NYT Connections, Mini Crossword, and Strands | Aug 25, 2024

Intro [Music] Connections let's do connections we're finding four groups of four we have steaming poker air baking laundry ranking boiling station heating origami position fuming standing ventilation livid and conditioning why does origami look wrong that eye looks wrong to me I don't know it's probably just me let's see steaming poker interesting I'm seeing ventilation and air and heating like are we talking about HVAC I think this is literally what HVAC stands for heating ventilation air and conditioning let's give it a try words that make up the acronym HVAC there we go easy um H I feel like baking boiling and steaming are ways to make food like cooking terms what would be the fourth one though okay I'm seeing fuming and livit livid those probably go together when you're you're angry uh I'm not seeing what else is cooking but fuming and livid mean you're angry you could be boiling yeah you're boiling you're angry you're um you're steaming so maybe it isn't cooking terms maybe it's terms for you're angry yes hopping m okay so then what does baking go with I have the green left I don't have to find purple um what do I want to even look at [Music] ranking standing ranking standing position these are these are in station the these are kind of where you are like your rank how do I say it besides your rank I don't know status okay laundry poker origami and baking what do those have to do with each other origami is like folding related right so you can fold your laundry you can fold origami in poker you can fold meaning you give up and in baking you can fold in the cheese just fold it in activities involving fold folding nice just fold it in fold in the cheese oh next step is to fold in the cheese what does that mean what does fold in the cheese mean he folds it in I I understand that but how how do you fold it do you fold it in half like a piece of paper and drop it in the pot or what do you do David I cannot show you everything okay well can you show me one thing you just here's what you do you just fold it in okay I don't know how to fold broken cheese like that and I don't know how to be any clearer you take that thing that's in your hand and you if you say fold in one more time it says folded in all right that's fun I I figured them all out this this wasn't that hard was it there was a red herring for for cooking terms instead it was the hopping mad stuff seaming and boiling really felt like they should go together and not with fuming and living livid but with uh with with baking but there wasn't a fourth one um I think it might all depend on whether you know about HVAC and what it stands for okay well so what does that make the difficulty I'm going to say 2.7 all right connections companion says 2.6 so it's very close and how' you do let's do the mini crossw Mini Crossword word for Sunday August 25th let's go public transit option bus blank boss fashion brand uh Hugo oppressively humid Florida I don't know um I'm not sure scrambled they might look like this eggs that's so silly casual greeting hey maybe I don't know maybe that maybe that works like some software and swamps buggy fleece lined boots Uggs basis of tofu and Tempe soy massive huge I'm not impressed me nice all right and muggy muggy was oppressively humid that makes sense I just didn't come back to it cuz I was getting all the Downs um I think I saw every clue then I got all the downs and then I saw all the crosses and yeah uh pretty straightforward today well how'd you do let's do strands for August 25th Strands today's theme is Into the Woods H into the woods so are these Woods Rel at ated things I almost I thought maybe we'd have Goldilocks or something um okay I'm going to look around the edges to see if I see anything that might give away our theme I'm not seeing much here CH wonder if something ends in in here like hiking or something I don't know problem is there's a lot of things that end in ing a lot a lot of things we also have i k what do we find in the woods like bears and wolves and I don't know owls I see owl but that would be too short squirrels what's in the woods trees I'm not sure if it's that literal I see Pine I'm going to start trying things okay Pine is true so are these kinds of trees uh okay so I got to think about tree types and suddenly I know no trees at all um cherry trees uh no Redwood I don't know Chestnut I I keep wanting to do CH I see nut okay there is chestnut just have to wait how we're doing it this way there we go Chestnut SRA s Sierra uhoh I thought Syracuse was uh what are we doing here um chrome chrome trees um what are other trees Beach we have beach trees okay um what is this one more I feel like tree should be in our spog but I can't find where tree would be so what actually is our spog we got Beach Chestnut Pine I feel like we've got L here they call me mellow yellow all right um what you with this F fin something does is this our span ending here or starting here Forest is our spog okay Sycamore Sycamore is what I was trying to think of what did I say I said Syracuse oops um not doing not doing well on my tree tree remembrances Willow okay Maple and Ginko which is spelled weird I didn't know it was spelled that way but it was the only way to make it all right well um I didn't do any extra words so that's pretty good just took me a little bit but compared to recent ones not that long so anyway how'd you do [Music]