NYT Connections, Mini Crossword, and Strands | Aug 26, 2024

Intro [Music] Connections let's do connections we're finding four groups of four we have slice sneak Tire support Bagel slip loaf whiff get a whiff of that loaf uh blessing Wade Wade interesting Lifesaver consent wreath hook approval and shank interesting so I'm seeing consent and approval they seem like they go together support maybe and blessing is there anything else that would mean to give your give your yes you know say Yes um I think that's it official sanctioning okay next time I support something I will say I officially sanction it um let's see Bagel breakfast foods um oh bagels and Lifesavers and wreaths are all entired they're all like circles with with the hole cut out of the middle all right what would you call those Taurus shaped things yes all right we're down to the blue and the purple I am wearing a a blue shirt so I should have plus two to Blue should make this nice and easy all right um cuz we all know the color that of the shirt we wear affects how good we do at each category um I'm not sure if you knew that but it's pretty much common knowledge at this point let's see uh slice I'm thinking like a little bit of something like a slice and a whiff like a whiff is just a little bit of smell a slice is a little bit of a some like a slice of something I'm not sure if that's it though I don't see anything else for that shank like the shank bone or like shanking someone like stabbing them I don't know um I wondering if it goes with something like hook huh okay what are we doing here slip as in you're you're slipping you're sneaking I don't know like you can slip into somewhere you can sneak into somewhere didn't we just have that category though uh slip is also something you wear hook I can't help but think that hook whiff and slice and like sneak or just like a a small bit of something I could justify that Loa Wade slip shank like the hook for a movie is like or a hook for a song is like a small bit of it that gets you enticed right you're sneaking I don't know I I feel like I need to try this one away okay so what am I wrong about H slice or sneak you can like slip I don't know slip a peek I don't know like I could mean that too I could be completely off base though it's easy to get one away when you're down to two categories by accident you can get one away I don't really get it though loaf so loaf Wade slip and shank are also one away right we just got to swap two of the words and we have the both answers so I'm wondering if that helps like thinking about those what would wade mean like all only know is like wading through water I almost feel like I should put sneak with Wade because like when you're waiting through water you're like walking carefully through it like it's you're walking slowly sneaking you're walking slowly like you can slip into somewhere like you're being sneaky I don't know about loaf or shank though like one of those would have to go with it cuz if I'm if I'm putting sneak in with Wade and I'm adding slip that means that I needed to be with loaf or shank and I don't know loafing like if you're loafing around you're not you're being lazy that doesn't feel like that fits but then again these are blue and purple I shouldn't be thinking so directly about like about synonyms I kind of want to put hook and shank together for some reason I'm just going to I guess I think I'm just going to use another guess I'm going to like remove whiff and add shank that's also one away so there's two options when you get two one aways like that so one option is neither of them go with it and we're supposed to have a third one or I mean we're supposed to third one it would mean that neither whiff or shank go with slice hook sneak and instead we need loaf weight or slip the other option is both whiff and Shank go in the category and we're supposed to remove slice hook or sneak I don't know which option I even want to do here well if I wanted shank and hook together that means I need to remove slice or sneak and add loaf weight or slip I have one more mistake to use and I have no idea what's going on here so I'm trying to use this to gain a little bit of footing get your foot in the door as it were um so if I remove sneak maybe like slice hook and shank all make me think of like sharp things I don't think loaf Wade or slip make me think of sharp things though maybe I'll add Wade just because I think it probably isn't and then that might give me some info that's also one away so if I'm oh and I I kept shank shank in and I okay so does that mean it has to be slice hook with shank I don't know if it has to be so this was one away this was one away and this was one away I don't know if that means that or not so one option is this was one away because we're not supposed to have sneak this was one away again because we're not supposed to have sneak but we were we were supposed to be these four and then this was one away cuz again it needs to be these four so that that lines up with that is there any other option I'm not sure but I'm going to stare at these and see if I can figure out what the category would be slice hook whiff and shank or loaf Wade slip and sneak the only thing I can think of is what I what I said before like sneak slip Wade and loaf would be like walking carefully but I don't know why loaf would mean that the only thing I know about loafing is like you're you're sitting around on the couch and doing nothing like you're loafing or like a loaf of bread or something so I don't know that that actually works slice hook whiff and shank could be a small bit of something I don't know if that's what shank means though so that's kind of that's kind of my issue well I am I just going to submit this and see what happens it was correct bad golf shots there was no way I mean I know whiff you can whiff a shot that's used in more than golf I did not know slice meant you made a bad shot in golf shank is a bad shot in golf Hook is a bad shot in golf I had no clue is this is this at least like moving carefully or Footwear minus r sound you know I was getting I was getting walking vibes from it but it didn't occur to me that it was loafer slipper sneaker and waiter okay this was a rough one um I won because I kind of got lucky with my one ways and and logicked it out but I did not really understand the categories at all um these two were pretty easy but these were very difficult so I don't know how they grade that but I'm going to give this just a solid 3.0 connections companion agrees with me solid three out of five all right well how' you do let's do the mini Mini Crossword cross word for Monday August 26th let's go soccer players prominent muscle um some somewhere in the leg I don't know member of an underwater Colony a school nope that doesn't work oh member member of fish I don't know uh Mario's twin Luigi fluster um not sure what word they're going for source of a buzz with or without its last letter a be a a I don't know twodo car is well Luigi is definitely right I was going to put sedan but sedan has four doors o I can't think of it get up or come up get up or come up I don't know light colored variety of eight across move swiftly like a butterfly move like a butterfly sting like a bee move swiftly like a butterfly okay well this one five down is club that's the club symbol from card games so maybe I can get some of these acrosses member of an underwater Colony starts with C I don't know fluster starts with u i don't know source of a buzz with or without SL letter I want to put b or be's I I don't that that seems weird so okay well there was something about ad across light colored variety of eight across so what would be a light colored variety of a bee like a I don't I don't know o this is rough for me move swiftly like a butterfly flit maybe that's kind of a stretch soccer players prominent muscle can I think of the muscle I thought I would get I mean I guess calf with that ending f um I thought I would get some Downs before I had to think of that one member of an underwater Colony Coral like a coral reef let's look at these Downs twood door car is a coup okay get up or come up arrive and that doesn't make sense what's what's this seven across fluster upset no um light color get up or come up arise it is upset maybe this isn't an S like colored variety of at across if this is upset why would fluster be upset um it doesn't even like work part of speech like you can't replace fluster with UPS ET you can replace flustered with upset no maybe I'm confused lag logger and beer oh I get it you get buzzed by drinking beer or a bee can buzz and then a logger is a light variety of beer W I somehow managed to get that it took me a bit but I'm pretty proud of that solved just because I was super confused for most of it and I was getting worried that I wasn't going to be able to get any letters all right cool well how' you do let's do strands for August 26th today's Strands theme is see you on the court H so sports related stuffs like a tennis court or basketball court or something like that or are we a little bit less literal can always be a little less literal this V here is interesting wonder what we do with that like volley okay so I'm seeing volley I'm thinking that's right and I'm thinking we are tennis related can I write out tennis so the only T is right here we can go 10 but we cannot we cannot find another n next to it so H I don't know that I'm going to be able to figure out the banagram so let's let's just let's just get volley locked in serve we'll find the spag eventually teams team teams I don't know let's hold off on that what are other like tennis terms like they score with like love okay I see love um Love is zero uh this is a weird thing to admit but the only the only reason I know a bunch of tennis terms is because I used to play Mario Tennis like 20 years ago a little bit less 18 years ago I I loved that game I played that a lot um I think it was Mario Tennis it was definitely a tennis game on a console Gander I mean I see Gander but I don't think that's tennis related what else is tennis related mice clearly or lice okay we've got serve we got volley we've got love do we do team or teams I'm going to have to just start trying stuff no like there's doubles I don't see that what are we doing here then we have oh rack I bet we have racket yeah here's racket okay lame what a slam maybe no uh Spike that's more volleyball isn't it um smash okay so our spog goes from here to here G gain I don't know Grand something Grand Slam wait yeah that does work as a span because it does hit both sides so we had slam and Grand Slam oh no we didn't have slam I tried slam and it didn't lock in because it was part of grand slam okay we still have like slice maybe okay this is this is all one word Fordy um what is it actually hand something hand for forehand like a forehand swing okay not too bad um I didn't think Grand Slam was going to be the spag for for tennis related stuff I thought it was just going to be tennis but okay um yeah not too bad today how you do [Music]