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Contact today: Sports version can be tricky. The purple category requires some real letter gymnastics. Continue reading the tips and answers.
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Today's contact tips: Sports Edition Group
Here are four tips for grouping in today’s connections: Sports Edition puzzles, rankings from the simplest yellow group to the tough (sometimes strange) purple group.
Yellow group tips: For example, Milwaukee player.
Green group tips: Gridion Goof.
Blue group tips:Ship it there!
Purple Group Tips: Shake for movement.
Today's contact answer: Sports Edition Group
Yellow group: NL central player.
Green Group: Football penalty.
Blue group: The pitcher's attributes.
Purple group: Sports, a letter has changed.
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What is the connection today: Sports version answer?
The Complete New York Times: The Sports Edition puzzle for June 6, 2025, #256
Yellow words in today's connection
The theme is NL central player. The four answers are winemakers, cubs, pirates and red.
Green Words in Today's Connection
The subject is football punishment. These four answers are tailoring, masks, grips and offside.
Blue Words in Today's Connection
The subject is the pitcher's attribute. These four answers are command, control, endurance, and speed.
Purple Words in Today's Connection
The theme is movement and changes the letters. These four answers are boiling, boredom, bay and plunder.
Boiling = bowling
Boredom = boxing
Bay = golf
Skim = Swimming
Quick tips for connecting: Sports Edition
#1: Don't catch the simplest group. For each word, consider other sports categories that it might fit – is this a word that can be used in football or a word that describes the scoring options?
#2: The second meaning is important. This puzzle likes to use last names or even university names that mean other things, tricking you into thinking they are words rather than names.
#3: The opposite is true. Words like injury seem to be a regular word, but it is also the last name of at least one professional athlete.
