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Connections: Sports Edition — October 29, 2026

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Hint 1 of 5

Today's board moves from abbreviated names of SEC college football schools, to abbreviated quarterback statistics, to shorthand nicknames for NBA superstars, and finally to abbreviated hockey positions.

Hint 2 of 5

Yellow (easiest): each of these is the shorthand abbreviation for a school in the Southeastern Conference.

Hint 3 of 5

Green: each of these is an abbreviation for a statistic tracked for quarterbacks.

Hint 4 of 5

Blue: each of these is a widely used nickname abbreviation for a star NBA player.

Hint 5 of 5

Purple (hardest): each of these is the standard abbreviation for a position on a hockey team.

The answer — spoilers!

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  • yellow

    SEC Schools, Abbreviated

    UGA · OU · UK · LSU

  • green

    QB Stats, Abbreviated

    QBR · TD · INT · YDS

  • blue

    Nicknames Of NBA Stars

    SGA · KD · PG-13 · AD

  • purple

    Hockey Positions, Abbreviated

    G · C · LW · RW

This puzzle by the numbers

Hardest group (purple)
Hockey Positions, Abbreviated
Longest word on the board
PG-13

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.