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Need help with Connections: Sports Edition #445? Start with four gentle hints, then reveal the category names or the full answer groups when you’re ready. This puzzle is dated Friday, December 12, 2025.
Hints for Connections: Sports Edition #445
These clues move from least to most revealing. Stop before the next section if you want to keep the categories hidden.
- Yellow: A night out.
- Green: What’s the score?
- Blue: Hit lightly.
- Purple: Woof!
Category names
Spoilers begin here: these are the four category labels, without the complete word groups.
- Yellow: Bar games
- Green: Ways to catch up on the game
- Blue: Descriptors for a softly hit baseball
- Purple: Dog show groups
Full answers for #445
Full spoilers: the groups below include the puzzle’s answers.
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- Yellow — BAR GAMES: DARTS, POOL, POP-A-SHOT, SHUFFLEBOARD
- Green — WAYS TO CATCH UP ON THE GAME: BOX SCORE, HIGHLIGHTS, REPLAY, STORY
- Blue — DESCRIPTORS FOR A SOFTLY HIT BASEBALL: BLOOPER, DRIBBLER, DUCK SNORT, TEXAS LEAGUE
- Purple — DOG SHOW GROUPS: SPORTING, TERRIER, TOY, WORKING
How to approach the trickiest group
The blue set is the most specialized: its four phrases describe a softly hit baseball. The words “DUCK SNORT” and “TEXAS LEAGUE” may look like unrelated expressions until you read them as baseball descriptions. The green group is about ways to follow a game after the fact or catch up on its details, rather than ways to watch it live.
Parade’s answer report spells two entries POP-A-SHOT and TEXAS LEAGUE, while Mashable’s report gives POP-A-SHORT and TEXAS LEAGUER. The answer list above follows Parade’s spellings; the reports do not agree on those two transcriptions.
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What is Connections: Sports Edition?
Parade describes the game as a sports-focused edition made through a partnership between The New York Times and The Athletic. Its reported instructions are to “group sports terms that share a common thread.” Parade and Mashable describe a 16-word board split into four groups; Mashable says players can make up to four mistakes. These format details come from secondary coverage, and the official puzzle record was not independently confirmed.
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