Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a real challenge, but also fun. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group hint: Helps you identify a team. Green group hint: Short for a hoops team. Blue group hint: He shoots, he scores! Purple group hint: Seventh letter of the alphabet.
Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Yellow group: A team’s symbol. Green group: NBA teams, informally. Blue group: Hockey stick manufacturers. Purple group: What “G” might mean. What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers? The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for July 30, 2026.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is a team’s symbol. The four answers are badge, crest, emblem and logo. The green words in today’s Connections
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The theme is NBA teams, informally.
The four answers are Clips, Grizz, Mavs and Wolves. The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is hockey stick manufacturers. The four answers are Bauer, CCM, Sher-Wood and Warrior. The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is what “G” might mean. The four answers are games, Gatorade, goaltender and guard. Bioreports editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?
The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s and ’80s,” as well as “The Totally Sweet ’90s.” She’s been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She’s Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she’ll be first in line. See full bio
