Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Oct. 13 #385

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Tips for Connections Groups: Sports Today’s Edition

Here are four clues for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ordered from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.

Yellow group index: 1-1.

Green group index: Do better than.

Blue group index: Made from a board high in the water.

Purple group index: Sherrone Moore is one.

Connections Group Answers: Today’s Sports Edition

Yellow group: Same match.

Green group: Surpass.

Blue group: Diving stations.

Purple group: Big Ten head football coaches.

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What are the answers from today’s Connections: Sports Edition?

Yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme even matches. The four answers are stalemate, draw, stalemate and tie.

Green words in today’s Connections

The theme is outdated. The four answers are eclipse, eclipse, exceed, and transcend.

Blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is diving positions. The four responses are free, pike, straight and tuck.

Purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is Big Ten football head coaches. The four answers are Day, Fisch, Fleck and Rhule.