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NYT Connections Sports Edition: Hints and Answers for August 24, 2026
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is easier if you know your baseball statistics. The daily sports-themed word game challenges players to identify groups of four words that share a common link.

Like the original Connections and Wordle, the game resets after midnight, with a new puzzle becoming available each day. If you want to solve it yourself, use the hints and category clues below. If you’re ready for the solution, you’ll find today’s answers at the end of the article.

What is Connections: Sports Edition?

Connections: Sports Edition is The New York Times’ daily sports word game, launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property focused on sports coverage. It is available on web browsers and mobile devices.

Each puzzle contains 16 words that must be divided into four groups of four. The categories can cover a wide range of topics, but only one solution is correct, even when several words appear to fit together.

Correctly identify a group and its four words will be removed from the board. An incorrect guess counts as a mistake, and players can make up to four mistakes before the game ends.

Players can rearrange and shuffle the board to make connections easier to spot. The groups are also color-coded by difficulty: yellow is the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. As with Wordle, players can share their results on social media.

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories

Want a clue without revealing the categories? Try these hints:
- Yellow: Scoring
- Green: Stadium dishes
- Blue: All-time offense
- Purple: Alt-baseball
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories

Need more help? Today’s groups are:
- Yellow: Make a shot
- Green: Food served in a baseball helmet
- Blue: Members of the 700-HR club, familiarly
- Purple: Banana Ball teams
Before looking at the answers, this is your last chance to solve today’s puzzle without spoilers.

What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?

The solution to today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 700, is:
- Make a shot: BURY, DRAIN, DRILL, KNOCK DOWN
- Food served in a baseball helmet: FRIES, ICE CREAM, NACHOS, TENDERS
- Members of the 700-HR club, familiarly: ALBERT, BABE, BARRY, HANK
- Banana Ball teams: BANANAS, CLOWNS, PARTY ANIMALS, TAILGATERS
Don’t worry if you couldn’t solve today’s puzzle. A new sports edition of Connections will be available tomorrow, along with more hints and answers.

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08/24/2026
NYT Strands Hints and Answers for August 24, 2026
NYT Strands Hints and Answers for August 24, 2026

Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy for those with a sweet tooth. The New York Times’ Strands is an advanced word-search game that puts a twist on the classic format.

Players connect letters up, down, left, right, or diagonally to form words. Answers can change direction, creating unusual shapes and patterns, and every letter in the grid belongs to an answer. Each puzzle has a theme connecting the solutions, along with the spangram, a special word or phrase that sums up the theme and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

Unlike Wordle and Connections, Strands provides only an opaque hint rather than a word list, making it a longer brain-teasing challenge. If you are stuck or do not have 10 or more minutes to solve today’s puzzle, these NYT Strands hints can help you progress at your preferred pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme

You can’t just eat one

Today’s NYT Strands theme explained

The answers are adjectives related to snacks and describe sweet treats.

NYT Strands spangram hint

Today’s NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today’s spangram is Cookie Jar.

NYT Strands word list for August 24
- Snap
- Macaroon
- Spritz
- Cookie Jar
- Snowball
- Snickerdoodle
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08/24/2026
NYT Connections Hints for Aug. 24, 2026: Meanings of Each Word
Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints or wondering why Connections is trending today? These clue meanings can help you understand the puzzle without revealing the answers.

Mashable has also published daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle, and Strands for years. This guide focuses more on word meanings than traditional hints, but recognizing that several words have completely unrelated meanings can itself be a useful clue. NYT Connections often includes words within words and other visual connections.

NYT Connections clue meanings
- Face: The good character in wrestling.
- Heel: The villain character in wrestling.
- Jobber: A wrestler whose job is to lose matches.
- Kayfabe: The act of pretending staged wrestling events are real.
- Mullet: A popular 80s hairstyle.
- Pike: A single-leg wrestling move.
- Sole: The bottom of the foot or shoe.
- Tang: A reef-associated marine fish.
- Arch: The most extreme version of something.
- Chief: The person in charge.
- Main: Something important. Also could be related to a pipe for transporting utilities.
- Prime: First in importance.
- Beset: To attack from all sides.
- Deserve: To be worthy (of something or someone).
- Ex-love: A former partner.
- Eyelet: A hole in shoes used for thread laces.
Have you learned the meanings and still want the answers? Check out the hints and answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzle.

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