NYT Connections, Mini Crossword, and Strands | April 17, 2024

Intro [Music] let's do connections we're finding four Connections groups of four we have a dirt mind don't we all uh share regard post intelligence yeah we were intelligent but we're now in a posst intelligence world uh follow steak this is steak like not the meat this a few different meanings observe interest put put your money in the bank and observe the interest all right column Secrets oo The Secret of spreadsheets we have poll information okay that it is voting here and percentage pillar what percentage of your basement is pillar all right um what stands out to me like percentage right like what would percentage actually go with I mean percentage and column are both spreadsheet languages language words spreadsheet words but maybe not percentage what else would we interest you know investment related terms could be it seems a bit off though stake like your stake in something your percentage of something just your portion of it right what else would mean that though your share of it okay I think this is right I just need to find the fourth one why can't I find it oh your interest in it okay so it's not like interest like a bank pays you interest or it's not interest like you're interested in it it's interest like you have an interest in some in like a company it means you you have a portion of it nice allotment that was the blue I do have plus two to purple today for my shirt so hopefully that'll make purple easier uh what else stands out to me now um Secrets maybe I'm I'm thinking it might go with information but I'm not entirely sure uh I don't see an obvious like connection here so let's pick a different word intelligence maybe okay intelligence it could be like the thing spies gather right they spies gather intelligence they gather Secrets they information and they get dirt on you all right hey the plus two to purple worked gathered by it was literally the category too gathered by spies I thought it would be something a little bit more like generic okay um sure I'll take it we're down to the the yellow and the green pillar and column and post and pole are just literally cylindrical things that hold things up upright support yeah that's what I said cylindrical things that hold things up okay and then regard follow mind and observe I mean these are just like looking at something like giving your attention to something maybe would be the the best way to put that heed as rules oh it's a little bit different heed as rules so you're this is like a crossword clue style wording here but um you follow the rules you mind the rules You observe the rules you regard the rules I think mine worked too but I mean whatever it's I got the category right I did perfect today um I feel like I did well I feel like this wasn't that straightforward I'm trying to think what the red herrings were I think there was definitely a red herring between in interest in percentage and share to think that maybe we were investment related terms but what would you want to put in with that that's kind of the problem right and they do go together so they're trying to get you to one away and not put stake in there but honestly I don't see what else would go in there so I don't think that works yeah I'm not sure let me know if you got caught by any like red herrings I'm not I'm not immediately seeing them um and uh yeah let me know how you did and if you'd like to watch more of my solves why not watch strand next strance has been appearing on the for you page so maybe it'll appear for you but if it doesn't you can go uh to the mention in the description to ranks play strands let's Mini Crossword do the mini crossword for April 17th let's go Chinese greeting that literally means you good uh not sure Best in Show for one award maybe ballroom music question mark I know something like Tango but it's a play on words so we'll we'll hold off modify as a hem uh uh like tailoring um to trim no it doesn't fit I don't I'm not sure I have to skip that was out in front Okay hopefully the Downs help absolutely nothing NADA the nothing being less formal means it's a less formal word You Can Count On Me In quotes I'm thinking award is correct but I'm not sure what this would be it's something you'd say in place of you can count on me um not sure quickness not sure either like a rainbow's path an arc AR maybe that could work stinky tofu has a strong one smell okay a word is not right maybe art that means Arc is wrong too um because this would be a oh I was going to say smell but actually okay let's go back let's put award back and let's put arct back I thought this would be smell but I didn't realize it was four length or I didn't realize smell was five long either way doesn't fit odor okay okay I think I'm right so far um let's go back here oh is it niow okay you can count on me I it's two words I I will I don't know if I like I will let's look at this oh disco ball room music disco because of the disco ball that's funny uh modify as ham Al as ham I'm going to alter your ham all right this is haste and and Lead okay um let's look these over again niow okay um I just couldn't come up with what hello in Chinese was off the top of my head but now that I once I got a few letters I remembered best and show award I actually got correct ballroom music disco that's a that's a fun one modify as a hem is Alter should have thought of that probably but just didn't come to mind was out in front lead absolutely nothing NADA yeah and that that informal answer to the informal clue I will you can count on me I will eh okay quickness is haste arct was actually correct in odor nice how'd you do and if you want to watch more of my solves why not watch the wle next you can uh click the uh mention in the description for ranks plays wle let's do strands for April Strands 17th today's theme is the long run and I need to tell you something uh I did the whole thing and forgot to press record this is an incognito tab I'm going to recreate myself it was pretty fun um but yeah I don't know maybe I maybe I shouldn't just publish a video but this this is this is how it went so I thought the long run and I immediately thought marathon and I immediately saw ma here and I and I man to path Marathon right away and I got the banagram then I thought about this SP for a while I thought I could find like spectator or spectate but I couldn't find anything so I gave up on that for a bit and then I saw a train over here and I thought for sure that would be in and it wasn't so then I thought maybe we were like extending the word train like from a prefix or a suffix and I did find trainer I then thought about this C for a while cuz I was like well C doesn't look very good so I thought about cou and it took me it took me a little bit but I eventually found course here and then I immediately saw gate and then um and then I thought about Pace how we have this p and I thought about pace and I found Pace here and that gave me speed and I so I was looking at the wrong SP I should have been looking at that SP then I thought I was done until I realized there's a whole top section here and then I immediately saw track and then I saw there's one word left and then um uh this was basically a carousel moment for me it took me probably longer than the rest of the puzzle to find this word um I I was trying to do like a TR word or something like that um trying to focus on how we're getting this R out of here or whether we start with the r um then I brainstormed uh things that you that would be related to marathons so like I thought of stuff like um water and carbs and Spectators and cheering and Finish Lines um and uh but none of that really clicked so then I started just logic this and I saw that we had IO n so I thought maybe we ended in i n so we probably ended in t n and then I thought well is it going to be U or I so I decided to highlight I to visualize that and nutrition popped out once I had that so I got nutrition that way but it was it was a bit of a struggle and I also passed it wrong that way so then I ended up uh I think I tried it twice and did it wrong so um I ended up clicking it like this oops I'm doing it wrong again and nutrition like that and I clicked it I did it wrong again oh my gosh let's do it slowly nutrition okay so that's a reenactment of by accident of how I failed to do that um and uh I'm not I don't know what the total time was I'll let you know later I'll have to look at actually I have no idea what the total time was cuz I didn't record it so no timer today I guess um so yeah anyway that was my strand solve hopefully that reenactment worked out for you I didn't record it I didn't press record this the first time in a long time I've forgotten to press record so hopefully it doesn't continue to happen but there we go that was my solve uh let me know how you did I thought this was a pretty fun one um I liked how I found Marathon right away the theme I mean a theme makes you think of marathon right like running marathons are the long run right um but you could get tripped up by the long run meaning like planning for the future like going for the long run rather than short-term gains so I could see someone getting tripped up on that but honestly marathon's right on the top left so I don't know I saw it right away um and then it was cool brainstorming what words might be related to marathoning so that was neat I enjoyed that so yeah let me know how you did and if you'd like to watch more of my solves uh this time they are not solves I'm reenacting I I promise uh in the description you can see my crossword for today my mini crossword so there's a ranks place crossword mention right there you can just click right there