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.

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The answers to today's Connections, game #497, are…

It is perfectly possible to solve the most difficult Connections group, the purple one, without knowing why you're solving it – and I know because it happened to me today.

I'd already got yellow and green, BIT OF NEWSPAPER WRITING and NOISY DISTURBANCE respectively, but was stumped as far as the last two went. I should really have got blue, TABLE TENNIS NEEDS, but at this stage at least I hadn't spotted the connection. However, I had noticed that BUTT, FORE, OAR and SEW were all homophones. Solving it early in the morning, before I was fully awake, I completely failed to

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