Here are four progressive hints for Tuesday, November 11, 2025’s Connections Sports Edition puzzle, #414. The category nudges come first; the category names and complete groups follow below the spoiler warnings.
How Connections Sports Edition works
Connections Sports Edition is a sports-focused version of Connections presented by The New York Times in partnership with The Athletic. The game presents 16 words to sort into four groups of four and resets at midnight Eastern time. Its instruction is to “group sports terms that share a common thread.” Parade’s November 11, 2025 guide attributes that instruction to the NYT site.
Hints for puzzle #414
Use these in order if you want to preserve as much of the solving challenge as possible. Each hint points toward one group without listing its answers.
- Yellow: Take your base!
- Green: NCAA group.
- Blue: Sport that originated in England.
- Purple: Let’s play.
Category names — spoilers ahead
The labels below reveal the organizing idea for each set. Stop here if you still want to find the words yourself.
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- Yellow: WHAT FOUR BALLS GETS YOU IN BASEBALL
- Green: AMERICAN CONFERENCE TEAMS
- Blue: RUGBY TERMS
- Purple: ____ GAME
Full answers — spoilers
The complete groups for Tuesday, November 11, 2025, puzzle #414 are:
- WHAT FOUR BALLS GETS YOU IN BASEBALL: BASE ON BALLS, BB, FREE PASS, WALK
- AMERICAN CONFERENCE TEAMS: ARMY, MEMPHIS, RICE, TEMPLE
- RUGBY TERMS: MAUL, RUCK, SCRUM, TRY
- ____ GAME: ALL-STAR, COMPLETE, LAWN, RUBBER
The baseball set contains four expressions for a walk, also called a base on balls. Army, Memphis, Rice, and Temple are the teams grouped under the guide’s “American Conference teams” label.
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