​Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Here are today’s Connections hints, along with daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a challenging puzzle, and if you’re struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. You can also access it for free online.

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups: Yellow group — Working out; Green group — Cover your face; Blue group — NFL players; Purple group — Leap.

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups:
– Yellow group: Exercises in singular form
– Green group: Sporting jobs that require masks
– Blue group: Hall of Fame defensive ends
– Purple group: ____ jump

What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers? The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for April 8, 2026. The yellow words in today’s Connections form a theme of exercises in singular form, with answers crunch, plank, situp, and squat. The green words form a theme of sporting jobs that require masks, with answers catcher, fencer, football player, and goaltender. The blue words form a theme of Hall of Fame defensive ends, with answers Dent, Peppers, Strahan, and Youngblood. The purple words form a theme of ____ jump, with answers broad, high, long, and triple.

Toughest Connections: Sports Edition categories. The Connections: Sports Edition puzzle can be tough, but it really depends on which sports you know the most about. My husband aces anything having to do with Formula 1, my best friend is a hockey buff, and I can answer any question about Minnesota teams. That said, it’s hard to pick the toughest Connections categories, but here are some I found exceptionally mind-blowing:
1) Serie A Clubs. Answers: Atalanta, Juventus, Lazio, Roma
2) WNBA MVPs. Answers: Catchings, Delle Donne, Fowles, and Stewart
3) Premier League team nicknames. Answers: Bees, Cherries, Foxes, and Hammers
4) Homophones of NBA player names. Answers: Barns, Connect, Heart, and Hero  

​Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is kind of tough. The purple category is a fun one, once you see the connection. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.. The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.. Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time. Hints for today’s Connections groups. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.. Yellow group hint: In the group.. Green group hint: Appearance details.. Blue group hint: Often found in gyms.. Purple group hint: They help you see.. Answers for today’s Connections groups. Yellow group: Cohort member.. Green group: Aesthetic.. Blue group: Kinds of bar apparatuses.. Purple group: Eyewear in the singular.. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words. What are today’s Connections answers?. The completed NYT Connections puzzle for April 8, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is cohort member. The four answers are associate, colleague, fellow and peer.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is aesthetic. The four answers are design, look, scheme and style.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is kinds of bar apparatuses. The four answers are monkey, parallel, pull-up and uneven.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is eyewear in the singular. The four answers are contact, goggle, shade and spectacle.. Toughest Connections puzzles. We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.. #5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.. #4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.. #3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.. #2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.. #1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.  

​Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Here’s a rundown of our daily Strands hints and answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle might be sleepy. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you’re after today’s Wordle, Connections, and Mini Crossword answers, you can check an NYT puzzle hints page. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far.

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle. Today’s Strands theme is: We’re going under cover. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Zzzzz…. Clue words to unlock in-game hints. Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work: BALD, SCALD, BATH, DORM, FORM, QUIET, LANK, CLANK, BEER, BLANK.

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle. These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers: QUILT, THROW, AFGHAN, SPREAD, BLANKET, COMFORTER.

Today’s Strands spangram. The completed NYT Strands puzzle for April 8, 2026. Today’s Strands spangram is BEDCLOTHES. To find it, look for the B that’s five letters down on the far-left vertical row, and wind across.

Toughest Strands puzzles. Here are some of the Strands topics I’ve found to be the toughest: #1: Dated slang. Maybe you didn’t even use this lingo when it was cool. Toughest word: PHAT. #2: Thar she blows! I guess marine biologists might ace this one. Toughest word: BALEEN or RIGHT. #3: Off the hook. Again, it helps to know a lot about sea creatures. Sorry, Charlie. Toughest word: BIGEYE or SKIPJACK.  

​Don’t be blue: Google is releasing an Isai blue edition of the Pixel 10A to celebrate the Android phone line’s 10th anniversary, setting it apart with its own sticker set, specialized wallpaper and custom icons. But it’ll only be available in Japan.. The Isai blue Pixel 10A’s wallpaper was created by an artist contracted by the Japanese design company Heralbony. Google. Announced Tuesday on the Google Japan blog, the Isai blue Pixel 10A has a dark blue look and includes bonus decorations designed in collaboration with Japan’s Heralbony art company. These include an exclusive bumper case and stickers for customization.. The stickers have a hand-drawn look. Google. This edition of the Pixel 10A will arrive in Japan on May 20, following the April 14 release of the Pixel 10A in its original colors of lavender, berry, fog and obsidian. The Isai blue model costs 94,900 yen, which roughly translates to $595, and includes 256GB of storage.. This makes it slightly less expensive than the US model’s 256GB edition, but it comes with a number of fun extras at no additional cost.. Google’s creation of a country-specific model for Japan may also reflect strong sales in that market. In 2023, the IDC analytics firm (via 9to5Google) reported that the Pixel 7 series accounted for 10.7% of the country’s market share, a 527% increase from 2022.  

​Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Hint: It uses a lot of the letter Z for some reason. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword. Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.. Mini across clues and answers. 1A clue: ___-Carlton (hotel chain). Answer: RITZ. 5A clue: Span of the alphabet. Answer: ATOZ. 6A clue: Cable channel with an out-of-this-world name. Answer: STARZ. 7A clue: Takes care of, as a squeaky wheel. Answer: OILS. 8A clue: Toy on a string. Answer: YOYO. Mini down clues and answers. 1D clue: When a post receives far more negative comments than likes, in social media slang. Answer: RATIO. 2D clue: World’s leading wine producer. Answer: ITALY. 3D clue: Middle of the human body. Answer: TORSO. 4D clue: Sleeping sound. Answer: ZZZ. 6D clue: Tofu base. Answer: SOY