NYT Connections, Mini Crossword, and Strands | Aug 6, 2024

Intro [Music] Connections let's do connections we're finding four groups of four we have a cloud Sho subject object are we doing grammar again bull guinea pig cotton ball fog dandelion mind matter volunteer protest participant sheep and disapprove so I saw subject and object I also saw participant and volunteer guinea pig so basically the uh subject of a study sub I guess it's subject so we're probably splitting up subject and object then basically when you're running a scientific study you might call someone a participant volunteer a subject hopefully not calling them a guinea pig but that is a term for that all right let's do it one in a research study exactly all right so maybe it's object rather than object yeah object protest um disapprove what's the other synonym I keep wanting put mind like I mind I do mind like do you mind if I do this yes I do mind um it might be that I'm going to try it yeah that was it take issue oh that was blue but they're synonyms okay so yellow is also synonyms then um very straightforward one today so we'll see if we can figure out purple though what are what are we doing here bull sheep two animals um matter H fog and Cloud seem similar fog is just clouds that are lower um I'm not seeing what that would go with C cotton ball I could see like cotton ball and Cloud they're they're similar in like look I guess hm actually why am I struggling with yellow today maybe I should be looking for purple cuz I've got plus two to purple with my purple shirt on shoe is also strange why can't I see this in my head Cloud cotton ball sheep and fog are similar like their white fluffy things but I don't know if that I don't know if I like that um that would mean that dandelion bull matter and shoe would go together let me see if I can think about the purple maybe it's dark cuz I'm I'm noticing we have dark matter and dark sheep I was thinking about like Black Sheep as well but then I was like what's black matter but then there's dark matter and I think dark sheep could mean the same thing is Black Sheep does it now I'm second guessing dark sheep but is there is there anything else that's dark a dark cloud a dark fog I don't think you have a dark dandelion dark bull I haven't heard of dark cotton ball dark shoe so if we had dark fog I don't know this seems a bit out there doesn't it I'm stretching what would shoe cotton ball Bull and dandelion then be that I'm not really seeing e it's it's Black Sheep it's not dark sheep okay I'm I dark clouds certainly would be a thing and dark matter but I don't see how we'd have dark anything else like what else would we put matter with though what's the matter um okay I am going to go with this it'll at least tell me if we're like one away or something that wasn't one away so we need to split these in half that's actually a really nice result when you have two word uh two categories left so two of these go together and two of these go together with two of these and two of these all right so cloud and fog I thought were very similar so it's not Cloud cottonball sheep fog Dand are kind of white balls aren't they okay I'm going to go with this these are like white fluffy things fluffy white things wow okay I was thinking of dandelion uh before they turn into those white white balls that you blow on like I was thinking about the aren't they like yellow flowers before that anyway bull matter shoe and fog I still have no idea what this is uh could they all be dark I don't see how Matterhorn yes bullhorn matter horn shoehorn fog horn there we go blank horn yep okay one mistake but it helped considerably all right um yeah I don't know yellow was really hard for me today I feel like yellow and blue were swapped like I would definitely swap yellow and blue cuz blue is just synonyms disapprove mind object object protest green is synonyms guinea pig participant subject volunteer so usually when you've got two synonym categories one's yellow one's green and then this felt very blue to me like okay you're describing the properties of the object as in common rather than them just being the same thing as each other and then of course purple was purpling blank horn okay I eventually thought about matter horn and that just gave it away so cool all right well let's look at the difficulty oh what's my prediction you know this was a little bit difficult but I think they're going to mark this like 2.8 let's see it was 2.7 all right so that was close well how' you do let's do the mini crossw Mini Crossword word for Tuesday August 6th let's go Petty fight a spat Maybe funny little habit a quirk is that how you spell that I can't blank that response to being told that Colonel Sanders bow tie looks like a stick figure's body unse kind of like the arrow in the FedEx logo right mother of pearl design on a guitar oh I I'm not quite sure about that one colored as hair I'm not sure I think the down should be easy though source of edible ink squid like the horror movie titles chopping Maul and Santa sleigh puny maybe um oh dyed hair airplane seat Choice aisle and grippy part of a tire is the tread and then paper with the answers on it is the key oh nice one minute exact all right so inlay mother of pearl design on the guitar Etc inlay ah like an inlay design okay and this was dyed I did fig this out but I was already doing the Downs so I figured I'd just use that in my mind to help finish the Downs um cool yeah uh not much to talk about there how'd you do let's do strands for Strands August 6th today's theme is Bed Bath and Beyond oo okay so is it obvious or are we doing something weird there well we've got cloth or clo we don't have clothes so I'm going to try cloth nope okay um that was worth a try it certainly fits the Bed Bath and Beyond theme do we have towels do we have I don't know um is it just things they sell there I'm looking around the edges here slip if it's not cloth are we expanding cloth are we ending with cloth cuz I feel like it's there for a reason I still don't know though battle no battle is not spelled with two L's battle spelled with two T's um Bas that would be weird um Basin oh how do you spell Basin probably I in yeah um SE this double e is interesting live there's two ways to do it so it wasn't going to be correct but um sh sheet okay so why is cloth not an answer linen really linen linen cloth no linen something linen closet okay that was weird oh I see tablecloth oh okay I knew it was something cloth um okay so what else is in our linen closet I could go look at my linen closet towels should be in there I think I see towel there it is blankets yep we got sheets blankets towels tablecloth one more word using all of these slip something or what is it slip slip cup no pillowcase pillowcase there we go all right not too bad today just took me I got very confused by cloth I was like cuz when cloth wasn't it it made me go am I thinking about this wrong but no I wasn't um and then linen didn't lock in and cloth didn't lock in like what the heck is going on here but yeah it makes sense all right cool well how'd you do [Music] p