Today's Wordle answer (game #1677) is… CUBIC. C is a pretty common letter to be repeated, in that there are 29 games among the original 2,309 which feature it in duplicate form. But it's not often that those letters appear at the start and end of an answer – there are only five of these in the original list.

Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Jan. 22, No. 486.