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Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier for fans of abbreviations.
As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.
Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight, and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier — so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
The NYT's latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication's sports coverage. The sports Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.
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Each puzzle features 16 words, and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.
If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake — players get up to four mistakes before the game ends.
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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.
Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:
Yellow: Southeastern Conference
Green: Football stats
Blue: Nicknames
Purple: Parts of a hockey team
Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:
Yellow: SEC Schools, Abbreviated
Green: QB Stats, Abbreviated
Blue: Nicknames of NBA Stars
Purple: Hockey Positions, Abbreviated
Looking for Wordle today? Here's the answer to today's Wordle.
Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.
Drumroll, please!
The solution to today's Connections: Sports Edition #765 is...
SEC Schools, Abbreviated: LSU, OU, UGA, UK
QB Stats, Abbreviated: INT, QBR, TD, YDS
Nicknames of NBA Stars: AD, KD, PG-13, SGA
Hockey Positions, Abbreviated: C, G, LW, RW
Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new sports Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.
Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today's Strands.
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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Connections.
Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalog.
Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.
Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.
If you've ever played dominoes, you'll have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we've shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don't necessarily have to match.
The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible — and common — for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.
Here are common examples you'll run into across the difficulty levels:
Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.
Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.
Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.
Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.
Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.
If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.
Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally.
Greater Than (4): Everything in this space must be greater than 4. The answer is 5-4, placed vertically.
Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 1-6, placed vertically.
Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally; 1-6, placed vertically.
Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally.
Greater Than (5): Everything in this space must be greater than 5. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically.
Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 6-1, placed vertically; 0-2, placed vertically.
Greater Than (3): Everything in this space must be greater than 3. The answer is 4-6, placed vertically.
Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 2-1, placed vertically.
Greater Than (0): Everything in this space must be greater than 0. The answer is 6-3, placed horizontally; 4-6, placed vertically; 6-6, placed vertically.
Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. The answer is 5-0, placed vertically.
Less Than (5): Everything in this space must be less than 5. The answer is 2-1, placed vertically.
Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 2-4, placed horizontally.
Number (8): Everything in this space must add up to 8. The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally; 2-4, placed horizontally; 0-6, placed horizontally.
Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 0-6, placed horizontally.
Greater Than (1): Everything in this space must be greater than 1. The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally.
Greater Than (5): Everything in this space must be greater than 5. The answer is 1-5, placed vertically.
Greater Than (7): Everything in this space must be greater than 7. The answer is 3-5, placed horizontally.
Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 1-3, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed horizontally.
Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally; 6-6, placed vertically; 6-3, placed vertically.
Not Equal: Everything in this space must be different. The answer is 1-3, placed horizontally; 5-0, placed vertically.
Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally.
Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed horizontally; 6-3, placed vertically.
Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 0-3, placed vertically.
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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.
There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.
An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.
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Cover story.
ALIBI
A prank.
CAPER
Protrusion.
BULGE
Serious.
STERN
Sorcery.
MAGIC
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Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V architecture is slowly supplanting applications that would have normally gone to ARM. Even a few microcontrollers have chips running this open-source instruction set now, and we expect it to grow in the future since it doesn’t require the licensing of an ARM or x86 chip. [M_Jagadeesh97] is getting ahead of the curve with this retro gaming system built on a custom-designed RISC-V system.
Most of us, presumably including [M_Jagadeesh97], don’t have access to chip fabrication tools, but what we can get is any of various FPGAs. This RISC-V CPU is built on a Terasic DE0-Nano board with 32 MB of RAM available to it, and boots to a launcher with 32 games available. There are a few limitations with this low-power system which was largely solved by limiting the display to 64×32, which lets it maintain the same aspect ratio as the original DOOM as well as the same aspect ratio for many of the older games, while still maintaining 45 FPS.
The project writeup goes deep into the design of a system like this, from the bare metal, the CPU design, the timing of the video signals, and how to implement a Wolfenstein-like raycaster. After adding a small display it looks to be fairly portable as well and is an excellent demonstration of how powerful inexpensive boards like this FPGA can be with the proper amount of effort.
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