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Lots of logos in today’s Connections: Sports Edition. So if you know team identities by their graphics, you might ace this one. 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.  

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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: Ante up!

Green group hint: Football team group.

Blue group hint: Halloween color.

Purple group hint: Not finishing, but…

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group: Hands in poker.

Green group: NFC West teams.

Blue group: Teams that wear orange.

Purple group: Starting ____.

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What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is hands in poker.  The four answers are flush, full house, straight and two pair.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is NFC West teams.  The four answers are 49ers, Cardinals, Rams and Seahawks.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is teams that wear orange.  The four answers are Bengals, Syracuse, Tennessee and Texas.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is starting ____. The four answers are 5, blocks, lineup and pitcher.

Nintendo released its Switch 2 almost two months ago, and it sold close to 6 million units, according to the company’s latest quarterly report. The new console has had a few hardware issues pop up, but Nintendo did confirm that it does have a bit of a heating problem. 

In a July 31 post on its X support account, Nintendo advised users to avoid playing the original Switch and the Switch 2 in high temperatures. The company says operating the consoles in a hot environment will raise the temperature within it and could lead to a malfunction. 

«When using a Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2 in a high-temperature environment, the device’s temperature may rise. This could potentially cause malfunctions, so please use it in a location between 5–35°C,» the post says, according to a translation on X.  «Recently, temperatures have been exceeding 35°C. Please be cautious when using it outdoors.»

In the U.S., «5–35°C» would be approximately 41–55°F.

Nintendo of America didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the tweet. 

Some Switch 2 owners have noted on Reddit the overheating warning weeks after the console’s launch in June. When the console gets too hot, a message will pop up advising that the system is overheating, and it will immediately go into sleep mode to cool it off. 

So far, it’s unclear what is causing the console to overheat. Some users on the Reddit thread said it happened while they were playing the console in docked mode, which is when the Switch 2 usually displays the highest resolution. Other times, owners said it happened in handheld mode. 

Back in 2022, Nintendo confirmed that the original Switch also had a tendency to overheat. It gave a similar message then as to the one that was posted on X just a few days ago. 

Folding phones are no longer a fad. But they have moving parts that regular smartphones lack, and the constant folding and unfolding could eventually lead to failure. For the last few days, the host of Korean YouTube channel Tech-it has been folding and unfolding the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 over and over and over, with the goal of doing 200,000 folds. 

The fold-a-thon is presumably meant to see how the redesigned hinge and flexible display hold up on Samsung’s thinnest foldable yet. 

Tech-it’s host, whose name isn’t given, is folding the phone by hand. After 150,000 folds, the device is still working fine. The final 50,000 folds will air via a live stream later Monday. The video features an on-screen counter which is linked to a sensor that’s taped to the Z Fold 7’s inner display. 

Representatives for Tech-it and Samsung didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Phones from companies such as Samsung, Apple, Motorola and Google all go through simulated durability testing. In the case of folding phones, machines will open and close phones thousands of times to see how they might hold up in the real world. 

Given that foldable phones have complex hinge designs and flexible displays, they are more prone to damage or failure than regular slab-style phones. Durability is actually one major reason, along with battery life, that some consumers aren’t jumping into the folding phone world.