Connections 435 - NYT Word Game - 19 August 2024 #connections

hello let's make connections I just started saying that Spiel without pressing the record button did press it this time uh not going to waste a video all right so what do we have here uh what do we have here mustard and sourkraut um sound like things you put on a hot dog a bun sounds like a thing you'd put around a hot dog coconut doesn't seem likely and um interesting what else brat like brat worst I mean that sounds pretty good a brat worst with mustard and sauerkraut I would gladly accept that do I think that's that's one oh that's interesting bun and upd those are both well I guess a bun is sort of an example of an updo in terms of a hairstyle so usually you don't have one thing being an example of another thing in the same category so that's probably not that makes me wonder what updo is doing there though it's the beginning to up dog what's that let's see uh what is yeah what is that sorry I'm I'm distracted now what what does this go with huh I don't know that's very odd anyway let's go back to this um sauerkraut mustard brought but it feels right it feels right right to me I'm going to try it yes there we go oh brat worst go withs a a second brat worst I I don't think it makes any sense to say a brat goes with brat unless I'm misunderstanding what that means I mean I think it's saying sort of components of you know it's like this this is part of a serving of brator or something but a brat doesn't go with pror anyway I take issue with the phrasing of that clue um I do see music genres Rock folk country soulmate um H okay oh no Blues I would didn't see it there we go okay good rock folk country Blues these are music genres that's straightforward yes it is straightforward okay so now what's going on I don't immediately see anything here to be honest these things seem so all over the place huh Mountain Warrior um I'm actually very baffled by this H uh sorry I just don't know where to go upd is complet baffling there's it must be missing word or word you know letter substitution or or something like missing letter something like that because this doesn't go with anything else here at all to me because the thing is it's such a specific word you know something like tree that can mean lots of different things warrior in some sense can Mountain kind of but updo what is that what is that other than a hairstyle like a don't I can't think of anything and I don't see any other hairstyles here I keep thinking soul patch for you know that little sort of 9s micro beard but um is not even what the word is what is going on but it's not just that I don't really see what I don't really see how any two of these things go together at all maybe mountain and tree because they're elements of a landscape coconut I guess again a coconut is an example of a tree you usually don't see those things in the same group I'm I'm absolutely stumped by this I mean some of these can can have words other words at the beginning of them like Mount War Soul wall that doesn't seem like anything I mean those don't mean anything either together Warrior what is that sorry I'm really confused how long has this been it's been a while okay um do I just start guessing the problem is I like I said I don't even have two things that go in a in a category together except for maybe mountain and tree I mean it seems so vague I think it's not coconut just because again that feels too similar to tree while not actually well no it just doesn't I don't have anything else that goes with these Mountain Tree I don't know soulmate Warrior I mean they're both you know ways you could describe people again it doesn't seem like anything there's got to be Miss it's it must be missing words missing letters something like that hair is inside of chair but I'm only thinking of that probably because of updo Mount or soul up I guess [Music] wall hair is not at the beginning it's at the end okay so which of these have words that could go at the beginning Mount War soul up wall so not coconut chair tree well no coco would be spelled COA oh my goodness how do I do this I'm amazed that they're both so the both remaining categories are so elusive usually I you know I struggle with the last one after I've already narrowed it down but this is very difficult oh soul and up are Pixar films and so is Coco I was thinking about Coco Co Here Mount War WALL-E oh my goodness it's a hyphenated Wall-E w l l-h e inside of wallet that is ridiculous I think that's got to be it I've wondering essentially this whole puzzle what upd is going to do and I think that's what it's going to do Coco Wally soul up this is taking ages let's see if this is right it is right starting with Pixar movies what a funny way to phrase that but I guess it makes sense these words start with the names of Pixar movies oh my goodness so what's going on here Mountain Warrior chair tree is there a famous painting or something that has these in it this is the Le this is the sort of second most difficulty category Mountain Warrior chair I'm going to be embarrassed if this is incredibly obvious once it goes in and and actually now that I think about it it won't be a missing word because that would have been the purple one if it if it were um are they part is it the famous painting or something I keep trying to think of missing words but that won't be what it is I don't know I don't know what this is I'm sorry I'm just gonna have to go for it oh yoga poses I never would have gotten that I I literally never would have thought of that I don't think uh H that was a brutal connections today I thought I don't know let me help know how you did with that one I guess the yoga one there will be people who would have gotten that immediately uh I'm not among that group as you can see uh but there we go those were the connections back tomorrow bye for now