News, views AND some Clues re Wordle - Connections

[mugnapper]

Thought I was being clever when I followed a 'film credits' connection today. Ended up being a 'plank' ie one from each group.

[Donnywolf]

Exactly that. Best Boy Gaffer Dolly etc got me one of each colour

Incidentally , just thought. Can you look at that point to see what you have got ?

If you could look and see you have 3 Yellow and a Green it would help

[Donnywolf]

Seemingly jammy 3 on a dodgy word today but sometimes you are just "led" to the answer (as today)

STARE got me a Green S and Amber T

SHOUT called to me to use OU and move T
that got me Green S Amber H and T (SHOUT was a past word)

Left just I as vowel so where could it go with T and H already wrong in P2. Yes in 2

So SI then I thought hasta be TH at end surely and then X jumped out and was right

[mugnapper]

It's an hour since I did it and even after your post above Wolfie, I have no idea what today's word was lol

[mugnapper]

Ah, now I remember lol.
On Connections I fluked the Greens. I was looking for 4 that linked to 'water'.
Got 1a 3 times and fluked the 4th.

[Donnywolf]

Purple today

Yardstick has 3 feet ffs

Poem has feet and they are defined as a silent first syllable and a stressed second syllable

A- muse I get but La-mbs also ffs

[tommy toes]

It’s bo-locks Wolfie.

[Donnywolf]

P . I would never have spotted the Connection today the 7th and have only just solved the 5 letter one  even though anagrams are my thing.

I've lost my touch on Countdown recently but could often see the Conundrum as quick as the competitors on the day

Not as good at the ordinary rounds , so I was surprised to be stumped by the M one t oday even though he was very very famous

[mugnapper]

SPOILER ALERT - DON'T READ ON IF YOU'VE NOT DONE TODAY'S PUZZLE.

Nice to see my formative years drooling over the Ladies Underwear section of my Mum's Freemans catalogue finally paid dividends today!
She was right though, as I now need glasses to do the puzzles!

[knockers]

I got the blue first as well.
I’d have been very disappointed with myself if I hadn’t!

[Donnywolf]

Not a word I have every heard or used but was the only one that made anything that looked like a word

There were just q k j z x etc left and I permed them all and anything LIKE a word was met with the shaking letters thing saying " not a valid word"

The word sounded and looked like 2 others but unsatisfactory imo

[tommy toes]

I’ve heard of the word Wolfie.
I was lucky today as got the first two letters first, then the first three.
One wrong guess then bingo.

[Donnywolf]

Well done , took me ages to creep to first 3 letters and thought "at last"  when I entered Privy into Row 5 (wrong)

[tommy toes]

Privy was my wrong guess too, surprised it was wrong.

[Donnywolf]

Purple getting solved easier today (Friday) on average , with people getting it 2nd or 3rd

After losing a life then getting Y , I was in a fix. Stuck !

I went away and came back and kept working on SANDS , ex Vegas Casino and a few other things B4 thinking Sands of time

Wow and there were 3 others that I thought I could add time to and boom Purple was done though I still didn't think ..... of it as " of Time"

[Donnywolf]

Obscure knowledge is a good thing but it means a brain full of s**t

Looking at words I was stuck but like Sands yesterday I thought Sooner

Yes The Sooner State as Oklahoma is known. Owt else yes Michigan the Wolverine State

Volunteer ( yeees ) the Volunteer State. Tennessee

Nothing remotely like a 4th. True Gator was there but Florida is Sunshine State ( but was a hell of a clue )

I kept out of it and when there were 8 words left the 4 I fancied were still there. I still went for the other 4 which left my original 4 .

I selected them and realized they were the nicknames of the State Unis Am Footy Teams so Gators was Florida

* Sooners are Oklahomans and got that name when they were given free land to help colonise the mid West , all they had to do was get there and claim whatever they could

Hence it became the Sooner State because the sooner you got there , the better bit and bigger bit you could grab !

[Donnywolf]

PS I've been in 24 States but none of those except of course Florida

[mugnapper]

I saw 'Volunteer' and immediately thought 'Is it Doncaster Working Mens Clubs' lol. Was looking for Hawthorn, Comrades and Balby Bridge to complete the set.

[Donnywolf]

I like it ....

My only claim to fame was I played Darts v Balby Bridge once for Harlequin Thorne

We were trounced 8-1 and I was the one though their Player a Mr Gill had 3 sets to finish me off before I hit Double 1

Their Team was so good that anyone losing went to bottom of their list and then had to wait till others lost in future games

I still feel guilty 50 years or so.on but on flip side a bloke came and sat with me patting me on back

Well done he said , not many win here , and you should get a Pint off the Steward for that. I said I don't know him and he said you do .... its me ... and sent me to Bar lol

[tommy toes]

PS I've been in 24 States but none of those except of course Florida

I’ve been in some right states too but not of them in America.

[Donnywolf]

 

[Donnywolf]

Still can't figure the Foot in Purple ?

I get the other 3 ok

[mugnapper]

3' = 3 foot
3" = 3 inches
I fluked it thinking the connection was something to do with parts of speech or possibly the names of parts of a sheet of paper. Useless lol

[Donnywolf]

Cheers Mug . Makes sense at last .

Contraction is apparently...  he's here . I'm on 18 etc. I wouldn't have really known that one

[Donnywolf]

.... and worse today as I found my Archive of Connections had been wiped out

It was swellgarfo or similar  (Wells Fargo)

[mugnapper]

Re Connections in general, the person who used to regularly include homophones in the puzzle, must have lost his job as we haven't had those for a while.

[tommy toes]

Yes his employers must be homophonephobes.

I miss them.

[Donnywolf]

Eye no ewe dough

[tommy toes]

Yew no watt eye knead.

[Donnywolf]

Eloise

Is it a Plane , is it a Film , is it a Book , is it a Barry Ryan record. I've no idea at all