Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for May 15, 2026, puzzle No. 599

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Game No. 599’s issue: 2 out of 5

Connections: Sports Edition hints for May 15, 2026

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Yellow: JETS

Green: SHARKS

Blue: STORY

Purple: NASHVILLE

Connections: Sports Edition answers for May 15, 2026

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Yellow

Canadian NHL groups: CANUCKS, FLAMES, JETS, OILERS

Green

Teams that play in San Jose: BAY FC, EARTHQUAKES, SAN JOSE STATE, SHARKS

Blue

Colorado Rockies All-Stars, traditionally: ARENADO, STORY, TULOWITZKI, WALKER

Purple

Starts with a Basketball Hall of Famer: BINGHAMTON, BIRDMAN, NASHVILLE, WEST SIDE

What is Connections: Sports Edition?

Connections: Sports Edition is TheAthletic‘s first-ever recreation, a every day puzzle designed for gamers to search out connections between 16 phrases on the sport board.

The recreation’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 based mostly on commonalities inside every group as shortly as doable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one resolution, so be careful for phrases or objects that appear to belong to a number of classes!

Category examples:
Sports ____: Fan, Car, Bar, Radio
US Summer Olympians: Biles, Phelps, Ledecky, Lyles

Each class group is assigned a colour, revealed as you resolve, starting from easy (yellow) to medium (inexperienced) to difficult (blue) to tough (purple).

Who creates the puzzles for Connections: Sports Edition?

That’s me! My title is Mark Cooper, and I create Connections: Sports Edition and work as a managing editor for school sports activities right here at TheAthletic. I used to be beforehand TheAthletic‘s managing editor for breaking information.

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