Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Aug. 17 #328

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Today’s connections: Sports Edition is both fun and difficult. The purple category was rather brilliant, in fact. Read the rest for advice and answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is out of the beta version, making its debut on the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 9. This is a sign that the game won enough loyal players that the sports journalism site based on the Times subscription, will continue to publish it. It does not appear in the Nyt Games application but now appears in the own application of athletics. Or you can continue to play for free online.

Find out more: Nyt Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle comes out of the beta version

Tips for today’s connections: Sports publishing groups

Here are four tips for groups in today’s connections: Sports Edition Puzzle, classified from the easiest yellow group to the hard (and sometimes weird) group.

Yellow group index: Terms nfl.

Green group index: Flag of the maple leaf.

Blue group index: Ducks d’Eugene.

Violet group index: Before!

Answers for today’s connections: Sports publishing groups

Yellow group: Deliver the ball to a teammate

Green group: Canadian teams, minus S

Blue group: Old from Oregon

Violet group: Golf clubs minus the first letter

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What are the connections today: Sports Edition answers?

Yellow words in today’s connections

The theme is to deliver the ball to a teammate. The four answers are the dishes, distribute, give and pass.

Green words in today’s connections

The theme is the Canadian teams, the less the S. The four answers are Canuck, Flame, Raptor and Whitecap.

Blue words in today’s connections

The theme is the elders of Oregon. The four responses are Herbert, Ionescu, Nix and Pritchard.

Violet words in today’s connections

The theme is golf clubs minus the first letter. The four responses are Edge (corner), the river (driver), the ron (iron) and up (putter).