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@subodhcsingh

8 күн бұрын

That was a nail-biter! (Wordle)

@DailyWordPuzzlesWithOranje28

8 күн бұрын

It was a tough one today Art. Some very specific knowledge was required.

@chinareds54

7 күн бұрын

SASSY was only one wasted letter (the 3rd S). The 2nd S did test whether there was more than one S.

Art, I often have to remind myself that the puzzles are for the general public. Most people.playing are laymen and while they want these to be challenging, they don't require expertise. I've come across the issue a few times where I'm too much of an expert at a specific subject and I try to overcomplicate it, like I think you did today with "building blocks". Most people couldn't tell you what a protein really is, for instance, but many may have heard that they are "buildling blocks".

A tale of two "Freeze Tags". There are two completely different games both called "Freeze Tag". One is a variation of the basic children's game of tag, where the person who is "IT" can tag someone and they then have to stay frozen until someone else tags them to unfreeze them. The other game is a theater sports game where an improvised scene takes place and anyone who is taking part (potentially the ENTIRE audience), can yell "freeze" at any time. The performers then have to freeze, until the caller tags one of them, releasing them from the scene. The caller then takes the tagged performers exact physical position, and starts a completely new scene that can involve different characters, relationships, objects, situations, and/or locations. It is a staple of theater sports and it is extremely fun to watch or to play. I took an improv-based acting class at university and it was hilarious, fun, and challenging. It really helps you to improv(e) in how well you can think on your feet. Here's a fun fact about me. I actually taught some theater sports classes for little kids (7 - 13). It was really fun to watch kids learn to creatively entertain the rest of the class. One of the funnest things about theater sports is that you can surprise an audience, but you can also surprise yourself.

@doraa.7873

8 күн бұрын

Thanks for the interesting information. I have never heard of freeze tag (either one) or theater sports. 😊

@ellensassani

8 күн бұрын

Interesting! The theater version is news to me.

@Tsteinlauf

7 күн бұрын

Fascinating!! Thanks for increasing my knowledge today!! There are such interesting people on this channel!! I would love to see the theater version of Freeze Tag. I played the other version as a kid, ages ago. 😊

@UTU49

7 күн бұрын

@@Tsteinlauf I'm really glad you all enjoyed hearing a little bit about theater sports. It wasn't all THAT long ago, was it Therese? 😉

@UTU49

5 күн бұрын

@@Tsteinlauf In case it wasn't clear, I'd like to clarify that "theater sports" is when a group of actors performs improvised comedy... Usually through a series of "games" with different rules that challenge the actors. You might be able to see live professional shows somewhere. A lot of acting classes use theater sports as a way of training yourself to commit to goals, while carefully watching and listening to the other actors. This makes me think about the fact that acting is really the art of doing 2 or 3 things with your mind at once. The majority of your attention should be on the other actors and your character's goals, but part of your mind needs to maintain an awareness of the greater situation, involving such things as the audience (or camera). Well this was a fun walk down memory lane for me. Back to my acting days, many years ago.

Not unusual instruments if you ever watched "The Beverly Hillbilly's", "The Andy Griffith Show", or the "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas".

a game for children where you "freeze" someone by touching them

I work with kids for a living and freeze tag is a tag game where when you are tagged you have to freeze until someone else comes and touches you so you are unfrozen.

Wordle 1,113 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 kings 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ slate 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ scour 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ scoop 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 scoff Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #391 🟪🟪🟪🟪 _ tag 🟩🟩🟩🟩 baby paraphernalia 🟨🟨🟨🟨 nature's building blocks 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ? Maybe comparisons to muscles ? Nope. Would have never gotten that. How do you play a saw as an instrument? That seems... unwise. Tag was the first category I found with confidence.

@patmurkland4161

8 күн бұрын

If you look around KZread you can find some saw-playing. 😊

@auldfouter8661

8 күн бұрын

The saw first gets bent into an S shape , when under this pressure it makes weird sort of electronic noises ( almost ) when struck with a nine inch nail ! The things that you used to see on variety TV shows back in the 60s and 70s !

@lisag8476

8 күн бұрын

​@@auldfouter8661That's amazing, tks for sharing! I also watched some videos today of people playing a saw with a violin bow.

@Tsteinlauf

7 күн бұрын

I have seen and heard it played with a bow. It is really eerie, like music from Outer Space. 🪚👽

Wordle in 5 KINGS STARE SOULY SWOOP SCOFF Connections: Much better than yesterday. 2 mistakes and no time bonus, but I got all categories named in order. 7/10 Strands: Perfection! Spangram first, no hints, and under 3 minutes.

All I’m going to say here is that my video is under 9 minutes in length 😁

@losh23

8 күн бұрын

Savage

6 also on Wordle. Got green yellow blue on connections but no idea on purple.

Connections YYYY - Microscoping units BGGG - Things for a baby PPPP - _____ tag BBBG - Used by pioneers (?) BBBB - ???? GGGG - Things for a baby Over five minutes I remember having a baby toy involving spoons and was confident that it belonged in the green category. I think bottle could have gone in blue.

I got the scoff in 5. Strands was a piece of cake after that connections from awhile ago. I had lots of fun with the connections. INhad a 9.

@ellensassani

8 күн бұрын

Is it true that Hofwegen could be translated as 'garden path"? (I thought of this today due to the "yard" category.)

@AndreaVanHofwegen-dv7gh

8 күн бұрын

My husband tells me it means from the town of Hofwegen. And now because of your comment I looked it up without the Van and it does indeed mean garden path. Thanks for your comment.

STARE SOUND SPOOL SMOKY SCOFF Strands #125 “By the yard” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵 Sometimes their titles are quite literal... turns out, a yard is just a yard! Connections Puzzle #391 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Building blocks of living things 🟦🟩🟦🟦 (A bottle or a rattle could also be used as an instrument) 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Jugband "instruments" made from household items 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Items for a baby 🟪🟪🟪🟪 _____ Tag I never heard of "freeze tag" but it was the last remaining option.

Wordle 1,113 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 KINGS 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ STARE 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ SOUPY 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ SLOSH 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCOFF Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 My HOA has outlawed most of these. Connections Puzzle #391 🟩🟩🟩🟩 things you get when you have a baby 🟦🟦🟦🟦 hillbilly band instruments 🟨🟨🟨🟨 building blocks 🟪🟪🟪🟪 ___ tag Never heard of freeze tag.

Wordle in 5: KINGS - STARE - SLUMP - SHOWY - SCOFF Connections: YELLOW - BLUE - GREEN - PURPLE (Even then it took me a while to click that “freeze tag” is an alternative name for the children’s game I know as “tiggy”.)

Wordle: KINGS COUTH EARLY SCOFF STRANDS 125, 10 Finally got back to a successful super hard mode solve. Was extra careful entering each of the words. Saw BIRD at first which didn't help. FLAMINGO was the giveaway for the theme. 1:49 total solve time. CONNECTIONS: In progress I currently have the yellow and green in order with no mistakes, but I have no clue on the other two yet. 14 more hours to think.

@chinareds54

7 күн бұрын

Update: I have identified the missing word category, which I'm assuming is purple. 100% confidence. Just trying to figure out the blue.

@Tsteinlauf

7 күн бұрын

Good luck!! 🤞🍀😊

@chinareds54

7 күн бұрын

CONNECTIONS 391, 8.5 4+3.5 base, order bonus I finally figured out the blue category name at about 8pm (finishing on my phone), but I didn't get home (where I had written down my first two category names) until after midnight. Biochemistry Stuff (0.5) Baby Stuff (1) Everyday Items That Can Be Used as Musical Instruments (1) ___ Tag (1) I am perhaps being a bit generous in taking a full point on the Baby one without the word purchases because I definitely was thinking about manufactured products for a baby and I can't think of any such thing that wouldn't be purchased (even if gifted or passed down it would originally have been purchased). Literally the only thing that could fit my category title as written that wouldn't be purchased would be breast milk, but that wasn't in the scope of what I was thinking about when I wrote down the category name. Was considering for a long time a fake category with SPOONS, DOG, and SAW, but I was pretty sure GUF, EZEERF, ECRIP, DRAOBHSAW and ENOHP are not words.

I got it in 4.

KINGS SCALE SCOUT SCOOP SCOFF

Freeze tag is a kids game of some sort. I’ve never played it though. Now I’m gonna go listen to Soundgarden’s SPOONMAN!

xxx,scoff,Tom Cee,5 Wordle 1,113 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨kings 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛stare 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛showy 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛spool (nice guess 😉) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩scoff Patience helps Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #391 🟦🟦🟦🟦 unusual musical instruments (I’ve played them all) 🟨🟨🟨🟨 building blocks 🟩🟩🟩🟩 baby stuff 🟪🟪🟪🟪 ___ tag freeze tag is a kids chase game Mo-beel’ 2.6 points

I got stuck on the last two too, was convinced there was something about words that were other words backwards 😭😭 (SAW, DOG, SPOONS)

@christiana6018

7 күн бұрын

That would’ve been a great category I didn’t think of that

7/10. Connections Puzzle #391 🟩🟩🟩🟩 objects for babies 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ordinary objects that can be played like a musical instrument 🟪🟨🟨🟨 Chemistry concepts? 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Basic Science concepts 🟪🟪🟪🟪 _____ tag RIOT: 3400. 7/10 Time: 15 minutes? DIFFICULTY, as reported by NYT testers: 3.2/5 So ends my 5-day streak of 9+ scores. It was nice while it lasted. I ran out of patience. I could have gotten one more point if I had spent more time trying to figure out the purple category, before testing my incorrect Science category. I’ve got a bone to pick with this one. Calling those “the” Biological Building Blocks is arbitrary. Perhaps that’s what Biology textbooks say, but general knowledge is not about memorizing lists in biology textbooks. Aren’t “carbon chains”, “phospholipid bilayers” (the essential structure in membranes), and “DNA” all just as much “Biological Building Blocks” as the items in that list?

@UTU49

8 күн бұрын

Strands #125 “By the yard” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵 2:43 I'm getting a lot of below 3 minute solves. I'm happy about that.

@doraa.7873

8 күн бұрын

But the category was NOT called "The" Biological Building Blocks. Just "Biological Building Blocks." (You added the "the.") So I don't agree that they were implying these four are ALL of the biological building blocks. These are just some of them. You're right that the ones you mentioned could also fit into that category. But obviously, they could not include all of them since there are only four items in each category.

@UTU49

7 күн бұрын

@@doraa.7873 Perhaps it's a bigger issue that "atom" and "molecule" are essential Chemistry concepts that are not exclusive to Biology. It's a little bit sour grapes on my part, but there's a half-bakedness to this category that I don't like. Basically just that I think people are only likely to give that particular category title if they are immersed in formally studying Biology, or they have recently read those 4 things together in a Biology textbook, neither of which are required to be a generally knowledgeable person.

Wordle 1,113 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜BEGAN 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜FLOUT 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SCOFF

Wordle was a struggle: Kings - Stare - Scold - Scoop - Scoff. 5 tries. Even as I typed in Scoff I wasn't sure that was the answer. Strands wasn't so bad for me and I'm slowly getting better at connections wordle is by far my favorite, though

@ellensassani

8 күн бұрын

I sometimes describe the games this way: WORDLE: You have to guess a 5-letter word in 6 tries. CONNECTIONS: You have to know everything about everything ever. 😆

@sambright3719

8 күн бұрын

​@@ellensassani Perfect definitions, Ellen. 😂

@doraa.7873

8 күн бұрын

@@ellensassani Very well said!

Wordle 1,113 4/6 🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛SAUCE 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛SCION 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛SCOLD 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SCOFF *500 DAYS!!!* Strands #125 “By the yard” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵 Connections Puzzle #391 🟨🟨🟨🟨MICROSCOPIC THINGS 🟩🟩🟩🟩THINGS FOR A BABY 🟦🟦🟦🟦BLUEGRASS/JUGBAND INSTRUMENTS 🟪🟪🟪🟪___TAG

Wordle took 5. Earth, Sound, Spoil, Smoky, Scoff That was a hard one and took a long time to solve. Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 Strands was the easiest for me today. Connections Puzzle #391 🟦🟦🟦🟦Instruments in country band 🟩🟩🟩🟩Baby Stuff 🟨🟨🟨🟨Biological Basics 🟪🟪🟪🟪No idea Took a long time and had to walk away and come back later to finish.

Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵

KINGS STARE SCOLD SCOFF Connections Puzzle #391 🟪🟪🟪🟪____ tag 🟦🟦🟦🟦Can be used as musical instruments (played in "hillbilly band") 🟨🟨🟨🟨Building blocks for life 🟩🟩🟩🟩Things for a baby Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵

AMEND, FLOUR, SPOOF. SCOFF.

Kings strap shove scold scoff Ok Wordle though I think scold was done already 🔵💡🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 Definitely overthought this one not my best 🟨🟨🟨🟨things that make up an organism 🟪🟪🟩🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪___ tag 🟦🟩🟩🟦??? 🟦🟩🟩🟦??? 🟦🟩🟦🟩??? Blanked on the last 2 Overall bad day could’ve done much better Also I know I’m a bit late I was really tired yesterday and fell asleep before having a chance to do the usual 3 puzzles

Connections Puzzle #391 🟨🟨🟨🟨LIFE COMPONENTS 🟩🟩🟩🟩BABY THINGS 🟦🟦🟦🟦THINGS USED AS INSTRUMENTS 🟪🟪🟪🟪____ TAG Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 I have never in my life seen anyone with a WINDSOCK as a lawn ornament. (PINWHEEL as in Connections, yes.) But FLAMINGO gave it away. Wordle 1,113 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜TRACE 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜COMIC 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜SCOWL 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SCOFF Won the 50/50. Could have been SCOOP.

Strands #125 “By the yard” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵 9 🦩😊 Wordle 1,113 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADIEU - SNORT - GLYPH - SCOFF Connections Puzzle #391 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 COMPONENTS OF MATTER = 1 WHAT A BABY HAS = 1 COUNTRY MUSIC INSTRUMENTS = 1 (Thinking Hillbillies Actually more properly called Jug Band.) _____TAG = 1 ORDER: 1. TIME: 🦥 TOTAL: 9

Scoredle 4/6* 14,855 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ TRAIL (2,002) 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 OUENS (53) 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ SHOOK (3) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCOFF

Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵