Fore And Oar Meaning In NYT Connections #497 (October 20)

The NYT Connections game is progressing toward its 500th Anniversary, with today’s Connections game being #497.

Within the 497 days, the game has attracted players with tricky words and groups, making it quite fascinating.

Harvard and Lemon were a few tricky words that we have encountered in previous days, with Fore, Ore, and Sew being a few calling for today’s NYT Connections.

Answers For Today’s NYT Connections (#497)

If you closely analyze all words from today’s NYT Connections, you might quickly get the first group right, as first group words somehow align with newspaper or journalism.

Therefore, without any delay, we grouped out the words like Column, Article, Feature, and Story and got the category “Bit of Newspaper Writing” a yellow group.

As we progressed with the remaining words, we thought of grouping the words Table, Ball, New, and Row, as these words seem to align with sports.

Unfortunately, we were one step away from getting the group right, so losing one attempt, we observed the remaining words, replaced Row with Paddle, and got the Blue group “Table Tennis Needs.”

Now that you were only left with 8 remaining words. We analyzed them closely and thought of grouping words like Clatter, Racket, Ruckus, and Row as they seem somehow similar.

Yes, we were right this time, leading us to get the green group” Noisy Disturbance.

Fore And Oar Meaning On October 20 NYT Connections

We were at the end of the game with only four words remaining. But we were still curious about how these words are included in the same category.

So, before grouping them, we thought we would look for their meaning and see if they were similar.

The word “Fore” has multiple meanings, from “being situated in front” to “a non-standard form of before.”

Likewise, Oar is apole with a flat blade, used to row or steer a boat through the water.

So, we could not get any similarities; being curious, we grouped them and got the category” Homophones of Coordinating Conjunctions.”

The category made us realize the connection between these words., which led us to complete today’s game with the following;

• Bit of Newspaper Writing (Yellow): Article, Column, Feature, Story
• Noisy Disturbance (Green): Clatter, Racket, Row, Ruckus
• Table Tennis Needs (Blue): Ball, New, Paddle, Table
• Homophones of Coordinating Conjunctions (Purple): Butt, Fore, Oar, Sew