Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Feb. 27 #522
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Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is fun, with a mix of topics and difficulties. If you’re having trouble solving today’s riddle but still want to solve it, read on for tips and answers.
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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: Replace.
Green group index: Hang ten!
Blue group index: Pitchers honored.
Purple group index: The beginnings of baseball.
Connections Group Answers: Today’s Sports Edition
Yellow group: Substitute.
Green group: Navigation terms.
Blue group: AL Cy Young Award winners.
Purple group: Starts of MLB team names.
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What are the answers from today’s Connections: Sports Edition?
The NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle completed by February 27, 2026.
Yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is substitute. The four answers are pull, replace, remove, and pull.
Green words in today’s Connections
The theme is term surfing. The four responses are barrel, crest, swell and wave.
Blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is AL Cy Young Award winners. The four answers are Bieber, Cone, Fingers and Price.
Purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is the beginning of MLB team names. The four answers are Blue, Brew, Card and Rock.
Quick Tips for Connections: Sports Edition
#1: Don’t choose the easiest group. For each word, think about what other sporting categories it might belong to: is it a word that can be used in football or to describe scoring options?
#2: Second meanings are important. The puzzle loves to use last names and even college names that mean something else, to trick you into thinking they are words and not names.
#3: And the opposite is also true. Words like HURTS may seem like an ordinary word, but it’s also the last name of at least one professional athlete.
