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Today’s Connections: Sports Edition might make you want to dig into your Halloween candy stash. Reese? Mound? 3 Musketeers? The puzzle-makers are tricky, letting us think candy brands were a category, but ha ha ha, they’d never make it that simple. If you’re struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for free online.

Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta

Green group hint: College sports.

Blue group hint: The Sultan of Swat.

Green group: Big East teams.

Blue group: Associated with Babe Ruth.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is associated with Babe Ruth.  The four answers are 3, curse, Red Sox and Yankees.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is angel ____. The four answers are City, McCoughtry, Reese and Stadium.

That said, it’s hard to pick the toughest Connections categories, but here are some I found exceptionally mind-blowing recently.


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