Sports Connections Hints: Jul 24, 2025

This page shows spoiler‑layered hints for the NYT Sports Connections puzzle published on Jul 24, 2025 (2025-07-24). Step through the hints in order and only reveal the full board when you're ready.

Meta: Sports puzzle #496

Puzzle #496 · 2025-07-24 · 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 #496 for 2025-07-24, 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: ALL SQUARE, TENNIS GRAND SLAM LOCATIONS, SPORTS FIGURES WITH THE SURNAME RIVERS 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.

ALL SQUARE
TENNIS GRAND SLAM LOCATIONS
SPORTS FIGURES WITH THE SURNAME RIVERS
HOMOPHONES OF NFL QBS

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.

ALL SQUARE

LEVEL

TIED

EVEN

DEADLOCKED

TENNIS GRAND SLAM LOCATIONS

NEW YORK

MELBOURNE

PARIS

LONDON

SPORTS FIGURES WITH THE SURNAME RIVERS

AUSTIN

DOC

SANIYA

PHILIP

HOMOPHONES OF NFL QBS

KNICKS

MAY

HERTZ

BOROUGH

Reveal full answer

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