About the theme

Team Sports covers the global lineup. Football, soccer, rugby, basketball, baseball, cricket, hockey, lacrosse — all sit in the grid alongside the less-everyday options: korfball, padel, bandy, ringette, tchoukball. The long compound names (basketball, volleyball, dodgeball) anchor the harder grids; the short ones (polo, rugby, padel) are the trickier hides. A theme that solves wherever you can name three sports.