Connections Sports Edition #783 Answers, November 15, 2026

Connections: Sports Edition #783, the Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026 puzzle from The Athletic and New York Times (NYT) Games, mixes single words, two- and three-word phrases and one tile that starts with a digit. Two hints per color open one tap at a time. Answers stay below the spoiler heading.

Today’s board has an entry with a comma in its title and a color that rewards reading how each tile ends. The rules are on our Connections page.

Sunday’s hints, #783, Nov. 15, 2026

Count the tiles that are single words and the ones that are phrases before you guess. One tile has a comma in the middle and still counts as one entry.

• Yellow hint 1: Think of what one player on a baseball field wears for protection.
• Yellow hint 2: Two of the four tiles are single words and two are pairs of words.
• Green hint 1: All four belong to the vocabulary of one National Football League (NFL) club.
• Green hint 2: One of the four tiles contains a digit.
• Blue hint 1: These are titles of films about a sport played on ice.
• Blue hint 2: One title is a word and a place name joined by a comma, and it fills a single tile.
• Purple hint 1: Stop reading the meaning of each tile and look at how it finishes.
• Purple hint 2: The last letters spell something you could weigh or measure with, and one of the four is a person’s full name.

What makes Sunday’s board slippery

One tile is a person’s full name and looks like it belongs with the team vocabulary. Resist the first match you see. One piece of gear could pass for hockey equipment too, so check which group it actually completes before you submit.

Solve the group with the plainest rule first, then let the leftovers sort themselves. If you play every day, track the run on a printable weekly calendar. Yesterday’s page is Connections: Sports Edition #782, and the main game has its own Connections hints and answers for Nov. 15.

Sunday’s answers, #783, Nov. 15, 2026 (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it. Beebom and Nerdschalk list the same four groups and sixteen entries.

• Yellow, “Catcher’s Equipment”: Chest Protector, Mask, Mitt, Shin Guards
• Green, “Associated With the Seahawks”: 12s, Beast Quake, Legion of Boom, Lumen Field
• Blue, “Hockey Movies”: Miracle, “Mystery, Alaska”, Slap Shot, The Mighty Ducks
• Purple, “Ends in a Unit of Measurement”: Bounce, Brandon Ingram, Dawg Pound, Edmonton

Who each entry is

• Catcher’s Equipment: gear a baseball catcher wears.
• Associated With the Seahawks: Seahawks.com says 12, 12s and Legion of Boom are trademarks of the Seattle Seahawks, and it calls Lumen Field the home of the Seattle Seahawks. Beast Quake is the fourth Seahawks entry.
• Hockey Movies: four hockey films. The comma in “Mystery, Alaska” belongs to the title.
• Purple endings: Brandon Ingram is a National Basketball Association (NBA) forward, per NBA.com. The other three tiles are Bounce, Dawg Pound and Edmonton.

Team vocabulary the club protects

Seahawks.com ties three of the four green tiles to the club: 12s and Legion of Boom as trademarks, Lumen Field as its home. The group is team vocabulary, so a fan who knows only the roster has little to go on.

Where the hidden units sit in the purple tiles

Tile	Unit hidden at the end	Letters before it
Bounce	ounce	1 (B)
Brandon Ingram	gram	2 in the last name (In), plus all 7 letters of Brandon
Dawg Pound	pound	the whole word Dawg, 4 letters
Edmonton	ton	5 (Edmon)

Dawg Pound is the only tile whose unit is a whole word. Bounce has just one letter in front of its unit.