Connections: Sports Edition puzzle #268, published June 18, 2025, groups NFL teams, college football bowls, recent NWSL champions and scrambled MLB team names. Start with the spoiler-light clues below; the category labels and full answer sets follow.
Spoiler-light hints
- One group consists of teams from the same professional football division.
- Look for college football bowl games, including names in the vein of Fiesta, Peach and Orange.
- Another group draws on recent champions in women’s professional soccer.
- The trickiest group scrambles the names of teams from a different sport.
Category names
- NFC South teams
- College football bowl games
- Last four NWSL champions
- Anagrams of MLB teams
Full answers for puzzle #268
Stop here if you want to solve the groups yourself. The four sets are:
- NFC South teams: Atlanta, Carolina, New Orleans, Tampa Bay
- College football bowl games: Holiday, Music City, Rose, Sugar
- Last four NWSL champions: Gotham, Pride, Spirit, Thorns
- Anagrams of MLB teams: Gleans, Roasts, Stem, Traipse
How the purple anagrams resolve
Each purple-group entry rearranges into an MLB team name: Gleans becomes Angels, Roasts becomes Astros, Stem becomes Mets, and Traipse becomes Pirates.
About this dated puzzle
This is the answer guide for Connections: Sports Edition puzzle #268, dated June 18, 2025. Parade and Yahoo Sports published matching category groups and answers; Yahoo Sports also gives the MLB-team anagram mappings. The available answer guides corroborate the key, though an official NYT or The Athletic archival board for this specific puzzle was not established.
