yeah that was my first thought too and I could tell it was included specifically for that reason to throw people off. My first one I got was the portmanteau category because I actually already knew Pokémon was a portmanteau of "Pocket Monsters" and I only got it because the word Jazzercise threw me off because I had never heard of the term being a a person born the same year Pokémon released but my mind went straight to portmanteaus after seeing that word as for the yellow one I got lucky because after getting that I was stuck for a while and just took a blind shot because they just seemed to be a category of their own which I lucked out on similar like Art. Once I got that after some hard looking I eventually noticed the synonyms one and even after that I still didn't understand the last category
Xanadu is an ELO written song performed by Olivia Newton John for the roller skating musical movie from 1980. Gene Kelly is also in the movie. I actually own this weird movie.
That was a great Connections today! I loved seeing you take the time to figure it out. Also I'm very impressed that you learned La Campanella; I've always heard that colloquially referred to as the hardest piano piece to play. I posted a vid of myself playing a Chopin nocturne a few months ago if you'd like to see me play. There's a couple mistakes in there, I'm not a professional, but I do love it.
I played the piano for about 4 years, Lisa, when I was a kid. I played fairly well and had perfect pitch. I unfortunately quite playing the piano because I did not like the practicing and I hated recitals.
@@RisetotheEquationThanks! I'm so happy you watched it! I'd probably need to invest in more sophisticated recording equipment to do more videos, so we'll see
I remembered that word for this time! I got it from Ellen (I think) a subscriber to Oranje's channel and it was used in a custom connection puzzle that gave me a hard time. Paralympics Paraplegic Olympics Jazzercise : Jazz Exercise Pokemon : Pocket Monster. Okay I happen to know that in Japanese : ポケット モンスター is shortened to ポケモン (poketto monsutaa : pokemon) Wikipedia : Well the pedia comes from Encyclopedia. I couldn't figure out where Wiki comes form but I had enough to call light blue. But Wiki has entered our venacular. We often say a 'wki' which is detailed step by step how-to guide or explanation of a process.
Connections at first looked daunting but turned out to be super easy, for me anyway. Green I saw right away. And yellow was then obvious. I had a perfect solve in green yellow light blue purple order. I eventually saw purple near the end. So, it was painful to watch you try groups that weren't one of the categories. Anyway, I'm glad you saved it. The Connections Companion gave it a 1 out of 5 which I think is a mistake. It was easy but not THAT easy. I predicted it should have been a 2.5. The Connections Bot is behind a paywall (I guess it had to happen) but I find it annoyingly ironic they asked for my PayPal the day they put that in the puzzle. I subscribed for the special rate for just the games and the Bot is *still* behind the paywall. So, I have no idea how hard the Bot ranks this one, but my guess, maybe a 2/5 ? Now that I reflelct Pokemon is a contraction of Pocket Monster and I guess I thought everybody knew that. In Japanese ポケット モンスター is shortened to ポケモン (poketto monsutaa : pokemon)
A lot of us enjoy your daily reporting, Chazz. However, we would also like you to provide more detail on your solutions. What was your wordle path? What were the names for your Connections guesses and how many guesses did you use up? Were you able to say "PROPER NOUN PORTMANTEAUX" exactly as did the Canadian for the purple category?
Sounds like good advice. I will keep that in mind. Many times in Connections, I can easily get three out of the four words to make a category and there is that one word that prevents me from being successful. I never do hard mode in Wordle and will do evaluation words in the solving process. Also, I never heard of the word PORTMANTEAUX in today's Connections, Art. In Strands I can specify any words that were challenging for me.
Sounds like good advice, Art. I never do HARD. MODE in Wordle in the solving process and use evaluation words when necessary. I often get only two out of four categories in Connections and will average 2-3 successful games a week. I can easily get 3 out of the 4 words to complete the categories. It is that ONE word preventing me from being successful. I never heard of the word PORTMANTEAUX and Oranje is in a "league of his own" with Connections. Chris Remo apparently has never failed to my knowledge ANY of these NYT games. How does he do it???
Xanadu seems to have a lot of references if you look it up. They threw a red herring out there for any old film buffs with Xanadu, Shangri-la, Rosebud and Snowglobe. All references to Citizen Kane. I think in the category they used, it refers to this ancient city in China I saw mentioned on Wiki that was like paradise.
@@Tiqerboy Definitely true, but sadly it didn't help me much today. I only figured out the yellow category and the rest had me stumped. The only one I had a lead on was the things you shake, except I thought they were looking for ball shaped items and was stuck with just the Snowglobe and Magic 8 ball.
I'm not sure what Art is so upset about, Xanadu, Shangri-La, Seventh Heaven and Paradise were all songs from ABBA's landmark concept album "Utopia", a massive hit in the '80s. ...Actually, I think the category should have consisted of "XANADU", "ELO", "GENE KELLY" and "ROLLER-DISCO" If you know, you know it, but everyone else would just be utterly baffled.
Wordle in 4: SWING - RATED - CHOMP - PLUMB Connections: PURPLE (WORDS ENDING IN A “FRIEND’ SYNONYM) - BLUE (PORTMANTEAU NOUNS) - YELLOW (IMAGINARY PERFECT PLACE) - GREEN (THINGS THAT NEED TO BE SHAKEN)
Connections PYPG - Featured in "Citizen Kane" GGGG - Things you shake BBBB - Portmanteaus PYYY - Afterlife YYYY - Afterlife PPPP - ???? I thought Ketchum might have been a Citizen Kane character I forgot about
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea. I always mix up Kubla Khan and Ozymandias. The latter is about the futility of all the works of man, and a better metaphor for today’s Connections.
CAIRN SPOUT PLUME (thought that was it) PLUMP (thought THAT was it) PLUMB. Failed on connections looking for the portmanteau word didnt know Pokémon was ). Got yellow only but at least i knew what it was LOL.
Ketchum is the surname of the human protagonist of the Pokémon series "Ash Ketchum" also as a person who although never truly got in to Pokémon but knew enough about the show I did know that it was a portmanteau of "Pocket Monsters" and the portmanteau category was the first one I got as I knew that and Wikipedia were portmanteaus and the word Jazzercise was the one that got it for me because I had never heard of the word being a person born in 1996 when Pokémon came out but that clearly sounded like it was maybe likely there as a portmanteau category and I didn't even know the yellow category and got lucky with a blind guess because to me they seemed to be a category of their own and I took a blindshot because I couldn't think of any of the 3 remaining categories. After that after some hard looking I realised some of the words ending with synonyms for the word friend and guessed that and even then I didn't know the last category even though I knew all the answers
Nice solve on connections, I survived it with three mistakes too. Got the things you shake fairly easily and saw something with portmanteaus or compound words but there was too many. I was confused by the red herring for Citizen Kane and possibly Pokémon with Ash Ketchum being the main character, and then I thought the yellow was something else pop culture and missed the basic meaning. Eventually saw the ending in friend purple and sorted it out. Funny Wordle with 5 guesses and no yellows. Wordle 1,271 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛SWING ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛FORTY ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛CLADE 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛PLUMP 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PLUMB
How was there more than 4 portmanteau? I only saw 4 of them. WIKIPEDIA JAZZERCISE PARALYMPICS and POKEMON. Of course you had to know Pokemon came from Pocket Monster which I happened to know. I guess that's what made the puzzle trickier than I would have thought. I just found it easy today. Oh well. I guess it makes up for the HEX VEX PERPLEX and REX puzzle which I failed (only found light blue there).
@@Tiqerboy I was just thinking like compound words with PayPal, Hairspray or Rosebud maybe in there. Specifically a proper noun portmanteaux is just the four but that wasn't quite clicking, I did read it as Pocket Monster later and that helped clear it up too.
@@mattland3924 gotcha. I can see why that would be ultra confusing, especially if you didn't know that Pokemon was a contraction. I like how Connections put the accent on the E, as it should be!
@@RisetotheEquation Hehe. After BSE the UK put in a system of compulsory cattle ID and cattle passports. You had 24 hours to put a tag in a dairy calf and 28 days to apply on line for a passport for that calf. The nasty bit came when there were no allowances for working days so at Christmas and New Year you still had to keep to 28 days and also you had to calculate all the time to allow for differing month lengths. If you got it wrong they would refuse a passport making the calf unable to move holdings , therefore worthless. We calved all the year round so I was always in a state of unease . Extra busy times or illness were not get outs .
Dec 10 mini in 1:06 Wordle 1,271 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛swing ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛truck 🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛bluff 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩plumb Connections Puzzle #549 🟨🟨🟨🟨perfection 🟩🟩🟩🟩shake 🟪🟦🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟦🟪🟦 I get them, but couldn’t puzzle it out.
STARE MOLDY CLIMB PLUMB Connections Puzzle #549 🟪🟪🟪🟪Ends with a synonym for friend 🟦🟦🟦🟦Two words combined together to form a new word (I did not know the term for this) 🟩🟩🟩🟩Things that ???? (It did not click with me.) 🟨🟨🟨🟨Utopia
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I agree with you about Strands, Art, and that everybody likes to watch Wordle. Again. Wordle is your best game. It is my best game as well.
Nice to see you work your way to the solution...
It took a while, but I got there!
Things from the Nineties? Jazzercise - 1969, Paralympics - 1948, Pokemon - 1996, Wikipedia - 2001. So one out of four!
I enjoyed the rollercoaster nature of this episode 🙂
The perfect process of elimination: 14 grey, 1 yellow after three attempts and Bingo !
SWING TRACE MOODY PLUMB
Ketchum is probably a reference to Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokémon anime
yeah that was my first thought too and I could tell it was included specifically for that reason to throw people off. My first one I got was the portmanteau category because I actually already knew Pokémon was a portmanteau of "Pocket Monsters" and I only got it because the word Jazzercise threw me off because I had never heard of the term being a a person born the same year Pokémon released but my mind went straight to portmanteaus after seeing that word as for the yellow one I got lucky because after getting that I was stuck for a while and just took a blind shot because they just seemed to be a category of their own which I lucked out on similar like Art. Once I got that after some hard looking I eventually noticed the synonyms one and even after that I still didn't understand the last category
Xanadu is an ELO written song performed by Olivia Newton John for the roller skating musical movie from 1980. Gene Kelly is also in the movie. I actually own this weird movie.
Abba performed a song in Xanadu - Voulez-Vous, so in a way he was close :)
Only one of those started in the 90's...
Paralympics started in 1960, jazzercise 1969, Pokemon 1996, wikipedia 2001
That was a great Connections today! I loved seeing you take the time to figure it out. Also I'm very impressed that you learned La Campanella; I've always heard that colloquially referred to as the hardest piano piece to play. I posted a vid of myself playing a Chopin nocturne a few months ago if you'd like to see me play. There's a couple mistakes in there, I'm not a professional, but I do love it.
I played the piano for about 4 years, Lisa, when I was a kid. I played fairly well and had perfect pitch. I unfortunately quite playing the piano because I did not like the practicing and I hated recitals.
I will definitely check out your Chopin nocturne!
It was beautiful. Please post more pieces on your channel and I will happily direct some traffic your way !
COOL!
@@RisetotheEquationThanks! I'm so happy you watched it! I'd probably need to invest in more sophisticated recording equipment to do more videos, so we'll see
But if you really hold me TIGHT, all the way home I'll be warm - Let It Snow 🙃
Oh! I thought maybe it was for Santa coming down the chimney! 😆
I think it’s funny art hasn’t realized all that words come from the lyrics in Christmas songs haha
Portmanteau, that's another new word for me, just got to figure out how to drop it into casual conversation.😊😊
"I had a talk with the harbormaster. And I spoke with the port man, too!" badum-tss
@SpiritRoot bravo 👏👏
@@SpiritRoot 😆😆😆
I remembered that word for this time! I got it from Ellen (I think) a subscriber to Oranje's channel and it was used in a custom connection puzzle that gave me a hard time.
Paralympics Paraplegic Olympics
Jazzercise : Jazz Exercise
Pokemon : Pocket Monster. Okay I happen to know that in Japanese : ポケット モンスター is shortened to ポケモン (poketto monsutaa : pokemon)
Wikipedia : Well the pedia comes from Encyclopedia.
I couldn't figure out where Wiki comes form but I had enough to call light blue. But Wiki has entered our venacular. We often say a 'wki' which is detailed step by step how-to guide or explanation of a process.
As soon as i saw snow globe i went looking for things you shake. They had that category before and snow globe was one of the answers.
good catch
So funny…since Xanadu is not an ABBA song! 😂😂😂
Connections at first looked daunting but turned out to be super easy, for me anyway. Green I saw right away. And yellow was then obvious. I had a perfect solve in green yellow light blue purple order. I eventually saw purple near the end. So, it was painful to watch you try groups that weren't one of the categories. Anyway, I'm glad you saved it.
The Connections Companion gave it a 1 out of 5 which I think is a mistake. It was easy but not THAT easy. I predicted it should have been a 2.5.
The Connections Bot is behind a paywall (I guess it had to happen) but I find it annoyingly ironic they asked for my PayPal the day they put that in the puzzle. I subscribed for the special rate for just the games and the Bot is *still* behind the paywall. So, I have no idea how hard the Bot ranks this one, but my guess, maybe a 2/5 ?
Now that I reflelct Pokemon is a contraction of Pocket Monster and I guess I thought everybody knew that.
In Japanese ポケット モンスター is shortened to ポケモン (poketto monsutaa : pokemon)
I was OK in all my games.
A lot of us enjoy your daily reporting, Chazz. However, we would also like you to provide more detail on your solutions. What was your wordle path? What were the names for your Connections guesses and how many guesses did you use up? Were you able to say "PROPER NOUN PORTMANTEAUX" exactly as did the Canadian for the purple category?
Sounds like good advice. I will keep that in mind. Many times in Connections, I can easily get three out of the four words to make a category and there is that one word that prevents me from being successful. I never do hard mode in Wordle and will do evaluation words in the solving process. Also, I never heard of the word PORTMANTEAUX in today's Connections, Art. In Strands I can specify any words that were challenging for me.
Sounds like good advice, Art. I never do HARD. MODE in Wordle in the solving process and use evaluation words when necessary. I often get only two out of four categories in Connections and will average 2-3 successful games a week. I can easily get 3 out of the 4 words to complete the categories. It is that ONE word preventing me from being successful. I never heard of the word PORTMANTEAUX and Oranje is in a "league of his own" with Connections. Chris Remo apparently has never failed to my knowledge ANY of these NYT games. How does he do it???
Sounds like good advice, Art. Who is the Canadian? 😂
That Canadian! 😆 🤣 😂
Xanadu seems to have a lot of references if you look it up. They threw a red herring out there for any old film buffs with Xanadu, Shangri-la, Rosebud and Snowglobe. All references to Citizen Kane.
I think in the category they used, it refers to this ancient city in China I saw mentioned on Wiki that was like paradise.
nearly got me
I completely missed this. Sometimes what you don't know is a benefit in this puzzle!
@@Tiqerboy Definitely true, but sadly it didn't help me much today. I only figured out the yellow category and the rest had me stumped. The only one I had a lead on was the things you shake, except I thought they were looking for ball shaped items and was stuck with just the Snowglobe and Magic 8 ball.
I'm not sure what Art is so upset about, Xanadu, Shangri-La, Seventh Heaven and Paradise were all songs from ABBA's landmark concept album "Utopia", a massive hit in the '80s.
...Actually, I think the category should have consisted of "XANADU", "ELO", "GENE KELLY" and "ROLLER-DISCO" If you know, you know it, but everyone else would just be utterly baffled.
I am a huge ABBA fan and I honestly don't know and can't find an album called Utopia from ABBA. Can you point me in the direction of it? Thanks.
Wordle in 4: SWING - RATED - CHOMP - PLUMB
Connections: PURPLE (WORDS ENDING IN A “FRIEND’ SYNONYM) - BLUE (PORTMANTEAU NOUNS) - YELLOW (IMAGINARY PERFECT PLACE) - GREEN (THINGS THAT NEED TO BE SHAKEN)
Connections
PYPG - Featured in "Citizen Kane"
GGGG - Things you shake
BBBB - Portmanteaus
PYYY - Afterlife
YYYY - Afterlife
PPPP - ????
I thought Ketchum might have been a Citizen Kane character I forgot about
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
I always mix up Kubla Khan and Ozymandias. The latter is about the futility of all the works of man, and a better metaphor for today’s Connections.
Chase-mount-plumb.
CAIRN SPOUT PLUME (thought that was it) PLUMP (thought THAT was it) PLUMB. Failed on connections looking for the portmanteau word didnt know Pokémon was ). Got yellow only but at least i knew what it was LOL.
Not stupidity, just lack of experience. I didn’t do much better.
Xanadu was a song & movie with Olivia Newton-John
Wordle took me 5 guesses with no yellows.
Wordle 1,271 5/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ SWING
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ PLEAD
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ PLUCK
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ PLUMP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Very cool pattern!
Wordle....stare.....cloud....plumb
Wordle 1,271 2/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ swing
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 plumb
😮😊🥳
@ I let out a yelp when it came out all green 🤣
Ketchum is the surname of the human protagonist of the Pokémon series "Ash Ketchum" also as a person who although never truly got in to Pokémon but knew enough about the show I did know that it was a portmanteau of "Pocket Monsters" and the portmanteau category was the first one I got as I knew that and Wikipedia were portmanteaus and the word Jazzercise was the one that got it for me because I had never heard of the word being a person born in 1996 when Pokémon came out but that clearly sounded like it was maybe likely there as a portmanteau category and I didn't even know the yellow category and got lucky with a blind guess because to me they seemed to be a category of their own and I took a blindshot because I couldn't think of any of the 3 remaining categories. After that after some hard looking I realised some of the words ending with synonyms for the word friend and guessed that and even then I didn't know the last category even though I knew all the answers
Nice solve on connections, I survived it with three mistakes too. Got the things you shake fairly easily and saw something with portmanteaus or compound words but there was too many. I was confused by the red herring for Citizen Kane and possibly Pokémon with Ash Ketchum being the main character, and then I thought the yellow was something else pop culture and missed the basic meaning. Eventually saw the ending in friend purple and sorted it out.
Funny Wordle with 5 guesses and no yellows.
Wordle 1,271 5/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛SWING
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛FORTY
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛CLADE
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛PLUMP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PLUMB
How was there more than 4 portmanteau? I only saw 4 of them. WIKIPEDIA JAZZERCISE PARALYMPICS and POKEMON. Of course you had to know Pokemon came from Pocket Monster which I happened to know. I guess that's what made the puzzle trickier than I would have thought. I just found it easy today. Oh well. I guess it makes up for the HEX VEX PERPLEX and REX puzzle which I failed (only found light blue there).
@@Tiqerboy I was just thinking like compound words with PayPal, Hairspray or Rosebud maybe in there. Specifically a proper noun portmanteaux is just the four but that wasn't quite clicking, I did read it as Pocket Monster later and that helped clear it up too.
@@mattland3924 gotcha. I can see why that would be ultra confusing, especially if you didn't know that Pokemon was a contraction. I like how Connections put the accent on the E, as it should be!
I've only ever known Ketchum as a manufacturer of animal ear tags ! Seems to be some kind of American insurance company otherwise . Ho hum.
It's actually a very clever name: if the animal were to escape, the tag allows you to ketchum.
@@RisetotheEquation Hehe. After BSE the UK put in a system of compulsory cattle ID and cattle passports.
You had 24 hours to put a tag in a dairy calf and 28 days to apply on line for a passport for that calf. The nasty bit came when there were no allowances for working days so at Christmas and New Year you still had to keep to 28 days and also you had to calculate all the time to allow for differing month lengths. If you got it wrong they would refuse a passport making the calf unable to move holdings , therefore worthless. We calved all the year round so I was always in a state of unease . Extra busy times or illness were not get outs .
Dec 10 mini in 1:06
Wordle 1,271 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛swing
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛truck
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛bluff
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩plumb
Connections
Puzzle #549
🟨🟨🟨🟨perfection
🟩🟩🟩🟩shake
🟪🟦🟪🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟦
🟪🟦🟪🟦
🟦🟦🟪🟦
I get them, but couldn’t puzzle it out.
Scoredle 4/6*
14,855
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SATIN (1,672)
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ROULE (13)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 CLUMP (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLUMB
My first guess left a lot to be desired!
Wordle 1,271 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜SWING
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜PROUD
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜PLUME
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜PLUMP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PLUMB
STARE MOLDY CLIMB PLUMB
Connections
Puzzle #549
🟪🟪🟪🟪Ends with a synonym for friend
🟦🟦🟦🟦Two words combined together to form a new word (I did not know the term for this)
🟩🟩🟩🟩Things that ???? (It did not click with me.)
🟨🟨🟨🟨Utopia
You missed the correct title for purple. It's FRIENDING.
Strands #283
“Board certified”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🔵🟡🔵🔵
Strands #283
“Board certified”
🔵🔵🟡🔵
🔵🔵🔵🔵