Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He's authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a daily today's Wordle answer column and a detailed analysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.

Today's NYT Connections words are…

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We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

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Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

The answers to today's Connections, game #480, are…

This is a fairly simple Connections puzzle as they go – although it's all relative, of course.

The key to solving it, for me, was getting the purple group first. This is traditionally the hardest of the four Connections, so solving it early takes off some of the pressure. And there's a definite psychological boost to completing it early!

Today's was a clever one – BUGS PLUS STARTING LETTER, for instance BLOUSE (LOUSE) and SMITE (MITE). But I tend to find these kind of puzzles easier to solve than some others (for instance the blank ___ type), because they don't require

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