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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The answers to today's Connections, game #499, are…

There are days when the NYT's difficulty scale for Connections seems a little off. It's all a matter of opinion, of course; one person's impossible-to-solve group could be someone else's cakewalk. But today I felt like all four were roughly the same toughness, and the supposedly worst one, GAMES WHERE YOU SAY THE GAME’S NAME, was one of the easiest.

Not that I got the connection as such – and indeed, it was the one I solved by default – but I could clearly see that all four were games, and the fact that they were specifically games where you say the name wasn't really

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