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Connections: Sports Edition — October 28, 2026

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Hints — one at a time

Hint 1 of 5

Today's board moves from words for a sports team or organization, to surnames that follow the first name "Reggie," to pass routes a running back might run out of the backfield, and finally to equipment used in a gymnastics discipline.

Hint 2 of 5

Yellow (easiest): each of these is another word for a sports team or group of players.

Hint 3 of 5

Green: each of these is the surname of a famous athlete named Reggie.

Hint 4 of 5

Blue: each of these is a type of receiving route a running back runs when catching passes.

Hint 5 of 5

Purple (hardest): each of these is a piece of equipment used in rhythmic gymnastics routines.

The answer — spoilers!

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  • yellow

    Club

    GROUP · TEAM · SIDE · SQUAD

  • green

    Reggie _____

    WHITE · WAYNE · JACKSON · MILLER

  • blue

    Receiving Routes For A Running Back

    FLAT · WHEEL · SWING · ANGLE

  • purple

    Rhythmic Gymnastics Apparatuses

    ROPE · HOOP · RIBBON · CLUBS

This puzzle by the numbers

Hardest group (purple)
Rhythmic Gymnastics Apparatuses
Longest word on the board
JACKSON

Counted from our own archive of Connections: Sports Edition answers — not published anywhere else.

A solved Connections Sports Edition board: sixteen sports word tiles in four coloured groups of four — equipment, venues, golf scores and tennis scoring
Same rules as Connections, sports categories only. Example board, not today’s puzzle.