9:10 "1-pointers" in basketball would refer to free throws, which would be abbreviated to FTs. On another note, I truly enjoyed watching your solves for the past year. Here's to a fantastic year ahead!
7:18 a couple things to keep in mind when guessing location based on interstate numbers: even numbers run east-west and odd numbers run north-south. the higher the number the farther north or east and the lower the number the farther south or west. it was based roughly on percentage of population west/south of the interstate lines. i.e. 95% of the population lives west of I-95 which runs down the east coast and 5% west of I-5 which runs down the west coast. I-90 runs thru Boston, upstate NY, etc. while I-10 runs thru Texas, New Mexico, etc. 3 digit interstate numbers like 195 or 295 refer to sections that connect to the main interstate, 95 in this example, in either one place (odd numbers like 195, 395) or two (295, 495)
Interstate 90 runs across the "top" of the contiguous states ending in Seattle. Chris refers frequently to his times living in various places in California and his couple of years in Seattle. He'd have been quite familiar with I-90 in Seattle, but maybe not aware of it's stretch across the country, passing through Chicago. Maybe his brain substituted I-5 (north/south Washington, Oregon, California) for I-90 so ended up in his home state of CA.
Broke my nascent streak because I got too confident in my own very surface-level knowledge of Yiddish, so I was sure that GELT was spelled the same way the similar German word is ("Geld" with a d, which is the word for "money" in German), and then spiralled because I know SNOD isn't a word, so did that mean that the dreidel gimmick shape also meant there was some kind of shuffle mechanic to the crossword, and I was supposed to SPIN letters around and... like I said, spiralling, v. undignified spiralling.
@@kathleenquinn9015and they run larger numbers north and west, so I-90 would be near the Canada border. Major arteries end in 5 or 0. Two digit numbers are long distance through routes. Three digits are more local. Three digits ending in five or zero are bypasses for their subsets. For example. I-55 runs from Chicago to New Orleans, near my house is I-255 which is a bypass for I-55 to avoid downtown St. Louis.
Not only is a traditional dreidel made out of clay, but the dreidel in the crossword is entirely made out of the letters in the word CLAY.
True, I had not noticed! Clever!
happy new year
I don’t do this game but I wanted to wish you a Happy New Year Chris. 🎉
9:10 "1-pointers" in basketball would refer to free throws, which would be abbreviated to FTs. On another note, I truly enjoyed watching your solves for the past year. Here's to a fantastic year ahead!
7:18 a couple things to keep in mind when guessing location based on interstate numbers: even numbers run east-west and odd numbers run north-south. the higher the number the farther north or east and the lower the number the farther south or west. it was based roughly on percentage of population west/south of the interstate lines. i.e. 95% of the population lives west of I-95 which runs down the east coast and 5% west of I-5 which runs down the west coast. I-90 runs thru Boston, upstate NY, etc. while I-10 runs thru Texas, New Mexico, etc. 3 digit interstate numbers like 195 or 295 refer to sections that connect to the main interstate, 95 in this example, in either one place (odd numbers like 195, 395) or two (295, 495)
Lovely trivia details, and respect for whoever devised this system.
Interstate 90 runs across the "top" of the contiguous states ending in Seattle. Chris refers frequently to his times living in various places in California and his couple of years in Seattle. He'd have been quite familiar with I-90 in Seattle, but maybe not aware of it's stretch across the country, passing through Chicago. Maybe his brain substituted I-5 (north/south Washington, Oregon, California) for I-90 so ended up in his home state of CA.
Funny how I’ve never ever been to Chicago but guessed Ohare. Must be a random memory of looking at a map
Broke my nascent streak because I got too confident in my own very surface-level knowledge of Yiddish, so I was sure that GELT was spelled the same way the similar German word is ("Geld" with a d, which is the word for "money" in German), and then spiralled because I know SNOD isn't a word, so did that mean that the dreidel gimmick shape also meant there was some kind of shuffle mechanic to the crossword, and I was supposed to SPIN letters around and... like I said, spiralling, v. undignified spiralling.
I-90 crosses the entire country, either starting or terminating (depending how you look at it) in Boston.
Even numbered interstates run east-west, and odd numbered interstates run north-south.
@@kathleenquinn9015and they run larger numbers north and west, so I-90 would be near the Canada border.
Major arteries end in 5 or 0. Two digit numbers are long distance through routes. Three digits are more local. Three digits ending in five or zero are bypasses for their subsets.
For example. I-55 runs from Chicago to New Orleans, near my house is I-255 which is a bypass for I-55 to avoid downtown St. Louis.
And starts or ends in Seattle.
Interesting to finish with Yoko… 😂