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Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you're a fan of hockey

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight, and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier — so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections: Sports Edition?

The NYT's latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication's sports coverage. The sports Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words, and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake — players get up to four mistakes before the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

SEE ALSO: Wordle-obsessed? These are the best word games to play IRL. Here's a hint for today's Connections: Sports Edition categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: NHL abbreviations

• Green: Fantasy roster spots

• Blue: Grand Slam winners

• Purple: JR

Here are today's Connections: Sports Edition categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: NHL Teams, On Scoreboards

• Green: Positions in Fantasy Football

• Blue: US Open Men's Singles Winners

• Purple: Junior___

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Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections: Sports Edition #714 is...

What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?

• NHL Teams, On Scoreboards: CAR, EDM, OTT, VAN

• Positions in Fantasy Football: D/ST, FLEX, RB, TE

• US Open Men's Singles Winners: ASHE, LAVER, RAFTER, SINNER

• Junior___: CAMINERO, COLLEGE, SEAU, VARSITY

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new sports Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today's Strands.

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalog.

Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.

How to play Pips

If you've ever played dominoes, you'll have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we've shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don't necessarily have to match.

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The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible — and common — for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.

Here are common examples you'll run into across the difficulty levels:

• Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.

• Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.

• Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.

• Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.

• Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.

If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.

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Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 6-4, placed horizontally.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-3, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (2): Everything in this space must be greater than 2. The answer is 4-3, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 2-4, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 5-6, placed horizontally.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 5-6, placed horizontally.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for September 7 Pips

Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 1-2, placed vertically.

Less Than (6): Everything in this space must be less than 6. The answer is 3-2, placed vertically.

Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 1-4, placed vertically.

Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 1-4, placed vertically; 4-5, placed vertically; 2-5, placed vertically.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 1-2, placed vertically; 3-2, placed vertically; 2-4, placed horizontally; 2-5, placed vertically.

Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 2-4, placed horizontally; 6-4, placed horizontally.

Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 4-5, placed vertically; 2-5, placed vertically.

Hard difficulty hints, answers for September 7 Pips

Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 5-5, placed vertically; 5-6, placed vertically.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 6-2, placed vertically.

Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 6-2, placed 5-6, placed vertically; 6-0, placed vertically; 3-6, placed vertically.

Number (9): Everything in this space must add up to 9. The answer is 3-6, placed vertically; 3-3, placed vertically.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 6-2, placed vertically.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 6-0, placed vertically.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 2-2, placed vertically.

Not Equal: Everything in this space must be different. The answer is 0-2, placed vertically; 1-5, placed vertically.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 0-1, placed vertically; 2-3, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this light blue space must add up to 3. The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this orange space must add up to 3. The answer is 0-1, placed vertically; 1-1, placed horizontally.

Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 4-4, placed vertically; 4-0, placed vertically.

Greater Than (9): Everything in this space must be greater than 9. The answer is 6-6, placed vertically.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 4-0, placed vertically.

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Well, Manhunter's out of the bag.

In its fourth episode, Lanterns solves one of its biggest mysteries: Who is the Manhunter hiding out in Rushville, Nebraska? The episode cycles through several red herrings — Hector Hammond (Jason Manuel Olazabal), real name Hector Gutierrez, and William Macon (Garret Dillahunt) — before landing on the truth. The Manhunter is none other than Zoe Macon (Poorna Jagannathan), William's wife and John Stewart's (Aaron Pierre) occasional confidant and hook-up.

How did Lanterns hint at Zoe's pivotal role while she was hiding in plain sight the whole time? Let's take a look.

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The biggest clue about Zoe's true nature in Lanterns was her immediate intimacy with John. Clearly, seeing two Green Lanterns waltz into Rushville poses a threat to her. But instead of trying to force them out with brute strength, she chose a more strategic approach: Getting close to John in order to gain his trust. Surely he would never suspect the woman he was entangled with, right? (Based on how John and Hal [Kyle Chandler] constantly use he/him pronouns when talking about the hidden Manhunter, it's unlikely they suspected women at all until the reveal.)

Episode 4 of Lanterns saw Zoe putting even more pressure on her relationship with John. When she visits him at his motel, she emphasizes that this is the last time they can have sex, as his only two options following his confrontation with Macon are leaving or dying. She leans hard on pushing him to leave, and when he stands firm, she takes the nuclear option: faking her death to send John and Hal on the wild goose chase to Hector.

Notably, when Antaan (Paul Ben-Victor) tells John about his own experience with a Manhunter, he asks, "Have you ever been deceived by someone you love?" While I wouldn't go so far as to call John and Zoe's relationship "love," Antaan did have a point that the Manhunter would take the romantic route, and that John would be deceived by someone he's intimately close with.

Zoe's relationship with Macon offered more foreshadowing about her being the Manhunter. Clearly, Macon was aware of Zoe and John's relationship, yet he never retaliated against either Zoe or John, beyond the occasional verbal jab. Does Macon, Mr. Private Militia, seem like the type to take infidelity lying down? No way. Not unless Zoe held the upper hand in the power dynamic, and he understood that her cheating was all part of a plan to lure the Green Lanterns off her trail.

In episode 4, Macon also recounts the story of how he and Zoe met. She was a nurse who treated him while he had cancer. The way he tells it, that was when his mysterious, god-like benefactor showed up and cured him. But what if that benefactor and his nurse were one and the same?

As Hal tells John (before casually driving him off the road), Manhunters are programmed to latch onto the weak points of societies. A nurse treats people when they're at their weakest, meaning that Zoe's job put her in a prime position to establish relationships with Rushville's community. Based on the town's empty hospital, she cured everyone of everything, proving her power and putting Rushville's citizens in her debt.

Beyond Macon and his men, and likely Sheriff Kerry Kane (Kelly Macdonald), how much more of Rushville is aware they have an alien benefactor in their midst? And what lengths will they go to to keep her safe, now that her cover is blown?

Lanterns is now streaming on HBO Max, with new episodes premiering Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.

Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints or just wondering why Connections is trending today? We've got what you need to understand the clues for today's puzzle without spoiling any of the answers.

Of course, Mashable has also provided daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle, and Strands for years, so we can help you if that's also what you need.

While we are focused more on meanings than hints in this story, sometimes learning that many of the words have completely unrelated meanings is a clue in and of itself. Connections frequently includes clues that involve words within words and other visual clues.

SEE ALSO: NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for September 7, 2026 Cup meaning

A small, round container used for drinking liquids.

Hook meaning

A curved tool meant for catching.

Strap meaning

A flexible material made of cloth.

Underwire meaning

A thin strip of metal in a bra cup.

Plutonium meaning

A radioactive chemical element.

Scar tissue meaning

A group of cells used to repair skin.

Stitch marker meaning

A tool used in knitting to kepe track of stitch placements.

Trampoline meaning

A bouncy toy used for jumping up and down.

Fabrication meaning

A lie.

Fish story meaning

An exaggerated tale.

Tall tale meaning

A story that's hard to believe.

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Yarn meaning

A college-entry test score.

Car air freshener meaning

A device that dispenses cash.

Christmas meaning

A flat screen technology used in digital devices.

Needles meaning

A secret code used to verify one's identity.

Turpentine meaning

The scannable barcode on a retail item.

Have you learned the meanings and still want the things? Check out the hints and answers for today's NYT Connections puzzle.

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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Connections.

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're a storyteller.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections?

The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

SEE ALSO: NYT Pips hints, answers for September 6, 2026 Here's a hint for today's Connections categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: What an account

• Green: Chest support

• Blue: Fresh scents

• Purple: Animated friends

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Here are today's Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Quite the saga

• Green: Parts of a bra

• Blue: Associated with pine trees

• Purple: Starting with Disney characters

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Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections #1179 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Quite the saga: FABRICATION, FISH STORY, TALL TALE, YARN

• Parts of a bra: CUP, HOOK, STRAP, UNDERWIRE

• Associated with pine trees: CAR AIR FRESHENER, CHRISTMAS, NEEDLES, TURPENTINE

• Starting with Disney characters: PLUTONIUM, SCAR TISSUE, STITCH MARKER, TRAMPOLINE

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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're fair.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

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By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

SEE ALSO: Wordle today: Answer, hints for September 7, 2026 NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: It's a deal!

The words are related to agreement.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe meeting in the middle.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

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NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Meet Me Halfway.

NYT Strands word list for September 7

• Share

• Agree

• Negotiate

• Meet Me Halfway

• Compromise

• Settle

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Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you don't have good eyes.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

SEE ALSO: NYT Pips hints, answers for September 7, 2026 Here's a subtle hint for today's Wordle answer:

Without sight.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

There are no recurring letters.

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Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter B.

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The Wordle answer today is...

Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

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The solution to today's Wordle is...

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Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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A popular project is to install Linux on an old PC. While it's useful for keeping an old machine from the recycler, Linux isn't magic. It's a result of how Linux is designed.

Last week, I recommended watching The Whisper Man, an exciting new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Adam Scott. The movie is now the No. 1 movie on Netflix in the U.S. for the past week, so hopefully you're getting in on the discussions, especially involving the polarizing ending.

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You may have been using Windows for years. You might love it, hate it, or just wonder if there's a real alternative. Here are the reasons to tell if you've outgrown Windows and should consider checking out Linux.

Deleting files is easy, but making sure those files cannot be recovered later requires a different approach. A normal file deletion operation usually removes filesystem references while leaving the underlying data in place. That allows operating systems to delete files quickly, but it also means recovery software can sometimes retrieve information from previously used storage space.

I always saw Android widgets as little information panels sitting on my home screen. What changed was noticing which apps I was opening purely to glance at something, then immediately closing. So, I started treating them as functional shortcuts rather than just a fancy UI thing, and they reduced my habit of launching the app in the first place.

Amazon's Fire TV devices offer great value for money, but not when you're intent on private listening with wireless earbuds. When I've used a Fire TV Stick, I've had to make do with stereo audio if I wanted to avoid waking my family. What's the point of paying for Dolby Atmos in my streaming services if I can only use it some of the time?

Wireless Android Auto is easy to use. You get in the car, and your phone connects on its own — which is what attracted me to it to begin with. However, as I started to use it more, I realized that the wired setup was actually worth all the hassle. I would rather have a phone that always works than the convenience of wireless.

Microsoft’s Phone Link is arguably the best cross-OS integration tool that closes the gap between your smartphone and Windows PC. For Android in particular, Microsoft has built some strong partnerships with major OEMs like Samsung, OnePlus, ASUS to integrate deeply with the OS, unlocking powerful features such as screen mirroring, app streaming, and cross-device clipboard.

PLA is the cheapest, safest, and arguably most versatile 3D printing filament, but it’s not without its drawbacks. In addition to being a poor choice for prints that live outside or need to withstand heat and direct sunlight, PLA can deform over time.

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into your PC. Chances are, though, that nowadays your PC doesn't have a CD drive. So what do you do when you want to play your old games on your new PC?

OpenAI and Microsoft face another lawsuit from news organizations the Seattle Times and Newsday, which accuse the tech giants of using their sites to train AI without permission.

The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, alleges that the companies scraped paywalled content and added it to training datasets used for ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and the new AI-powered Bing.

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The chatbots were able to reproduce entire passages and closely paraphrase reporters' work, the publishers claim. The lawsuit demands that the tech companies destroy any existing copies of the published material, as well as training datasets or AI models that incorporate it, Reuters reported.

"We feel strongly that we must defend our content — which we spend millions of dollars a year to produce — from being used without our consent or compensation," wrote Seattle Times president and CEO ​Alan Fisco in a message to employees.

OpenAI said in a response to the press that the company only uses publicly available materials grounded in fair use for model training. Microsoft said it was surprised by the lawsuit, but was willing to "sit down and explore solutions" with the publishers.

The AI developer and its collaborator, Microsoft, have faced several court battles over its training data and alleged copyright infringement, including an ongoing lawsuit with the New York Times and a cohort of other publishers. The Times has argued that the company's products compete with the news outlet by reproducing its work without appropriately transforming it under existing fair use protections.

Last week, the Trump administration filed a Statement of Interest (SOI) in the case, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) writing that a decision siding with the New York Times would be a hit to local newsrooms and independent journalism. The DOJ argued that AI can be harnessed by small publishers to stay competitive with mainstream news outlets.

The brief also claims a Times win would "threaten national security" by stalling AI advancement and giving foreign competitors an edge. The administration has used this argument to attempt to thwart litigation against AI data centers, as well.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

How many of you still partake in streaming marathons? I'm talking about those binge-watching sessions where you wake up and crush an entire season of television in one sitting. I'm usually pressed for time, so I have to make strategic decisions about what I can watch in under 90 minutes. However, I still enjoy finishing a show in one sitting from time to time.