Today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle leans into Winter Olympic vocabulary and sports-adjacent pop culture. Your goal is to sort sixteen entries into four clean groups of four. The game typically runs from easier to harder categories, so it helps to lock an obvious set first and then use what’s left to test the trickier themes.
Category Hints
Competitive ice skating
Winter Olympics on screen
Hockey rule trouble
Biathlon basics
- Start with the entries that feel like “official event names” rather than general terms.
- If you spot a set, remove it mentally and re-check the remaining words for a second theme.
- Be careful with hockey: not every “rule word” is a penalty, but it can still belong together.
Full Category Themes
If you want the themes spelled out (without the answers yet), here they are:
- Yellow: Figure Skating Disciplines
- Green: Winter Olympic Movies
- Blue: Hockey Infractions
- Purple: Biathlon Equipment
Want to play the official version? Here’s the only external reference you need: New York Times Connections.
Tap to reveal answers for Connections: Sports Edition #505
ICE DANCE, PAIRS, SINGLES, TEAM EVENT
COOL RUNNINGS, I, TONYA, MIRACLE, THE CUTTING EDGE
BOARDING, HOOKING, ICING, OFFSIDE
POLES, RIFLE, SKIS, TARGETS













