This guide covers the Sunday, March 30, 2025 puzzle, Connections: Sports Edition #188—not a current-day board. Use the category nudges first, reveal the group names next, and open the answer key only if you want the full solution.
What are the March 30 Connections: Sports Edition hints?
The board contains 16 sports-related words to sort into four groups of four. Each group shares a common thread. If you want to keep the solutions hidden, start with these clues, ordered from the yellow group to the purple group:
- Brands associated with a particular kind of exercise.
- Statistics or records used to track a game’s progress.
- Teams connected to a particular league.
- Look at the first parts of the words for geographical features found on a map.
What are the category names?
Still working through the board? These labels reveal the intended connections without listing every word:
- Running Shoe Brands
- Seen on a Baseball Scorecard
- CFL Teams
- Teams Whose Names Begin With a Geographical Feature
Connections #188 answers for March 30, 2025
Spoilers: The full answer sets are below.
| Category | Words |
|---|---|
| Running Shoe Brands | ADIDAS, ASICS, HOKA, SAUCONY |
| Seen on a Baseball Scorecard | ERRORS, HITS, INNINGS, RUNS |
| CFL Teams | ARGONAUTS, ELKS, LIONS, TIGER-CATS |
| Teams Whose Names Begin With a Geographical Feature | ISLANDERS, SEAHAWKS, LAKERS, MOUNTAINEERS |
How the trickiest group works
The purple set hinges on the opening part of each team name: island, sea, lake, and mountain are geographical features. The baseball group uses scorecard terms—errors, hits, innings, and runs—rather than team names. Parade labels that category “Seen on a Baseball Scorecard”; some parallel coverage calls it a scoreboard, but the answer set here follows Parade’s date-matched guide.
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About this answer guide
Parade identifies the puzzle as Connections: Sports Edition #188 for Sunday, March 30, 2025, and provides the progressive clues and answer sets above. Yahoo Sports independently reports the same four group themes and answers. These are published answer guides, not an official NYT archival answer page: Parade’s March 30 guide and Yahoo Sports’ March 30 guide.
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