NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Mon 29th June)

Need a hint for today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle? Well, you've come to the right place! We hate to see streaks go to waste here, especially when you've been growing them for so long.

It only takes one bad day to put your streak on the line. If yours is at risk, let us help you out with these handy Connections hints.

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Connections: Sports Edition hint for Monday 29th June

Here are today’s Connections: Sports Edition hints:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: As seen in LA.
• 🟩 Green hint: Champions with the racket.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Football in the highlands.
• 🟪 Purple hint: One phrase, many opportunities.
• Extra hint 1: One group is made up of common phrases starting with the same two words.
• Extra hint 2: Every group except blue has at lease one word containing the letter 'B'

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

• 🟨 Yellow: Trojan
• 🟩 Green: Barty
• 🟦 Blue: Hearts
• 🟪 Purple: Team

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: A Los Angeles Athlete
• 🟩 Green: Wimbledon Women's Singles Winners
• 🟦 Blue: Scottish Soccer Clubs
• 🟪 Purple: All-Star ___

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 Monday 29th June:

• 🟨 Yellow: A Los Angeles Athlete (Bruin, Laker, Trojan, Charger)
• 🟩 Green: Wimbledon Women's Singles Winners (Williams, Barty, Graf, King)
• 🟦 Blue: Scottish Soccer Clubs (Motherwell, Celtic, Hearts, Rangers)
• 🟪 Purple: All-Star ___ (Game, Break, Weekend, Team)

Today's puzzle required a broad knowledge of sports, covering tennis, soccer, and even athletes from LA. The purple group added some nice variation by covering a more vocabulary-related topic. That made for a pretty balanced and well-rounded 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.