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Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words.

The New York Times' Connections puzzle for Tuesday, April 8, came with a fitting number: #666. And in true devilish fashion, the word-matching brain teaser lived up to its ominous billing with a fiendishly tricky set of clues.