Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for April 5, 2026, puzzle No. 559

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Game No. 559’s issue: 3.5 out of 5

Connections: Sports Edition hints for April 5, 2026

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Yellow: COACHES

Green: CARDINALS

Blue: YOUNG

Purple: HATE

Connections: Sports Edition answers for April 5, 2026

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Yellow

Things on an NFL sideline: CHAINS, BENCHES, COACHES, MEDICAL TENT

Green

NFL groups with fowl nicknames: CARDINALS, EAGLES, RAVENS, SEAHAWKS

Blue

NFC quarterbacks: HURTS, LOVE, PURDY, YOUNG

Purple

Anagrams of NBA groups: HATE, PARRIOTS, SCRAPE, THRONES

What is Connections: Sports Edition?

Connections: Sports Edition is TheAthletic‘s first-ever recreation, a day by 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 answer, 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 coloration, 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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