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That was worthy of one of your famous "Wooooooos!". I miss the woooo.
A hack is a taxi driver.
wordle in 2 !, VENOM -> CANON
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
Copper is a British slang term for a policeman. I assume 'cop' is just a shortening of that term.
Apparently "copper" is ultimately from Latin "capere", to take. The word "cop", meaning "take", has a life of its own e.g. "cop that!"
Really pissed about today's Connections - I shouldn't have to know any songs from an antiquated irrelevant singer from another country/culture other than the ones that match my tastes and morals. Anyway great video as always!
Art definitely didn't suggest any of that. Mariah Carey is one of the biggest international stars
yeah, even with movies too, people who just dont watch movies are at a disadvantage... the entire point of NYT games from the start was Word games, which test your vocabulary and phrases.. like how tf am i supposed to know all bond films in english when all the movie titles get translated differently into my language... or any other movie for that fact
I didn't know any Mariah Carey songs, the words just sounded vaguely positive. Maybe Art meant Bonnie Tyler, Holding out for a Hero. Fun fact, Bonnie is Welsh. Connections Puzzle #392 🟩🟩🟩🟩 stand-in, 1 🟨🟨🟨🟨 changes of state in matter, 1 🟪🟦🟪🟦 honey hack shrink hero - ??? 🟦🟪🟦🟦 honey hack copper suit -- ??? 🟪🟪🟪🟪 ??? , 0 🟦🟦🟦🟦 professions, informally (policeman, journalist, psychiatrist, manager), 1 3 + 2 + 0 + 0 = 5 Total to July 7 7.5+7+7+6.5+2+1+5 = 36 Averages to date July 2024 5.1 June 2024 6.0 May 2024 5.5
This was a nightmare of a day. Wordle in 5 LUPIN BATON WAGON RADON CANON Connections: Only positive here is I didn't fail it. Made three mistakes and couldn't really figure out 2 of the categories. Mariah Carey's before my time. 3/10 Strands wasn't much better. No hints, but no anything else either. 7/10 Had a hard time figuring out what they were looking for.
KW! great job!
“Even if you do terrible like me, as long as you have fun solving it that’s all that matters.” - Sums up my Wordle solve very eloquently! Wordle in 6: LUPIN - MASON - BARON - TAXON - WAGON - CANON (Definitely was not ready for that roller coaster! 🤣) Connections: (3 yellows & 1 blue) - YELLOW - GREEN - (3 blues & 1 purple) - half & half - BLUE - PURPLE Slight correction: ‘Hackneyed’ comes from an archaic verb hackney meaning ‘use (a horse) for ordinary riding’, which morphed into ‘make commonplace by overuse’. Early in the 17th century a four-wheeled carriage called a ‘hackney cab’, which was specifically for carrying paid passengers, was introduced into England. Over time, those who drive around looking for paid passengers (a modern example being taxi drivers) became known as “hacks”. A “hack writer” is only known as such by the quality of their work, not the profession itself. So you had the right etymology, just the wrong profession.
I got the Wordle in 4. My second guess was ocean. So I thought I nailed bacon in 3. Oops. Strands took me a long while. I was thinking of newspapers as black n white and read all over, so. looking for newspaper or magazines things. I finally saw Charcoal, and I was on track. Connections was fun and frustrating. I almost had a 10, but pop culture did me in for purple. Connections Puzzle #392 🟨🟨🟨🟨 states of wayer 🟩🟩🟩🟩 alternate 🟦🟦🟦🟦 slang foe jobs 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️
Strands #126 “Not just black and white” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵
Wordle 1,114 3/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜CLOUD 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜CORPS 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩CANON
Wordle 1,114 5/6 ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛SAUCE ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨PANIC 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛CANAL 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛CANDY 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩CANON Strands #126 “Not just black and white” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #392 🟩🟩🟩🟩STAND-IN 🟨🟦🟨🟨] 🟨🟦🟨🟨] WAYS OF GETTING RID OF WARTS/TUMORS/MOLES -SHRINK- 🟨🟦🟨🟨] 🟦🟦🟦🟦DEROGATORY TERMS FOR CERTAIN PROFRESSIONS 🟨🟨🟨🟨 -WAYS OF GETTING RID OF WARTS/TUMORS/MOLES 🟪🟪🟪🟪???
I’ll give you the full point Art! Not even a question in my books!
LUPIN STERN BACON CANON After your ACORN, I thought that was an invitation for you to follow up with BACON. But of course, you're not Canadian :)
xxx,canon,Tom Cee,4 Wordle 1,114 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩lupin ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩groan ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩baton 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩canon Strands #126 “Not just black and white” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Slow, but sure. Slow, but far from sure. Pretty oblivious. Connections Puzzle #392 🟨🟨🟨🟨 change state 🟩🟦🟩🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟪 🟩🟪🟩🟪 🟩🟦🟩🟪
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.
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.
Sexy!
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".
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
I got it in 4.
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” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵
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.
Update: I have identified the missing word category, which I'm assuming is purple. 100% confidence. Just trying to figure out the blue.
6 also on Wordle. Got green yellow blue on connections but no idea on purple.
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.
Wyna Liu tried to sink me today with slang and pop culture. She failed!!! Share your results below!
Well done Art!
It's going to snow in Massachusetts later today. Good job!
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.
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.
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.
Is it true that Hofwegen could be translated as 'garden path"? (I thought of this today due to the "yard" category.)
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.
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.
If you look around KZread you can find some saw-playing. 😊
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 !
@@auldfouter8661That's amazing, tks for sharing! I also watched some videos today of people playing a saw with a violin bow.
KINGS, STEAL, SWORD, SPOOF, SCOFF Wordle 1,113 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵
OH HOW MUCH FUN FREEZE TAG USED TO BE!! Connections Puzzle #391 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
Not unusual instruments if you ever watched "The Beverly Hillbilly's", "The Andy Griffith Show", or the "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas".
Scoredle 4/6* 14,855 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ TRAIL (2,002) 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 OUENS (53) 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ SHOOK (3) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCOFF
a game for children where you "freeze" someone by touching them
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.
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.
I got stuck on the last two too, was convinced there was something about words that were other words backwards 😭😭 (SAW, DOG, SPOONS)
That would’ve been a great category I didn’t think of that
AMEND, FLOUR, SPOOF. SCOFF.
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.
Thanks for the interesting information. I have never heard of freeze tag (either one) or theater sports. 😊
Interesting! The theater version is news to me.
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?
Strands #125 “By the yard” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵 2:43 I'm getting a lot of below 3 minute solves. I'm happy about that.
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.
@@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.
Ugh! In the UK a mobile is a cellphone, but how is there one for babies? A walking frame? I guessed a noisemaker category e.g. rattle, spoons, washboard, but jug and saw? Freeze and phone tags are new to me. So I don't feel too bad about a 1. Connections Puzzle #391 🟨🟨🟨🟨 building blocks in nature, 1 🟩🟦🟩🟩 rattle crib bottle spoons -- baby accessories 🟦🟩🟩🟩 rattle crib bottle jug -- baby accessories 🟩🟩🟦🟩 rattle crib bottle washboard -- baby accessories 🟩🟪🟩🟩 rattle crib bottle phone -- baby accessories Total to July 6 7.5+7+7+6.5+2+1 = 31
The word "mobile" also refers to a thing that hangs little knickknacks over a baby's crib to give it something to look up at. I would guess that you have a different word for something similar in the UK. Some American folk music uses ordinary physical objects like saws and jugs to make music. "Phone tag" is when you keep leaving messages for each other and can't connect. It may be a thing of the past, because nowadays, we would just send each other a text. See my lengthy explanation of games called "freeze tag", if interested. Better luck tomorrow!
@@UTU49 Thanks for explanations!
@@pwmiles56 No problem. Sometimes I'm pretty chatty on KZread and enjoy sharing thoughts and information.
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!
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
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. 😆
@@ellensassani Perfect definitions, Ellen. 😂
@@ellensassani Very well said!
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”.)
KINGS SCALE SCOUT SCOOP SCOFF
Strands #125 “By the yard” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵