Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Oct. 31, #38

Here’s today’s Connections: Sports Edition answer and hints for groups. These clues will help you solve The New York Times’ popular puzzle game, Connections: Sports Edition, every day.

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Here are some hints — and the answers — for Connections: Sports Edition No. 38 for Oct. 31.

Here are the answers for Connections: Sports Edition. Looking for the most recent regular 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 and Strands puzzles. Have you been enjoying the New York Times Connections puzzle? Now there’s a new version of the game focusing on sports-related words. It’s simply called Connections: Sports Edition, and we have hints and the answers. For now, the game is in beta, which means the Times is testing it out to see if it’s popular, before adding it to the site’s Games app. You can play it daily for the next few weeks for free — and then we’ll have to see if it sticks around.  Read more: NYT Has a Connections Game for Sports Fans. I Tried It The rules are pretty much the same as the regular game. You’re given 16 words and asked to put them into four groups that are somehow connected. The main difference is that all the words and categories have some kind of sports tie-in. Sometimes the categories seem obvious, but the game attempts to trick you by using sports-related words that can fit into more than one group. And the four groups of words have different difficulty levels. Yellow is the easiest and purple the hardest, but you won’t know which color group is which until you solve the puzzle. You don’t have to be a sports obsessive to solve Connections: Sports Edition, but it helps to know a little bit about a bunch of different sports and athletes. The words might include player names, team names or sport-related activities. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest, yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: Forefront Green group hint: Gain some yardage Blue group hint: March Madness Purple group hint: Lineup of laughs Yellow group: In No. 1 position Green group: Football running plays Blue group: Starts of NCAA tournament rounds Purple group: Abbott and Costello’s baseball lineup Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words The theme is in No. 1 position. The four answers are first, front, lead and pole. The theme is football running plays. The four answers are draw, sneak, sweep and toss. The theme is starts of NCAA tournament rounds. The four answers are Elite, Final, Second and Sweet. The theme is Abbott and Costello’s baseball lineup. The four answers are because, I don’t know, what and who.

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