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How to play Links: Sports Edition
Links: Sports Edition is a free daily New York Times game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day and you can play on it NYT website. It works the same as usual Connections game, except it’s all about sports.
You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. Groups can be things like teams in a certain city, athletes who won Olympic gold in a certain discipline, or different sports terms associated with a color.
There is only one solution to each puzzle and you will have to be careful when it comes to words that can fit into more than one category. You can mix the words to help you see the connections between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, the blue and green fall in between, and the purple group is usually the hardest. The purple group often includes puns.
Choose four words that you think go together and press submit. If you make a guess and are incorrect, you will lose a life. If you’re close to making a correct set, you may see a message telling you that you’re just one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to switch.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some tips and, if you’re really struggling, today Connections answers. How about me Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share scores with your friends on social media and group chats.
Today’s Links: Sports Publishing Tips
Move slowly! Just after the tips for each of today Links: Sports Edition groups, I will reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Here’s what the network looks like:
NYT Links: Sports Edition Network for Thursday, October 3.
Today’s 16 words and logos are…
- EXPOS
- exhibition
- Relay sockets
- BADGERS
- socks
- THE PILOTS
- FRIENDLY
- slices
- melt
- COFFEE
- HEAT
- SENATORS
- BUCKEYES
- SCRIMAGE
- boiler
- BACKHAND
And the suggestions for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group – nothing on the line here
- Green group – seen at Arthur Ashe and Center Court
- Blue Group – designations associated with the oldest NCAA Division I athletic conference
- Purple group – former members of a major league
Today’s Links: Sports Edition Groups
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Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group – game without actions
- Green group – tennis shot
- Blue group – ten big nicknames
- Purple group – former MLB teams
Today’s Links: Sports Edition Answers?
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of today Links: Sports Edition the answers are…
- Yellow group – game without action (EXHIBITION, FRIENDLY, SCRIMMAGE, WARM-UP)
- Green group – tennis shots (BACKHAND, DROP, SLICE, SMASH)
- Blue Group – Big Ten Nicknames (BADGERS, BOILERMAKERS, BUCKEYES, HOOSIERS)
- Purple Group – Former MLB Teams (BROWNS, EXPOS, PILOTS, SENATORS)
Boo, my five day streak is over. Here’s how I got on:
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I got the yellow ones with zero problems at all. But then I ran into trouble.
College sports and baseball are not among my strong suits. I’m vaguely aware that the BUCKEYES are an Ohio thing, and having lived in Montreal for over a decade, the EXPOS are something of an injury sport for the locals here, so I know about that team. But I thought the SENATORS referred to the NHL team and the BROWNS to the NFL team.
My failed guesses included the EXPOS and SENATORS, along with what I hoped were Canadian sports teams I had never heard of. Alas, I didn’t find the right combination before my luck ran out.
That’s all there is for today Links: Sports Edition data and response. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the walkthrough for Friday’s game if you need them.