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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 14, #294
Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for July 14, No. 294.
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Today’s Connections: Sports Edition might be tough, if timely. I guess I’m not up on the 2025 HR Derby, but maybe you are. Read on for hints and the answers.
Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can continue to play it free online.
Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta
Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Gotta get through it.
Green group hint: Big piece of furniture.
Blue group hint: Homes for hoops.
Purple group hint: They hit with power.
Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Yellow group: Rough patch.
Green group: Played on a table.
Blue group: NBA arenas.
Purple group: 2025 MLB HR Derby participants, informally.
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What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is rough patch. The four answers are drought, funk rut and slump.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is played on a table. The four answers are air hockey, ping pong, pool and snooker.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is NBA arenas. The four answers are Ball, Rocket, Scotiabank and State Farm.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is 2025 MLB HR Derby participants, informally. The four answers are Cal, Jazz, Junior and O’Neil.
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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Nov. 8
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Nov. 8.
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Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s the long Saturday one, so you might need assistance. Read on for the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.
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Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword
Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.
Mini across clues and answers
1A clue: Uber alternative
Answer: CAB
4A clue: Red-headed character in the «Scooby-Doo» franchise
Answer: DAPHNE
7A clue: Not arrive on time
Answer: RUNLATE
8A clue: Label on a green U.S.D.A. sticker
Answer: ORGANIC
9A clue: Prestigious engineering school in Pasadena
Answer: CALTECH
10A clue: Prepares to be knighted
Answer: KNEELS
11A clue: Parts of a city grid: Abbr.
Answer: STS
Mini down clues and answers
1D clue: Fashion brand with an interlocking «C» logo
Answer: CHANEL
2D clue: Silly behaviors
Answer: ANTICS
3D clue: Tree with smooth gray bark
Answer: BEECH
4D clue: Kevin ___, 15-time N.B.A. All-Star
Answer: DURANT
5D clue: They’re measured in degrees
Answer: ANGLES
6D clue: Division of the earth’s crust
Answer: PLATE
7D clue: Ice, in bartending lingo
Answer: ROCKS
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Spotify Brings Wrapped Energy Year-Round With Friend-Sharing Stats
The music service introduced new ways for music nerds to share their listening habits with friends.
It can be a long wait for Spotify Wrapped, the end-of-year promotion that allows Spotify users to view and share their listening habits. Now, users can keep an eye on those stats daily, plus share their listening habits with friends.
You can view your Spotify usage statistics every 24 hours and share your updates via social media services, such as Instagram Notes or Spotify Messages. The new share icon gives you access to eight different services where you can post your stats.
Every week, you’ll get updates on your top artists and songs from the past month, and Spotify will recommend new playlists. The app also gives you a «special highlight» based on a specific artist or song.
To access your personal musical data, click on your profile in the top left corner of the app and scroll down to «listening stats.»
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The new features are somewhat similar to Spotify Wrapped, the service’s annual end-of-year review of users’ listening habits, which is designed to be shared. Every year, Spotify adds extra details to Wrapped, such as assigning users a listening personality or a city that supposedly reflects their music tastes. It’s been the most popular way for Spotify users to view and share their music listening in the past. A number of third-party services do the same thing, including Volt.fm.
Read more: Best Music Streaming Services
Spotify is the world’s largest music streaming service, offering 100 million tracks and serving more than 713 million users. In addition to its $12-per-month subscription service, Spotify also offers a free, ad-supported option.
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Wordle Gets Personal: You Can Now Make and Share Your Own Puzzles
If you’re a Wordle obsessive, you can now make your own inside joke puzzles to send to friends.
Wordle’s an immensely popular New York Times word game (we post the answers daily), but it’s not the most personal game in the world. Answers such as GUISE and PERIL are tricky, but generic. Now, Wordle fans who have ever dreamed of making their own puzzles can test their friends and family by creating their own Wordle creations up to seven letters in length.
No surprise, you have to be a New York Times Games or All Access Subscriber to use this feature. If you are, you’ll find the Create a Puzzle option available from the top menu above today’s Wordle. While you must be a subscriber to create your own personalized puzzle, you can share it with anyone — they only need the link, not a subscription, to complete your Wordle.
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Enter a word, and the site will tell you if it is available. Real Wordle limits you to five-letter words, but the puzzle-making feature lets you choose words between 4 and 7 letters.
The usual dictionary rules apply, and so curse words, some pet names, and obscure inside jokes are essentially out. If your cat is named TANGO, that’s there, but RINGO is not an option. You can drop a proposal with a single word like MARRY, but MARRYME will get rejected since that’s two separate words.
Word chosen, you can then fill out your name and add an optional hint, and the feature will generate your puzzle with a link you can send around. Unlike standard puzzles, your puzzle doesn’t appear to reset after a day, so whoever you send it to doesn’t need to rush to solve it.
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