 Yellow: AL Central Teams (Detroit, Chicago, Minnesota, Kansas City)
• 🟩 Green: Deflection Off A Surface (Ricochet, Carom, Bounce, Glance)
• 🟦 Blue: Big Ten Football Stadiums (Michigan, Kinnick, Camp Randall, Autzen)
• 🟪 Purple: Ends In A Silent 'T' (Rudy Gobert, Croquet, Debut, Garrett Crochet)

And that's another Connections puzzle under your belt. It was a tricky one, too. I know the author knew what they were doing when they included an extra word with a silent 't' that didn't belong in the purple group! That was a very nice misdirection, I must say.

Oh, you thought it stopped there? Nope! Michigan was another tough one that would fit nicely into either the yellow or blue groups. That's exactly the kind of trickery that can make or break your puzzle!

Let us know how today’s puzzle went for you in the comments below! Here's my grid:

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And that’s a wrap on today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle! Hopefully these handy hints were able to get you over the finish line. If not, a new puzzle comes out at midnight, so you can try again.