NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Wed 24 June)

Rock Paper Shotgun » Guides✍ Laura-May Randell📅 June 24, 2026⏱ 3 min read(2 months ago)

Overview & Key Takeaways

Even the most knowledgable of sports fans can trip up on the Connections puzzle! The NYT doesn't make them easy, after all. That would defeat the purpose!

If you're struggling to fill in the boxes of today's puzzle, let us help you out with these handy hints.

Even the most knowledgable of sports fans can trip up on the Connections puzzle! The NYT doesn't make them easy, after all. That would defeat the purpose!

If you're struggling to fill in the boxes of today's puzzle, let us help you out with these handy hints.

Click here to play today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle!

Connections: Sports Edition hint for Wednesday 24th June

Here are today’s Connections: Sports Edition hints:

🟨 Yellow hint: Think events, not races.
🟩 Green hint: Not a marathon!
🟦 Blue hint: First names heard on NBA Draft night.
🟪 Purple hint: These connections are united by their beginnings.
Extra hint 1: Try adding the same common sports term to the start of some of these words to form familiar phrases.
Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'R'

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

🟨 Yellow: Javelin
🟩 Green: Flurry
🟦 Blue: Towns
🟪 Purple: Race

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: Throwing Events
🟩 Green: Quick Run of Activity
🟦 Blue: NBA Draft No. 1 Picks
🟪 Purple: ___ Track

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 Wednesday 24th June:

🟨 Yellow: Throwing Events (Discus, Hammer, Javelin, Shot Put)
🟩 Green: Quick Run of Activity (Burst, Flurry, Spurt, Surge)
🟦 Blue: NBA Draft No. 1 Picks (Brand, Towns, Wall, Worthy)
🟪 Purple: ___ Track (Dirt, Race, Short, Warning)

Today's Connections Sports Edition puzzle was a mixed bag. We had track-and-field, sprints, a bit of history, and a word play group! That's a balanced puzzle if you ask me. And the purple group wasn't my nemesis for once! What a nice surprise. How many categories did you find without making a mistake?

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.

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