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Tips for Today's Groups Connections: Sports Edition
Here are four grouping clues in today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, from the simplest yellow grouping to the challenging (and sometimes bizarre) purple grouping.
Yellow group hint: 1-1.
Green group hint: Do better than.
Blue group hint: Performed from a high board into the water.
Purple group hint: Sherron Moore is one of them.
Answers to Today's Connections Groups: Sports Edition
Yellow group: Even a match.
Green group: Surpass.
Blue group: Diving positions.
Purple group: Big Ten football head coaches.
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What are today's Connections: Sports Edition answers?
Completed puzzle NYT Connections: Sports Edition October 13, 2025
Yellow words in today's connections
The theme even matches. The four answers are: deadlock, draw, stalemate and draw.
Green words in today's connections
The theme exceeded all expectations. The four answers are: eclipse, eclipse, surpass, and surpass.
Blue words in today's connections
The topic is positions in diving. Four answers: loose, pike, straight and tucked.
Purple words in today's connections
The topic is Big Ten football head coaches. The four answers are Day, Fish, Fleck and Roulet.
