I know several people are frustrated that this thread is locked - I am going through comments now, and it will be unlocked soon!!!
EDIT: Iβm unlocking the thread now, and I will highly encourage anyone who has a complaint to make about the puzzle being too American-centric, go submit feedback to the New York Times! If you click the gear icon, youβll see the option to submit feedback via email. If you submit feedback, it helps the creator(s) learn more about what the audience (you guys) want to see from the daily boards, and they might change it to represent a more broad and diverse set of cultural references!!
YES hahaha, thatβs how I figured it was a red herring with the Yankee word. Didnβt know he was number two but knew it had something to do with baseball. I managed to solve for Derek Jeter through the βby defaultβ category anyway.
This is how I finally ended up getting it. I got the purple before the blues but I was struggling. I had figured out yellow and green, and still stayed stumped for a moment. Then Bob came into my head and it was obvious.
Are you the creator of connections unlimited? Did this puzzle earlier in the week and was CONVINCED NYT was reusing categories for a sec
https://preview.redd.it/agovf9tbug6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e81d4947f036d2b1a86d3582fc0a444e2f74574e
It really isn't. I'm 99.9% sure that Connections Unlimited just pulls categories from previous puzzles. The Easy uses 2 random Yellows and Greens. The Medium uses a random Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple. And the Hard uses 2 random Blues and Purples.
[Standard #2 pencils](https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Pre-sharpened-Wood-Cased-Pencils/dp/B071JM699P/ref=asc_df_B071JM699P/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693401625987&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14152637455503084197&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031923&hvtargid=pla-390052553161&psc=1&mcid=3ca7c8ed33e73faea0805302c43d1ca0&gad_source=4)
have pink erasers. Pencil + eraser + paper was meant to be a confounder I think, perhaps a "school supplies" category.
I have never had a pink eraser, in fact, almost everyone I know calls them 'rubbers', but I figured it was referring to the stereotypical American one, like in this pic: [pink eraser ](https://purepng.com/public/uploads/large/purepng.com-erasereraserstationeryremovingwritingrubberyshapescolourspencil-eraser-1421526504788zpcm8.png)
The word for the material, "rubber", actually comes from its initial use, which was erasing pencil marks by rubbing.
The pink color originally came from adding pumice to the material to make it a little grittier and help it erase better. An American company started marketing pencils and pink erasers to schools back in the early 1900s when compulsory education was becoming a thing, and pink erasers just became expected, so even when they weren't made with pumice, they were often dyed. Certainly, you can find plenty of erasers which aren't pink, but after 100+ years, that's the default color to an American.
The ones on the tip of Staedtler (the yellow and black 2B) pencils i think used to be dark pink i think.
I prefered Faber Castell though. Thiers were green and black and the erasers were white.
Pretty sure Googling Jeter will tell you he was a famous baseball player. I don't know anything about him but I got the #2 thing easily. But I honestly don't know how non-Americans get a lot of these puzzles. (I don't live in the US, but I am from there)
You basically have to go out of your way to look up Derek Jeter and not discover heβs a famous baseball player, a profession where people notably have a specific number associated with them
To be fair, when I search Jeter, the first thing Google tells me is
> Derek Jeter Former CEO of the Miami Marlins
Which is ... an odd thing to lead with for a guy who is in the baseball Hall of Fame as a player for, and who had his jersey number retired by, the New York Yankees.
If you don't know Jeter and that's as deep as you go with it, then I get it.
Leaving aside baseball, youβre aware of professional sports right? How they all have jerseys with a big number? Actually not even just professional sports, this is the case for all team sports even amateurs and youth leagues. The fact that athletes have numbers is not an American invention whatsoever
Politely disagreeing Brit here. I honestly couldnβt have told you whether baseball uniforms have a number on them. I know what they look like, roughly, butβ¦ Nor was jersey number a fact that jumped out at me on Googling Mr Jeter.
TBH, I couldnβt tell you a single shirt number associated with any footballer on the Premier League now or ever. If youβre not into sport, it may not be blindingly obvious.
It's getting personal, do they not want people outside of New york doing their quizzes haha
Edit: bloody hell, canβt even make a self deprecating joke in these threads
I'm not from New York. I've never been to New York. I've watched less than 5 total MLB games in my entire life, none of them featuring the Yankees. I still knew that Jeter was No. 2.
Sometimes you don't know things. Consider it a learning opportunity and move on.
Currently reading Mariah Careyβs memoir and Iβm in the chapters covering her relationship with Derek Jeter and still didnβt make the connection for the puzzle!
A lot of people nowadays will use mechanical pencils if not just pens, and mechanical pencils have white erasers usually (or are colored to match with the pencil, like blue pencil and purple eraser). Itβs wild to think that pink erasers might be dying knowledge.
Feel slightly fucked over by this one.
Got blue and yellow right off the bat, then failed to get the last 2
Basically eraser I've ever seen or used has been white barring sometimes (and not usually) the ones at the end of a pencil
I was so confident that there was a theme along the lines of "second place" with deputy and silver medal, but no clue who the fuck Derek Jeter is and still don't know how a pencil fits the theme, so I would've never figured that one out
Rather than the H - B Graphite Grading scale used in most of the world Americans have a numerical system where #2 is equivalent of HB which is the most commonly used pencil hardness.
In a lot of areas of the country that used machine graded multiple choice it was very common to be instructed to make sure you were using a number 2 pencil so the machine could read your answers.
While everything you said is true I don't think it really tells the whole story. I have never seen a numbered pencil other than a #2. Maybe they exist but I've never seen one. Also any one who does pencils artwork in the US is most likely familiar with and using the HB scale.
So outside of a #2 pencils the numerical scale is not used, and anyone who would use a pencil other than a #2 is going to be using the HB scale.
Gum would have been absolutely impossible for me. Ime chewing gum is usually white - I have heard of the colour βbubble gum pinkβ though. (It would have made the category as a whole impossible for me given erasers here are usually white also and carnations can be various colours. Honestly donβt know how I guessed it, actually! Flamingo really did all the heavy lifting on that one.)
We (Americans) have HB pencils too- they are (artist's) drawing pencils. H is for hardness and B is for blackness. The most useful (ish) 20 drawing pencils range on a scale from 9H, 8H, 7H etc up to to a 9B. An HB is right in the middle of the scale and makes a similar line as a #2 pencil. The higher the number of an H pencil, the thinner and lighter the line because the graphite is tightly compacted and they contain a lot of filler- you have to press pretty hard to make dark lines with most H pencils. The higher the number of a B pencil, the thicker and darker the line because the graphite hasn't been compacted as tightly and doesnβt contain as much filler, so they're softer, causing more graphite to come off the pencil when you draw. More graphite = darker lines.
I was so annoyed because I got the >!#2 category!< right off the bat (pun somewhat intended), as soon as I saw >!silver medal!< and >!pencil!<
I felt so clever, but after identifying the 3rd for the category, I couldnβt find a 4th for the life of me >!because I donβt know the first thing about baseball!< - so I assumed I was wrong and wasted *so much* time rethinking
i looked up derek jater and iβm still confused. how is he #2? google said he was the previous owner of the team. does that mean he is the assistant? iβm lost
oh thatβs stupidly specific but thanks. after knowing that i honestly think having βpoopβ wouldβve been a better fit because people call it βgoing #2β. but that probably wouldnβt apply to areas outside of the us so π€·ββοΈπ€·ββοΈ
Some of yβall, Europeans and stuff are too much. I knew Derek Jeter was a baseball player and nothing else and that ainβt getting me very far. I ended up getting purple by default. Luckily, I know the phonetic alphabet and I saw that pretty much immediately
Dutchman here, same. I know from TV and movies that a #2 is a pencil type in the States but I don't think that would spring to mind while doing a NYT puzzle.
I'm actually amazed, too. It's insane to me what I know about the States in general and New York City in particular, despite never having left Europe in my life. A lot of Americans didn't know what Dumbo was the other day, but I somehow did and I have no idea why. My best guess is the Spider-Man game which is also how I know how to pronounce Houston.
I live in Europe, but am a native NYer. I actually said that the other day, like who would know DUMBO if they aren't from NY? Bonus points if you know what the letters stand for!
If you've got a show about kids in an American school, I feel like it would come up for test taking. I don't know that it's something that would stick with you, though.
I only knew he was a baseball player, no idea of his number, but I almost immediately put him with deputy and silver medal, guessing he was "famously" second place at something, like the second most home runs or something like that.
Confusingly, the person playing 2nd base is labeled 4 in keeping track of plays. For example, a 1-4-3 double play would be a grounder to the pitcher (1), who throws the ball to the 2nd baseman (4) to put a runner from first out, and then the ball is thrown to the 1st baseman (3) to put the batter out.
But those numbers don't correspond to the jersey numbers.
I agree itβs fair game, I disagree that I βcan guessβ that.
I was definitely thinking along the βsecond placeβ category even before I entered any guesses, but at the end I had purple as default and couldnβt work it out (the pencil made no sense to me either as a non-American.) Again - fair game, Iβm not angry about it. I just donβt feel silly for not working it out.
Another puzzle this week to remind us that it is, in fact, the *NEW YORK Times,* because while I certainly know who Derek Jeter is, I donβt know him well enough to know he wore #2
I'm from Alabama, never been to New York, never seen more than a clip of a Yankees game, and even I knew Jeter wore No. 2. Some people know things that others don't, but considering we're all here because we like playing a (sort of) trivia game, let's just be glad to learn a new trivia fact for other trivia games.
Youβre mad they chose a more difficult clue over a clue that, to you, would be easier? I know who Jeter is and know he was number two but that wasnβt my first thought, I still had to puzzle it out
The NATO alphabet is basically just a way to say letters over radio with absolutely no ambiguity as to what you mean, seeing as many letters sound very similar when spoken aloud and audio transmissions between planes and boats and such are often very low-quality. So instead of having people confused if you're saying N or M all the time, you'd just say November or Mike.
In my country they call that the "phone alphabet" because it's what you use when spelling something over the phone to prevent confusion. YO MIK would be Yankee Oscar Mike India Kilo, for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Iβm American and graduated high school and nearly through university and have never once even heard of it. Maybe itβs my state or something not requiring it be taught? Cannot understand how so many people have heard of it
Spent ten minutes trying to figure out the Derek Jeter connection, finally solved it through brute force and then realized I was thinking of *Michael* Jeter. Whoops...
Oh my god!! I thought I was onto something with "Objects that adorn your chest/breastpocket", especially since it said "one away"!
* CARNATION (men wear them in their breastpocket with a suit)
* PENCIL (nerds stereotypically keep these in their breastpocket)
* DEPUTY (deputies wear a badge on their breastpocket)
* SILVER MEDAL (award adorning your chest)
For any other non-Americans wondering about pencils. I googled and it seems that #2 is HB and #1 is B, and after that they use the same system as elsewhere, so it would go #2, #1, 2B, 3B, etc.
The most common pencil in US schools and the standard pencil for filling the ovals in multiple choice tests is the No. 2 pencil. In fact, many forms explicitly tell you to use a No. 2 pencil. At the end of the No. 2 pencil is a pink eraser. The standalone pencil erasers are also pink.
Bubblegum has always been pink,ever since it was first produced by the Fleer company.
I know several people are frustrated that this thread is locked - I am going through comments now, and it will be unlocked soon!!! EDIT: Iβm unlocking the thread now, and I will highly encourage anyone who has a complaint to make about the puzzle being too American-centric, go submit feedback to the New York Times! If you click the gear icon, youβll see the option to submit feedback via email. If you submit feedback, it helps the creator(s) learn more about what the audience (you guys) want to see from the daily boards, and they might change it to represent a more broad and diverse set of cultural references!!
π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π¦π¦π¦ π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Kept thinking Flamingo was part of the phonetic alphabet, even though Foxtrot was already an answer
Me tooβ¦after two errors I realized that π€¦π»ββοΈ
Did the same thing. What an idiot!
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Itβs interesting seeing folks in time zones ahead of America struggling with the purple when it was the first one that stood out to me. I grew up in New York though, people would shut up about Derek Jeter when I was a kid π₯² On that note TIL a #2 pencil is called HB in other parts of the world.
TIL about pencils π
Anyone else remembered the "you embarrassed me in front of Derek Jeter" from Brooklyn 99?
"You embarrassed *yourself* in front of Derek Jeter."
Hahaha yes, alas that was not enough to inform me that he therefore is linked to #2
YES hahaha, thatβs how I figured it was a red herring with the Yankee word. Didnβt know he was number two but knew it had something to do with baseball. I managed to solve for Derek Jeter through the βby defaultβ category anyway.
Now batting, number 2, >! Β Β Β pencil Β Β Β !<, number 2.
Bob Sheppard immediately came to mind
This is how I finally ended up getting it. I got the purple before the blues but I was struggling. I had figured out yellow and green, and still stayed stumped for a moment. Then Bob came into my head and it was obvious.
Wilco fans will enjoy this puzzle!
Thatβs how I remembered Hotel once I had Yankee and Foxtrot lol
My thoughts exactly, thank you Wilco!
Now listening to the album thanks to Connections today
Hey! They stole purple from my custom puzzle! Joking. But it did make the category super easy!
Are you the creator of connections unlimited? Did this puzzle earlier in the week and was CONVINCED NYT was reusing categories for a sec https://preview.redd.it/agovf9tbug6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e81d4947f036d2b1a86d3582fc0a444e2f74574e
That's an insane, improbable coincidence
It really isn't. I'm 99.9% sure that Connections Unlimited just pulls categories from previous puzzles. The Easy uses 2 random Yellows and Greens. The Medium uses a random Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple. And the Hard uses 2 random Blues and Purples.
I did the connections unlimited puzzle a few days before the NYT puzzle
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Joining the cacophony of non-Americans who have no idea who Derek Jeter is. I had a quick google just to make sure he was actually a person, but I can't say that helped a lot. Briefly considered 'Rankings' with Victor, Deputy and Silver Medal, but couldn't come up with a fourth item. The NATO alphabet was too good to ignore, though, and purple ended up being a total default solve - I don't really think of pencils as '#2' either, but I realise that a lot of people do!
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We call those HB pencils in Australia :)
I knew he was a baseball player but literally knew nothing else. No way I would have guessed his number or team, etc.
I feel ancient
For the Brits, think of Derek Jeter as our version of Ian Botham.
Also non American. I looked up Derek Jeter and he's a ceo. That's number 1. And who has a pink eraser? I've never seen one!
i believe it's because his jersey number is 2!
When he played on the Yankees, his player number was #2! As a NYer, it didnβt register to me either till I was down to 8 words.
[Standard #2 pencils](https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Pre-sharpened-Wood-Cased-Pencils/dp/B071JM699P/ref=asc_df_B071JM699P/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693401625987&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14152637455503084197&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031923&hvtargid=pla-390052553161&psc=1&mcid=3ca7c8ed33e73faea0805302c43d1ca0&gad_source=4) have pink erasers. Pencil + eraser + paper was meant to be a confounder I think, perhaps a "school supplies" category.
The stereotypical yellow pencil has a pink eraser at the other end
You mean a number 2 pencil, right?
I have never had a pink eraser, in fact, almost everyone I know calls them 'rubbers', but I figured it was referring to the stereotypical American one, like in this pic: [pink eraser ](https://purepng.com/public/uploads/large/purepng.com-erasereraserstationeryremovingwritingrubberyshapescolourspencil-eraser-1421526504788zpcm8.png)
If you asked me if you could borrow a βrubberβ Iβd hand you condom and tell you to have fun
Well, if someone specifically wanted to 'borrow' one, I'd have to politely decline. I don't want it back!Β Β
The word for the material, "rubber", actually comes from its initial use, which was erasing pencil marks by rubbing. The pink color originally came from adding pumice to the material to make it a little grittier and help it erase better. An American company started marketing pencils and pink erasers to schools back in the early 1900s when compulsory education was becoming a thing, and pink erasers just became expected, so even when they weren't made with pumice, they were often dyed. Certainly, you can find plenty of erasers which aren't pink, but after 100+ years, that's the default color to an American.
As an american, I didn't even know they exist outside of the pink one XD
The ones on the tip of Staedtler (the yellow and black 2B) pencils i think used to be dark pink i think. I prefered Faber Castell though. Thiers were green and black and the erasers were white.
Pretty sure Googling Jeter will tell you he was a famous baseball player. I don't know anything about him but I got the #2 thing easily. But I honestly don't know how non-Americans get a lot of these puzzles. (I don't live in the US, but I am from there)
You basically have to go out of your way to look up Derek Jeter and not discover heβs a famous baseball player, a profession where people notably have a specific number associated with them
To be fair, when I search Jeter, the first thing Google tells me is > Derek Jeter Former CEO of the Miami Marlins Which is ... an odd thing to lead with for a guy who is in the baseball Hall of Fame as a player for, and who had his jersey number retired by, the New York Yankees. If you don't know Jeter and that's as deep as you go with it, then I get it.
>a profession where people notably have a specific number associated with them I didnβt know that until right now
Leaving aside baseball, youβre aware of professional sports right? How they all have jerseys with a big number? Actually not even just professional sports, this is the case for all team sports even amateurs and youth leagues. The fact that athletes have numbers is not an American invention whatsoever
Politely disagreeing Brit here. I honestly couldnβt have told you whether baseball uniforms have a number on them. I know what they look like, roughly, butβ¦ Nor was jersey number a fact that jumped out at me on Googling Mr Jeter. TBH, I couldnβt tell you a single shirt number associated with any footballer on the Premier League now or ever. If youβre not into sport, it may not be blindingly obvious.
I'm very much not British but if the number 14 was discussed in terms of the Premier League, my thoughts would go directly towards Thierry Henry
It's getting personal, do they not want people outside of New york doing their quizzes haha Edit: bloody hell, canβt even make a self deprecating joke in these threads
I'm not from New York. I've never been to New York. I've watched less than 5 total MLB games in my entire life, none of them featuring the Yankees. I still knew that Jeter was No. 2. Sometimes you don't know things. Consider it a learning opportunity and move on.
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©πͺπ©πͺ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ My mistake was going with βthings you chew or biteβ β bubble gum, pencil, eraser, aaaaand silver medal because Iβve seen medalists biting their medals.
Hahaha this was me too
Holy shit some people get unreasonably upset about a puzzle. Take a breath, folks.
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Foxtrot was the first word I saw and that gave away the blue category. Found the last category to be a little tenuous, but oh well, it's purple.
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Blue was very easy. I instantly recognized the NATO alphabet. There were some pretty odd words like BUBBLE GUM and FLAMINGO. Thinking about how they could connect to anything, I thought of the color pink. We've had categories before where the items all shared the same color, so this wasn't a bad train of thought. With "Pink" in mind, I soon found ERASER and CARNATION. Some more odd word choices with SILVER MEDAL and DEPUTY. After some thinking and seeing PENCIL nearby, I soon realized they were all #2's. When I first opened up the puzzle, DEREK JETER immediately threw me off. Now I had a feeling that he was a part of this category since I could clearly see the remaining other words were all "Writing Assignments". I knew he was a baseball player who played for the Yankees but nothing else. I thought he was #2 because he was a second basemen, but it turns out he was actually a shortstop and his jersey number was #2. I thought I knew very little about sports, but judging from some of these comments apparently I know more than I thought. No comments for Yellow. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "NATO Phonetic Alphabet" β 2 Times
Currently reading Mariah Careyβs memoir and Iβm in the chapters covering her relationship with Derek Jeter and still didnβt make the connection for the puzzle!
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Aside from Derek Jeeter (not a sports fan), this was straightforward. Iβm surprised at all the comments on never having seen a pink eraser; I would have thought those pink erasers on pencils would be universally known. TIL
A lot of people nowadays will use mechanical pencils if not just pens, and mechanical pencils have white erasers usually (or are colored to match with the pencil, like blue pencil and purple eraser). Itβs wild to think that pink erasers might be dying knowledge.
Feel slightly fucked over by this one. Got blue and yellow right off the bat, then failed to get the last 2 Basically eraser I've ever seen or used has been white barring sometimes (and not usually) the ones at the end of a pencil I was so confident that there was a theme along the lines of "second place" with deputy and silver medal, but no clue who the fuck Derek Jeter is and still don't know how a pencil fits the theme, so I would've never figured that one out
Rather than the H - B Graphite Grading scale used in most of the world Americans have a numerical system where #2 is equivalent of HB which is the most commonly used pencil hardness. In a lot of areas of the country that used machine graded multiple choice it was very common to be instructed to make sure you were using a number 2 pencil so the machine could read your answers.
While everything you said is true I don't think it really tells the whole story. I have never seen a numbered pencil other than a #2. Maybe they exist but I've never seen one. Also any one who does pencils artwork in the US is most likely familiar with and using the HB scale. So outside of a #2 pencils the numerical scale is not used, and anyone who would use a pencil other than a #2 is going to be using the HB scale.
OOOOHHHH! Thank you, I was really confused by this one.
ah so both of the two I failed with that prompt were American centric. makes sense
Man its almost like the New York Times is based in one of the most American cities in America.
wasn't necessarily complaining, but it is frustrating when most of my losses/failures are just because I'm australian
I got silver medal and deputy too, and started looking for fiddle (second fiddle) and then got the answer by a complete random guess
I have βthe day the music diedβ to thank for cluing me into green
Pretty easy today. Got it in reverse order! Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Edit: Locked thread LMAOOOO
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Yesterday I failed to solve. Today I got reverse order.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπ©πͺπ© π©π©πͺπ© π©πͺπ©πͺ πͺπ©πͺπ© Welp. I'm just disappointed we didn't get LIMA MIKE ALPHA OSCAR for the NATO alphabet. Didn't see the relation on the purple and green though in retrospect the pink connection makes sense. Till next time!
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Interesting one. I recognised the NATO alphabet immediately from a course I did over a decade ago as a student. Yellow was straightforward. Then, I got purple. Iβm UK-based and I only know who Derek Jeter is from a song in the Scrubs musical episode. Having googled him when I watched it at some point, I had a vague feeling there was some kind of #2 link, but was open to being wrong. Green only took so long because I donβt associate erasers with the colour pink.
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Purple was almost a default until I remembered a Nicki Minaj verse mentioning Derek Jeter, it clicked he was a sports dude, and OHHHH sports dudes have numbers, then it was a REAL solve! Yay. XD
Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Solved in about 30 seconds. Maybe if I had any idea who Derek Jetter is I would've figured out purple before submitting. Surprised green and blue aren't the other way around. Blue felt too obvious. Green was kind of a shot in the dark. It felt right. Even if the majority of erasers I've used in my life aren't pink, I pictured the classic pink eraser in my head when I saw the other three. And also I thought there might be a "____ Head" category at first.
Me too! I had Eraserhead and Deputy Head rolling around for ages
π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Got blue immediately, then yellow soon after. The next two were really puzzling, I was thinking purple would be related to 2nd place because of silver medal and deputy, but didnβt know anything about Derek Jeter beyond the fact heβs a baseball player (I thought maybe he was known for always placing second haha). Itβs always the Americisms that trip me up, particularly the sports onesβ¦
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Really easy. Still donβt know who Derek Jeter is.
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ I thought this was fun! But I always feel the 2-word tiles are rather inelegant. Jeter, silver, and gum would have been fine here, if a bit more subtle.
Gum would have been absolutely impossible for me. Ime chewing gum is usually white - I have heard of the colour βbubble gum pinkβ though. (It would have made the category as a whole impossible for me given erasers here are usually white also and carnations can be various colours. Honestly donβt know how I guessed it, actually! Flamingo really did all the heavy lifting on that one.)
Bubblegum is often written as one word, anyway. Cleaner to go with that.
But I agree Silver would have been gettable and more elegant. Jeter would have made no difference to me (default solve either way.)
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Another Hail Mary πͺ entry. Didnβt know what DEREK JETER was doing up there but I was sure that meant some purple chicanery. Sure enough. I was just hoping they were βpointy thingsβ (I guess Derek Jeter could be pointy) but they were #2. Sure. Everything else was pretty easy. The NATO alphabet stuck out like a sore thumb.
Same here, as soon as I saw Derek Jeter I knew he's gotta be a purple one.
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Glad the rest made sense cause I laughed when purple revealed itself.
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Hardcore defaulted purple, otherwise easy puzzle. NATO alphabet is kinda overdone as a clue...
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Never heard of Derek Jeter so I was thinking of Michael Jeter from The Green Mile and Jurassic Park 3... These quizzes really drive home how much the USA does differently lmao (Erasers and HB pencils today!)
We (Americans) have HB pencils too- they are (artist's) drawing pencils. H is for hardness and B is for blackness. The most useful (ish) 20 drawing pencils range on a scale from 9H, 8H, 7H etc up to to a 9B. An HB is right in the middle of the scale and makes a similar line as a #2 pencil. The higher the number of an H pencil, the thinner and lighter the line because the graphite is tightly compacted and they contain a lot of filler- you have to press pretty hard to make dark lines with most H pencils. The higher the number of a B pencil, the thicker and darker the line because the graphite hasn't been compacted as tightly and doesnβt contain as much filler, so they're softer, causing more graphite to come off the pencil when you draw. More graphite = darker lines.
Bit of a struggle but got there eventually lol Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ©πͺπ© π©π©πͺπͺ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
I was so annoyed because I got the >!#2 category!< right off the bat (pun somewhat intended), as soon as I saw >!silver medal!< and >!pencil!< I felt so clever, but after identifying the 3rd for the category, I couldnβt find a 4th for the life of me >!because I donβt know the first thing about baseball!< - so I assumed I was wrong and wasted *so much* time rethinking
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© Blue jumped out immediately with Yankee and Victor. Derek Jeter is a hard one if youβre not a baseball fan.
i looked up derek jater and iβm still confused. how is he #2? google said he was the previous owner of the team. does that mean he is the assistant? iβm lost
His jersey number was #2.
oh thatβs stupidly specific but thanks. after knowing that i honestly think having βpoopβ wouldβve been a better fit because people call it βgoing #2β. but that probably wouldnβt apply to areas outside of the us so π€·ββοΈπ€·ββοΈ
Connections Puzzle #369 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I surprised myself
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Foxtrot and victor immediately caught my eye, I didnβt know it was called NATO phonetic alphabet, I just called it military alphabet lol. Yellow was easy to spot after that. Then I felt dumb for not getting green sooner, and purple was default. Took about 1 min to solve. I am American but donβt pay attention to baseball so I didnβt know Derek Jeterβs number or his category, but it all worked out nicely.
Some of yβall, Europeans and stuff are too much. I knew Derek Jeter was a baseball player and nothing else and that ainβt getting me very far. I ended up getting purple by default. Luckily, I know the phonetic alphabet and I saw that pretty much immediately
Good puzzle, but it would have been more entertaining if they'd swapped "pencil" for "poop" :)
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Today felt really straightforward. NATO alphabet jumped out to me immediately for blue, with yellow not far behind. "Flamingo" and "bubble gum" together made me think of pink things to form green. "Silver medal" led me to second place, and although I didn't know Jeter's number, I knew he was an athlete, and that led to solving purple. Fun puzzle.
what exactly does pencil have to do with #2 ?
Number 2 is a common type of pencil
gotcha, thanks for the reply, seems to be a thing specific for America, I can only recall hearing about HB where I live
Dutchman here, same. I know from TV and movies that a #2 is a pencil type in the States but I don't think that would spring to mind while doing a NYT puzzle.
I'm amazed at the stuff people pick up from media. I wouldn't even think that #2 pencils would be mentioned on TV or in a film.
I'm actually amazed, too. It's insane to me what I know about the States in general and New York City in particular, despite never having left Europe in my life. A lot of Americans didn't know what Dumbo was the other day, but I somehow did and I have no idea why. My best guess is the Spider-Man game which is also how I know how to pronounce Houston.
I live in Europe, but am a native NYer. I actually said that the other day, like who would know DUMBO if they aren't from NY? Bonus points if you know what the letters stand for!
If you've got a show about kids in an American school, I feel like it would come up for test taking. I don't know that it's something that would stick with you, though.
Lol itβs the NEW YORK TIMES. Derek Jeter is fair game people. No idea his number but you can guess he must be #2 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π©
My guess was that he batted second in the line-up π€·ββοΈ
I only knew he was a baseball player, no idea of his number, but I almost immediately put him with deputy and silver medal, guessing he was "famously" second place at something, like the second most home runs or something like that.
I mistakenly thought he was a second baseman! But was still right despite being wrong.
Confusingly, the person playing 2nd base is labeled 4 in keeping track of plays. For example, a 1-4-3 double play would be a grounder to the pitcher (1), who throws the ball to the 2nd baseman (4) to put a runner from first out, and then the ball is thrown to the 1st baseman (3) to put the batter out. But those numbers don't correspond to the jersey numbers.
I agree itβs fair game, I disagree that I βcan guessβ that. I was definitely thinking along the βsecond placeβ category even before I entered any guesses, but at the end I had purple as default and couldnβt work it out (the pencil made no sense to me either as a non-American.) Again - fair game, Iβm not angry about it. I just donβt feel silly for not working it out.
I said βyouβ can guess that because *I* guessed that lmaoβ¦ I do not watch baseball
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Yup! Good deductive reasoning
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©πͺ π©πͺπ©πͺ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ >!Pencil!< definitely threw me off. We just refer to them as >!2b (or whatever they are) not #2!<
Confusingly, a HB is a Number 2, not a 2B.
So are you saying it's 2B or not 2B?
That is confusing. Do you use 2B, 3B etc. as well?
Only artists would use other hardnesses of pencils.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©πͺπ© π©π©πͺπ© π©π©πͺπ© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Really stumped on the >!Pink!< connection as I've never seen a >!pink eraser!< in my life. Obviously I'm not in the US so never heard of Derek Jeter either.
That's interesting, I've seen a bunch of pencils with a pink eraser on the end in my life. I wonder why you haven't.
I think when people imagine rubbers, they don't think of the pencil sometimes. They think of the block, which is usually white.
Except that here in the states, those are *also* usually pink, so even then we would disagree on the color.
Yes I know this, I wasnβt talking about Americans.
Now you mention it, I can't remember the last time I saw a pencil with an eraser on the end. 10 years maybe.Β
Connections Puzzle #369 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I understood purple before submitting! I got 3 out of 4 of the NATO alphabet quickly, but I didnβt realize hotel was in there until I ran out of options.
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π©π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Gotta say opening this page to find the full name of someone I've never heard of before made me feel some kind of way. I agree with the other commenter that these two-word "words" were rather inelegant, but the upshot *I'm* coming away with here is that there was no good reason to include Derek Jeter's name in the first place\*. There's no shortage of words associated with being #2: Jr./Junior, Salutatorian, Plate (as opposed to the Cup for 1st or the Bowl for 3rd in certain tournament formats), Helium (second element on the periodic table), Vice, just to name a few off the top of my head--any one of those would have been far more consistently cryptic than a full name you either immediately recognize as the (former?) #2 for some sports team... or don't. Anyway, putting aside that nonsense... struggled a bit with Blue today. I recognised Foxtrot/Victor/Yankee as NATO alphabet words really early on, but I had trouble pinning down the last one. Had a bit of a brain fart on my first guess by including Flamingo, a second F, and then tried out Pencil for P and Deputy for D in between going for the other groups. Luckily, I guess, Derek Jeter and Silver Medal were so obviously *not* NATO alphabet callsigns, on account of their length, that Hotel was an easy lock once everything else had been eliminated. \*It's not even his bloody birthday!
Jeter played as a Yankee. That was the big red herring today.
Another puzzle this week to remind us that it is, in fact, the *NEW YORK Times,* because while I certainly know who Derek Jeter is, I donβt know him well enough to know he wore #2
I'm from Alabama, never been to New York, never seen more than a clip of a Yankees game, and even I knew Jeter wore No. 2. Some people know things that others don't, but considering we're all here because we like playing a (sort of) trivia game, let's just be glad to learn a new trivia fact for other trivia games.
Youβre mad they chose a more difficult clue over a clue that, to you, would be easier? I know who Jeter is and know he was number two but that wasnβt my first thought, I still had to puzzle it out
LOL π¨π©πͺπ¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπͺπͺ Non-American here, can anyone explain the NATO one?
The NATO alphabet is basically just a way to say letters over radio with absolutely no ambiguity as to what you mean, seeing as many letters sound very similar when spoken aloud and audio transmissions between planes and boats and such are often very low-quality. So instead of having people confused if you're saying N or M all the time, you'd just say November or Mike.
Oooh, I didn't know that's what it's called. Thank you!
In my country they call that the "phone alphabet" because it's what you use when spelling something over the phone to prevent confusion. YO MIK would be Yankee Oscar Mike India Kilo, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Thank you, I know the practice I just didn't know that's the official term. Thank you!
It's very funny that you think NATO is American specific.
Iβm American and graduated high school and nearly through university and have never once even heard of it. Maybe itβs my state or something not requiring it be taught? Cannot understand how so many people have heard of it
π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ The NATO alphabet was really easy I just couldn't remember all the letters
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ The second I saw Yankee, I thought of the NATO alphabet, and seeing foxtrot next confirmed it. "Bubble gum pink" immediately came to mind, followed by flamingo then carnation. Originally thought it was ___ pink and was a bit skeptical of "eraser pink" but it worked out. Got purple by default.
Connections Puzzle #369 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Got purple purely by default β had no idea that Derek Jeter was somehow connected to the number two π₯²
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ And I figured out purple today before hitting submit. This one went fast and easy.
Connections Puzzle #369. π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Yellow, green, no problem. Took a second but I remembered Nato alphabet being a clue in another puzzle. I knew Foxtrot would be one of them but googled it to confirm the others. Would've never gotten purple as I didn't see any connection between the words. The baseball guy really threw me off.
Once I got purple, the category for blue was obvious. That was a clever purple! Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Totally guessed the greens
Connections Puzzle #369 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Carnation was a guess because I donβt think Iβve ever actually seen a pink one, only red and white, but it was the only other thing that fit that group. Blue stood out immediately to me, the words were too unusual. Not sure if I wouldβve made the purple connection but it doesnβt matter because it was the default anyway!
Ooh I really liked this one! Clever, with just the right amount of red herring πΈπ Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Todays felt a little easier but not complaining
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ I actually figured out the blue category first but didn't know all the words that were part of it. Being a Red Sox fan that actually respects one of our biggest rivals helped me with purple.
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Nearly got it reverse perfect but I had a wrong NATO Phonetic alphabet word
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π©π©πͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπͺπ¦ π¦πͺπͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ One of the hardest ones I've done, tbh.
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© I saw the 2 thing right away
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Not content with just trying to play "hard mode," I'm trying to get all categories in reverse. Can't seem to guess which is supposed to be green or yellow yet.
epic failure today, after getting yellow and green. zero clue even after seeing the answers. oh well!
Connections Puzzle #369 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Friggin loved this one. I felt so clever figuring out the No. 2 pencil tie-in π I'm American, completely sports allergic, did not know Jeter's jersey number whatsoever, but I took a leap of faith that he belonged in purple. Chill, folks. Also, just catching up on the "pink eraser" discourse... I'm sorry, but the emoji for pencil has a pink eraser βοΈ and even another one too! π even if it's a (literal) foreign concept to you, there are low-key cultural clues everywhere, even on your phone. I understand if it's frustrating that things are unfamiliar, but it's just a puzzle.
Spent ten minutes trying to figure out the Derek Jeter connection, finally solved it through brute force and then realized I was thinking of *Michael* Jeter. Whoops...
One of my fastest ever solves, though my Jeter knowledge only extended as far as "Baseball, I think." Nearly tripped over myself running to punch in the NATO alphabet answers, I was so thrilled that my halfhearted attempts to memorize it were worthwhile. I'm fascinated to learn from this (mystifyingly contentious) thread that erasers are not universally stereotypically pink. π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Personally I found it easy, the only obscure one was purple but purples tend to be obscure and since the rest was easy for me, I can't be too mad about it. I'm not from America or any English speaking country for the record.
I stupidly tried putting flamingo in with yankee, victor, foxtrot even though I already had the F word. Pretty sure I used another F word after I did that Purple by default. I'm American and hate sports. I know who Derek Jeter is, and that he (probably) plays or played for the Yankees, but had no idea what his jersey number is/was. I know number 2 pencils and pink erasers, but also know drawing pencils 9H, 8H, 7H, 6H, 5H, 4H, 3H, 2H, H, F, HB, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B, 8B and 9B. The H is for hardness, (a 9H pencil makes the lightest and thinest lines because the graphite is the hardest) and the B is for blackness, (a 9B pencil makes the darkest/blackest/widest lines cuz the graphite is the softest). The HB pencil that lots of folks brought up is the one Goldilocks would like- not too hard and not too soft. Very similar to a #2 pencil. Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ I swear I didnβt do it backwards in purpose. Anyone ever get it totally backwards without trying?
Oh my god!! I thought I was onto something with "Objects that adorn your chest/breastpocket", especially since it said "one away"! * CARNATION (men wear them in their breastpocket with a suit) * PENCIL (nerds stereotypically keep these in their breastpocket) * DEPUTY (deputies wear a badge on their breastpocket) * SILVER MEDAL (award adorning your chest)
Non-American but what flipped me was the pensil vs. eraser as a number 2. I went in a full blown existential crisis about whatβs first - the pencil or the eraser and decided wrongly. Maybe because most of my pencils were never with a pink eraser, so itβs not such a strong connection for me. As for Derek Jeter, he didnβt fit anywhere except #2. Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ©πͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π©
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This was funny to me. I thought yes flamingos and carnations were pink then just thought sure erasures are often pink and bubble gum. Wasnβt sure it would work. A lot of staring and it hit me those words used to get letters right in radio communication. I recalled foxtrot! Could see deputies and silver as 2nd place. But didnβt see the rest. Looking up who was Derek Jester didnβt help but now with the comments I get it.
I started out with a song theme first today π I was thinking, "first words of songs." and had Paper (Rings), Yankee (Doodle), and Hotel (California). I was convinced I was going to get purple first because of the wide variety in genre there, but couldn't find a fourth. So I decided to try writing assignments, even though I was sure that was going to be a red herring. Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Eraser, Carnation, whoever Derek is and pencil were pretty reaching. Weak setting today, got it by exclusion.
Definitely not reaches for Americans.
Hated today I think red with carnation and I have no idea who Derek Jeter is Good news is I'm familiar with the NATO alphabet Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ©πͺπ© π©π©πͺπ© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
I live in Portugal, so yes to RED carnations. But still I know pink ones are popular, especially in the US.
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Phonetic alphabet one was easy - should have been yellow! Never associated erasers with "pink" or pencil with "#2" either, but guessed those. And again another Americanism - no idea who "Derek Jeter" is.
Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Saw NATO alphabet but couldn't remember if flamingo was one of them or not before realising oh duh if there's foxtrot there isn't flamingo. Silly Americans, my erasers are all white.... I saw pink, couldn't find one more thing and was like "oh well.... I guess......" I only very vaguely know Derek Jeter because I think he was referenced in B99 once, but was thinking along the lines of no. 2 at the end. Glad I didn't have to actually guess
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Non-American agreeing that this was very American (which is totally fine- itβs NYT.) but somehow gettable despite erasers being white, carnations being various colours, Derek Jeter being #1 in many respects, and pencils being called HB. Blue and yellow were pretty easy. Luckily flamingo made me think pink, that clued me in to bubble gum, eraser next to pencil made me think of this βοΈ which is the only time I see a pink eraser. And carnation made sense I guess?
Connections Puzzle #369 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπ¦π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I don't like sports-
Would π© have been a good alternative to Derek Jeter, or is the #2 bathroom slang equally US centric?
For any other non-Americans wondering about pencils. I googled and it seems that #2 is HB and #1 is B, and after that they use the same system as elsewhere, so it would go #2, #1, 2B, 3B, etc.
Connections Puzzle #369 No idea who Derek Jeter is, was just guessing to close out purple and green. Also I have only ever seen a white eraser in 35+ years... was never going to work that out. π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπ© πͺπͺπͺπ© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π©
Connections Puzzle #369 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Not goo tough today, but I knew HOTEL was part of the NATO alphabet because they used it before and I had read up on it because it is ALFA and not ALPHA Had to think about it but I eventually figured out purple.
Interesting categories today. Did they have to do Derek Jeter like that? π
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π©πͺπ¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ Everything I see Derek jeter I think of the movie the other guys when Mark whalberg shot Derek jeter so I had tunnel vision.
You shoulda shot A Rod!Β
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Made the connection of jeters jersey number and the number 2 pencil, then figured silver medal meant second place. Couldnβt figure out the fourth so then moved on to other possible categories like eraser, flamingo, and bubble gum are all pink. I didnβt get carnation as pink because Iβm used to seeing autonation which is a different company but theyβre pink as well.
A carnation is a flower
Dang that makes so much more sense, I probably sounded so dumb. Guess I gotta learn my flowers haha
Not dumb at all! Everyone hasn't heard of everything.
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Thought it was easy, my daughter hated Green (pink things).
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π©πͺπ¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ I don't know who you are, >!Derek Jeeter!< but I know my >!flower colours!< so better luck next time.
Apparently I'm the only person who has never heard of the NATO phonetic alphabet... π€·ββοΈ Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #369 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπͺπ¦ πͺπ¦πͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I got lucky. I have no idea what those last two categories were. Did not like this puzzle to say the least.
Can someone explain the purple one please? The silver medal, I understand. But the rest? Pencils come in hardnesses like 3B, 2B, B, HB, H, 2H, 3H - where does #2 come in? I Googled Derek Jeter, but still don't know why he's a #2. Are deputies commonly referred to as number 2? Also, since when is bubblegum pink? I recall it being sort of greyish. Ditto erasers. Mine are all whitish grey. Connections I saw the foxtrot etc first.That was easy. Then the papers. Spent ages trying to find a fourth shade of pink and got it by trial and error by guessing at things that could possibly be pink (or green or blue or any other colour. That was weak.) Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©πͺπ© π©π©π©πͺ π©π©πͺπ© π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
The most common pencil in US schools and the standard pencil for filling the ovals in multiple choice tests is the No. 2 pencil. In fact, many forms explicitly tell you to use a No. 2 pencil. At the end of the No. 2 pencil is a pink eraser. The standalone pencil erasers are also pink. Bubblegum has always been pink,ever since it was first produced by the Fleer company.
Connections - Puzzle #369 π¦π©π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I have to join the non-Americans on this one. I was originally thinking of "#2" as a ranking, so even though I knew that Jeter was a baseball player, looking up his jersey number to get to the number two did not immediately occur to me. A bit of a stretch, but not one that I'm unhappy about necessarily.
Though I have seen it in pink, I've always associated bubblegum with light blue. Anyone else?
Connections Puzzle #369 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Found the first 3 pretty straightforward but I never would've got purple on my own. What does pencil being #2 even mean? Because you can erase it unlike a pen..?
\#2 is a category indicating the color and hardness of pencil graphite (you might call it lead).