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The New York Times has launched a sports-themed version of its popular word puzzle game, developed in partnership with The Athletic. Players tackling today’s puzzle on August 16 may find success if they possess knowledge of baseball and professional football.
Connections: Sports Edition operates similarly to the original game, requiring participants to identify common threads linking sets of four words from a board of 16 total words. Each puzzle contains four distinct categories arranged by difficulty level, color-coded from yellow through purple. Players can rearrange the board to assist with pattern recognition and receive up to four incorrect guesses before losing the game.
Today’s puzzle, numbered 692, features four categories spanning collegiate athletics and professional sports. The yellow category highlights abbreviated Atlantic Coast Conference institutions, while the green category focuses on first names of quarterbacks from the AFC West division. A blue category relates to Toronto Blue Jays players, and the purple category involves compound words beginning with “defensive.”
The complete solutions reveal abbreviated school names BC, CAL, CUSE, and PITT; quarterback names BO, FERNANDO, JUSTIN, and PATRICK; player surnames BIEBER, CEASE, GUERRERO, and SPRINGER; and defensive-related terms BACK, END, INDIFFERENCE, and TACKLE.
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Originally reported by Mashable →
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