Art - some maths for you! When you highlight four words then keep shuffling to get them in a block, the probability that they will all end up in the same row or column is about 1 in 227, so pretty unlikely. The probability of three of them forming a line (either horizontally or vertically) with the fourth adjacent is about 1 in 25, so it makes sense to settle for that! Today, you went for at least three on the side, which looks to be about 1 in 18.
(Calculation is that there are 16! possible shuffles, and for 4 in a row and the other 12 to be anywhere, there are 4 * 4! * 12! ways, then equal number of ways to have 4 in a column. 4 * 4! * 12! * 2 / 16! = 0.004396 = 1/227. For three in a row and one adjacent or three in a column and one adjacent there are 2 * (4 * 6 + 4 * 3) * 4! * 12! shuffles, so divide that by 16! for 0.03956 = 1/25 roughly).
I also had swoon in 4, tulip, soare, snood and swoon. I had a perfect in strands, but didn't pick up on the element you mentioned, university names that can be words. Nice observation! Connections was a 9, I missed the order. I recently read the word handle as an alcohol amount in the last week . That helped me pick out purple first.
Went to URI to drop off grand daughter for orientation in june. Nice campus. Best to go route 1 to route 138. Waves took me in the back way. Took forever.
The origin of "give it the old college try" is (not surprisingly) college sports, especially football. It means to give it your best effort. This expression comes up frequently in old movies, so I guess it's a bit dated, but I think most people have heard of it.
Connections Puzzle #400 🟨🟨🟨🟨 have confidence in, 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩 facade, 1 🟦🟪🟪🟪 pint stand fifth liter -- liquid measures 🟪🟪🟪🟪 liquid measures, 0.5 (Fifth is a fifth of a US gallon, 750 ml. Handle was a guess, but apparently it's a container large enough to need a handle -- 1.75 litres approx) 🟦🟦🟦🟦 components of a display item, 0.5
A 4 for me. AROSE, TULIP, SHOCK, SWOON Hi Art! Our solves were similar hehe. Thank you for using and remembering my starter words. 🙂 I still watch your videos. I enjoy watching you solve these puzzles. Thank you again for your kind words. ❤
The ol' college try was one thing I had heard of, I believe it's to do with football. But it turned out I knew most of these by cultural osmosis. Tufts has a great resource, the Perseus Project, which is a free-to-use library of Greek and Latin classics. Thanks Tufts! Strands #134 “Give it the ol' college try” 💡💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 🔵
Tulips were my mother's favorite flower, so I had to follow your lead today. TULIP ADORE SNOWY SWOON Smooth sailing in Strands and Connections, even got them in order.
STARE SOUND SPOON SWOON Strands #134 “Give it the ol' college try” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #400 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Have faith in / give credence to 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Ways to secure a heavy object like a TV 🟩🟩🟩🟩 A false, phony display, a pretense 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Liquor bottle sizes I don't drink alcohol, but I'm familiar with a FIFTH, a LITER, and a PINT. I had not heard of a HANDLE, but it was the last word left, so it had to belong in this category.
Wordle in 4 TULIP SHARE SNOWY SWOON Connections: Got the order and made no mistakes, but I didn't get the time bonus or purple. I guessed "Measurements" because pint and liter are liquid measurements, so I'll take a half point for that. 8.5/10 Strands: I don't know colleges very well, so it took me a bit to figure out some of the words. No time bonuses, but did get the Spangram first. 8/10
Wordle: TULIP CORNY SHADE SWOON ------- STRANDS 134, 10 Successful super hard mode solve today. TEMPLE/DUKE down at the bottom were the key to figuring out the spangram. Total solve time 1:54. ------- CONNECTIONS 400, 8 Order bonus Have Faith In (1) Something False (1) Things to Secure a TV With (1) Second and Third Letter Make a Two Letter Word (0) Took me like 18 hours to come up with that attempt at the purple and I couldn't think of anything better in the remaining 6 hours. :p
Wordle 1,122 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ tulip 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ share 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ smoky 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 swoon Strands #134 “Give it the ol' college try” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #400 🟪🟪🟪🟪 mmm, maybe sizes of alcoholic drinks at a bar? (not sure of either fifth or handle) 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ways to secure a heavy painting onto a wall 🟨🟨🟨🟨 gullible 🟩🟩🟩🟩 facade I really don't know if I'd award myself full points for naming either purple or blue today.
Connections YYYY - Take as true PGGG - Something that's untrue GGGG - Something that's untrue BBBB - Something that provides supports PPPP - Ways to measure liquid Under five minutes; order bonus
If you think about it, "liter" is the more logical spelling. It is spelled exactly the same way that it's pronounced. On the other hand, words like "litre," "theatre," or "centre," if you sound them out phonetically, are not spelled as they are actually pronounced.
Wordle 1,122 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TULIP 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ SNARE 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ SHOWY 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SWOON Blunder on guess 3 I was going to do SHOWN then at the last second changed it to SHOWY to pick up the Y, forgetting I had already found the N. Strands #134 “Give it the ol' college try” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Northwestern was in the northwest corner. Connections Puzzle #400 🟨🟨🟨🟨 consider to be true 🟦🟦🟦🟦 parts of a shelving unit? 🟩🟩🟩🟩 dishonest presentation as true 🟪🟪🟪🟪 quantities you can buy of liquor
Well done, Art! Connections Puzzle #400 🟩🟩🟩🟩PRETENSE 🟨🟨🟨🟨TAKE AS FACT 🟦🟦🟦🟦HOLDER 🟪🟪🟪🟪VOLUMES OF LIQUOR I don't drink alcohol at all, but I've heard of all except HANDLE. I had to look that up after the fact. Apparently it's 1.75 L. That's a pretty big liquor bottle! Strands #134 “Give it the ol' college try” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Very surprised you haven't heard that expression, especially in your line of work. Me: Penn State and University of South Florida. 🙂 Wordle 1,122 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜TRACE ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨BONUS 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩SPOON 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SWOON Four city this month! Luckily the TULIP participants had eliminated SPOON.
Tulip snark shone swoon 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵💡💡 🔵 Great start just couldn’t get tufts 🟩🟩🟩🟩lie 🟨🟨🟨🟨have faith in 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟪 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟦🟦🟪 Another great start but since I don’t drink I wouldn’t have gotten it. I was thinking measurement sizes and motorcycle parts(not that I know about motorcycles either). Handle would obviously go with motorcycle parts so I would’ve never gotten this
Scoredle 4/6* 14,855 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ LATER (1,555) 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ SONIC (15) 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 SPOON (2) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SWOON Went with double-O word SPOON to place the O and was fortunate to find it IS a double-O word.
A fifth is a 750 ml bottle (which is close to a fifth of a gallon). A handle is 1.75 liters, and often the bottles have physical handles to grab.
Art - some maths for you! When you highlight four words then keep shuffling to get them in a block, the probability that they will all end up in the same row or column is about 1 in 227, so pretty unlikely. The probability of three of them forming a line (either horizontally or vertically) with the fourth adjacent is about 1 in 25, so it makes sense to settle for that! Today, you went for at least three on the side, which looks to be about 1 in 18.
(Calculation is that there are 16! possible shuffles, and for 4 in a row and the other 12 to be anywhere, there are 4 * 4! * 12! ways, then equal number of ways to have 4 in a column. 4 * 4! * 12! * 2 / 16! = 0.004396 = 1/227. For three in a row and one adjacent or three in a column and one adjacent there are 2 * (4 * 6 + 4 * 3) * 4! * 12! shuffles, so divide that by 16! for 0.03956 = 1/25 roughly).
Thanks, super interesting.
I am not a drinker, however, the units of drink was the easiest category for me today.
Me too, not a drinker, but I was familiar with 3 out of the 4 bottle sizes. Never heard of handle.
I’m currently givin it the ol college try at Florida State and that might have made purple super easy for me today LOL
I also had swoon in 4, tulip, soare, snood and swoon.
I had a perfect in strands, but didn't pick up on the element you mentioned, university names that can be words. Nice observation!
Connections was a 9, I missed the order. I recently read the word handle as an alcohol amount in the last week . That helped me pick out purple first.
As a Brit in Thailand, a US University theme is not in my wheelhouse...
Went to URI to drop off grand daughter for orientation in june. Nice campus. Best to go route 1 to route 138. Waves took me in the back way. Took forever.
Never heard old college try???????
The origin of "give it the old college try" is (not surprisingly) college sports, especially football. It means to give it your best effort. This expression comes up frequently in old movies, so I guess it's a bit dated, but I think most people have heard of it.
I was so incredibly lucky today with Wordle, TROPE SHOWN SWOON !!
Connections
Puzzle #400
🟨🟨🟨🟨 have confidence in, 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩 facade, 1
🟦🟪🟪🟪 pint stand fifth liter -- liquid measures
🟪🟪🟪🟪 liquid measures, 0.5 (Fifth is a fifth of a US gallon, 750 ml. Handle was a guess, but apparently it's a container large enough to need a handle -- 1.75 litres approx)
🟦🟦🟦🟦 components of a display item, 0.5
A 4 for me.
AROSE, TULIP, SHOCK, SWOON
Hi Art! Our solves were similar hehe. Thank you for using and remembering my starter words. 🙂 I still watch your videos. I enjoy watching you solve these puzzles.
Thank you again for your kind words. ❤
The ol' college try was one thing I had heard of, I believe it's to do with football. But it turned out I knew most of these by cultural osmosis. Tufts has a great resource, the Perseus Project, which is a free-to-use library of Greek and Latin classics. Thanks Tufts!
Strands #134
“Give it the ol' college try”
💡💡🔵💡
🔵💡🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵
🔵
Tulips were my mother's favorite flower, so I had to follow your lead today.
TULIP ADORE SNOWY SWOON
Smooth sailing in Strands and Connections, even got them in order.
STARE SOUND SPOON SWOON
Strands #134
“Give it the ol' college try”
💡🔵🔵🔵
🟡🔵🔵🔵
Connections
Puzzle #400
🟨🟨🟨🟨 Have faith in / give credence to
🟦🟦🟦🟦 Ways to secure a heavy object like a TV
🟩🟩🟩🟩 A false, phony display, a pretense
🟪🟪🟪🟪 Liquor bottle sizes
I don't drink alcohol, but I'm familiar with a FIFTH, a LITER, and a PINT. I had not heard of a HANDLE, but it was the last word left, so it had to belong in this category.
TULIP SOARE SWOON
Got all the connections but was clueless on liquor sizes
Wordle in 4
TULIP SHARE SNOWY SWOON
Connections: Got the order and made no mistakes, but I didn't get the time bonus or purple. I guessed "Measurements" because pint and liter are liquid measurements, so I'll take a half point for that. 8.5/10
Strands: I don't know colleges very well, so it took me a bit to figure out some of the words. No time bonuses, but did get the Spangram first. 8/10
Wordle: TULIP CORNY SHADE SWOON
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STRANDS 134, 10
Successful super hard mode solve today. TEMPLE/DUKE down at the bottom were the key to
figuring out the spangram. Total solve time 1:54.
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CONNECTIONS 400, 8
Order bonus
Have Faith In (1)
Something False (1)
Things to Secure a TV With (1)
Second and Third Letter Make a Two Letter Word (0)
Took me like 18 hours to come up with that attempt at the purple and I couldn't think of anything better in the remaining 6 hours. :p
Wordle 1,122 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ tulip
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ share
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ smoky
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 swoon
Strands #134
“Give it the ol' college try”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Connections
Puzzle #400
🟪🟪🟪🟪 mmm, maybe sizes of alcoholic drinks at a bar? (not sure of either fifth or handle)
🟦🟦🟦🟦 ways to secure a heavy painting onto a wall
🟨🟨🟨🟨 gullible
🟩🟩🟩🟩 facade
I really don't know if I'd award myself full points for naming either purple or blue today.
Connections
YYYY - Take as true
PGGG - Something that's untrue
GGGG - Something that's untrue
BBBB - Something that provides supports
PPPP - Ways to measure liquid
Under five minutes; order bonus
TULIP SCARE SHOWN SWOON
Snowy was a possibility (unless we already had it)
Do you guys really spell litre like that? Lol
If you google "liter or litre" you'll see :)
If you think about it, "liter" is the more logical spelling. It is spelled exactly the same way that it's pronounced. On the other hand, words like "litre," "theatre," or "centre," if you sound them out phonetically, are not spelled as they are actually pronounced.
TULIP, SHORN, SWOON
Wordle 1,122 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,122 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ pause (for a, u and e)
🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ sonic (for i and o)
🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ snowy (for y)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 swoon
Wordle 1,122 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TULIP
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ SNARE
🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ SHOWY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SWOON
Blunder on guess 3 I was going to do SHOWN then at the last second changed it to SHOWY to pick up the Y, forgetting I had already found the N.
Strands #134
“Give it the ol' college try”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Northwestern was in the northwest corner.
Connections
Puzzle #400
🟨🟨🟨🟨 consider to be true
🟦🟦🟦🟦 parts of a shelving unit?
🟩🟩🟩🟩 dishonest presentation as true
🟪🟪🟪🟪 quantities you can buy of liquor
Wordle 1,122 5/6
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛SAUCE
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛SPOIL
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛STORY
🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛SHOOK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SWOON
Strands #134
“Give it the ol' college try”
🔵🟡🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Connections
Puzzle #400
🟨🟨🟨🟨HAVE FAITH IN ONE'S STORY
🟦🟦🟦🟦TYPES OF SUPPORTS
🟪🟪🟩🟪 -SHAM-
🟩🟩🟩🟩FAÇADE
🟪🟪🟪🟪SIZES OF LIQUOR BOTTLES
SOARE CLINT SYBOD SNOOP SWOON Wordle 1,122 5/6
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟨🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Well done, Art!
Connections
Puzzle #400
🟩🟩🟩🟩PRETENSE
🟨🟨🟨🟨TAKE AS FACT
🟦🟦🟦🟦HOLDER
🟪🟪🟪🟪VOLUMES OF LIQUOR
I don't drink alcohol at all, but I've heard of all except HANDLE. I had to look that up after the fact. Apparently it's 1.75 L. That's a pretty big liquor bottle!
Strands #134
“Give it the ol' college try”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Very surprised you haven't heard that expression, especially in your line of work. Me: Penn State and University of South Florida. 🙂
Wordle 1,122 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜TRACE
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨BONUS
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩SPOON
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SWOON
Four city this month! Luckily the TULIP participants had eliminated SPOON.
At least I had the ends in order, had no idea that 3/4 of purple were that category!
Connections
Puzzle #400
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Tulip snark shone swoon
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵💡💡
🔵
Great start just couldn’t get tufts
🟩🟩🟩🟩lie
🟨🟨🟨🟨have faith in
🟪🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟦🟦🟪
🟦🟪🟪🟪
🟪🟦🟦🟪
Another great start but since I don’t drink I wouldn’t have gotten it. I was thinking measurement sizes and motorcycle parts(not that I know about motorcycles either). Handle would obviously go with motorcycle parts so I would’ve never gotten this
😢
Scoredle 4/6*
14,855
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ LATER (1,555)
🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ SONIC (15)
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 SPOON (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SWOON
Went with double-O word SPOON to place the O and was fortunate to find it IS a double-O word.