Today's Sports Connections hints
This page always carries the current NYT Connections Sports Edition puzzle — #703, Thursday, August 27, 2026. The hints reveal one tier at a time so you can take the smallest nudge that gets you unstuck. We verify the puzzle number against the live game every day, so it is never off by one.
Today's puzzle (#703) has four groups. Reveal exactly as much as you need — a nudge, then the category names, then the first letters. The full answers stay on their own page so you don't spoil it by accident.
Hint 1 — a one-word nudge for each group
- Tier 1 TRANSGRESSION
- Tier 2 TRANSACTION
- Tier 3 DALLAS COWBOYS
- Tier 4 Look at the words themselves
Hint 2 — the four category names
- Easiest TRANSGRESSION
- Easy TRANSACTION
- Tricky DALLAS COWBOYS
- Hardest _____ ERA
Hint 3 — first letters of every answer
TRANSGRESSION: F. · P. · V. · I.
TRANSACTION: T. · E. · T. · D.
DALLAS COWBOYS: B. · P. · L. · O.
_____ ERA: D. B. · S. · N. · O.
Still stuck? See the full answers for #703, explained group by group →
Previous puzzles
Stuck on an earlier day? Each links straight to that day's full answers.
- #702 — Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · VULNERABLE SPOT, FAMOUS CYCLING RACES, ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, STARTS WITH AN NFL TEAM, IN SINGULAR FORM
- #701 — Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · AN AFC NORTH PLAYER, EUROPEAN CITIES TO HOST OLYMPICS, SINCE 2000, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WINNERS, NEW YORK GIANTS
- #700 — Monday, August 24, 2026 · MAKE A SHOT, FOOD SERVED IN A BASEBALL HELMET, MEMBERS OF THE 700-HR CLUB, FAMILIARLY, BANANA BALL TEAMS
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