Connections Sports Unlimited
Finished today's Sports Edition puzzle and still want more? Play through the archive instead of waiting for tomorrow. Sort sixteen words into four hidden groups, with four mistakes to spare.
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Same puzzle, no daily limit
The official Sports Edition gives you one grid a day. This page deals real past grids at random, as many as you want, under the same rules: sixteen words, four hidden groups of four, four mistakes before the board reveals itself.
How the boards are chosen
Every board here is a genuine Sports Edition puzzle that has already run, shuffled so you do not get them in date order. Today's puzzle is deliberately excluded — playing here can never spoil the live one.
Using it as practice
Unlimited play is where the pattern recognition actually forms. Play a dozen boards and the recurring category shapes start to announce themselves before you have read all sixteen words. If a run goes badly the finished board is shown in full, so a loss still teaches you the grouping.