Connections Sports Edition #776 hints and answers for Sunday, November 8, 2026
Connections Sports Edition #776 is a board of shorthand and wordplay: the yellow group is four NBA teams as the scoreboard abbreviates them, the green group is four kinds of soccer kicks, the blue group is four Jacksonville Jaguars, and the purple group is four Olympic sports with their last letter lopped off. The trap is GOL: it reads as a shout at a soccer match first, but here it is golf with its final letter gone. Work one group at a time: take the hint first, then the category name, then the four words, each one waiting behind the tap for you to reveal it.
Group 1 - Yellow
Hint: Four NBA teams as the scoreboard shortens them to three letters: Memphis, Minnesota, Portland and Toronto, the labels the arena graphic uses instead of the full city names.
NBA TEAMS, ON SCOREBOARDS
NBA TEAMS, ON SCOREBOARDS
Group 2 - Green
Hint: Four kicks that restart play in soccer: each word stands directly before KICK - the corner kick, the free kick, the goal kick and the penalty kick.
SOCCER KICKS
SOCCER KICKS
Group 3 - Blue
Hint: Four Jacksonville Jaguars: quarterback Trevor Lawrence, two-way star Travis Hunter, tight end Brenton Strange and running back Bhayshul Tuten.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
Group 4 - Purple
Hint: Each word is an Olympic sport with its final letter removed: archery, curling, golf and luge, each left one letter short of the full name.