Connections Sports Edition · Hints and answers

Connections Sports Edition #768 hints and answers for Saturday, October 31, 2026

From The Athletic · Groups listed easiest to hardest: yellow, green, blue, purple

Connections Sports Edition #768 opens at the concession stand, detours through football trick plays and rookie defenders, and lands on a purple group where every entry starts with a word that can mean a home run. For each group below: read the hint first, then show the category name when you want it, then the four words, one group at a time.

Group 1 - Yellow

Hint: Four things sold at a ballpark snack bar: a fried pastry, a spun-sugar classic, a frozen scoop, and a tart drink.

CONCESSION STAND TREATS

CHURRO · COTTON CANDY · ICE CREAM · LEMONADE

Group 2 - Green

Hint: Four trick plays in football: a fake clock-stopping spike, a pitch-back that ends with the quarterback throwing, a hidden-ball run, and a play kept alive by laterals.

FOOTBALL TRICKS

FAKE SPIKE · FLEA FLICKER · FUMBLEROOSKI · HOOK AND LATERAL

Group 3 - Blue

Hint: Four surnames of rookie NFL defenders, each of which also reads as an ordinary word or a familiar name.

NFL ROOKIE DEFENDERS

BAILEY · DOWNS · REESE · STYLES

Group 4 - Purple

Hint: Each entry starts with a word that can mean a home run in baseball slang: blast, homer, jack, and tater.

STARTS WITH A TERM FOR HOME RUN

BLASTOISE · HOMER SIMPSON · JACK-O'-LANTERN · TATER TOTS

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