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Today’s issue
Game No. 513’s issue: 3 out of 5
Connections: Sports Edition hints for Feb. 18, 2026
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Yellow: PEANUTS
Green: BIG AIR
Blue: AIR CANADA
Purple: DROP
Connections: Sports Edition answers for Feb. 18, 2026
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Yellow
Heard in “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: PEANUTS, CRACKER JACK, HOME TEAM, OLD BALL GAME
Green
Olympic snowboarding occasions: BIG AIR, GIANT SLALOM, HALFPIPE, SLOPESTYLE
Blue
Vince Carter, informally: AIR CANADA, HALF-MAN, HALF-AMAZING, VC, VINSANITY
Purple
_____back: DIAMOND, DROP, QUARTER, RAZOR
What is Connections: Sports Edition?
Connections: Sports Edition is The Athletic’s first-ever sport, a day by day puzzle designed for gamers to seek out connections between 16 phrases on the sport board.
The sport’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 primarily based on commonalities inside every group as rapidly as attainable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one resolution, so be careful for phrases or gadgets that appear to belong to a number of classes!
Category examples:
Sports ____ : Fan, Car, Bar, Radio
U.S. Summer Olympians: Biles, Phelps, Ledecky, Lyles
Each class group is assigned a colour, revealed as you resolve, starting from simple (yellow) to medium (inexperienced) to difficult (blue) to tough (purple).
Who creates the puzzles for Connections: Sports Edition?
That’s me! My title is Mark Cooper, and I create Connections: Sports Edition and work as a managing editor for faculty sports activities right here at The Athletic. I used to be beforehand The Athletic’s managing editor for breaking information.
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