Miserable performance today, but I will NOT let you down on the jaw-dropping reveal on Nov. 7, 2024 (148 days to go!) -- SHARE YOUR RESULTS BELOW!

@hopechazz

Ай бұрын

You were great in Wordle and did OK in Strands. You also did not get a GOOSE EGG or just one category in Connections, Art. I can relate to you getting close to achieving all four categories. I surprisingly did very well today! 😊

@MelanieNLee

Ай бұрын

DUMBO is a relatively new name for a neighborhood in Brooklyn, meaning Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. For some reason, they're trying to revitalize or rebrand some neighborhoods in New York City. For example, I grew up in the Ravenswood Projects of Long Island City/Astoria. They're now taking a segment of the neighborhood in Long Island City and revitalizing the old name of Dutch Kills. I don't know why. There is a CHINATOWN in NYC, as well as in San Francisco, but the movie CHINATOWN is set in Los Angeles. The fictionalized story deals with the real-life manipulation of the water supply in the city, as Who Framed Roger Rabbit? deals with the real-life destruction of the Los Angeles trolleys in favor of the freeways. I think only the last scene was set in Chinatown.

@chinareds54

Ай бұрын

Donut holes are a thing you can buy. They're small balls made of the same dough as the regular donut. The gimmick was they were supposedly the "hole" punched out of the disk to make the donut shape. But they're popular because they're a smaller portion than the regular donut.

@chinareds54

Ай бұрын

I caught on after getting my first 2 categories that the categories were probably all word play on the titles. It would just be way too mean to expect common knowledge of the details of the content or production of the movies (outside of something really mainstream like "Disney Cartoons"). They've had movies connected by director or actor before, but only as the lone pop culture category which you could get by POE after finding completely unrelated connections with the other words.

@UTU49

Ай бұрын

DETER??!! How the hell did you do that? Sometimes I think you are a little bit psychic.

I REAALY liked today's connections after an initial panic when I saw all the movie titles. WE didn't need to know anything about the actual films and it ended up being a normal game when you focused on the actual words...

@UTU49

Ай бұрын

I liked the word play. But I absolutely resent all that time I spent thinking about directors, actors, plots, themes, nominations, eras, years, genres, etc… That was a colossal waste of time.

@UTU49

Ай бұрын

I don't think we've ever had one like this that was almost all word-play. I don't think you needed any knowledge of the actual movies whatsoever. This is a bit of a dirty trick to play on those of us who know most of those movies pretty well.

@hopechazz

Ай бұрын

This allowed me to practice on my purple categories. 😊

A “Donut Hole,” popularly known as a “Munchkin” at Dunkin Donuts, is basically just a small ball-shaped donut (or “doughnut” if you’re fancy like the NYT).

@Joe-lb8qn

Ай бұрын

Its what would be left if you made doughnuts by making a disc and punching out a hole. Hence it's the left over holes.

@Joe-lb8qn

Ай бұрын

What i liked about connections was that no movie knowledge was needed so I'm typing this as Art goes down the rabbit hole of plots directors actors etc I got it fairly easily with a guess for New York since ive never heard of Dumbo

@UTU49

Ай бұрын

At Tim Hortons in Canada, they're called Timbits. But we use the term donut hole too, in general.

Keep it up! You were really close on both the yellow and green categories!

Wordle and Strands easy breezy today. Got wordle in 3 and blew through Strands (I used to make donuts for Winchells so familiar with the different types including Donut HOLES - Art!) Connections I just gave up.... didn't get a single one and hated it today.

Connections PPPP - Starting with animals BBBB - Contains units of measurements GGGG - Contains rhyming words YYYY - Places in New York City Under five minutes, in order

@Tsteinlauf

Ай бұрын

CONGRATULATIONS!! 🏆🎶😊

Chinatown wasn't set in New York City, it's the most famous LA Noire movie ever. Dumbo is a movie about an elephant but DUMBO is a neighbourhood in New York that is Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overhang Also, if you guessed 3 options and they were all one away, those 3 have to be in a category and the other 3 have to be in the other, thus, you knew ahead of time that Kill Bill and Manhattan had to belong to two different categories.

Sorry art, but I actually did really well today. Wordle in 4 MANGO TILES PETER DETER Connections: Perfect score! All categories, no mistakes, under five minutes, and in descending difficulty order (from Purple to Yellow). First time I've gotten a perfect score, in this game, in a while! Strands: Also perfect score. Spangram first, no mistakes, no hints, and under 3 minutes. Cider donuts are big where I'm from (Connecticut), so that definitely helped. I guess today was just a good day for me.

@Tsteinlauf

Ай бұрын

CONGRATULATIONS!! 🏆🎶😊 (Connections)

3 for me too ORATE--MITER--DETER. I was in the exact same position as you on Connections. I got the PURPLE and then the BLUE right away. From there I struggled trying to come up with the 4th NY movie. I finally picked Dumbo after making 3 errors and only having 2 choices remaining, ET and Dumbo. I then saw the rhyming words and was happy to get a PHEWW! I did Strands in about a minute with no hints. I have never seen Donuts spelled as DOUGHNUTS.

@Tsteinlauf

Ай бұрын

That's the way Doughnuts used to be spelled in the "olden days " 😁

I did wordle in 5. 😔 strands, I was looking for 12's, eggs, clock, disciples, and doughnuts. Once I lit up the spangram it was off to the races. I've never heard of a cider donut though Connections was so much fun! I thought I was sunk when I saw all the movie titles. Like Art, I got purple 1st. The only thing I knew about My ledt foot is that it won an award. So.I tried that next. Nope. Then I saw the rhymes, then the measurements and NY places I said without confidence because I couldn't figure out how Dumbo fit. I was delighted to solve it.

@Joe-lb8qn

Ай бұрын

same here if id said it out loud it would have been "Places in NYC?????????????????????????????????"

@AndreaVanHofwegen-dv7gh

Ай бұрын

Exactly how I said it!

@Tsteinlauf

Ай бұрын

I had never heard of Cider Doughnuts either, but some of the videos I watched described them. They sound absolutely yummy. I can hardly wait to try one. 🍩😋

I also looked for numbers and eggs first in strands 😭 didnt realise doughnuts were commonly associated with 12.... I also didn’t process ET as a rhyme until the last second

Nice going, my friend. Mine were. LATER, UTTER, DETER.

MANGO LITER DETER Connections Puzzle #367 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Unit of measurement in the title 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Rhyming titles 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Animals in the title 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Places in New York City Chinatown took place in 1930's Los Angeles. Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Saw powdered and knew in it would be doughnuts.

7.5/10. Connections Puzzle #367 Note: all 16 of these are a movie title… which… 🟦🟦🟦🟦contains an imperial measurement 🟩🟩🟩🟩contains an internal rhyme 🟪🟪🟪🟪contains an animal 🟨🟨🟨🟨takes place in NYC (half credit. I didn’t know there was a place called Dumbo in NYC.) RIOT: 4, 3.5, 0, 0 Probably took me 20 to 30 minutes. That was a little tough to sort through, with so many more words than usual. It wasn’t actually as hard as it looked, because it was all about the words in the titles only. All that time I spent thinking about directors, actors, plots, themes, nominations, eras, years, genres, etc… was a colossal waste of time.

@UTU49

Ай бұрын

Strands #101: “By the dozen” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 8:40

@UTU49

Ай бұрын

Wordle: a slightly panicked 5 Spelling Bee: GABM in about 19:00, which means I had a little more trouble than usual. Overall: A somewhat tough day in all 4 of my games. I got through with good, but not great, results in all 4. I will absolutely take it.

Wordle MANGO HYPER SLUIT DETER ------------------------------- Strands 101, 10 Double Gobbler Super Hard Mode. Had the right idea right off the bat and even found OUGHNUTS but it took a while to find the spangram because I was using the wrong O. Got the four lower theme words pretty quick but struggled to find the top three. Last one was scariest because I've never heard of CIDER in relation to the theme and I thought there was a chance it could be DICER. But I managed to get the 50-50 to preserve the streak Total solve time 3:04. ------------------------------------- Connections 366, 8.5 4+3.5 base, time bonus Rhymes (1) Have Distances (0.5) (didn't say ending / also too specific on the types of units) Begin with Animals (1) Places in New York? (1) Never heard of Dumbo as a place in NYC.

In your position, I’d be tempted to cheat. But, then, I’m a very bad person.

@RisetotheEquation

Ай бұрын

If I cheated, I would lose all my subscribers and I wouldn't blame them one bit. Better to be honest than to appear smart by cheating.

@colingibson7324

Ай бұрын

(To myself) cheating is actually very boring. Only idiots do it more than once.

@Tsteinlauf

Ай бұрын

YAY, Art!! 🏆🎶

Using the British spelling for doughnut was cruel. So was leaving out crullers.

@UTU49

Ай бұрын

As a Canadian, my mind accepts both American and British spellings about equally. It comes in handy pretty often in word games.

@smbailey

Ай бұрын

"Doughnut" is not a British spelling, they were invented in the US and this was the original spelling. "Donut" is just a shortened form that has become commonplace over time, much like "Drive-thru", but both spellings are still in use in both the US and the UK.

Strands i think i used as many hints as words, had no clue what the theme was until very late. Wordle an easy 4 MANGO SPITE LEVER DETER, Connections no mistakes but had to guess that Dumbo was a place in NYC.

I had 10 points in Strands snd 9 points in Connections with color order being Blue, Purple, Green, Yellow. Time was under 5 minutes. I had Wordle in four tries: ADIEU, CODED, DRYER, DETER.

@AndreaVanHofwegen-dv7gh

Ай бұрын

Chazz, excellent job!!

@hopechazz

Ай бұрын

Thank you.

@doraa.7873

Ай бұрын

Well done!

@hopechazz

Ай бұрын

@@doraa.7873 😀

@hopechazz

Ай бұрын

☺️

I totally missed “E.T.” as a rhyme as well until that was the last category left. Sneaky.

Wordle in 3: MANGO - HEIST - DETER Connections in 4: BLUE - PURPLE - GREEN - YELLOW

Chase-eight-tweed-deter.

Wordle 1,089 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ MANGO ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 STOVE ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ UNITY 🟨⬜🟨🟩🟨 THREE ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 PETER 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DETER Pronunciation was an essential key! Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 After the first word, it got easy! Connections Puzzle #367 🟪🟪🟪🟪 MOVIE TITLES WITH ANIMALS 🟨🟨🟨🟨 LOCATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY 🟦🟦🟦🟦 MOVIE TITLES WITH MEASUREMENTS 🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVIE TITLES THAT RHYME This one was fun!

STARE TREND DETER Glad to have avoided a potential ER trap. Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 Mmmmm...donuts! Connections Puzzle #367 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Places in NY City 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Last word of each is a unit of measurement 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Each starts with the name of an animal 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Titles that rhyme I was bewildered when I first saw those clues. Wasted some time trying to group them by movie directors. But things fell into place once I realized it was all word play.

Scoredle 5/6* 14,855 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ROUTE (151) ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ STERN (61) ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 AFTER (9) ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 METER (2) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DETER I normally use SLAIN as my second guess. Went away from it today after finding three letters on guess one. Did not really help me but I got there.

Wordle 1,089 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 juice ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ beano ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ferry ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 meter 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 deter (it was that or peter)

Wordle 1,089 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨SAUCE 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛REBEL 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩DETER Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #367 🟩🟩🟩🟩RHYMING TITLE 🟦🟦🟦🟦UNITS OF MEASURE 🟪🟪🟪🟪ANIMALS IN THE TITLE 🟨🟨🟨🟨PLACES IN NY

Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

xxx,deter,Tom Cee,3 Wordle 1,089 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛mango 🟨⬛🟨🟩🟨 tired 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩deter Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Just , No! Connections Puzzle #367 🟨🟩🟪🟦 🟩🟨🟪🟨 🟦🟨🟨🟪 🟩🟪🟩🟦 Total loss.

@MelanieNLee

Ай бұрын

Hmm... What was your pretty mosaic at the top? What words had you chosen, and what was your category?

I’ve never heard from this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbo,_Brooklyn

@ellensassani

Ай бұрын

Wow, your link survived! How?? Is there an exception for Wikipedia?

@AppleTom9091

Ай бұрын

Whenever I try to include a link the comment just disappears. Maybe wiki is an exception?

@doraa.7873

Ай бұрын

I thought you couldn't post links in KZread comments. Is there a work-around?

@auldfouter8661

Ай бұрын

Dumbo - the area where Scotsman Robert Gair ( I knew a Charlie Gair from up north ) invented the cardboard box. Who knew?

Wordle 1,089 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ mango ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 slept 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 deter I have noticed that most people now use the 'doubles strategy' to place letters. I feel when wordle started no one was willing to do that, but it's common game play now. Worked out for me today Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Looked for eggs and roses at first, but I saw 'ough' going across, so as I was building words around that set of letters it occurred to me that the theme might be one thing that comes in a group of 12. Fun puzzle Connections Puzzle #367 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ending in units of measurement 🟪🟪🟪🟪 starting with animals 🟩🟩🟩🟩 rhyming 🟨🟨🟨🟨 places in New York City (never heard of Dumbo) Be Kind Rewind is a Blockbuster sticker slogan as far as I know. I haven't heard of it as a title to anything, so I wasn't sure why the green category was called rhyming titles.

@doraa.7873

Ай бұрын

Believe it or not, "Be Kind, Rewind" was actually a movie too...a rather obscure movie from 2008, starring Jack Black.

@lisag8476

Ай бұрын

​@@doraa.7873I did the puzzle without realizing that they were all movie titles. I haven't heard of several of them. I thought some sounded made up just for today's game.

@hopechazz

Ай бұрын

Dumbo, the flying elephant, lived in NYC during the filming of this movie. Dumbo passed away years ago and has relatives living there now, Lisa.

Connections Puzzle #367 🟦🟦🟦🟦MOVIE TITLES ENDING IN UNITS OF MEASURE 🟩🟩🟩🟩MOVIE TITLES THAT RHYME 🟪🟪🟪🟪MOVIE TITLES THAT START WITH ANIMALS 🟨🟨🟨🟨MOVIE TITLES THAT ARE PLACES Yes, E.T. was kind of sneaky. 🙂I never heard of DUMBO in NYC, so that category had to be last, and I could only hope it was some kind of place. I looked it up afterwards, and found that it's an acronym! I was glad we didn't need to know the contents or casts of the movies, or I probably would have failed. Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 I also looked for eggs first. But then I saw JELLY. Wordlers tend to spell this DONUT, but that wasn't long enough. 🙂 Wordle 1,089 3/6* 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨TRACE 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟨RESET 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩DETER We both did well to go straight for the double E. 🙂

@doraa.7873

Ай бұрын

Good job, Ellen. I also looked for eggs first, as well as roses. But JELLY is what "clued" me in.

Strands #101 “By the dozen” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵