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Tips for Connections Groups: Sports Today’s Edition
Here are four clues for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ordered from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.
Yellow group index: Not cold.
Green group index: Get out on the water.
Blue group index:Lew Alcindor
Purple group index: A bright future ahead.
Connections Group Answers: Today’s Sports Edition
Yellow group: Warm team names.
Green group: Rowing terms.
Blue group: Associated with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Purple group: No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft.
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What are the answers from today’s Connections: Sports Edition?
The NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle completed by October 19, 2025.
Yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is warm team names. The four answers are Fire, Flames, Heat and Suns.
Green words in today’s Connections
The theme is rowing terms. The four answers are bow, helmsman, regatta and stern.
Blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is associated with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The four answers are 33, Lakers, Skyhook and UCLA.
Purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is No. 1 picks in the WNBA draft. The four answers are Bird, Boston, Charles and Plum.
