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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for March 1, #524

Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for March 1, No. 524.

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Today’s Connections: Sports Edition features a diverse range of categories. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can 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: Put money on one option.

Green group hint: Happenings on an NFL field.

Blue group hint: Think Billie Jean King.

Purple group hint: Not a meadow, but …

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group: Bet.

Green group: Pre-snap football motions.

Blue group: Tennis racket brands.

Purple group: ____ field.

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What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is bet. The four answers are gamble, risk, stake and wager.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is pre-snap football motions. The four answers are audible, hard count, motion and shift.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is tennis racket brands. The four answers are Babolat, Head, Prince and Wilson.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is ____ field. The four answers are Progressive, right, Soldier and Wrigley.

Technologies

Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for March 1, #994

Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for March 1 #994

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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is kind of tough. As always, the purple category is extra tricky. Today, you’ll need to find hidden words inside of four other words to complete that group. (Or solve the other three, and let the purple group just solve itself.) Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

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Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Yum!

Green group hint: Working hard.

Blue group hint: Taking time off.

Purple group hint: Hidden yummy words.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Little bite.

Green group: Construction equipment.

Blue group: Vacation emoji.

Purple group: Things you don’t eat that end in foods.

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What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is little bite. The four answers are canapé, finger food, hors d’oeuvre and tapa.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is construction equipment. The four answers are hard hat, ladder, nail gun and tool belt.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is vacation emoji. The four answers are airplane, luggage, palm tree and smiling face with sunglasses.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is things you don’t eat that end in foods. The four answers are copypasta, Johannesburger, knuckle sandwich and licorice pizza.

Technologies

Shooting Videos of Fancy Cars With the Galaxy S26’s New Camera Feature Is a Dream

As they say in Europe, look at that S-car-go.

While my esteemed CNET colleagues were in San Francisco for the release of the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, I was in Barcelona ahead of MWC 2026, seeing the sights and eying the fancy cars that ply the Spanish city’s streets.

Once my colleagues arrived with the Galaxy S26 in tow, I found a novel use for one of its coolest features: shooting videos of Europe’s expensive automobiles.

It’s not uncommon for a Porsche or Maserati to zoom down the streets of the upscale neighborhoods in Barcelona. To capture them on video, I tried out the Galaxy S26’s new Horizontal Lock, an extremely forgiving image stabilization mode. As my colleague Abrar Al-Heeti noted in her first take, with the camera feature turned on, you can tilt the phone as much as you want while the horizon remains steady.

First, I reviewed CNET’s hands-on sessions with the new mode. I overrotated the phone 90 degrees in one direction and flipped it 180 degrees in the other. Horizontal Lock worked exactly as advertised, showing smooth footage you’d believe was shot with a phone held very still.

This was a great feature to try out on Barcelona’s streets, turning my wiggling arm into a steady hand behind the camera as I tracked flashy autos speeding down Passeig de Gracia and Carrer d’Arago in the Quadrat d’Or.

With Horizontal Lock straightening my footage, I could send videos back to my friends at home with undeniable proof that I’d seen some beautiful cars — like the Porsche Carrera GTS in the image above (a 904 from around 1964, if my Googling skills are to be believed).

The Galaxy S26’s Horizontal Lock is a perfect assistant if you’re shooting fast, agile subjects darting around unpredictably. The feature could also salvage videos from unusably shaky footage, a clear advantage when recording during emergencies, disasters or in war zones.

And for everyday Galaxy S26 owners, Horizontal Lock makes casual videos easier to watch, ensuring they end up on the good photography subreddits rather than the bad ones.

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