Connections: Sports Edition — October 6, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's board moves from equipment used in track and field events, to teams that played in Major League Soccer's inaugural season, to baseball players who've recorded 3,000 career hits, and finally to words where the letter Y does all the vowel work.
Hint 2 of 5
Yellow (easiest): each of these is a piece of equipment used in a track and field event.
Hint 3 of 5
Green: each of these team competed in MLS's very first season back in 1996.
Hint 4 of 5
Blue: each of these baseball legends collected at least 3,000 career hits.
Hint 5 of 5
Purple (hardest): each of these words has no traditional vowel — Y stands in for one instead.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
Track And Field Equipment
POLE · HURDLE · JAVELIN · STARTING BLOCK
Original MLS Teams
REVOLUTION · GALAXY · CREW · RAPIDS
Members Of The 3,000-Hit Club
GWYNN · SUZUKI · WINFIELD · MAYS
Words In Which Y Is The Only Vowel
LYNX · SKY · GYM · FLY
This puzzle by the numbers
- Words In Which Y Is The Only Vowel
- STARTING BLOCK
Counted from our own archive of Connections: Sports Edition answers — not published anywhere else.
