Today's NYT Connections

Connections: Sports Edition puzzle No. 143 for February 13, 2025, is here with a tough set of challenges. As this puzzle has moved out of beta, it’s now fully integrated into The Athletic app, providing sports fans with another engaging challenge. While the game is available online for free, today’s puzzle features some tricky word associations that may leave you scratching your head. Don’t worry—here are the hints and answers to help guide you through.Today’s Connections puzzle is packed with some challenging word groupings, from weightlifting to Olympic snowboarding events, and even MLS teams. Be sure to consider all the possible meanings for each word and group them accordingly. With the right strategies, you’ll be able to unlock the correct answers and improve your Connections puzzle-solving skills. Happy puzzling!

Hints for Today’s Connections: Sports Edition Groups

Here’s a breakdown of the answers for each group based on today’s hints:

• Yellow group hint: Pump you up
• Green group hint: Think Shaun White
• Blue group hint: The Seattle Sounders are one
• Purple group hint: Team names, hidden in other words

Answers for Today’s Connections: Sports Edition Groups

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Feb. 13, #143

• Yellow group: Weightlifting needs
  The four answers are bar, bench, dumbbell, and spotter.
• Green group: Olympic snowboarding events
  The four answers are big air, giant slalom, halfpipe, and slopestyle.
• Blue group: MLS teams
  The four answers are Dynamo, Earthquakes, Red Bulls, and Whitecaps.
• Purple group: Ends with an MLB team
  The four answers are betrays, helmets, hundreds, and strangers.

Important Information

• Weightlifting Needs: The yellow group focuses on terms related to weightlifting equipment and actions, such as bar, bench, dumbbell, and spotter.
• Olympic Snowboarding Events: The green group refers to different Olympic snowboarding events, including big air and halfpipe.
• MLS Teams: The blue group highlights teams from Major League Soccer, like Dynamo and Whitecaps.
• Ends with an MLB Team: The purple group presents words that, when combined with the right MLB team name, make sense. The group’s answers are tricky because they hide team names within other words, such as betrays (with the team Braves).

Quick Tips for Connections: Sports Edition

Here are some helpful hints for each of the groups in today’s puzzle, starting from the easiest to the more challenging:

1. Don’t grab for the easiest group: For each word, consider whether it could fit into other sports categories. Could the word also relate to something in football or scoring?
2. Think about second meanings: Many words in Connections have multiple meanings. The puzzle may use last names or even college names, making it easy to mistake them for regular words.
3. Opposite trick: Some words that seem like regular terms, like HURTS, could also be the last name of a pro athlete, so be sure to consider all possibilities.

If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle, here are some strategies to help you out: