I will keep commenting and liking the "2nd" set of games. I think some of these are more fun than the NYT games. I went to a vowel early on Hang Five with how many were in the puzzle, and the A was key. Really like Stacked, I just process the categories easier then I do in the normal Connections. You got me on Zorse, had to use 3 reveals to figure out GOLDEN But then got my best time on Letter Loop with 16s. I'm getting there on Salad and Cladder
Stacked tends to use a much simpler vocabulary than NYT Connections I find. The number of items in each category does add a challenge however. The NYT tends to draw upon a rich vocabulary either tossing in words having an uncommon use you are supposed to know (such as Silo as a verb meaning keep apart, or Card referring to a funny person) or words that are not in common use (this morning I learned what Hangdog is supposed to mean, never heard it before). This lack of knowledge can easily leave you sunk. And that's just the vocabulary, never mind having to know a wide range of pop culture they figure is common knowledge, like remembering everybody who played on Saturday Night Live, all the Rap Artists that ever existed or all the TV shows from the 1960s to the 1980s. They even expect you to know Audio Apps for your phone.
Connections: Sports Edition: Another failure Puzzle #132 🟡🟡🟡🟡NFL team advancement milestones. 🔵🟢🔵🔵Looked for NFL receivers, couldn't find the 4th. 🟣🔵🔵🔵 🟣🟢🟢🟣maybe these are football plays. 🟢🔵🔵🔵 Still couldn't find the 4th. what sport are those kicks referred to? I Googled and it is the NFL. I have not heard of these, never really thought of the names the kicks have and even less so, the strategy involved. I Googled each one of these and learned something new, even though I'm still not exactly sure what each one is, without doing deeper and watching a demonstration to connect with what I vaguely remember from TV. I Googled all the blocks and they are all blocks in NFL. So, that makes today's puzzle 100% NFL content. If you don't follow the NFL closely, forget it.
I will keep commenting and liking the "2nd" set of games. I think some of these are more fun than the NYT games.
I went to a vowel early on Hang Five with how many were in the puzzle, and the A was key.
Really like Stacked, I just process the categories easier then I do in the normal Connections.
You got me on Zorse, had to use 3 reveals to figure out GOLDEN
But then got my best time on Letter Loop with 16s.
I'm getting there on Salad and Cladder
Stacked tends to use a much simpler vocabulary than NYT Connections I find. The number of items in each category does add a challenge however.
The NYT tends to draw upon a rich vocabulary either tossing in words having an uncommon use you are supposed to know (such as Silo as a verb meaning keep apart, or Card referring to a funny person) or words that are not in common use (this morning I learned what Hangdog is supposed to mean, never heard it before). This lack of knowledge can easily leave you sunk. And that's just the vocabulary, never mind having to know a wide range of pop culture they figure is common knowledge, like remembering everybody who played on Saturday Night Live, all the Rap Artists that ever existed or all the TV shows from the 1960s to the 1980s. They even expect you to know Audio Apps for your phone.
Haven't paid much attention to Disney over the past several decades, so wasn't one of the 34%
Connections: Sports Edition: Another failure
Puzzle #132
🟡🟡🟡🟡NFL team advancement milestones.
🔵🟢🔵🔵Looked for NFL receivers, couldn't find the 4th.
🟣🔵🔵🔵
🟣🟢🟢🟣maybe these are football plays.
🟢🔵🔵🔵 Still couldn't find the 4th.
what sport are those kicks referred to? I Googled and it is the NFL. I have not heard of these, never really thought of the names the kicks have and even less so, the strategy involved.
I Googled each one of these and learned something new, even though I'm still not exactly sure what each one is, without doing deeper and watching a demonstration to connect with what I vaguely remember from TV.
I Googled all the blocks and they are all blocks in NFL. So, that makes today's puzzle 100% NFL content. If you don't follow the NFL closely, forget it.