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Connections is released at midnight in your time zone. In order to accommodate all time zones, there will be two Connections Companions live every day, dated based on Eastern Standard Time. If you find yourself on the wrong companion, check the number of your puzzle and go to this page to find the corresponding companion.

The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.

Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough,

L ooking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on July 14 for puzzle #764 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3 out of 5.