Connections 403 - NYT Word Game - 18 July 2024 #connections

let's make connections what do we have today uh the plaza and the Ritz these are both names of famous hotels The Plaza Hotel in New York and the Hotel Ritz in say Paris or London places like that um do I think that there are more of those Maybe not maybe not okay well that was the thing that jumped out to me immediately but it might not go anywhere I guess a plaza and a court are sort of similar they're they're both sort of uh you know surrounded spaces usually in an urban environment a square is that same concept a yard yard maybe less Urban intrinsically but similarly it kind of contained Rel you know smallish space usually a public space but I guess a yard could be private anyway these all be private um this feels reasonable to me let's let's try it and see yes open open space there we go simple as that okay so I'm curious what Ritz is now that it doesn't it presumably isn't the hotel oh is it Dazzle and sort of give it some rits give it some dazzle some flash maybe some fire fire a little bit maybe not quite right Sparkles um maybe I'm going to come back to that oh about a contest sort of boxing match a around or or a match there we go yeah these feel like a sort of a fight or a kind of cont you know a sort of I feel think I'm thinking of as stated here but um you know sort of unit of fighting or competition um I don't see any other possibility so I'm going for that yes a a boxing unit there we go my unit was correct there uh so okay so let's see sparkles Dazzle flash RIT so then what would the rest of these be heart skull pomp fire I don't know but I think these are right so I'm going to try them no they're not oh no okay it's been a while since I've gotten one wrong so fire must be the other Sparkle Dazzle flash rits right interesting so this will be missing words I bet it'll be flash because you can think of lots of words that flash would proed I guess it could be hard give it some sparkle some dazzle some Ritz some heart I don't know I think fire is more likely um what is the oh maybe pomp though because you know sort of pomp in circumstance Sparkles Dazzle Ritz yeah maybe that's actually it so then [Music] I don't know I'm sure this is a missing word these final ones and these all feel like words that could have things following them skull feels like it should be the one that's easiest to get because it's going to have fewer possibilities than these others I would think I don't know but I I'm going to try this now I hope this isn't a mistake no it is still oh my goodness this is a catastrophe okay wow it's been a while since I've gotten two mistakes in a row let's see what do I how do I solve this um skull and well I was thinking I was thinking I had an idea of roughly how these divided but now that I'm thinking now that I'm I've gotten two wrong I'm thinking Sparkles Dazzle flash heart Ritz fire pump I feel that any of these except for skull could be um could be part of that category that's really tough uh how do I narrow this down I I basically what I need to do is think of the the word in the purple category the missing word is is I think what I'm actually missing here ironically or fittingly I should say um skull cap uh I just can't think of very many words with skull or phrases with skull um skull I don't know why this is so difficult skull I mean skull is also it's a boat and Rowing but is that spelled with a c maybe I'm not sure I think it might be spelled this way but it's not it's not relevant so it doesn't matter um this is tough I also really struggled with the whle today so this is a tough day for me with the uh sort of supplementary W games um skull pan skull oh I guess it doesn't I guess maybe it's not a missing word but I don't see anything that connects skull to anything else here except for heart I guess it's a it's a body part it feels I do not know what's going on here well maybe I just have to take another guess at these so I've left out what have I left out I've left out fire I've left out rits I've left out pump I think is that right no I can't have I've only gotten I've had two mistakes I've left out two of them I haven't left out Sparkles definitely I don't think I've left out Dazzle either so what does that mean I I've lost track of what that means I still think fire isn't the greatest fit I mean that's what I thought the beginning and I still do feel that way I tried it because I was confused but after getting my first mistake but Dazzle flash Ritz pop fire Sparkle Fire Island I can't think of anything that these are Dazzle flash Ritz pump give it some dazzle some flash some Ritz some pump I mean I guess it's just as likely to me as any of my other guesses it it is that glitchiness fine but what are these heart skull Sparkles fire I mean if it weren't for the skull I would say these are used to show approval you know if you if you imagine someone responding with Emoji or something they could they could post a heart or Sparkles or fire to mean like good yes or I like this but skull is used you know well it's not that I don't know what these are I'm just going to going to have to go for it this is taking ages oh they're just Emoji just generically Emoji oh come on I think that's a little bit ridiculous maybe it's not I don't know but there I think there are hundreds and hundreds of emoji um but I guess those are pretty major ones all right well that was a tricky connections for me today there we go two two errors whoops back tomorrow bye for now