Connections 458 - NYT Word Game - 11 September 2024 #connections

Published: Sep 10, 2024 Duration: 00:04:23 Category: People & Blogs

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hello let's make connections what do we have today what do we have paleontologist that's funny that's a very specific word I mean that really only means one thing which is you know an archaeologist who studies dinosaurs um so maybe jobs of some kind but I do see well no I was going to say amethyst and Amber are both sort of precious or semi-precious stones but that's not really true Amber is not that it's like tree sap that's been fossilized which I probably learned for the first time from Jurassic Park um I probably learned it from the book because I remember reading it before the film came out because I was so excited um about it uh and paleont mosquito maybe is there any chance that these are going to be things from Jurassic Parks speaking of that because we have dinosaur as well so the plot of Jurassic Park obviously is that um scientists re you know create a theme park full of dinosaurs by resurrecting dinosaurs through harvesting blood that was uh ingested by mosquitoes from those Dinosaurs the mosquitoes then become um trapped in Amber fossilized over however many millions of years and then paleontologists and dinosaurs are in there the same Neil character as a paleontologist uh anyway sorry that was unnecessary amount of explanation but but I think that might be an answer let's just try it and see yeah it's featured in Jurassic Park that's it okay that's very funny okay so now what do we have for real um okay here's another weird one of just sort of things found in thing or featured in thing Grimace is the name of one of the McDonald's I don't even know what you call them sort of mascot character community and uh chicken nuggets are sold at McDonald's no okay I don't really see anything else never mind well so what is Grimace then because Grimace outside of that context would mean you're sort of making an unpleasant face but what does that have to do with anything here I don't know but I see a different thing which is a sort of pearl a nugget um maybe a tidbit a kernel these are things you could sort of say these are you know you have a nugget of an idea a tidbit of an idea a kernel of an idea a pearl of an idea maybe these are kind of germs or gists or kind of ideas maybe I don't know but I feel as though these words can all be used in the same way so I'm going to try it and they are bits of bits of wisdom okay oh yeah that's better kernel of wisdom nugget of wisdom pearl of wisdom that's better than the pearl of an idea and tidbit of wisdom sure okay fine so that's good now what oh a bundle a pile no a fortune is in a large collection that was actually in the New York Times cross word today I don't know about that mint eggplant L are Shades maybe colors but they're I mean mint is green I mean eggplant is sort of purple I don't know this this lavender purplish don't no okay I'm not really sure what's going on here um yeah I don't see what's what's left really bundle pile a fortune so a large a group of things oh a mint maybe you could say you made a mint yeah no that's true in money you could say oh you really made a mint you made a bundle you made a fortune you made a pile this is this is lots of money yeah a large amount of money okay the yellow one interesting so lavender amethyst Grimace eggplant oh these are purple things yes or things that are purple there we go okay so I had to get rid of mint to stop thinking about Shades in that regard all right well good slightly tricky one today I had to think through it a bit but there we go those were the connections back tomorrow bye for now

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