"connections is made by some upper class motherfuckers" is a hank green quote for the ages (Right up there with "I had a happy childhood, but I was not a happy child")
The best part about watching Hank play connections is screaming answers at him that seem SO OBVIOUS while quietly acknowledging that he's way better at this than I will ever be.
Hey Hank. When i was in jail for a while we had tablets. No Internet, but there was a whole series about the origin of the earth and history and such that you and your brother made. I watched it all twice. That helped me a lot while I was in there. That was a few years ago, everything is much better as far as my life goes. I know you'll probably never see this, but I want to say thanks. Edit: it was crash course.
I'm doing very well. Thank you. That was a horrible time in my life. Drugs ruled evey desicion I made. Clean for over two years now. I'll always remember how horrible jail was and how watching Hank and his brothers videos made me forget what was going on around me.
I see this! and that’s awesome you (and, well, just people in jail in general) were able to watch fun Hank science stuff in jail. I hope he does see this! Glad you’re doing well now. I had to do some time in jail about 25 years ago and we only had cards and lice. I had the biggest lice! Grandpappy lice! I would have liked to have some Hank Green instead. Not in my hair though. Like on a screen 😂
There was an article about jail tablets in the Wall Street Journal this week. The FCC is trying to make them cheaper for inmates, like video calls and messaging on them
Yep! And depending where on a music staff it is it can also be called alto or tenor clef. Alto clef is really only read by the viola, while instruments like cello, bass, trombone, and bassoon all read tenor clef sometimes
@@jennamedlyn By moving it around there's also a soprano clef, a mezzo-soprano clef and a baritone clef, but you ever use one of those the musicians will burn down your house.
@@rickasciiyou can technically use mezzo soprano clef to transpose from F to concert (trombone/cello reading a french horn part, for example) but it is still a special kind of torture.
I also got Purple first on this one (I thought it was "Things associated with orchestras"), and proceeded to still lose because I had no clue what Clear was supposed to mean. I feel strangely vindicated by this.
@@Idefilms I'm a musician so it was kinda second nature after seeing clef and suite haha - I figured that Staff was supposed to be a red herring (it's technically "stave"). I had no clue what Span was supposed to be but I figured it was something involving Violins or something lol Net not being "Belongs on a ship" completely killed me though :(
@@Celia_Dawn same here, I paused it and tried to figure out what it would be and had it as: Things in Music: Bridge, Staff, Clef, Section; Income: Net, Clear, Make, Earn; Found on a Ship: Deck, Hatch, Keel, Suite; Wizard Stuff: Beard, Hat, Robe, Span (I wasnt sure on this one, but I was thinking of a wizards like.. magical span ig?) was kinda shock by the correct answer but makes sense of why "span' wasnt fitting anywhere lol
I made the music association with suite, section, clef, and just threw in span, not having anywhere else to put it. But I remember scraping through a solfege class because, although familiar with reading music written with treble (g) clef and bass (f) clef, I struggled sight singing the alto clef, aka c clef. Somehow, when my daughter ordered the Bach motets for me, they turned up with all soprano parts in c clef! 50 years later the challenge is renewed!
I'm in a group chat where people post their connections results and non-native speakers have unique struggles with the game BUT sometimes they have more success because they don't get fooled by obscure words because they don't know them. 😄
This series is like Columbo. If you play, you already know the answer, and you figure Hank is probably going to get it, but it's just so enjoyable to watch him piece it together and see how he figures it out
Staff, hat, make bridge hatch / C-suite span section, c-clef match / Hank’s highest hurdle is not the Wordle / His brain’s main game is the purple word pool / Mighty minds see absurd word selections / Dissect synapse then ‘SNAP’ Connections 😂
Hank, you are not the only one who plays “hard mode”. My husband not only tries to get purple first, he tries to get them in opposite order. I’m just happy if I don’t fail 😂
I’m impressed you figured out the purple category. I’d never heard of any of those Cs except C-section and was stuck thinking it had to be music related (staff, section, and clef all work for music) but when that didn’t work I eventually got it through process of elimination
LOVE the Connections content, keep 'em coming! I like to pause on the first screen and remind myself of what the categories were that day, before playing the video. Sometimes it's a struggle, even though I play everyday! I knew when you said "purple first" that this might be a doozy. This particular puzzle I got the purple last because they were just the remaining leftovers. I've read on NYT about a point-system of this "hard mode" in which the highest score is achieved by finding the answers in the exact opposite order of difficulty, so purple blue green yellow. It's so challenging to hold all those answers in mind before pressing go on what you assume to be purple!! Hard mode indeed. Great brain workout though, appreciate seeing the struggle
I think i remember my original line of thought was musical stuff when i saw, clef, staff and bridge. If you really want to play on hard mode do it at midnight or when you first wake up
I don't know why watching you solve Connections when I've already done it is so delightful but it absolutely is. I will not, however, be playing on Hard Mode. I will just continue to pat myself on the back when I actually get purple and it isnt just the leftovers.
Just stumbled across this video and it put a huge smile on my face. About two weeks ago (over the Christmas adjacent humdrum) I started playing it this way, down to the “no-notes, all held in your head” rule. Except I added one degree of difficulty: you must then work your way back through the remaining colors down to the yellow category. It’s really hard! And you run into a lot of “Come Onnn!! THAT’S supposed to be the green!” moments.
I’ve returned to say ever since I started trying to play on hard mode, I’ve gotten a lot better! Trying to figure out all four categories is a much better strategy than guessing one at a time and falling for the traps. Now I’ve been trying to guess the colors in order from hardest to easiest order. Thanks for the tip Hank!
I LOOOOVE seeing you play connections like way too much! And the reactions are totally warranted 😂 I have a hard time finding the connections and it made me feel better to know that John has a hard time too when you guys played against each other
I'd never heard of this game before. I paused before you started and, with just the "make 4 groups", I started making groups using one thing from each vertical section. I then realized words from the same vertical section would pair up even better and tried again. After coming up with 4 groups, I hit play and was absolutely giddy when you immediately grouped the same things together that I did. When you stated it could be something tricky like adding "C" in front of the word, I picked the correct words and was silently screaming "C-Section!" in my head until you said it 😅 I'm definitely going to have to play this! Thank you so much, Hank!
I clicked on this video because I saw clef and I was like "ah I know music things" so it's very funny that Hank was unsure about clef. Yes there are lots of clefs. And most of them are c clefs!
I haven't watched your science videos that much, but I used to. I love that you have charisma naturally. You have charisma during the scripted videos, but also here too
I laughed out loud when Hank said the only clef is treble clef. 😆 Hello to all viola, cello, trombone, etc. players! Professional violist here. 👋🏼 𝄡 𝄡 𝄡 𝄡 Also, I 100% agree that the colors do *not* always match the difficulty levels that they claim the words fit into. 😅
I watched this video two days ago and have played Hard Mode in the following two days. It is so much more satisfying, and makes the purple category fun!
There's a British TV show called "Only Connect", where contestants have to find connections between clues and the last round is basically this, but with a time limit!
The massive difference with only connect though is that they have unlimited guesses within the allotted time so often just brute force it once they have 3/4 tiles in a category
@@CrazyStalkerPerson sort of... Once they have 2/4 groups they only have 3 chances. You also can't really "brute force it" given the time limit and total posisble combinations. Sure if you have 5 things you think fit you can cycle those. But in this game you can do something similar by working through all options in your head as you has unlimited time. I wasn't saying this is a rip off of that or anything, just that if people enjoy this they'll probably enjoy Only Connect
I'm gonna be that annoying guy. Um, achktually. Connections is actually similar to second to the last round of Only Connect, not the last. The last round is Missing Vowels.
C-clef is a thing! It's what instruments like the viola uses and it tells you where middle C is,as opposed to treble (sometimes called G-clef because the loop goes around the G line) and bass clef (aka F-clef because the two dots are above and below the F line). C clef can move up and down the staff depending on the instrument. the most common c-clef is alto clef (which viola uses) but there's a bunch of different ones for various ranges.
1:00 "You have to keep it all in your head. This is important for me. As I retrain my brain to work after chemotherapy. Because one of the things I have the hardest time with is short term memory." Hank just casually righting poetry.
That was fun! What I do for "hard mode" is try to get the colors in reverse order---purple, blue, green, yellow---with no mistakes. (I call it "reverse rainbow".) But I allow myself to take notes. So... similar, but not the same.
I do this too, but the goal is to do the whole thing upside down (purple, blue, green, yellow). I think it's way more fun and rewarding instead of going by process of elimination- even if I still have to resort to that sometimes.
My wife and I play HardER mode: NO errors, AND it's gotta be in Purple/Blue/Green/Yellow order. One thing that makes it a tiny bit easier is, once you think you have a category identified, select all of them and then mash "shuffle" until they land in easier-to-ignore groups in the outside edges. The remaining groups become a little bit easier to juggle in your head that way.
A friend of mine invented a similar "hard mode" a while back. There are two levels to this version. They both require no mistakes. The first level is to guess each group sequentially from easiest to hardest (i.e. yellow > green > blue > purple). The second level is to do the reverse. It might seem very difficult, but if you play Connections enough, you get a good feel for what they consider more difficult. As Hank said, it's usually some kind of word play or substring commonality. I can usually get all four groups with no mistakes, but guessing the correct order of groups is more of a 50/50 chance for me so far. Also, if you enjoy Connections, you should check out BBC's Only Connect. It's a game show based on these kind of connections, though it's often more than one word in each clue. And the final round would be a very familiar-looking board. I think it's fair to say that whoever created Connections was influenced by Only Connect.
You picked a really hard day to demonstrate hard mode! I definitely agree that the Yellow should not have been a Yellow. I got the boat stuff category first and was surprised to see Blue!
By the way, C clef (or alto clef) is commonly used in viola and alto trombone music! The reason it's not called alto clef here is because C clef can actually be moved up or down on the staff to create other clefs, like tenor clef!
@alleycaaat Yeah, teachers don't really talk about generic clef names unless you're in a music theory class, but all clefs have a generic name, like G clef (treble), C clef (alto), and F clef (bass), and their position on the staff determines their specific names, like "treble," "bass," or "alto." I play clarinet, and I really knew nothing about non-treble clefs before I got to college!
I want to thank you for this. I thought Connections was interesting, but it wasn't fun for me before. The way that the game normally works, where you can guess to reduce the options, makes the game easier as you solve it and verify your guesses. But, by introducing the hardmode rules, suddenly the game became much more interesting and engaging. I didn't play before, because it wasn't engaging enough, but now I play every day with modified rules. A hardmode-extra, maybe? No notes, everything in your head. Must identify all four categories before submitting anything. (As long as you have the four sets of four identified, it's fine, you don't necessarily have to have figured out what the name of the category is). The goal is to solve it in reverse order > Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow. The closer you get to that, the better you've done. I personally find purple and blue to be the ones I care most about, but it's interesting to try and suss out what they'd have ranked them. Doing the game this way has been much more fun & engaging for me, and I like to think that it's been a much better brain stimulator as well. Thanks again for this wonderful idea!
Hank thank you for this because I also tried CNET as one of the C thing first (without clef because I don’t know music). I was so mad because that’s a thing!
I'm super interested in what you're doing to improve your short-term memory. It's something I struggle with, and I find it fascinating when I come across the different strategies people use.
C-celf, also known as alto clef, is used mainly for viola and has the middle line as the note C. (Its the one that looks like a fancy bracket) Bass clef, the one that looks like a backwards C with two dots, is the F-clef. Bass clef originally looked like a fancy F, but then slowly over the years became the bass clef we know today. The two dots in the bass clef are on either side on the line that represents the note F. If you’re wondering what the treble clef is, it’s G-clef, because the spiral goes around the 2nd line, which is the note G.
I try to get them in reverse order (purple, blue, green, yellow), but honestly i feel like purple is usually the easiest one to identify. Blue is often a more trivia-feeling type thing, and then green and yellow always seem totally arbitrary about what the creator thought was easier.
Fun fact. C-clef is another name for alto clef because middle c is on the center line. It is most often used for violas but is occasionally used in older vocal music as well. There is also a tenor clef that is used for cello and bassoon when they reach their highest registers.
This is how I've been playing Connections for the last few weeks! I make all the groups first and then figure out the order of perceived difficulty! It's much more fun and rewarding to be right
I’ve been playing connections (extra) hard mode for months now! But I also try to get the rest in the descending difficulty. I rarely win connections (extra) hard mode
I distinctly remember this being one of the harder ones for me, especially the wizard one, so to see Hank get that one "obviously" and then not think it was the hardest catehory was astounding to me 😂😂
The most consistent way of getting purple first would be to essentially presolve the whole thing, sorting out all the categories before submitting any, and then determining which is most likely to be the purple. One of the word gamer youtube channels (RiseToTheEquation) had a competition for a few months and getting a perfect score included getting the categories in either ascending or descending color order.
Two colleagues and I played connections hard mode basically every day the second half of last year so you're not the only person on earth, but of all the people to arrive at this I'm not surprised it's you
I think I first heard of connections from you. Love it, but as a non-native I do often need to look up words to make sure there's not a definition I didn't know lol
If that’s what you think hard mode is, I’ve been playing expert 💀. I do the same as you and go for purple first. But the remain guesses continue the reverse order of difficulty, aiming for blue, green, yellow. Most often, it’s figuring out which is yellow vs green that’s most challenging. I’ve successfully done this 5 times 🥳
I actually play hard mode even harder! I'll tag you on Twitter, but you have to get purple, blue, green, yellow in order... I've only done it like 3-4 times... getting yellow and green correct tends to be the hardest : )
"connections is made by some upper class motherfuckers" is a hank green quote for the ages
(Right up there with "I had a happy childhood, but I was not a happy child")
Isn't "I had a happy childhood, but I was not a happy child" a John quote Hank stole (with permission!) for the book?
@@lucyhartwell2134 afaik yes
I'd add to that "And I did... try!"
3:43 if anyone is interested
@@lucyhartwell2134 yeah it is lol
I've been playing Connections for months and I just learned from this video that the colors mean anything.
Same. When he first said it, my reaction was "how could you possibly know which one is purple?!"
Yikes
Me too!
yeah all four categories are ordered by difficulty yellow, green, blue and then purple
That is part of the instructions of the game...
I genuinely want to watch Hank do every connections every day
Same!
Hank plays Connections Channel!!!
Actual Same
@@ericm301PLEASE
Saaaame
Just so everyone's on the same page:
connections = no note taking
policy research = fuckin sheets
this makes perfect sense
@@archerelms 100%
As a non native speaker binching that stuff as practice, research over failing or guessing because using that shit will stick it in there forever.
Watching Hank get frustrated with connections is more fun than actually playing connections
True
The best part about watching Hank play connections is screaming answers at him that seem SO OBVIOUS while quietly acknowledging that he's way better at this than I will ever be.
Same. The confidence that I had with c-section and beard…
yes! as a musician I was like NO NOT NET
Hey Hank. When i was in jail for a while we had tablets. No Internet, but there was a whole series about the origin of the earth and history and such that you and your brother made. I watched it all twice. That helped me a lot while I was in there. That was a few years ago, everything is much better as far as my life goes. I know you'll probably never see this, but I want to say thanks.
Edit: it was crash course.
This is so lovely. Hope you're doing well
I'm doing very well. Thank you. That was a horrible time in my life. Drugs ruled evey desicion I made. Clean for over two years now. I'll always remember how horrible jail was and how watching Hank and his brothers videos made me forget what was going on around me.
I see this! and that’s awesome you (and, well, just people in jail in general) were able to watch fun Hank science stuff in jail. I hope he does see this! Glad you’re doing well now. I had to do some time in jail about 25 years ago and we only had cards and lice. I had the biggest lice! Grandpappy lice! I would have liked to have some Hank Green instead. Not in my hair though. Like on a screen 😂
That's wonderful! I know it's very hard to get media approved for access in prisons, I'm glad you got it
There was an article about jail tablets in the Wall Street Journal this week. The FCC is trying to make them cheaper for inmates, like video calls and messaging on them
In case you're still wondering, a C-clef looks kinda like this: II3, and is used to indicate Middle C on the staff.
Yep! And depending where on a music staff it is it can also be called alto or tenor clef. Alto clef is really only read by the viola, while instruments like cello, bass, trombone, and bassoon all read tenor clef sometimes
Yeah, when he stared with “there’s only one clef, treble… and bass” I was thinking nuh, uh.
G clef and F clef by the way.
@@jennamedlyn By moving it around there's also a soprano clef, a mezzo-soprano clef and a baritone clef, but you ever use one of those the musicians will burn down your house.
Yes, II3 is a decent version of C-clef, but there is also a unicode symbol exactly for it: 𝄡
@@rickasciiyou can technically use mezzo soprano clef to transpose from F to concert (trombone/cello reading a french horn part, for example) but it is still a special kind of torture.
"THAT'S THE YELLOW ONE??!" - Me, on every Connections game
me, a viola player, yelling at Hank that C clef is a thing at 2:36
Me too! This never happens...
🥰 my people!
👋🏼👋🏼💖💖𝄡𝄡
I came here looking for fellow viola players YES
Viola brigade!!
You gotta make more of these. Unreal stuff. 10/10 no notes.
you're damn right no notes. he was pretty clear about that!
I also got Purple first on this one (I thought it was "Things associated with orchestras"), and proceeded to still lose because I had no clue what Clear was supposed to mean.
I feel strangely vindicated by this.
"Things associated with orchestras" is actually really good, haha! I'm impressed your brain went there
@@Idefilms I'm a musician so it was kinda second nature after seeing clef and suite haha - I figured that Staff was supposed to be a red herring (it's technically "stave"). I had no clue what Span was supposed to be but I figured it was something involving Violins or something lol
Net not being "Belongs on a ship" completely killed me though :(
@@Celia_Dawn same here, I paused it and tried to figure out what it would be and had it as:
Things in Music: Bridge, Staff, Clef, Section;
Income: Net, Clear, Make, Earn;
Found on a Ship: Deck, Hatch, Keel, Suite;
Wizard Stuff: Beard, Hat, Robe, Span (I wasnt sure on this one, but I was thinking of a wizards like.. magical span ig?)
was kinda shock by the correct answer but makes sense of why "span' wasnt fitting anywhere lol
We also didn't know what clear was supposed to mean!
I made the music association with suite, section, clef, and just threw in span, not having anywhere else to put it. But I remember scraping through a solfege class because, although familiar with reading music written with treble (g) clef and bass (f) clef, I struggled sight singing the alto clef, aka c clef. Somehow, when my daughter ordered the Bach motets for me, they turned up with all soprano parts in c clef! 50 years later the challenge is renewed!
Very impressive. As someone who isn't an English speaker I play connections mostly to learn new vocab words every day, and honestly I love it
Same for me. Just connections as is is the maximum level of connections that I can handle as a non native speaker.
I'm in a group chat where people post their connections results and non-native speakers have unique struggles with the game BUT sometimes they have more success because they don't get fooled by obscure words because they don't know them. 😄
I'm pausing at 2:57 just screaming C-Section!
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I totally understand people who watch streamers now. This was delightful.
"Hard-moded out of town!" is a new exclamation I'm adopting.
This series is like Columbo. If you play, you already know the answer, and you figure Hank is probably going to get it, but it's just so enjoyable to watch him piece it together and see how he figures it out
Columbo: howcatchem
Connections: howmatchem
I’d absolutely watch a mystery series starring Hank Green 🥺
Somebody who can write, get on it!!!
HELL YEAH new connections playthrough
00:19 hank the way you said “staff, hat, make bridge hatch” sounds like the beginning of a sick rap
Staff, hat, make bridge hatch /
C-suite span section, c-clef match /
Hank’s highest hurdle is not the Wordle /
His brain’s main game is the purple word pool /
Mighty minds see absurd word selections /
Dissect synapse then ‘SNAP’ Connections
😂
I was screaming C-SECTION HANK at my computer. I'm sure my neighbours are confused :D I love watching Hank do Connections, please more!
Hank, you are not the only one who plays “hard mode”. My husband not only tries to get purple first, he tries to get them in opposite order. I’m just happy if I don’t fail 😂
I thought I was the only one! If it's not four guesses in opposite order, it's a loss.
I also do this, but honestly i think yellow and green designations are totally arbitrary.
I do that as well.
I’m impressed you figured out the purple category. I’d never heard of any of those Cs except C-section and was stuck thinking it had to be music related (staff, section, and clef all work for music) but when that didn’t work I eventually got it through process of elimination
LOVE the Connections content, keep 'em coming! I like to pause on the first screen and remind myself of what the categories were that day, before playing the video. Sometimes it's a struggle, even though I play everyday! I knew when you said "purple first" that this might be a doozy. This particular puzzle I got the purple last because they were just the remaining leftovers. I've read on NYT about a point-system of this "hard mode" in which the highest score is achieved by finding the answers in the exact opposite order of difficulty, so purple blue green yellow. It's so challenging to hold all those answers in mind before pressing go on what you assume to be purple!! Hard mode indeed. Great brain workout though, appreciate seeing the struggle
I love watching you play connections. And I love playing this game. It works the brain so much. Such a great game.
Thank you for giving me a way to spice up connections. I do it daily along with my 82 yr old mother and this will keep it interesting
I think i remember my original line of thought was musical stuff when i saw, clef, staff and bridge. If you really want to play on hard mode do it at midnight or when you first wake up
See, I saw that too and thought they went with “suite” as a parts-of-a-symphony category. Clearly, Hank’s connections game is far superior to mine.
I pride myself on having become very skilled at Connections and having learned its “language”…I’ll definitely be trying out Hard Mode!
"HARDMODED OUT OF TOWN" is a phrase I feel I should start using
You encouraged me to play this game and I fucking LOVE it! Thanks, Hank!
It really is amazing how much upper-class New York culture comes through in some of the Connections categories.
right?! i always miss the golf ones, why do they think those are common knowledge?!
I absolutely love your enthusiasm! So contagious
I don't know why watching you solve Connections when I've already done it is so delightful but it absolutely is.
I will not, however, be playing on Hard Mode. I will just continue to pat myself on the back when I actually get purple and it isnt just the leftovers.
Just stumbled across this video and it put a huge smile on my face.
About two weeks ago (over the Christmas adjacent humdrum) I started playing it this way, down to the “no-notes, all held in your head” rule. Except I added one degree of difficulty: you must then work your way back through the remaining colors down to the yellow category. It’s really hard! And you run into a lot of “Come Onnn!! THAT’S supposed to be the green!” moments.
You’ve changed how me and my entire family / friends play connections! Great addition to the game!
I’ve returned to say ever since I started trying to play on hard mode, I’ve gotten a lot better! Trying to figure out all four categories is a much better strategy than guessing one at a time and falling for the traps. Now I’ve been trying to guess the colors in order from hardest to easiest order. Thanks for the tip Hank!
I LOOOOVE seeing you play connections like way too much! And the reactions are totally warranted 😂 I have a hard time finding the connections and it made me feel better to know that John has a hard time too when you guys played against each other
I'd never heard of this game before. I paused before you started and, with just the "make 4 groups", I started making groups using one thing from each vertical section. I then realized words from the same vertical section would pair up even better and tried again. After coming up with 4 groups, I hit play and was absolutely giddy when you immediately grouped the same things together that I did. When you stated it could be something tricky like adding "C" in front of the word, I picked the correct words and was silently screaming "C-Section!" in my head until you said it 😅 I'm definitely going to have to play this! Thank you so much, Hank!
I clicked on this video because I saw clef and I was like "ah I know music things" so it's very funny that Hank was unsure about clef. Yes there are lots of clefs. And most of them are c clefs!
You got me into Connections, Hank, so now I extra enjoy these having already done them lol
After being the butt of orchestra jokes forever, I was legitimately waiting for “there’s really only one type of clef” to turn into a viola joke.
Felt
I have never in my life had so much fun watching someone else play a game. Crushed it, Hank!
I haven't watched your science videos that much, but I used to. I love that you have charisma naturally. You have charisma during the scripted videos, but also here too
I laughed out loud when Hank said the only clef is treble clef. 😆 Hello to all viola, cello, trombone, etc. players! Professional violist here. 👋🏼 𝄡 𝄡 𝄡 𝄡
Also, I 100% agree that the colors do *not* always match the difficulty levels that they claim the words fit into. 😅
I watched this video two days ago and have played Hard Mode in the following two days. It is so much more satisfying, and makes the purple category fun!
these are my favorite hank green videos, hands down. maybe even my favorite videos on the internet.
The playthrough we needed
There's a British TV show called "Only Connect", where contestants have to find connections between clues and the last round is basically this, but with a time limit!
The massive difference with only connect though is that they have unlimited guesses within the allotted time so often just brute force it once they have 3/4 tiles in a category
@@CrazyStalkerPerson sort of... Once they have 2/4 groups they only have 3 chances. You also can't really "brute force it" given the time limit and total posisble combinations. Sure if you have 5 things you think fit you can cycle those. But in this game you can do something similar by working through all options in your head as you has unlimited time.
I wasn't saying this is a rip off of that or anything, just that if people enjoy this they'll probably enjoy Only Connect
@@kjth2003 fair fair
The NYT game is absolutely a copy of Only Connect, using American subjects and slang, and made somewhat easier for a broader audience.
I'm gonna be that annoying guy. Um, achktually. Connections is actually similar to second to the last round of Only Connect, not the last.
The last round is Missing Vowels.
C-clef is a thing! It's what instruments like the viola uses and it tells you where middle C is,as opposed to treble (sometimes called G-clef because the loop goes around the G line) and bass clef (aka F-clef because the two dots are above and below the F line). C clef can move up and down the staff depending on the instrument. the most common c-clef is alto clef (which viola uses) but there's a bunch of different ones for various ranges.
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"You have to keep it all in your head. This is important for me.
As I retrain my brain to work after chemotherapy.
Because one of the things I have the hardest time with is short term memory."
Hank just casually righting poetry.
I've always felt like this, but now I'm gonna start playing like this! Thanks Hank!
Ah man, his reactions 😂😂😂😂 Hank Green ya legend 😂
That was fun! What I do for "hard mode" is try to get the colors in reverse order---purple, blue, green, yellow---with no mistakes. (I call it "reverse rainbow".) But I allow myself to take notes. So... similar, but not the same.
This was really fun and probably something I can't really play has a non-native. Would love to see more !!
I'm so glad I'm not the only person that plays this way!
I do this too, but the goal is to do the whole thing upside down (purple, blue, green, yellow). I think it's way more fun and rewarding instead of going by process of elimination- even if I still have to resort to that sometimes.
My wife and I play HardER mode: NO errors, AND it's gotta be in Purple/Blue/Green/Yellow order.
One thing that makes it a tiny bit easier is, once you think you have a category identified, select all of them and then mash "shuffle" until they land in easier-to-ignore groups in the outside edges. The remaining groups become a little bit easier to juggle in your head that way.
You are the man this was entertaining 😂
I want more of these!
As someone who only ever gets purple by eliminating all the others, I am astounded
Dammit i wish i hadn't already done today's, now i have to wait until tomorrow to try out hard mode!
A friend of mine invented a similar "hard mode" a while back. There are two levels to this version. They both require no mistakes. The first level is to guess each group sequentially from easiest to hardest (i.e. yellow > green > blue > purple). The second level is to do the reverse. It might seem very difficult, but if you play Connections enough, you get a good feel for what they consider more difficult. As Hank said, it's usually some kind of word play or substring commonality. I can usually get all four groups with no mistakes, but guessing the correct order of groups is more of a 50/50 chance for me so far.
Also, if you enjoy Connections, you should check out BBC's Only Connect. It's a game show based on these kind of connections, though it's often more than one word in each clue. And the final round would be a very familiar-looking board. I think it's fair to say that whoever created Connections was influenced by Only Connect.
You picked a really hard day to demonstrate hard mode! I definitely agree that the Yellow should not have been a Yellow. I got the boat stuff category first and was surprised to see Blue!
This is amazing and I'd love to see more of this!
By the way, C clef (or alto clef) is commonly used in viola and alto trombone music! The reason it's not called alto clef here is because C clef can actually be moved up or down on the staff to create other clefs, like tenor clef!
I knew it was a thing, but I didn't know why/how I knew it was a thing, especially cause I play oboe #logic!
@alleycaaat Yeah, teachers don't really talk about generic clef names unless you're in a music theory class, but all clefs have a generic name, like G clef (treble), C clef (alto), and F clef (bass), and their position on the staff determines their specific names, like "treble," "bass," or "alto." I play clarinet, and I really knew nothing about non-treble clefs before I got to college!
I absolutely adore the confidence with which you said c net
I want to thank you for this. I thought Connections was interesting, but it wasn't fun for me before. The way that the game normally works, where you can guess to reduce the options, makes the game easier as you solve it and verify your guesses. But, by introducing the hardmode rules, suddenly the game became much more interesting and engaging. I didn't play before, because it wasn't engaging enough, but now I play every day with modified rules. A hardmode-extra, maybe?
No notes, everything in your head.
Must identify all four categories before submitting anything. (As long as you have the four sets of four identified, it's fine, you don't necessarily have to have figured out what the name of the category is).
The goal is to solve it in reverse order > Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow.
The closer you get to that, the better you've done. I personally find purple and blue to be the ones I care most about, but it's interesting to try and suss out what they'd have ranked them.
Doing the game this way has been much more fun & engaging for me, and I like to think that it's been a much better brain stimulator as well. Thanks again for this wonderful idea!
Hank thank you for this because I also tried CNET as one of the C thing first (without clef because I don’t know music). I was so mad because that’s a thing!
its always really surreal to hear hank swear
I'm super interested in what you're doing to improve your short-term memory. It's something I struggle with, and I find it fascinating when I come across the different strategies people use.
I first heard of Hank through Crash Course videos in school, and it will always be surreal hearing him cuss like that.
C-celf, also known as alto clef, is used mainly for viola and has the middle line as the note C. (Its the one that looks like a fancy bracket)
Bass clef, the one that looks like a backwards C with two dots, is the F-clef. Bass clef originally looked like a fancy F, but then slowly over the years became the bass clef we know today. The two dots in the bass clef are on either side on the line that represents the note F.
If you’re wondering what the treble clef is, it’s G-clef, because the spiral goes around the 2nd line, which is the note G.
I try to get them in reverse order (purple, blue, green, yellow), but honestly i feel like purple is usually the easiest one to identify. Blue is often a more trivia-feeling type thing, and then green and yellow always seem totally arbitrary about what the creator thought was easier.
please more connections videos, omg, i love this
Fun fact. C-clef is another name for alto clef because middle c is on the center line. It is most often used for violas but is occasionally used in older vocal music as well. There is also a tenor clef that is used for cello and bassoon when they reach their highest registers.
I love how sweary connections seems to make you
This is how I've been playing Connections for the last few weeks! I make all the groups first and then figure out the order of perceived difficulty! It's much more fun and rewarding to be right
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I’ve been playing connections (extra) hard mode for months now! But I also try to get the rest in the descending difficulty. I rarely win connections (extra) hard mode
Same. Probably half the time blue is the category that is the most obvious and like this video the yellow is surprisingly not.
I love this game too
I played for the first time last night.Wizard stuff was what I got first, then income, then C words, then ship parts.
C clef! Only time I have been nerdier than Hank about something 🥳
This was WAY. Better than playing myself. Please do often hahahha
My partner and I have been doing this since you posted. It's pretty fun!
Got a really good laugh out of "some upper class motherfuckers"
Going to assume my hard mode suggestion from 2 months ago was just parallel thinking.
Welcome to the big leagues, H-dog.
This is truly unhinged.
...thanks for sharing. ❤
I distinctly remember this being one of the harder ones for me, especially the wizard one, so to see Hank get that one "obviously" and then not think it was the hardest catehory was astounding to me 😂😂
I try this too! But as long as I get them I'm happy cause I'm not super good at this XD
Love this. Have you tried Strands yet?
The most consistent way of getting purple first would be to essentially presolve the whole thing, sorting out all the categories before submitting any, and then determining which is most likely to be the purple. One of the word gamer youtube channels (RiseToTheEquation) had a competition for a few months and getting a perfect score included getting the categories in either ascending or descending color order.
This vid about to get some new major traffic after the mention in the NYT newsletter. Enjoyed it even more this second day time.
I also love how the Times called Hank a “writer” which is only one of his numerous jobs.
The villain laugh at 3:24 is fantastic
Two colleagues and I played connections hard mode basically every day the second half of last year so you're not the only person on earth, but of all the people to arrive at this I'm not surprised it's you
I think I first heard of connections from you. Love it, but as a non-native I do often need to look up words to make sure there's not a definition I didn't know lol
I know you're a genius but it really shows when you solve this on hard mode in 4 minutes. This one was especially difficult for me :')
This was so fun to watch!!
Ford those wondering, Purple is the HARDEST connection mapping to create. Ergo, if you save it for last, it auto solves itself.
If that’s what you think hard mode is, I’ve been playing expert 💀. I do the same as you and go for purple first. But the remain guesses continue the reverse order of difficulty, aiming for blue, green, yellow. Most often, it’s figuring out which is yellow vs green that’s most challenging. I’ve successfully done this 5 times 🥳
I actually play hard mode even harder! I'll tag you on Twitter, but you have to get purple, blue, green, yellow in order... I've only done it like 3-4 times... getting yellow and green correct tends to be the hardest : )
Screaming at my screen, "C SECTION! C SECTION!!!!"
Nice job Hank