NYT Connections, Mini Crossword, and Strands | June 14, 2024

Intro [Music] Connections let's do connections we finding four groups of four we've got Yankee paper Deputy Flamingo I don't think that's how the song goes um eraser silver medal bubblegum report pencil Victor why do I feel like we already got pencil oh we have pencil eraser and paper um pencil Victor Derek jedar I don't know who that is Hotel essay foxtrot that's a dance Carnation and article foxtrot is one of the dances I never learned um one of the ballroom dances I never I never learned that one um all right so I mean I saw paper eraser and pencil what's our other kind of school supplies type thing or used in writing um I don't know things you might find on a desk bubblegum every single desk has bubble gum stuff underneath it is that still true um you might find an essay on a desk I don't know this doesn't feel quite right to me so I'm going to hold off on that even if it might be right I don't want to waste a mistake on that um Yankee is interesting yany doodle things related to doodling Yankee pencils I don't know um I wish I knew what who Derek jedar was I we probably don't have to know it's probably a play on words just like the movies um we've got an article and an essay and a paper maybe maybe these are just ways of talking about uh something you've written names for things that are written what would be the other one though a report yeah okay I like this actually all right yeah I'm not surprised it's the yellow writing assignments okay so pencil and eraser may not actually go together let's see Fox trout being dance is there anything other I mean Flamingo might be a dance that's the flamingo not Flamingo I'm pretty sure okay so if we're not talking about the dance oh is foxtrot also a flower Fox Trot Incarnation is Derek a flower we got silver metal bubblegum Derek jedar that's a bit strange isn't it things related to the number two like you can have a number two pencil number two is silver medal that seems a bit out there but I could see the purple being that um what else would be I mean Victor could be the person who won but it could also be a name that's interesting um Deputy is number two something number two might refer to pencil silver medal Deputy I like this I like this category if I can find a fourth one unless Derek is somehow a number two I don't know who it is though darn I think I have to hold off on this cuz I can't find the other number two so what would a raser go with no idea bubblegum things that are pink Bubblegum and flamingos are pink are carnations pink I thought they were red I might try these as like things that are pink just cuz I don't know what color these are I don't know erasers are pink erasers are pink bubble gum Flamingo I'm going to have to go with Carnation even though I I thought carnations were red but me and flower colors have been known and Bird colors um all right well let's try this oh okay things that are pink okay um so I was thinking number two right Deputy silver Medal did I lose one no pencil pox chot requires two people what would what would okay Hotel yankee victor like some of these have to go together I think um I don't know what Derek jedar is I think that's going to be a problem I think we have to actually know what that is I'm going to try putting foxtron in here and be like things that involve two one away okay what else involves two let's see if Derek jeder involves two there we go associate with number two I'm going to have to look up who that is I that was what I suspected I don't know why I did Fox Trot well I thought foxtrot involves two people dancing yeah I don't know Hotel foxtrot Victor oh these are just oh I should have realized yeah the these are these are the um standard um what are the what are those those called so when you're trying to spell something out these are the standard words for H FV and Y like over the radio and things like that yeah that's exactly what's going on okay yeah the NATO phonetic alphabet is what I was trying was trying to I actually memorized the native fonetic alphabet uh a couple years ago no it was last year I I remember it last year because I was moving out of my house and um I had a I was working with so many contractors so many people on the phone and I kept having to spell out things and so I actually memorized the native fonetic alphabet so I wouldn't be saying weird things for what the letter stood for we're just sitting there like um I forgotten every single word that starts with r Just Romeo okay it was very helpful um so yes very helpful thing to memorize um in general anyway uh I'm going to look up Derek jeder Okay so Derek jedar was a or it is a former professional baseball shortstop and I think he had number two as his jersey short stop for whom I'm going to guess a New York team let's see New York Yankees okay Derek jedar was a Yankee shortstop and had number two as the Jersey okay yeah there was no way I was going to know that cool well how'd you do let's do the Mini Crossword mini crossword for Friday June 14th let's go someone who might have a special line to the entrance VIP dialup device a modem the U and UV Ultra feature of a well-used apron maybe stain bird on the dollar bill Eagle that might be my best 19 seconds I'm going to go through the down Clues cuz I didn't get to look at them physicist for whom an electrical measure is named Volta ooh yeah that would you would need a lot of crosses for that one um there's a lot of electrical measurement there's still a lot of electrical measurements out there um dog collar attachment for short ID tag wow the Downs are harder uh danger Peril okay artist's creative inspiration amuse nice quite a head of hair a main yeah Downs were way harder um cool well I'm pretty happy with my uh performance there all right well how' you do let's do Strands strands for June 14th today's theme is take a load off o take a load off okay so like vacation or relaxing or something a little bit less straightforward I think I'm going to have to look around the edges here cuz I don't see anything obvious just like sometimes a word just pops out but unfortunately for me that's rare um we a couch okay yeah you see like sit on the couch um recliner I think I see o I thought I saw oh recliner is this way that's weird I I saw cuz recliner starts with re I I saw like you know what I mean right like I saw the general letters for recliner but I thought it started here but then that didn't work cool uh so yeah just Furniture is Furniture our spog that's our only F okay so maybe not Furniture um is there like okay recliner and couch coffee table I don't know are these things you'd sit on lazy boy that would be recliner uh love seat I see l i see v no love seat okay I think I'm going to have to keep looking around cuz I don't know what other how do they have so many words they have futon um all right gr certainly something's gr right we've got [Music] Graham Grant take a BL off Grant I don't know what this gr is doing gr Grant huh okay something else then just seat oh what about chair do we just have chair i c c h a i but I don't see the r um is that the only C no there's a c here oh there we go there's chair no chair something chair uh chairs okay um something chair then okay well if we did chair then what's this oh sofa I see sofa okay I was going to say what what do these letters do but sofa just popped out so it's something chair Grant Graham chair do I see Maiden ma no I see I see ma no it's no there's no way um yeah I do I think I see Maiden maidens no that's not our panogram okay um so what are we okay other than chair so what what goes around chair then we've got cool um cool stay cool no okay I'm wondering if chair has to do with our span like chair chair a lot I don't know I I just don't I don't see it um sectional do we have sectional I see like SE made me think of sectional but yeah the C's are way too far away for that nah it was worth a shot um seat some kind of seat oh do we have love seat we don't really have love seat what kind of seat are we dealing with here a chair cherro seat cherro seat it's like the spag but it's a cherro seat um the l h suddenly I just don't see anything armchair armchair there it is so something ends in oh so it doesn't doesn't use this gr something ends an ing it has to be the span right for because we're not the span can't end at the bottom here so it's got to end on this side here and so we're doing Ang so sedating no the fact that sedating was here and it's not it is weird it could have been the spag you never know uh okay that's funny um chins no um okay so I got chair we've got Lou stool stool okay still have quite a few words left um a vase go ahead take a seat on the vase or v i I switch back and forth depends on how fancy I want to be see if we had sedating we could then do chin and Cave seave clearly okay I got to figure out the panogram I think it ends in ing I like ating I like dating even um so that means so so if sedating isn't it this s e at least I think or the the S has to do something else I wonder if this banagram kind of takes the shape of um like relaxing like you got your your feet down never really used the shape before to try to figure out the word but like look at this we it's totally totally someone's legs like in a chair I'm trying not to block off other things H okay so what what are we doing here Chase I wonder what this V is doing what about just oh seating seating why' that take me so long I I kept seeing sedating oops um so what's the rest of this um there's two words left what's this D doing we starting with d d or div CH Chase I already did Chase shavid there's there's so many vowels here vaned Chase with an i what what is that I just I was trying random things Chase cha I don't know uh vanit I tried vaned DAV how how else can we even draw this uh Avid Navid Devon okay I don't know what those words are Chase and Devon I'm going to look those up are they French okay so a Shaz is like a one of those Wiggly recliner things and then a Divan is some kind of special sofa like a low sofa without backs or arms typically placed against a wall okay now never heard those before how' you do [Music]