I think I will try to keep the BB for only Connections games from now on! I don't want it to show up in every episode. Share your results from the games and let's talk about them! Thanks for watching!
I bombed out on Sports Connections. Only cleared yellow and burned the rest of my guesses trying to isolate the Green Category which I had some idea of, because I had no idea on the rest. Turns out Sir Purr is the mascot for the Carolina Panthers. I should have know that, and maybe I would have, if they were any good!
BLAZE LEARY PEARL -I would not have guessed "PEARL" to be a particularly easy word, but according to Wordlebot over half of players are getting it by the third round.
Wow! wow wow wow. You’re too good. Definitely had you thinking for a while, but you were all over it from the start. I could tell it was only a matter of time before you pieced it together. Impressive solve as always, thanks for playing.
I fell for the rainbow of shame then got them in order no more mistakes. Wordle in 4 after a dumb mistake FABLE GLEAN LEVER (wut???) PEARL As a Brit happy to have got all those US cities no hints
John, this was definitely a toughie. I needed guesses to help and ran out. Connections #9 🟦🟩🟨🟪 music terms 🟨🟨🟨🟨 mexican foods 🟪🟩🟩🟩 fords?? 🟩🟩🟩🟩 fords 🟦🟦🟦🟪 guess 🟦🟦🟦🟪 guess 🟦🟦🟦🟦 not sure?? 🟪🟪🟪🟪 not sure. Did you intend a rainbow 🌈 of shame?
I see TIMBER TEMPO and PACE for sure that could have something to do with music, but what's the forth? MOLE? Never heard of that. I *was* thinking of music as I mulled over this puzzle but only saw TEMPO and PACE and didn't really think of anything else.
Tigerboy, Lol! I just looked it up. I heard of ot through my kiddo who has been in choirs since she was three. Ha, it is spelled Moll! I always saw it in my head as Mole. D'oh!
Just for the record, I never watch you do Spelling Bee or the Full Crossword. I am just not into either of those puzzles. I like the format you have settled on for THIS video with the time stamps. I skip over Zorse because I don't play that either and it's easy to do that. I do enjoy the customs connections even though I usually find them impossible.
The games I tend to skip are Zorse and Sports Connections. I always watch the Mini Crossword, Wordle, Strands, Connections and custom Connections, though I rarely succeed at the latter. I also enjoy reading the comments that other viewers leave. Spelling Bee is a game I enjoy playing daily. I usually reach Genius on my own. When you've been playing Spelling Bee for a long time, as I have, you eventually learn certain obscure "Spelling Bee words" that tend to pop up again and again, which are helpful. Once I've reached Genius, I allow myself to look at the hints, which usually get me to Queen Bee. I don't consider it cheating because the hints are a big part of the fun. The people who write them are very witty and clever, and the hints are pretty cryptic, so deciphering them is kind of a fun game in itself. These hints are left by fellow players/commenters, not by NYT staff. They can be accessed by choosing "Community" under the "More" menu. It has grown into a large, congenial, international, and very popular online community where people leave not only hints but also opinions, anecdotes, observations and even original poems and short stories. (You might have to be a subscriber to access it...I'm not sure.) I'm a bit lukewarm about watching someone else play Spelling Bee because it doesn't provide the full experience of the game that I'm used to from playing it by myself. But I realize others may enjoy it.
@ I appreciate your thoughts. I feel like adding the time stamps will allow people to jump around as they like. If I really wanted to maximize viewer retention I would separate every game into its own video but that is far too much to manage.
@@ADailySliceOfOranje Yes, the time stamps are very helpful. I think it's great the way you have it set up now. It's more convenient for the viewers (as well as for you) to have all the games available in one video.
Wordle 1,252 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨TIGER ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨SPORE 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PEARL Strands #264 : Another easy day snice I saw BUFFALO, and BOULDER. Then I saw DENVER but I figured that was a red herring because the other two are regular words. Found the Spanagram first,. and sure enough DENVER wasn't one of the words. There's no bonus by avoiding to enter words that aren't part of the puzzle: “This is the place!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Connections : Another perfect solve in forward rainbow order. I don't get the time bonus because I took a break after clearing yellow and green in short order hoping for an aha moment to sink in. I had no strong epiphany so I made an educated guess and it worked. I saw the photography red herring and figured it was a rainbow, which turned out to be right. Puzzle #530 🟨🟨🟨🟨Media talk. Hard to describe without using one of the words. Let's just say the President-Elect gets a lot of PRESS / EXPOSURE / COVERAGE / ATTENTiON 🟩🟩🟩🟩Viewpoint (almost nailed it!)
Well done, Oranje! Wordle 1,252 3/6* ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨TRACE ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜BEARD 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PEARL Strands #264 “This is the place!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Amazed that you spotted BILOXI before PHOENIX! (It could have been!) You did a fantastic job with the US cities. Connections Puzzle #530 🟨🟨🟨🟨PUBLICITY 🟩🟦🟪🟩X photography terms (ANGLE, LENS, ZOOM, SHUTTER) 🟩🟩🟩🟩VIEWPOINT 🟦🟦🟦🟦BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE 🟪🟪🟪🟪??? Well, I didn't fall for the rainbow of shame, but even after getting Yellow, I still thought there would be something to do with photography. But that wasn't just overpopulated; it was a complete red herring. I'm not familiar with LOVE ISLAND or SHUTTER ISLAND, so I was unable to name Purple.
Great job on John's puzzle! KASHAZZLE WIZZLE for me. I could only determine two of the categories, which is not enough when they are severely overpopulated. I did, as you did, avoid the four obvious Mexican foods; I swapped MOLE in and TACO out (because QUESADILLA and TOSTADO probably weren't going anywhere else; I briefly considered "whole ENCHILADA", but that didn't go anywhere). So that one was perfect! But it was all downhill from there. I saw 5 vehicles. Were any of them a different make? Nope, all Fords! Furthermore, was PACE a vehicle? Was FLEX really a vehicle? I wasn't sure. Since I had nothing else, I used three guesses trying to disambiguate the Ford vehicles. Then I took a desperation stab at "forensic evidence". I realize that in Connections Plus you can keep guessing, but unless I think I'm getting somewhere, I surrender at 4 misses. Connections #9 🟨🟨🟨🟨MEXICAN FOOD 🟩🟩🟪🟩X Ford vehicles 🟩🟪🟩🟩X Ford vehicles 🟪🟩🟩🟪X Ford vehicles 🟦🟦🟪🟦X forensic evidence
A great puzzle day for me! Scoredle 3/6* 14,855 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 FABLE (135) ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 STEAL (7) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PEARL Strands #264 “This is the place!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 I was shocked when Denver didn't work!! Connections Puzzle #530 🟪🟪🟪🟪 _____island, whew love was a guess 🟦🟦🟦🟦 online meeting platforms 🟨🟨🟨🟨 publicity 🟩🟩🟩🟩 photography terms Presolving is the way to go. I saw purple instantly. I read Fantasy and thought, da plane! Da Plane! Then thought yeah, right until I saw treasure and shutter. I didn't know the fourth. I kept them highlighted and shuffled until they were close together. I had zoom, lense, exposure for camera terms, but wasn't thrilled. I liked Meet and slack and then went duh and pulled zoom. I got love as the leftover for purple. I got the Ellen vs. The reverse rainbow 🌈.
SHUTTER Island and LOVE Island were blind spots for me so I solved in forward rainbow order and I was stuck on light blue / purple for a while. I had to make a reasonable guess on the light blue category and purple was my default solve. I thought of LOVE Bug and SHUTTER Bug so that's how I described it.
I think I will try to keep the BB for only Connections games from now on! I don't want it to show up in every episode. Share your results from the games and let's talk about them! Thanks for watching!
I bombed out on Sports Connections. Only cleared yellow and burned the rest of my guesses trying to isolate the Green Category which I had some idea of, because I had no idea on the rest.
Turns out Sir Purr is the mascot for the Carolina Panthers. I should have know that, and maybe I would have, if they were any good!
SPORE, TWERP, PEARL
I solved the Zorse after the first reveal. Very rare.
Sports Connections solve with one error with the baseball category.
BLAZE
LEARY
PEARL -I would not have guessed "PEARL" to be a particularly easy word, but according to Wordlebot over half of players are getting it by the third round.
Wow! wow wow wow. You’re too good. Definitely had you thinking for a while, but you were all over it from the start. I could tell it was only a matter of time before you pieced it together. Impressive solve as always, thanks for playing.
John, thanks for the inspiration for another puzzle!
You’re welcome :)
I’ve definitely gotten inspiration from other puzzles.
I fell for the rainbow of shame then got them in order no more mistakes.
Wordle in 4 after a dumb mistake FABLE GLEAN LEVER (wut???) PEARL
As a Brit happy to have got all those US cities no hints
John, this was definitely a toughie. I needed guesses to help and ran out.
Connections #9
🟦🟩🟨🟪 music terms
🟨🟨🟨🟨 mexican foods
🟪🟩🟩🟩 fords??
🟩🟩🟩🟩 fords
🟦🟦🟦🟪 guess
🟦🟦🟦🟪 guess
🟦🟦🟦🟦 not sure??
🟪🟪🟪🟪 not sure.
Did you intend a rainbow 🌈 of shame?
I see TIMBER TEMPO and PACE for sure that could have something to do with music, but what's the forth? MOLE? Never heard of that.
I *was* thinking of music as I mulled over this puzzle but only saw TEMPO and PACE and didn't really think of anything else.
Tigerboy, Lol! I just looked it up. I heard of ot through my kiddo who has been in choirs since she was three. Ha, it is spelled Moll! I always saw it in my head as Mole. D'oh!
Just for the record, I never watch you do Spelling Bee or the Full Crossword. I am just not into either of those puzzles. I like the format you have settled on for THIS video with the time stamps. I skip over Zorse because I don't play that either and it's easy to do that. I do enjoy the customs connections even though I usually find them impossible.
@@Tiqerboy That’s alright. I know that there are different strokes for different folks and that is perfectly ok. 👍
@@ADailySliceOfOranjeThe ones I watch every day are Wordle, Strands, Connections, and (of course) the custom. 🙂
The games I tend to skip are Zorse and Sports Connections. I always watch the Mini Crossword, Wordle, Strands, Connections and custom Connections, though I rarely succeed at the latter. I also enjoy reading the comments that other viewers leave. Spelling Bee is a game I enjoy playing daily. I usually reach Genius on my own. When you've been playing Spelling Bee for a long time, as I have, you eventually learn certain obscure "Spelling Bee words" that tend to pop up again and again, which are helpful. Once I've reached Genius, I allow myself to look at the hints, which usually get me to Queen Bee. I don't consider it cheating because the hints are a big part of the fun. The people who write them are very witty and clever, and the hints are pretty cryptic, so deciphering them is kind of a fun game in itself. These hints are left by fellow players/commenters, not by NYT staff. They can be accessed by choosing "Community" under the "More" menu. It has grown into a large, congenial, international, and very popular online community where people leave not only hints but also opinions, anecdotes, observations and even original poems and short stories. (You might have to be a subscriber to access it...I'm not sure.) I'm a bit lukewarm about watching someone else play Spelling Bee because it doesn't provide the full experience of the game that I'm used to from playing it by myself. But I realize others may enjoy it.
@ I appreciate your thoughts. I feel like adding the time stamps will allow people to jump around as they like. If I really wanted to maximize viewer retention I would separate every game into its own video but that is far too much to manage.
@@ADailySliceOfOranje Yes, the time stamps are very helpful. I think it's great the way you have it set up now. It's more convenient for the viewers (as well as for you) to have all the games available in one video.
Wordle 1,252 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨TIGER
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨SPORE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PEARL
Strands #264 : Another easy day snice I saw BUFFALO, and BOULDER. Then I saw DENVER but I figured that was a red herring because the other two are regular words. Found the Spanagram first,. and sure enough DENVER wasn't one of the words. There's no bonus by avoiding to enter words that aren't part of the puzzle:
“This is the place!”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Connections : Another perfect solve in forward rainbow order. I don't get the time bonus because I took a break after clearing yellow and green in short order hoping for an aha moment to sink in. I had no strong epiphany so I made an educated guess and it worked. I saw the photography red herring and figured it was a rainbow, which turned out to be right.
Puzzle #530
🟨🟨🟨🟨Media talk. Hard to describe without using one of the words. Let's just say the President-Elect gets a lot of PRESS / EXPOSURE / COVERAGE / ATTENTiON
🟩🟩🟩🟩Viewpoint (almost nailed it!)
Wordle 1,252 3/6
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨FABLE
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜LEAST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PEARL
Strands #264
“This is the place!”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Well done, Oranje!
Wordle 1,252 3/6*
⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨TRACE
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜BEARD
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PEARL
Strands #264
“This is the place!”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Amazed that you spotted BILOXI before PHOENIX! (It could have been!) You did a fantastic job with the US cities.
Connections
Puzzle #530
🟨🟨🟨🟨PUBLICITY
🟩🟦🟪🟩X photography terms (ANGLE, LENS, ZOOM, SHUTTER)
🟩🟩🟩🟩VIEWPOINT
🟦🟦🟦🟦BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE
🟪🟪🟪🟪???
Well, I didn't fall for the rainbow of shame, but even after getting Yellow, I still thought there would be something to do with photography. But that wasn't just overpopulated; it was a complete red herring. I'm not familiar with LOVE ISLAND or SHUTTER ISLAND, so I was unable to name Purple.
Great job on John's puzzle! KASHAZZLE WIZZLE for me. I could only determine two of the categories, which is not enough when they are severely overpopulated. I did, as you did, avoid the four obvious Mexican foods; I swapped MOLE in and TACO out (because QUESADILLA and TOSTADO probably weren't going anywhere else; I briefly considered "whole ENCHILADA", but that didn't go anywhere). So that one was perfect! But it was all downhill from there. I saw 5 vehicles. Were any of them a different make? Nope, all Fords! Furthermore, was PACE a vehicle? Was FLEX really a vehicle? I wasn't sure. Since I had nothing else, I used three guesses trying to disambiguate the Ford vehicles. Then I took a desperation stab at "forensic evidence". I realize that in Connections Plus you can keep guessing, but unless I think I'm getting somewhere, I surrender at 4 misses.
Connections #9
🟨🟨🟨🟨MEXICAN FOOD
🟩🟩🟪🟩X Ford vehicles
🟩🟪🟩🟩X Ford vehicles
🟪🟩🟩🟪X Ford vehicles
🟦🟦🟪🟦X forensic evidence
A great puzzle day for me!
Scoredle 3/6*
14,855
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 FABLE (135)
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 STEAL (7)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PEARL
Strands #264
“This is the place!”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
I was shocked when Denver didn't work!!
Connections
Puzzle #530
🟪🟪🟪🟪 _____island, whew love was a guess
🟦🟦🟦🟦 online meeting platforms
🟨🟨🟨🟨 publicity
🟩🟩🟩🟩 photography terms
Presolving is the way to go. I saw purple instantly. I read Fantasy and thought, da plane! Da Plane! Then thought yeah, right until I saw treasure and shutter. I didn't know the fourth. I kept them highlighted and shuffled until they were close together. I had zoom, lense, exposure for camera terms, but wasn't thrilled. I liked Meet and slack and then went duh and pulled zoom. I got love as the leftover for purple. I got the Ellen vs. The reverse rainbow 🌈.
SHUTTER Island and LOVE Island were blind spots for me so I solved in forward rainbow order and I was stuck on light blue / purple for a while. I had to make a reasonable guess on the light blue category and purple was my default solve. I thought of LOVE Bug and SHUTTER Bug so that's how I described it.
Tigerboy, I should have thought of shutter bug as I am one!! I also call my kiddo love bug.