Art's Connections stats continue to go crazy. On Sunday, he had 191 games complete; yesterday, it said 204 games complete; today, it says 212 games complete! Art, you are actually on 180 wins out of 193, and you need 44 straight wins to get back to 95%.
I knew there was no NFL team named the Tigers (it's the Bengals), but I still tried that before the Oz catchphrase. Connections gave us a gift category for Christmas and nobody trusted it.
I solved the 12/23/2024 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:47! Across was blank until I solved a few downs. Wordle 1,284 6/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛deity ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩shave 🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩apple ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩cable 🟨🟩⬛🟨🟩large (oops) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩eagle Whew! Connections Puzzle #562 🟩🟩🟩🟩BFFs 🟨🟨🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟪 🟨🟨🟦🟪 🟨🟪🟪🟪 Double bluffed! 🤷♂️
Art, I totally distrusted the yellow, too. I made a mistake just because I was so SURE yellow wasn't yellow! I avoided the sports team trap because Tigers and Jay's are baseball.
Yes, so silly of me in retrospect to have the tigers in the NFL category. I know they're the MLB detroit tigers, but they were clever and made you confuse them with the bengals. oh well!
Hilarious reverse bait with the Wizard of Oz line being written out first and that actually being the category. I actually made one mistake because I was refusing to be believe that wasn't a red herring. All the other jokes in the first row made that a fun payoff when it's finally right. I'm kind of shocked it's rated extremely tricky 44% but I guess people were really fooled by the teams and also didn't believe the Oh My line was a real category. I was happy to spot the tripled song titles quickly and then the letters. The teams or animals could have been something but it was only three football, two baseball, and just an animal category didn't really work.
First MiniCrossword that i got all correct and it's funny that at principle I didnt know some words that you put immediately and you also didnt know smurf and qatar
It's funny I fell for what was obviously a red herring in Connections. LIONS TIGERS BEARS BILLS is not a category because it's the BENGALS not the TIGERS for the NFL. Yet I went along with it anyway. I should have picked "LIONS TIGERS BEARS OH MY!" because that's a famous line in the Wizard of Oz. Got through it with just that one error. As for the Purple, not only did Oranje get it right away, he could name title and artist for each! And here I am not seeing that in a million years even when I was down to Purple. Of those songs I've only actually *heard* of Bye Bye Bye by NSync (mainly because you really couldn't get away from it back in the day when it came out). Haven't heard of the other 3, but I did add GIMME GIMME GIMME by ABBA to my playlist (I like it). I was surprised to learn that it's from 2022, meaning that ABBA has been together making music for 45+ years.
Well done, Art! Wordle 1,284 4/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩TRACE ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩LADLE ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩SABLE 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩EAGLE Connections Puzzle #562 🟩🟩🟩🟩NEAR TO ONE'S HEART 🟦🟦🟦🟦PLURAL LETTER HOMOPHONES 🟨🟨🟨🟪X NFL teams 🟨🟨🟨🟨WOW, IT REALLY WAS THAT PHRASE!!! 🟪🟪🟪🟪??? Bye Bye Bye was the only one of those four songs I knew, so that wasn't enough.
I love The Wizard of Oz but I'd forgotten (if I ever knew) Lions and Tigers and Bears. It isn't actually a song in the film, just a repeated line (far as I can tell). Connections Puzzle #562 🟦🟦🟦🟦 homophones of letter plurals, 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩 affectionate relationship, 1 🟨🟨🟨🟪 lions tigers bears bills -- sports teams possibly NFL 🟨🟨🟨🟨 sports teams possibly NFL, 0 (?) 🟪🟪🟪🟪 golfing terms, 0 2 + 3 + 0 + 0 = 5 2024 averages May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 5.5 6.0 6.3 6.2 6.5 5.0 5.3 5.0
Wordle 1,284 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ deity ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 spare 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 lance ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 halve ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 fable 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 eagle Took me to the bitter end, but I finally saw the double E. Connections Puzzle #562 🟨🟪🟪🟪 ?? 🟦🟦🟦🟦 plural letters 🟩🟩🟩🟩 bff 🟨🟨🟨🟨 really? 🟪🟪🟪🟪 oh, I see it! repeat three times for a song- my daughter listens to Sabrina Carpenter's 'please please please' all the time. Plus what else could 'gimme' be? I didn't see the purple category until it was just those 4 left. I haven't heard of the 'bills bills bills' song.
STARE ADOBE NAIVE GAUZE EAGLE Connections Puzzle #562 🟦🟦🟦🟦Sounds like plural letters 🟩🟩🟩🟩Someone who is very important to you 🟨🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪Song titles with the words repeated (Bye made me think of the NSYNC song) 🟨🟨🟨🟨"Lions and tigers and bears, Oh My!" (was not the red herring today; did not think it would be that easy)
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Art's Connections stats continue to go crazy. On Sunday, he had 191 games complete; yesterday, it said 204 games complete; today, it says 212 games complete! Art, you are actually on 180 wins out of 193, and you need 44 straight wins to get back to 95%.
The situation has just become far more dire. Stay tuned.
So glad I hit Shuffle to start each day Connections!
I knew there was no NFL team named the Tigers (it's the Bengals), but I still tried that before the Oz catchphrase. Connections gave us a gift category for Christmas and nobody trusted it.
I solved the 12/23/2024 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:47!
Across was blank until I solved a few downs.
Wordle 1,284 6/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛deity
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩shave
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩apple
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩cable
🟨🟩⬛🟨🟩large (oops)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩eagle
Whew!
Connections
Puzzle #562
🟩🟩🟩🟩BFFs
🟨🟨🟨🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟪
🟨🟨🟦🟪
🟨🟪🟪🟪
Double bluffed! 🤷♂️
I got eagle in six, my streak nearly flew away😊
Art, I totally distrusted the yellow, too. I made a mistake just because I was so SURE yellow wasn't yellow!
I avoided the sports team trap because Tigers and Jay's are baseball.
Yes, so silly of me in retrospect to have the tigers in the NFL category. I know they're the MLB detroit tigers, but they were clever and made you confuse them with the bengals. oh well!
@RisetotheEquation totally get it!! Bengals are Tigers and after the bologna/Baloney the other day, I could see her doing that.
Lions… is from The Wizard of Oz.
+1 to I got tricked in connections on Christmas Eve
Hilarious reverse bait with the Wizard of Oz line being written out first and that actually being the category. I actually made one mistake because I was refusing to be believe that wasn't a red herring. All the other jokes in the first row made that a fun payoff when it's finally right. I'm kind of shocked it's rated extremely tricky 44% but I guess people were really fooled by the teams and also didn't believe the Oh My line was a real category.
I was happy to spot the tripled song titles quickly and then the letters. The teams or animals could have been something but it was only three football, two baseball, and just an animal category didn't really work.
First MiniCrossword that i got all correct and it's funny that at principle I didnt know some words that you put immediately and you also didnt know smurf and qatar
GABLE was possible for guess 5 too
@@ADailySliceOfOranje I saw it too, it was that or eagle for my sixth guess, phew
DEITY SCALE EAGLE
I don't know why, but Eagle just felt right ! One of the worst WordleBot average today, 4.5
My connections streak of 2 is gone. 😢.
😂
@@Joe-lb8qn 🪦🪦⚰️⚰️
It's funny I fell for what was obviously a red herring in Connections. LIONS TIGERS BEARS BILLS is not a category because it's the BENGALS not the TIGERS for the NFL. Yet I went along with it anyway. I should have picked "LIONS TIGERS BEARS OH MY!" because that's a famous line in the Wizard of Oz. Got through it with just that one error.
As for the Purple, not only did Oranje get it right away, he could name title and artist for each! And here I am not seeing that in a million years even when I was down to Purple.
Of those songs I've only actually *heard* of Bye Bye Bye by NSync (mainly because you really couldn't get away from it back in the day when it came out). Haven't heard of the other 3, but I did add GIMME GIMME GIMME by ABBA to my playlist (I like it). I was surprised to learn that it's from 2022, meaning that ABBA has been together making music for 45+ years.
Tigers is a baseball team not an NFL team.
Wordle 1,284 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ deity
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ bleak
🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 angle
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 eagle
Well done, Art!
Wordle 1,284 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩TRACE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩LADLE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩SABLE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩EAGLE
Connections
Puzzle #562
🟩🟩🟩🟩NEAR TO ONE'S HEART
🟦🟦🟦🟦PLURAL LETTER HOMOPHONES
🟨🟨🟨🟪X NFL teams
🟨🟨🟨🟨WOW, IT REALLY WAS THAT PHRASE!!!
🟪🟪🟪🟪???
Bye Bye Bye was the only one of those four songs I knew, so that wasn't enough.
The muscle in your leg is the calf muscle. CALVE is a verb - of a cow , to give birth.
Of course you can talk about the CALVES of your legs.
Wordle also took me 5 guesses.
Wordle 1,284 5/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ DEITY
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 CRANE
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩 FALSE
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 MAPLE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,284 4/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜DEITY
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨OPERA
⬜🟩🟩🟨🟨BAGEL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩EAGLE
I love The Wizard of Oz but I'd forgotten (if I ever knew) Lions and Tigers and Bears. It isn't actually a song in the film, just a repeated line (far as I can tell).
Connections
Puzzle #562
🟦🟦🟦🟦 homophones of letter plurals, 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩 affectionate relationship, 1
🟨🟨🟨🟪 lions tigers bears bills -- sports teams possibly NFL
🟨🟨🟨🟨 sports teams possibly NFL, 0 (?)
🟪🟪🟪🟪 golfing terms, 0
2 + 3 + 0 + 0 = 5
2024 averages
May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
5.5 6.0 6.3 6.2 6.5 5.0 5.3 5.0
Wordle 1,284 6/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ deity
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 spare
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 lance
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 halve
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 fable
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 eagle
Took me to the bitter end, but I finally saw the double E.
Connections
Puzzle #562
🟨🟪🟪🟪 ??
🟦🟦🟦🟦 plural letters
🟩🟩🟩🟩 bff
🟨🟨🟨🟨 really?
🟪🟪🟪🟪 oh, I see it! repeat three times for a song- my daughter listens to Sabrina Carpenter's 'please please please' all the time. Plus what else could 'gimme' be?
I didn't see the purple category until it was just those 4 left. I haven't heard of the 'bills bills bills' song.
Scoredle 4/6
14,855
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ SATIN (737)
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ROULE (17)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 FABLE (12)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EAGLE
Nothing special to see here…..
UGH!
Strands #296
“Who on earth ...?”
🔵🔵💡🔵
💡🔵💡🔵
💡🟡💡🔵
STARE ADOBE NAIVE GAUZE EAGLE
Connections
Puzzle #562
🟦🟦🟦🟦Sounds like plural letters
🟩🟩🟩🟩Someone who is very important to you
🟨🟪🟪🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪Song titles with the words repeated (Bye made me think of the NSYNC song)
🟨🟨🟨🟨"Lions and tigers and bears, Oh My!" (was not the red herring today; did not think it would be that easy)
Wordle 1,284 3/6*
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ ALERT
🟨🟨🟨⬛🟩 LEASE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EAGLE
DEITY, SHEAR, PLANE, EAGLE
Wordle 1,284 4/6*
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩