Connections: Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Heisman quarterbacks, title coaches, and receiving stars line up beneath four different shades of gold.

How it works

1. Find four groups of four hidden in the 16 tiles.
2. Tap four tiles you think go together, then Submit.
3. You get 4 mistakes. Watch out — some tiles look like they belong in two places.

🟨 Easy🟩 Medium🟦 Tricky🟪 Tough

Groups range from straightforward (yellow) to downright sneaky (purple).

About Connections: Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Connections: Notre Dame Fighting Irish is a free sports connections puzzle: sixteen tiles hiding four secret groups of four. Heisman quarterbacks, title coaches, and receiving stars line up beneath four different shades of gold.

You get 4 mistakes before the board locks, and the trickiest group is always a wordplay trap built to steal a tile you would swear belongs somewhere else. This one is rated Hard, and find the gold beneath four irish groups.

All sixteen tiles are listed below in alphabetical order, exactly as you will see them on the board. How they group is the whole game, so no hints there.

How to play

Read all sixteen tiles before touching anything; the traps punish fast fingers.

Select four tiles you think share a hidden connection and submit.

A correct four locks the group in; a wrong four burns one of your 4 mistakes.

Solve all four groups to win, then share your recap grid.

The sixteen tiles

Bertelli

Boy

Brown

Dome

Floyd

Fuller

Helmets

Holtz

Hornung

Huarte

Ismail

Leahy

Lujack

Parseghian

Rockne

Tate

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