CNET published the hints and answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle on April 8, 2026, giving players a fresh look at No. 562 just after it went live. The daily game, called Connections: Sports Edition, is published by The Athletic, not in the NYT Games app.
The yellow group pointed to exercises in singular form: crunch, plank, situp and squat. The green group covered sporting jobs that require masks, with catcher, fencer, football player and goaltender. The blue group was built around Hall of Fame defensive ends, pairing Dent, Peppers, Strahan and Youngblood. The purple group followed the pattern ____ jump, with broad, high, long and triple filling the set.
That distinction matters because the Sports Edition puzzle is tied to The Athletic, a subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times, while the game itself can also be played free online and inside The Athletic's own app. For readers looking for a fast check on today’s board, the clue set was straightforward enough to reward anyone who knew the categories rather than the trick.
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The cleanest takeaway is that April 8’s puzzle leaned on familiar sports language more than obscure trivia, which made the answer grid feel more like recognition than recovery. For anyone moving between daily word games, the same site also points readers to Today Wordle Answers: NYT Connections No. 1031 answers for April 7, but No. 562 on the Sports Edition side was the one that landed today.
