NYT Connections, Mini Crossword, and Strands | Aug 29, 2024

Intro [Music] Connections let's do connections we're finding four groups of four we have player gamble Brown young count Smith Noble Duke upright consider Grand judge electronic regard Howard Johnson who's Howard Johnson H we do have um common last names like Smith and Johnson maybe Judge Brown is definitely a common last name um I know there's like Mike Judge I don't know if Duke Duke feels like a name as well Howard is a name but not I don't know if those are last names young could be a last name I feel like these might be specific last names of people like singers or something like that so I'm going to hold off on that for now let's see what else we can do I feel like Grand and Noble might be similar I don't see anything else for that though okay we got like titles like count and Duke judge could be a title for sure maybe judge I don't think Noble is a title I feel like that's a red herring there but I don't know what the other title would be so I'm going to have to hold off on that too how about something like gamble gamble is not a title it's not a name it's it's another category ways of deciding on something you can gamble on it you can consider it you can regard it I feel like consider and regard are way more similar to each other than gamble that doesn't feel like it fits ooh ooh types of pianos the player piano the upright piano the electronic piano ah tell me there's another piano ah darn it the SM is Smith for some oh grand piano grand piano there we go yes kinds of piano oh that was yellow uh oh that's not a good sign okay um well at least we got rid of grand because I thought that that was going to go with um Noble and it did not uh I should have realized cuz they were next to each other but anyway so we still have like count and H like rearranged and I can't find things now huh I was going to say titles yeah count and Duke and judge might be titles I feel like like young feels I think like Neil Young I think like sing last names of singers right young and brown I just I just don't know for sure Smith I'm G to have to hold off on that maybe Howard I feel like I think it's probably this but I'm going to hold off on it like Crosby Still's Nash and Young as young um regard consider I still think these go together maybe count judge so you consider something you judge it you regard it and you count it maybe I think the red herring is counting Duke I'm going to try this yes that was it deem okay count feels a little bit out there but I I can kind of understand the context of that so we've got the singer last names I don't think gamble is a singer last name I'm assuming it's singers it could be something else um oo this is going to be hard to pull apart what are what are we using gamble for I'm trying to think if gambles a fill in the blank but I can't think of any phrases that involve gambl they've all left my brain um there's like gamblers fallacy I don't think it's that um things you do in Las Vegas gamble that's it um I don't know maybe I have to go for what I thought like young Smith Brown and Howard I don't even know which four I wanted to do like it feels like so many of these feel like last names Johnson's definitely last name Duke is a last name I think Noble could be last name I don't think Gamble's the last name but who knows so like I can't really do that but for some reason these speak to me so at the very least I'll get info about like one away or whatever it is one away I don't know which one maybe I need to put in like I don't even know I don't even know I could just be random about it like take away young put in Duke us colleges universities oh I mean I know Brown and Duke I actually don't know Howard and Smith that's hard okay it wasn't last I mean if it is last names it's not last names of singers young gamble Noble Johnson I still that was really lucky I don't know just Instinct slash gambling um I feel like I didn't deserve this win but either way if I I can't even figure out the purple young gamble Noble Johnson are these also last names like that would be nasty all right well I'm just going to see what it is second names in companies with Ampersand Proctor and Gamble Johnson and Johnson Noble and Young jeez [Music] um I don't even know what Noble and young are Barnes and Noble what this is ridiculous this puzzle was ridiculous I'm going to give this a 4.0 difficulty that's the highest would ever have been but that's what I'm going to give it let's see what they gave it they gave it a three I think that's too low this is ridiculous what is Young something and young I'm going to see if I can Google that it might be hard Ernst and Young Ernst and Young there ey multinational Professional Services partnership one of the big four accounting firms okay yes I know the accounting firms very well off the top of my head wow okay well how' you do let's do the Mini Crossword mini crossw word for Thursday August 29th let's go throws as a fishing line um casts I think omega's opposite Alpha hybrid fruit similar to an aprium no idea get the shampoo out uh rinse signed as a contract um I don't know Island that lends it name to a style of pants Capri betting every last poker ship I'm all in Moxy uh spunk I love the word Moxy it's just one of those days you don't want to wake up everybody sucks all right happily full sated 50 seconds plot okay so let's see if we can figure this out so hybrid fruit to an aprium an aprium is an apricot with a oh so aprium would be apricot Plum plat is plum apricot got it never heard either of those words before I think they just made it up anyway how'd you do let's do strands for Strands August 29th today's theme is wake up and um wake up and smell the coffee isn't that the phrase um so is it just part of morning routine I feel like we've had morning routine before haven't we I thought I saw morning but it's just m o r and then the rest isn't there double F double e very interesting um breakfast do we have coffee here we do actually have coffee here uh coffee is it just coffee or is it coffee something okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to highlight coffee I'm not going to lock it in yet and I'm going to see what happens around it to see if maybe it coffee BR no coffee see see what else might be around it that might help um you can take your coffee black I see black coffee um is it like things that go in your coffee like cream sugar I I don't see cream there at least there's a lot of seasoning this puzzle though sugar um do we have we have latte here so we have coffee we have latte coffee order okay it's coffee order okay got it so we got to do coffee this way and then order there we go so now we've got latte we've got black um cappuccino is here somewhere I'm sure of it capucino and then we've got iced coffee we've got a mocha and then we've got whoa um espresso there it is I could have probably guessed espresso would be here um how are we doing it though they didn't make that easy okay and I don't even drink coffee I actually uh I avoid all caffeine I'm I must be the most boring person on the planet I don't drink alcohol I don't have caffeine um anyway how' you do [Music]