Hilary Swank was SUPERB in FREEDOM WRITERS. She played the part of your ideal teacher. This is based on a true story and I have seen these film quite a few times during the years. This would be the PERFECT movie for you and your wife, Adam. 😃
I had a great puzzle day!! Scoredle 2/6* 14,855 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ FALLS (64) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FANCY Holy Moley!! Strands #317 “Bundle up” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #583 🟪🟪🟪🟪 bird names when last letter is removed 🟦🟦🟦🟦 camera parts 🟩🟩🟩🟩 a set amount of time for an event 🟨🟨🟨🟨 operational A true Bingo Bongo kind of day!
I have been able to get my perfect games and a limited amount of FORWARD RAINBOWS. I have YET to get a REVERSE RAINBOW. How do you, others, and particularly,Art, manage to get these RAINBOWS? Anyway, you were a TOTAL BEAST today in ALL these games, Andrea. You put me to shame like some of the others do in this site. It is what it is I guess. 🥺
@hopechazz Mostly I had a very lucky day! ☺️. Somewhere, I read this: Purple- word play, phrases, really tricky stuff Blue- technical stuff, pieces of (like today's camera), associated with Green- mostly actions Yellow- synonyms This is the general categories guidelines I use, but it doesn't always ring true. There are days, I for sure knew what was going to be blue and then it was yellow. SMH!
@ADailySliceOfOranje Thanks! When I hit the two, I scared my husband and the cats by shouting out, "No freakinn' way??!?!?" I was sure the reverse rainbow was going to get messed up, because, you never know sometimes.
E30 Connections+ You are amazingly prolific and adept at these puzzles, Ellen! I solved this one with 2 mistakes. I was never a big fan of The Golden Girls, having only watched a few episodes. I had no idea who Stanley was, but I was pretty sure the Bea Arthur character was named Dorothy. So I knew just enough to mess me up. 😄
I got hung up a bit with the Mini Crossword because I had SONYA instead of SONIA, then MANIC instead of MANIA but it didn't take *too* long to get unstuck. Had no idea on 1 across.
E30 🟨🟨🟨🟨 egots 🟦🟦🟦🟦 sesame st. Characters 🟪🟪🟪🟪 golden girls 🟩🟩🟩🟩 wizard of Oz characters I was able to solve this by a couple categories being short one.
I was able to get the purple category and only made one mistake in Connections. Again, I was happy to solve Ellen's puzzle with no mistakes. I could have been perfect in Strands, but had to use one hint being OK. It took me four tries to get FANCY in Wordle. I just solved your puzzle, Andrea, with two mistakes. Just being successful solving your puzzle was an accomplishment for me.
Brilliant Wordle! Five for me, in about half a minute: AROSE, THING, CLUMP, BAWDY, FANCY. I definitely want to take a totem pole tour of Alberta and British Columbia. Perfect onnections! I got this without mistakes in rainbow order but I had no idea about what the purple definition would be. I might have figured it out if I had spent more time on it. Excellent Monday Mini! My time was 1:20. Good customs! I made two mistakes with the Golden Girls five (how is the younger generation ever going to get this?). I don't watch Sesame Street (why would I? I'm 60) so that was the leftovers. A fun and chanllenging puzzle; thank you Ellen! Super quick Strands! I didn't get the theme and needed a hint to get started. But then I knew all these things (and I have used them, surprise).
STARE NAVAL CANDY FANCY Strands #317 “Bundle up” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #583 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Operational 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Parts of a camera 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Words comprised of bird names plus one letter 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Defined period of time for a specific purpose Pretty straightforward...probably means a doozy is imminent!
Well done, Oranje! Wordle 1,305 2/6* ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜TRACE 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FANCY FANCY or SAUCY ... pretty much it! Connections Puzzle #583 🟦🟦🟦🟦PARTS OF A CAMERA 🟪🟪🟪🟪START WITH BIRDS 🟨🟨🟨🟨OPERATIONAL 🟩🟩🟩🟩ASSEMBLY I like birds! 😊 Strands #317 “Bundle up” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵
E30 (Ellen) : I'm not much of a pop cuture wiz, but I got this one: 🟩🟩🟩🟩Appear in the Wizard of Oz 🟦🟦🟦🟦Appear in Sesame Street 🟨🟨🟨🟨Academy Awards 🟪🟪🟪🟪Appear in the Golden Girls. The reason why I got purple is because that category appeared in Connections (and it turned out to be a red herring!) A red herring that went over my head no less at the time. I distinctly remember Blanche (though in that Connections, they spelled it as BLANCH, hence the easy enough way to discard the red herring if you were paying attention).
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟦OPERA ⬛⬛🟦🟦⬛STAND 🟦⬛🟦⬛🟦CHAIN 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FANCY -Note: since it really seems to have caught on, I've decided to resume using the colored boxes indicating misplaced & correctly placed letters, which I'd tried briefly but gave up on partially because my color blindness led me to picking colors that some thought were "odd", as they didn't match the actual colors wordle used (which I often couldn't tell apart anyway, seemingly depending on how some people have the color settings on their monitors). But this time I said "screw it, I'm just using the colors as I actually see them playing the game in High Contrast Mode", which is a switch in the game's settings that make incorrectly placed letters show up in blue to better accommodate people like me that you don't want adjusting the color settings on your fancy HDTV. So if you wonder why my yellow boxes are blue, that's why: it's the color scheme from High Contrast Mode (although I still might be off a little on the shade of the green boxes). (And yeah, this does mean it's sometimes hard for me to tell apart the two easiest categories in Connections, but that's usually a pretty arbitrary distinction anyway.) Probably my fastest ever Strands solve: before my brain even had time to process the possible meanings of "Bundle Up" my eye drifted over to the upper left corner of the puzzle & picked out the first half of "Mittens" & it was off to the races, tracing out nothing but answers in well under a minute. In only my 2nd serious attempt at a Custom Connections I got a perfect reverse rainbow, no mistakes on Ellen 30's puzzle. My secret is that (since you pretty much had to try to go through the whole puzzle ahead of time due to the clues that fit multiple categories) when it came to the purplish end of the puzzle I wasn't thinking Golden Girls, which I never really watched much, but, thanks to "Stanley" & "Blanche", characters from Streetcar Named Desire, which I've also never actually seen or read, so I never had any confusion over which Dorothy was present. Just goes to show you that some carefully selected ignorance can occasionally be helpful. Or something.
Wordle - BASIL WATER HANDY FANCY Connections Puzzle #583 🟪🟪🟪🟪Bird plus letter 🟦🟦🟦🟦Camera equipment 🟩🟩🟩🟩Amount of time for something 🟨🟨🟨🟨In use 78% solve rate with a million solves.
Connections : Today was too easy. Even purple was not hard to figure out once it settled to the bottom. Puzzle #583 🟦🟦🟦🟦Parts of a camera. In many other puzzles, this would be green. 🟩🟩🟩🟩Group discussion / get-together. I actually saw this one first. 🟨🟨🟨🟨In motion. 🟪🟪🟪🟪SWAN PUFFIN CROW GULL Skill 96/99 Uniqueness 1 in 28. Predictably this rates a 2/5 according to the Bot. 77% solve rate, 42% scoring the perfect solve. The Companion rated it a 3.3 No way it was that hard. I would have given it a 2.5 max. They thought it was harder than that puzzle with mushrooms (which I think they rated as a 2.8). I guess nowadays maybe there ARE more people familiar with mushrooms than traditional cameras! But the Bot doesn't suggest that.
The easy games allow me and other average players in Connections to be successful. Being overly confident/arrogant is not an attractive quality to have and you are usually a pleasant enough person, Tigerboy. Instead of saying TOO EASY, you could have TONED yourself down by only saying that this game is at a 77% solve rate and that this game today was not too difficult. Nothing more. 🥺
Strands #317 “Bundle up” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 9. Went for speed. Wordle 1,305 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADIEU - SNORT - GLYPH - FANCY Nope, just a plain ol' 4. 😁 Connections Puzzle #583 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 PERFORMING PARTS OF A CAMERA DOING SOMETHING FOR A FINITE AMOUNT OF TIME BEGINNING OF WORD IS A BIRD > 5 minutes
Wordle 1,305 3/6 ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛SAUCE ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛CATCH 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FANCY Connections Puzzle #583 🟨🟨🟨🟨Operating 🟩🟩🟩🟩Class 🟦🟦🟦🟦Parts of a Camera 🟪🟪🟪🟪Begins with a Bird E30 🟨🟦🟨🟨(Would've gotten a perfect score had I not second guessed myself) 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨
Connections: Sports Edition : another day of not really knowing my stuff and still solving it. Puzzle #113 🟢🟡🟢🟢Car makes 🟢🟢🟢🟢I figured this had to do with sponsorship of motorsports when I figured Red Bull had to be swapped in for Dodge, but not sure what kind of racing. 🟡🟡🟡🟡Avoid 🟣🔵🔵🔵NBA Teams. 🔵🔵🔵🔵Swapped out Spurs for Warriors and it worked. 🟣🟣🟣🟣Have no idea how these teams are connected.
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Hilary Swank was SUPERB in FREEDOM WRITERS. She played the part of your ideal teacher. This is based on a true story and I have seen these film quite a few times during the years. This would be the PERFECT movie for you and your wife, Adam. 😃
@@hopechazz I’ll check it out Chazz! 😊
It is a MUST SEE Movie!!!
I had a great puzzle day!!
Scoredle 2/6*
14,855
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ FALLS (64)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FANCY
Holy Moley!!
Strands #317
“Bundle up”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Connections
Puzzle #583
🟪🟪🟪🟪 bird names when last letter is removed
🟦🟦🟦🟦 camera parts
🟩🟩🟩🟩 a set amount of time for an event
🟨🟨🟨🟨 operational
A true Bingo Bongo kind of day!
I have been able to get my perfect games and a limited amount of FORWARD RAINBOWS. I have YET to get a REVERSE RAINBOW. How do you, others, and particularly,Art, manage to get these RAINBOWS? Anyway, you were a TOTAL BEAST today in ALL these games, Andrea. You put me to shame like some of the others do in this site. It is what it is I guess. 🥺
💜💙💚💛
Definitely a BINGO BONGO type of day! WOW!
@hopechazz Mostly I had a very lucky day! ☺️.
Somewhere, I read this:
Purple- word play, phrases, really tricky stuff
Blue- technical stuff, pieces of (like today's camera), associated with
Green- mostly actions
Yellow- synonyms
This is the general categories guidelines I use, but it doesn't always ring true. There are days, I for sure knew what was going to be blue and then it was yellow. SMH!
@ADailySliceOfOranje Thanks! When I hit the two, I scared my husband and the cats by shouting out, "No freakinn' way??!?!?" I was sure the reverse rainbow was going to get messed up, because, you never know sometimes.
E30 Connections+
You are amazingly prolific and adept at these puzzles, Ellen! I solved this one with 2 mistakes. I was never a big fan of The Golden Girls, having only watched a few episodes. I had no idea who Stanley was, but I was pretty sure the Bea Arthur character was named Dorothy. So I knew just enough to mess me up. 😄
Thank you! Stanley was Dorothy's ex-husband.
Ellen is really exceptional! 😊
I got hung up a bit with the Mini Crossword because I had SONYA instead of SONIA, then MANIC instead of MANIA but it didn't take *too* long to get unstuck. Had no idea on 1 across.
I’m glad you were able to get yourself out of that trap. 😊
E30
🟨🟨🟨🟨 egots
🟦🟦🟦🟦 sesame st. Characters
🟪🟪🟪🟪 golden girls
🟩🟩🟩🟩 wizard of Oz characters
I was able to solve this by a couple categories being short one.
I was able to get the purple category and only made one mistake in Connections. Again, I was happy to solve Ellen's puzzle with no mistakes. I could have been perfect in Strands, but had to use one hint being OK. It took me four tries to get FANCY in Wordle. I just solved your puzzle, Andrea, with two mistakes. Just being successful solving your puzzle was an accomplishment for me.
Well done!
Thanks, Ellen.
You're doing great!
Excellent puzzle day, Cazz! Congrats on the customs!
Thanks, Dora and Andrea.
Brilliant Wordle!
Five for me, in about half a minute: AROSE, THING, CLUMP, BAWDY, FANCY.
I definitely want to take a totem pole tour of Alberta and British Columbia.
Perfect onnections!
I got this without mistakes in rainbow order but I had no idea about what the purple definition would be. I might have figured it out if I had spent more time on it.
Excellent Monday Mini!
My time was 1:20.
Good customs!
I made two mistakes with the Golden Girls five (how is the younger generation ever going to get this?). I don't watch Sesame Street (why would I? I'm 60) so that was the leftovers.
A fun and chanllenging puzzle; thank you Ellen!
Super quick Strands!
I didn't get the theme and needed a hint to get started. But then I knew all these things (and I have used them, surprise).
Tidy solves! Well done all around!
STARE NAVAL CANDY FANCY
Strands #317
“Bundle up”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🟡🔵🔵
Connections
Puzzle #583
🟨🟨🟨🟨 Operational
🟦🟦🟦🟦 Parts of a camera
🟪🟪🟪🟪 Words comprised of bird names plus one letter
🟩🟩🟩🟩 Defined period of time for a specific purpose
Pretty straightforward...probably means a doozy is imminent!
Oh, Dora, don't say that! Lol! Although I suspect you are correct!
Nice puzzle day!
There are people in this site that EASILY master the difficult games in Connections. The two of you did well today. 😊
There are people in this site that can EASILY master the hard puzzles in Connections. Both of you did a good job today in these games. 😊
Not giving anything away about tomorrow’s Connections… my lips are sealed 🤐🤐🤐
@@ADailySliceOfOranje oh boy!! LOL!! Shaking in my Skechers!
Well done, Oranje!
Wordle 1,305 2/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜TRACE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FANCY
FANCY or SAUCY ... pretty much it!
Connections
Puzzle #583
🟦🟦🟦🟦PARTS OF A CAMERA
🟪🟪🟪🟪START WITH BIRDS
🟨🟨🟨🟨OPERATIONAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩ASSEMBLY
I like birds! 😊
Strands #317
“Bundle up”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Wow! Congrats on another 2 and great job on all 3 games.
@@dora.7873 Thanks!
Ellen, superb puzzle day!!!
@@dora.7873 Thanks!
@@LadyAndreaRose Thanks!
EYRIE, SLANT, FANCY
Awesome Paul!
Great job on my puzzle! STANLEY was DOROTHY's ex-husband.
E30 (Ellen) : I'm not much of a pop cuture wiz, but I got this one:
🟩🟩🟩🟩Appear in the Wizard of Oz
🟦🟦🟦🟦Appear in Sesame Street
🟨🟨🟨🟨Academy Awards
🟪🟪🟪🟪Appear in the Golden Girls.
The reason why I got purple is because that category appeared in Connections (and it turned out to be a red herring!) A red herring that went over my head no less at the time. I distinctly remember Blanche (though in that Connections, they spelled it as BLANCH, hence the easy enough way to discard the red herring if you were paying attention).
A keen observation Tiger!
Sports Connections - one error also.
Not the same difference puffin isnt 4 letters 😊
CAIRN DANCE FANCY
@@Joe-lb8qn Yeah yeah 😁 I wouldn’t get the point in a competition but I think we are all ok for today 🤣
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟦OPERA
⬛⬛🟦🟦⬛STAND
🟦⬛🟦⬛🟦CHAIN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FANCY
-Note: since it really seems to have caught on, I've decided to resume using the colored boxes indicating misplaced & correctly placed letters, which I'd tried briefly but gave up on partially because my color blindness led me to picking colors that some thought were "odd", as they didn't match the actual colors wordle used (which I often couldn't tell apart anyway, seemingly depending on how some people have the color settings on their monitors). But this time I said "screw it, I'm just using the colors as I actually see them playing the game in High Contrast Mode", which is a switch in the game's settings that make incorrectly placed letters show up in blue to better accommodate people like me that you don't want adjusting the color settings on your fancy HDTV. So if you wonder why my yellow boxes are blue, that's why: it's the color scheme from High Contrast Mode (although I still might be off a little on the shade of the green boxes). (And yeah, this does mean it's sometimes hard for me to tell apart the two easiest categories in Connections, but that's usually a pretty arbitrary distinction anyway.)
Probably my fastest ever Strands solve: before my brain even had time to process the possible meanings of "Bundle Up" my eye drifted over to the upper left corner of the puzzle & picked out the first half of "Mittens" & it was off to the races, tracing out nothing but answers in well under a minute.
In only my 2nd serious attempt at a Custom Connections I got a perfect reverse rainbow, no mistakes on Ellen 30's puzzle. My secret is that (since you pretty much had to try to go through the whole puzzle ahead of time due to the clues that fit multiple categories) when it came to the purplish end of the puzzle I wasn't thinking Golden Girls, which I never really watched much, but, thanks to "Stanley" & "Blanche", characters from Streetcar Named Desire, which I've also never actually seen or read, so I never had any confusion over which Dorothy was present. Just goes to show you that some carefully selected ignorance can occasionally be helpful. Or something.
Well done! Wow, I never even thought of THAT connection.
Sometimes ignorance of a particular piece of knowledge is so beneficial!
Wordle - BASIL WATER HANDY FANCY
Connections
Puzzle #583
🟪🟪🟪🟪Bird plus letter
🟦🟦🟦🟦Camera equipment
🟩🟩🟩🟩Amount of time for something
🟨🟨🟨🟨In use
78% solve rate with a million solves.
Connections : Today was too easy. Even purple was not hard to figure out once it settled to the bottom.
Puzzle #583
🟦🟦🟦🟦Parts of a camera. In many other puzzles, this would be green.
🟩🟩🟩🟩Group discussion / get-together. I actually saw this one first.
🟨🟨🟨🟨In motion.
🟪🟪🟪🟪SWAN PUFFIN CROW GULL
Skill 96/99
Uniqueness 1 in 28. Predictably this rates a 2/5 according to the Bot. 77% solve rate, 42% scoring the perfect solve.
The Companion rated it a 3.3 No way it was that hard. I would have given it a 2.5 max. They thought it was harder than that puzzle with mushrooms (which I think they rated as a 2.8). I guess nowadays maybe there ARE more people familiar with mushrooms than traditional cameras! But the Bot doesn't suggest that.
The easy games allow me and other average players in Connections to be successful. Being overly confident/arrogant is not an attractive quality to have and you are usually a pleasant enough person, Tigerboy. Instead of saying TOO EASY, you could have TONED yourself down by only saying that this game is at a 77% solve rate and that this game today was not too difficult. Nothing more. 🥺
Well done on your solve!
Strands #317
“Bundle up”
🔵🔵🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵
9. Went for speed.
Wordle 1,305 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
ADIEU - SNORT - GLYPH - FANCY
Nope, just a plain ol' 4. 😁
Connections
Puzzle #583
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
PERFORMING
PARTS OF A CAMERA
DOING SOMETHING FOR A FINITE AMOUNT OF TIME
BEGINNING OF WORD IS A BIRD
> 5 minutes
Wordle 1,305 3/6
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛SAUCE
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛CATCH
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FANCY
Connections
Puzzle #583
🟨🟨🟨🟨Operating
🟩🟩🟩🟩Class
🟦🟦🟦🟦Parts of a Camera
🟪🟪🟪🟪Begins with a Bird
E30
🟨🟦🟨🟨(Would've gotten a perfect score had I not second guessed myself)
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
Very nice Randy! 😊
Connections: Sports Edition : another day of not really knowing my stuff and still solving it.
Puzzle #113
🟢🟡🟢🟢Car makes
🟢🟢🟢🟢I figured this had to do with sponsorship of motorsports when I figured Red Bull had to be swapped in for Dodge, but not sure what kind of racing.
🟡🟡🟡🟡Avoid
🟣🔵🔵🔵NBA Teams.
🔵🔵🔵🔵Swapped out Spurs for Warriors and it worked.
🟣🟣🟣🟣Have no idea how these teams are connected.
You were able to get through it with relative ease! Well done!