Sports Connections Hints: May 10, 2025

This page shows spoiler‑layered hints for the NYT Sports Connections puzzle published on May 10, 2025 (2025-05-10). Step through the hints in order and only reveal the full board when you're ready.

Meta: Sports puzzle #421

Puzzle #421 · 2025-05-10 · sports

Step through today’s Connections hints

Start with broad themes, then reveal more detail about the groups and tiles only when you need it. The final button shows today's full group breakdown.

Puzzle reference: Connections #421 for 2025-05-10, edition sports, with a standard four-group board. Spoiler categories and tiles stay collapsed until you open the hint layers below.

Hint 1 – overall theme

There are 4 groups in today’s puzzle.

Themes include: THINGS AN UMPIRE CALLS, NFL STADIUMS, FIRST WORDS OF COLLEGE CONFERENCES and 1 more.

Hint 2 – group titles

Here are the category names for each group. Try matching the tiles in the official game to these themes before you reveal any tiles.

THINGS AN UMPIRE CALLS
NFL STADIUMS
FIRST WORDS OF COLLEGE CONFERENCES
QBS DRAFTED BY THE TITANS

Hint 3 – group tiles

Reveal the tiles for each group. If you only want a partial nudge, stop after reading one or two groups and go back to the official puzzle.

THINGS AN UMPIRE CALLS

SAFE

OUT

BALL

STRIKE

NFL STADIUMS

ALLEGIANT

SOLDIER

LAMBEAU

GILLETTE

FIRST WORDS OF COLLEGE CONFERENCES

BIG

SOUTHEASTERN

ATLANTIC

AMERICAN

QBS DRAFTED BY THE TITANS

WARD

LEVIS

LOCKER

MARIOTA

Reveal full answer

This is the full breakdown of today's Connections puzzle: group titles and all tiles, grouped together.