For 345 days (and counting), Connections: Sports Edition has aimed to check sports activities followers’ wordplay and trivia expertise by a fastidiously crafted puzzle.
With the 2025 NFL season kicking off this month, we’re going a bit larger.
Introducing Connections: Sports Edition — NFL team-themed version. The Athletic’s deep roster of NFL reporters and I labored collectively to provide a team-themed Connections: Sports Edition recreation on all 32 NFL franchises. Those video games can be found to play under, and so they’re separate from the every day recreation — which means they’re out there all month.
Test your data of your group, and the remainder of the league, all month lengthy. Our NFL writers contributed a mixture of present and historic concepts, including bits of group trivia to each recreation.
Here’s the best way to play: Each recreation board options 16 clues, and the target is to seek out 4 teams of 4 objects that share a commonality. The classes vary from simple to tough.
Watch out for phrases that appear to belong to a number of classes; these are intentional traps! Success is discovering the proper answer with out making 4 errors.
Feeling up for it? When you’re carried out fixing your group’s puzzle, enter our contest, and you could possibly be chosen to assist design a private Connections: Sports Edition puzzle to be launched later this season.
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