Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for May 20, 2026, puzzle No. 604

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Game No. 604’s issue: 2 out of 5

Connections: Sports Edition hints for May 20, 2026

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Yellow: BLOCK

Green: ST. LOUIS

Blue: BATS

Purple: PHOENIX

Connections: Sports Edition answers for May 20, 2026

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Yellow

Actions on a subject purpose try: SNAP, BLOCK, HOLD, KICK

Green

US Olympic host cities: ATLANTA, LOS ANGELES, SALT LAKE CITY, ST. LOUIS

Blue

Triple-A baseball groups: BATS, EXPRESS, IRONPIGS, JUMBO SHRIMP

Purple

Ends in an NFL QB: CLOVE, FALLEN, PHOENIX, SQUIDWARD

What is Connections: Sports Edition?

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

The sport’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 primarily based on commonalities inside every group as rapidly as doable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one answer, so be careful for phrases or gadgets 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 shade, revealed as you clear up, 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 faculty sports activities right here at TheAthletic. I used to be beforehand TheAthletic‘s managing editor for breaking information.

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