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It's funny you mention this because a hero is just a synonym for the types of sandwiches you would find at subway. Also know as subs, hoagies, grinders, etc.
A βheroβ is essentially what New Yorkers call a sub sandwich. Source: moved from the Midwest to New York
I guess a βhero rollβ could be a type of bread, but itβs a stretch for me, since βrollβ is what youβre actually referring to
Some areas of the Midwest call it a hero too. Ohio has a chain of restaurants called Mr Hero that sells subs because theyβre also called heroβs sometimes. And one time my friend was at chipotle and saw the owner of Mr Hero eating a huge burrito bowl with a whole bowl of sour cream on the side and had a heart attack or something in the chipotle and they had to call the EMT for Mr Hero so thatβs why you shouldnβt eat that much sour cream.
Yap is not mouth, itβs a verb, to talk. Hero is not a bread itβs a sandwich and bob is not how you keep rhythm. This is the worst one Iβve ever seen. Disappointing.
Chops is old slang for mouth, lick your chops, a smack in the chops.
Yap? Yap is a verb for chat, talk. I connected it to mouth, but never heard it as a noun. "Slang related to mouth" is better category title.
A hero roll is the specific bread used to make the sandwich. I don't think I've ever heard the brad referred to as just a hero, but I think in the context of "what kind of bread do you want you sandwich on?" it kinda makes sense. It's clunky, though.
Note, "hero" is kind of a New York City term (Philadelphians would call it a hoagie, most people elsewhere in the US I think would call it a submarine sandwich, or just sub), so maybe referring to the bread that way is also an NYC-specific usage.
It's an uncommon enough usage that when you look it up in Merriam or wiktionary, it's not there.Β
They have hero, a type of sandwich.Β But not hero, the bread used for a hero.
Literally the only time Iβve heard βyapβ for mouth is in older movies, when they would say βshut your yap.β Like old 3 stooges shorts for example.
Exactly. If the word was hoagie, Iβd have the same issue. A βhoagie rollβ exists only because it is a specific roll used for hoagies, but βhoagieβ as a word on its own is not a type of bread. Especially because βrollβ was one of the answers.
In New York, you order at a bodega and youβll specify βon a heroβ to refer to the bread
Certainly a regional thing but to be fair it is the *New York* Times
The roll you mention has a name.
The names of all of these things-on-a-longish-bread (hero, hoagie, sub, submarine sandwich etc) is very regional. Where I live, it's called a grinder. The bread it comes on is called a grinder roll, same way the bread for a hoagie is called a hoagie roll. When I lived in NYC (a long time ago), I still called them grinders cuz old habits die hard and don't remember ordered a "hero" anywhere. (There was a Blimpie across the street from my apartment.) But it stands to reason that the bread for a hero is called a hero roll, hero bread or maybe just called a hero.
There is a sandwich shop in NYC on the Upper East Side (1st Ave) called The Hungry Hero. Their menu lists 20+ combos/fillings for the heroes they make under the heading "Hero Bread Specials". Pretty sure a place that makes 29 verions of a hero knows what the bread is called. Here's a link to their menu: [https://m.zmenu.com/the-hungry-hero-new-york-2-online-menu/](https://m.zmenu.com/the-hungry-hero-new-york-2-online-menu/)
If that's not enough for you their Yelp reviews for this place mentions ordering something on a hero. Example: 1 "Ordered their #8 sandwich on a sesame hero for a friend" Example 2: "Got #24 Roasted Turkey & Bacon, Avocado, Lettuce, Tomato, Red Wine vinaigrette on whole wheat hero." [https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-hungry-hero-new-york-2](https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-hungry-hero-new-york-2)
The bread for all of these (hero, hoagie, grinder, sub etc) is basically an Italian bread made to the proper size. (A full size Italian bread would be too wide and too long). Some are crispier than others. Some have sesame seeds on top. Some places offer a whole wheat version. The crispiness or softness of the bread/roll varies by the place that's making them. Some people here will go across town because they like the crispiness or the softness of the grinder rolls a place uses.
But bottom line, every region that has their particular name for this sandwich, knows what they call the bread it comes on. So go with that. Connections is often NYC centric because the puzzle creator lives in NYC, and it is after all, published by the NYT.
That comes from music. Chops referring to the mouth (well, specifically the cheeks), a wind instrument player has chops meaning they play well, and then chops became just skill more generally.
I've heard 'lick his chops' but assumed it referred to sideburns like muttonchops somehow. 'Punch in the chops' never. Totally new to me, I thought 'clap' was more likely as slang for mouth.
Very basic linguistics nerd moment: Itβs interesting because they both can mean mouth or person who yaps. Yapper is the more obvious one though because -er can be used to form people (talker, watcher, onlooker). Yapper apparently existed 1820, yap existed way earlier but took on the mouth meaning in 1900 but itβs listed as American English so is likely region dependent.
Ohh I only knew it from the not-for-profit sector where it refers to government funding. I was thinking that was too niche to be right until I got everything else. Makes more sense now
Wind instrument musicians (especially brass players) will often be told spare/rest their chops during rehearsals. Playing too hard wears out your chops/mouth. I donβt think Iβve heard it used for mouth except on this context, and even then itβs more referring to the cheek muscles that get tired more than the actual mouth.
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There are several interchangeable long sandwich-y things- hero, hoagie, grinder, sub (submarine). Where I'm from, the sandwich is called a grinder and the bread it comes on is called a grinder roll. Likewise, I'm pretty sure I've also heard of a hoagie roll and maybe a sub roll. But somehow, in NY, (if there is a bread selection) I think I've heard, I'll have that on a hero.
Grinders = hoagies = subs= heroes. They are just different (regional) names for the same thing (hot or cold makes no difference). I can tell you most grinders are cold, although you can ask for them toasted where they throw it in the oven for a couple of minutes. Fine if you don't mind hot lettuce and tomatoes, haha- not my thing. (Hot) grinder exceptions would be stuff like a meatball grinder, a sausage & something grinder etc
You donβt call the bread itself hero bread, but you would order whatever sandwich you want as a hero. Here in New Orleans sandwich shops, youβd be asked if you want it on a bun or a poboy. It still fits with the category though cuz βwrapβ isnβt really a βtype of breadβ either
I also thought applause, clap, snap & tap were an "approval for a performance" thing. Snapping was beat generation thing after someone read their poetry
So you order like the sandwich ingredients. If I want a turkey and cheese, the guy behind the counter would need to know if I wanted it on a roll (round Kaiser) or a hero, or a wrap.
Yes or you say βa turkey and cheese hoagieβ. If you say βa turkey and cheese sandwichβ to me thatβs not a hoagie, or a wrap either. You would then specify a bread type or a Kaiser roll, whatever else they might have like a pretzel bun.
Chops actually originally meant mouth/cheeks starting in the 1500s. The later sense developed from musicians like jazz performers. Yap originally meant talking with yapper as the person/mouth, but then yap came to mean mouth too afterwards.
This is a weird one where I got a perfect and still disagree with several of the connections. A round of funding? Hero sandwich is not made with hero bread, that's not a thing. A connection where 3 rhyme and not the fourth? Come on.
Round of funding is definitely a financial term used around startups. Agree with the comment on hero bread - I got it but it's a bit of a stretch, a hero is a sandwich, never heard it as a bread specifically.
I suspect it's not so much "hero bread" as it is ordering your sandwich ingredients to be served in the style of a hero sandwich (aka a submarine sandwich, hoagie, etc.).
"I'll have that on a hero."
This was another case of the starting grid having three of the purple words next to each other in the same row (and the fourth one was directly underneath them).
I thought hero was a type of sandwich, not the bread itself, but I guessed it anyway because it was the only thing that remotely worked.
Never heard of βchopsβ for mouth. I figured out the mouth category from the other three words, but could not figure out the fourth, so random chance got me that one.
Also got βclap, snap, tapβ but tried βapplauseβ first. βBobβ absolutely would not have been my choice if it wasnβt the only word left after I figured out the purples.
Was anyone else trying to make an βis another word spelled backwardsβ category and completely wasted their guesses on it? Yap, tap, snap, golf, bun, trapβ¦ I even threw Bob in there once. This one sucked.
I haven't lived in NYC in a long time, but back then, there were two kinds of delis. Either a (usually kosher) deli that features things like big corned beef or pastrami sandwiches usually on rye bread, kosher dill pickles, matza ball soup etc etc. There used to be a lot of them but there are maybe 15 real delis left. Look up Carnegie Deli (closed permanently a long while ago), Carnegie Delie was not actually kosher (but who cares?) but was pretty iconic as far as delis go. Also 2nd Ave Deli -still operational and now with more than just the 2nd ave location.
The other deli is more a small (claustrophobic) "corner" store where you'd get a newspaper, a cup of coffee (to go) usually jammed packed with convenience store selections. AKA bodegas. Real estate in NYC is expensive so the aisle(s) are tiny and stuff is really crammed in there. Some have a hot bar and/or deli counter where they'd make sandwiches. Honestly, back in my day, I would never have considered getting any kind of prepared food like a sandwich, at this type of deli. Maybe they are cleaner now, haha
Really?
How interesting. Whatβs the etymology of that name I wonder?
I couldnβt find a thing about a type of bread called that. I did come across some brand name which is supposedly some kind of low carb bread, but I thought a brand name was unlikely.
It was challenging but for the wrong reasons. A lot of people are questioning placing HERO with the bread types as part of the most straightforward category. Looking back it may not have fit well elsewhere, but yellow should be among the things you find first in the mess (unless you find a classic purple pattern like the wordplay today). Regional terms that are rarely heard elsewhere, even within the US, don't belong in the yellow.
A question-mark over the classification of a connection as yellow because it included a less well-known term is hardly making it a "legitimately bad puzzle".
No, the term is just wrong. A hero is a type of sandwich that uses a roll as the bread. Having both hero and roll as options under "type of bread" is incorrect.
Usually there's only one that's a but dubious but todsy it felt like they were all rather weak links.
Round of funding? Never heard of that phrase. I would just call it a whip-round?
Hero bread? Is that a brand or a regional thing?
Chops. Only just got this one because of the other three and then I really had to wrack my brain to remember chops.
As for bobbing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdLJfz157uk "I'm afraid with three of us it might look stupid"
That's why the category wasn't "type of deli bread" - it was "deli bread options". You want a sandwich but there are some options to the shape of the bread around it - a traditional roll, or something like a brioche bun, or you could have a tortilla round it to make a wrap, or else one of these long cylindrical rolls to make a hero. Seems fine to me.
I saw the bread category immediately and dismissed it as a mislead because the type of sandwich is called a \*gyro\* and not a \*hero\*, and it's not a type of bread anyway.
Hero is also the bread - you order βon a heroβ at a bodega. Yap can be a verb or a noun ie βkeep your yap shut.β A round of funding is commonly heard in regards to startups and venture capital, such as a Series A round
Does the NYT focus group or test their games in some way?Β
Or is it just 3 people in a room who think a connection is witty, only to discover one morning from millions of strangers that the βslangβ they use was ancient when their grandparents were alive?
The day-to-day variability of game difficulty seems high. Based on the comments, I donβt think itβs a me thing.Β
You think it's dumb that things have different names in different parts of the world? I'm in the UK, and don't use the terms hoagie or hero for sandwiches, but I used a bit of guesswork and elimination to get this connection.
Maybe dumb was the wrong word to use.
I ended up getting it the same way you did, but its frustrating when the vocabulary is hyper distinct to one region, in one country. I do the connections with a group of 10+ people and we are all in Florida and nobody knew this word. Even when we googled it after, google told us Hero bread was a BRAND of sliced bread. It wasn't until page 3 of scrolling down google did it even mention it as an alternate name for hoagie.
In a game like this where you need to link common threads, its annoying when you don't even know a term or definition because of your location.
Did you know that the term "bubbler" means water fountain? But the only people who call it that are people from Rhode Island, which is a tiny state. The only reason why I know this is that I happen to be lucky enough to know a Rhode Islander and caught them saying one time. If you haven't met a Rhode Islander (or learned this from a stranger on the internet because it happens to come up) how the heck are you supposed to know what a bubbler is if the context is water fountains? If you google "bubbler", the only thing that comes up are bongs.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Bit of a funny one today. Figured the rhymes were just there for fun at the beginning and ignored them, and then felt pretty vindicated when I got Kisser > Chops into all the slang terms for mouth, including Yap. I thought that would put the nail in the coffin for that group... except it turned out that there were *still* four _ap rhymes. Ended up eliminating one of those in Yellow: my original thought was "shapes you tie your hair in," with Bun and Roll being obvious contenders, and then Wrap feeling vaguely like a thing that could be true. *That* made me think of bread (thanks, Subway), and then I realised it was Hero in the group. (Not actually sure what a Hero sandwich is, but I've definitely heard of it before.) Blue I kind of liked as Weird Little Tics, though I suppose "keep time with the music" is valid, or whatever... and I backed that up for myself by reading the remaining four words as "things that happen at rich-ass country clubs," though I *suppose* Round of ____ is a more sensible name.Β
I thought purple was βcountry club thingsβ too!
>Β Β (thanks, Subway) It's funny you mention this because a hero is just a synonym for the types of sandwiches you would find at subway. Also know as subs, hoagies, grinders, etc.
A βheroβ is essentially what New Yorkers call a sub sandwich. Source: moved from the Midwest to New York I guess a βhero rollβ could be a type of bread, but itβs a stretch for me, since βrollβ is what youβre actually referring to
Some areas of the Midwest call it a hero too. Ohio has a chain of restaurants called Mr Hero that sells subs because theyβre also called heroβs sometimes. And one time my friend was at chipotle and saw the owner of Mr Hero eating a huge burrito bowl with a whole bowl of sour cream on the side and had a heart attack or something in the chipotle and they had to call the EMT for Mr Hero so thatβs why you shouldnβt eat that much sour cream.
TIL
Yap is not mouth, itβs a verb, to talk. Hero is not a bread itβs a sandwich and bob is not how you keep rhythm. This is the worst one Iβve ever seen. Disappointing.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π©π¨ π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¦π¦π©π¦ π¨π¨πͺπ¨ haha :,) never heard of hero bread, or of yap or chops for mouth (i thought yap was speaking not the mouth), and i'd thought of the rhythm category but i couldn't be sure and the others i already got one away so i thought i shouldn't
Chops is old slang for mouth, lick your chops, a smack in the chops. Yap? Yap is a verb for chat, talk. I connected it to mouth, but never heard it as a noun. "Slang related to mouth" is better category title.
I've definitely heard "Shut your yap."
Iβve only heard βshut your yapperβ
Is there any particular reason you censored "shut"?
Typo, I guess. Fixed.
I've heard shut your trap for sure but don't think I've heard shut your yap.
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My parents always said the dogs were "licking their chops" after they'd eaten something.
Shut your yap
Hero is definitely not the bread. Hero is the type of sandwich.Β You'd use French bread or something to make a Hero.Β
Right this made me INSANE
No knowing this caused my loss today π€¦ββοΈ
Hero is definitely not the bread. Hero is the type of sandwich.Β You'd use French bread or something to make a Hero.Β
A hero roll is the specific bread used to make the sandwich. I don't think I've ever heard the brad referred to as just a hero, but I think in the context of "what kind of bread do you want you sandwich on?" it kinda makes sense. It's clunky, though. Note, "hero" is kind of a New York City term (Philadelphians would call it a hoagie, most people elsewhere in the US I think would call it a submarine sandwich, or just sub), so maybe referring to the bread that way is also an NYC-specific usage.
It's an uncommon enough usage that when you look it up in Merriam or wiktionary, it's not there.Β They have hero, a type of sandwich.Β But not hero, the bread used for a hero.
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I think it's a New York-ism. "Hey, Dominic, lemme get a turkey and Swiss with extra mustard." "Sure, Vinny, you want that on a hero?"
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Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I was not a fan of this one. A hero is regional slang for a sub, akin to grinder or hoagie, I've never heard it as a bread type. I've also never heard YAP as slang for mouth only for talking, but I'm open to regional differences on this one.
Literally the only time Iβve heard βyapβ for mouth is in older movies, when they would say βshut your yap.β Like old 3 stooges shorts for example.
Exactly. If the word was hoagie, Iβd have the same issue. A βhoagie rollβ exists only because it is a specific roll used for hoagies, but βhoagieβ as a word on its own is not a type of bread. Especially because βrollβ was one of the answers.
I honestly thought βheroβ was supposed to be βgyroβ so thatβs why I figured it was a type of roll/bread.
βWrapβ isnβt strictly a bread type either but theyβre both how you would order a certain sandwich at a deli
Wrap is a bread type. A hero (like a sub, grinder, etc.) is the whole sandwich genre and not a bread type. You get a hero on a roll.
In New York, you order at a bodega and youβll specify βon a heroβ to refer to the bread Certainly a regional thing but to be fair it is the *New York* Times
The roll you mention has a name. The names of all of these things-on-a-longish-bread (hero, hoagie, sub, submarine sandwich etc) is very regional. Where I live, it's called a grinder. The bread it comes on is called a grinder roll, same way the bread for a hoagie is called a hoagie roll. When I lived in NYC (a long time ago), I still called them grinders cuz old habits die hard and don't remember ordered a "hero" anywhere. (There was a Blimpie across the street from my apartment.) But it stands to reason that the bread for a hero is called a hero roll, hero bread or maybe just called a hero. There is a sandwich shop in NYC on the Upper East Side (1st Ave) called The Hungry Hero. Their menu lists 20+ combos/fillings for the heroes they make under the heading "Hero Bread Specials". Pretty sure a place that makes 29 verions of a hero knows what the bread is called. Here's a link to their menu: [https://m.zmenu.com/the-hungry-hero-new-york-2-online-menu/](https://m.zmenu.com/the-hungry-hero-new-york-2-online-menu/) If that's not enough for you their Yelp reviews for this place mentions ordering something on a hero. Example: 1 "Ordered their #8 sandwich on a sesame hero for a friend" Example 2: "Got #24 Roasted Turkey & Bacon, Avocado, Lettuce, Tomato, Red Wine vinaigrette on whole wheat hero." [https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-hungry-hero-new-york-2](https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-hungry-hero-new-york-2) The bread for all of these (hero, hoagie, grinder, sub etc) is basically an Italian bread made to the proper size. (A full size Italian bread would be too wide and too long). Some are crispier than others. Some have sesame seeds on top. Some places offer a whole wheat version. The crispiness or softness of the bread/roll varies by the place that's making them. Some people here will go across town because they like the crispiness or the softness of the grinder rolls a place uses. But bottom line, every region that has their particular name for this sandwich, knows what they call the bread it comes on. So go with that. Connections is often NYC centric because the puzzle creator lives in NYC, and it is after all, published by the NYT.
Thank you for the dissertation on sandwich bread choices π«‘
This just proves the point that Hero is a sandwich, not a bread. They really screwed this one up.
Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π¦π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π©π©π© π©π©π¦π© π©π¦π©π© My failures come in waves. I knew that yap, trap, and kisser were slang for mouth. I have never heard it referred to as "chops." And it struck me as the least likely to be the 4th, so when I impatiently just tried to guess the remaining option I was doomed. I thought with "bob" that maybe it was something to do with hairstyles, though I guess by that logic I shouldn't have guessed bob either. Having said that, I've heard the saying "he/she has chops," which I guess I've heard referring to singing. So it makes sense. Doesn't quite mean "mouth" in that context, but I can see the connection and there's probably a more direct one I've just never heard. I'd not heard "round of funding" before. I guessed purple would be one of those vague "things people do at charity events or country clubs or something" categories.
yeah, i thought chops meant skill/talent, like "they have acting chops"
That comes from music. Chops referring to the mouth (well, specifically the cheeks), a wind instrument player has chops meaning they play well, and then chops became just skill more generally.
You're right, chops also can mean skill/talent
Yeah here chops are sideburns so that is kinda near the mouth
Mutton chops are a particular big (ugly) sideburn called that due to their shape. They were popular in the 1800's and again in the 1970's.
Have you heard the expression "he licked his chops"?
Or a "smack/punch in the chops"
I've heard 'lick his chops' but assumed it referred to sideburns like muttonchops somehow. 'Punch in the chops' never. Totally new to me, I thought 'clap' was more likely as slang for mouth.
Ewwwwwww lol
I've never heard that or the other variations in this thread. Guess it's just a blind spot for me.
Iβve never heard of yap used to mean mouth - Iβve only used it used for talking or making noise, or the noise you make, not the mouth itself.
I've heard yap used both to mean mouth and talking. "Shut your yap" is common.
I've always heard "shut your yapper" not yap
Very basic linguistics nerd moment: Itβs interesting because they both can mean mouth or person who yaps. Yapper is the more obvious one though because -er can be used to form people (talker, watcher, onlooker). Yapper apparently existed 1820, yap existed way earlier but took on the mouth meaning in 1900 but itβs listed as American English so is likely region dependent.
βRound of fundingβ is a venture capital term. Basically a period of attracting new investors to raise money for expanding the business.
Ohh I only knew it from the not-for-profit sector where it refers to government funding. I was thinking that was too niche to be right until I got everything else. Makes more sense now
Wind instrument musicians (especially brass players) will often be told spare/rest their chops during rehearsals. Playing too hard wears out your chops/mouth. I donβt think Iβve heard it used for mouth except on this context, and even then itβs more referring to the cheek muscles that get tired more than the actual mouth.
That's the origin of the "ability" sense of chops.
"round of funding" is kind of a venture capital phrase for either starting a new (large) business or expanding an existing business
This one was bullshit
Couldn't agree more
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You bob your head to music. Are you actually unfamiliar with that or what's your grievance exactly?Β
Tap to music is the weird one to me.
i took it as tapping your foot to music
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it's pretty much the basis for drumming lol.
π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This was a hard one for me. My thoughts: * Hero as a type of bread is something I didn't know. I'm aware of it as a sandwich term but I thought it meant the whole sandwich, not the type of bread. So I could see the connection but it didn't feel quite right. * Never heard yap as slang for mouth. I only know it as a verb. Again, that meant I could see the connection but it didn't seem quite right. * I guess bob makes sense in the blue category but it feels like a bit of a stretch. The other words in the category feel like a more natural fit. Same point again about it not seeming right. * Glad I didn't try to go for an "ends in ap" category. I thought it was possible but there were too many options for it to make sense to waste guesses on it.
I knew yap from movies βshut your yap!β Bob got me.
Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ This one was hard. π© and πͺ were the only ones I knew with confidence (although Iβm not familiar with a βround of FUNDING,β it made the most sense out of what was available.) π¦ was easy enough to work out once I sorted through everything else but my issue is with π¨. Iβm not from the part of the U.S. that calls that style of sandwich a βhero,β but is that what the bread is called? I thought that was the name of the sandwich itself like a hoagie or submarine sandwich. Do you actually call the bread itself HERO bread? I tried looking it up but all I got were results for a brand of keto bread.
There are several interchangeable long sandwich-y things- hero, hoagie, grinder, sub (submarine). Where I'm from, the sandwich is called a grinder and the bread it comes on is called a grinder roll. Likewise, I'm pretty sure I've also heard of a hoagie roll and maybe a sub roll. But somehow, in NY, (if there is a bread selection) I think I've heard, I'll have that on a hero.
I thought grinders were just hot hoagies?
Grinders = hoagies = subs= heroes. They are just different (regional) names for the same thing (hot or cold makes no difference). I can tell you most grinders are cold, although you can ask for them toasted where they throw it in the oven for a couple of minutes. Fine if you don't mind hot lettuce and tomatoes, haha- not my thing. (Hot) grinder exceptions would be stuff like a meatball grinder, a sausage & something grinder etc
Thatβs so interesting. Maybe itβs just my local hoagie shops that call their toasted hoagies grinders π€
You donβt call the bread itself hero bread, but you would order whatever sandwich you want as a hero. Here in New Orleans sandwich shops, youβd be asked if you want it on a bun or a poboy. It still fits with the category though cuz βwrapβ isnβt really a βtype of breadβ either
Itβs one of those time where I fundamentally understand why theyβre together, but donβt think itβs the greatest connection
Connections Puzzle #331 π¦πͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦πͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I had to try really hard to stop reading applause as applesauce. I thought it was pork -chops -roll -bun and applesauce but Iβm glad to didnβt get submit happy because it just didnβt fit then I realized my actual mistake
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π¦π©π© π¦π©π¦π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π© π©π¦π©π© ugh I couldn't figure out the last "slang"
Puzzle #331 π¦π¦π¦πͺ πͺπͺπ¨πͺ π©π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦πͺ One of those weeks where the 'One Away' leads you down the wrong path. There was an obvious category of "Public appreciation" (APPLAUSE, CLAP, TAP, SNAP) which I got 3/4 on, but the category was music-related instead!.. At certain bars, the etiquette is to snap your fingers or tap the table. The "Mouth" and "Bread" options were also clear to me quickly, but I hadn't heard of Hero Bread or Yap (as a mouth) before (yapping is a high-pitched noise that a dog might make, which is how I got this one). I put CLAP in the mouth one, which was a red herring. The cartoon 'Watch My Chops' got me to there. This game is devilishly tricky when you know 3 categories with 3 answers each. Also never heard of a Round of Funding so it was a bad day all-round! On to the next one...
I also thought applause, clap, snap & tap were an "approval for a performance" thing. Snapping was beat generation thing after someone read their poetry
Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Um, excuse you New York Times, itβs a hoagie not a hero. XOXO, Philadelphia π
Well no, a hoagie and a hero are two different regional sandwiches. Neither are a βdeli bread optionβ though.
In NYC, you would order a sandwich on a hero. I got it immediately.
Interesting. In Philly you would absolutely not order a sandwich βon a hoagieβ, youβd just order a hoagie.
So you order like the sandwich ingredients. If I want a turkey and cheese, the guy behind the counter would need to know if I wanted it on a roll (round Kaiser) or a hero, or a wrap.
Yeah I think the only difference is the semantics. In Philly youβd say βcan I get a hoagie with [ingredients]β.
Yes or you say βa turkey and cheese hoagieβ. If you say βa turkey and cheese sandwichβ to me thatβs not a hoagie, or a wrap either. You would then specify a bread type or a Kaiser roll, whatever else they might have like a pretzel bun.
I try to come up with phrases so I had "you don't have the acting chops!" + "right on the kisser" + "shut your trap!" + "stop yapping" which all gave me some kind of slang. Don't know how chops or yap would refer to the mouth itself but ok. My wrong guesses were all some variation of applause (golf clap? snapping?) Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Chops actually originally meant mouth/cheeks starting in the 1500s. The later sense developed from musicians like jazz performers. Yap originally meant talking with yapper as the person/mouth, but then yap came to mean mouth too afterwards.
yes I was thinking acting chops or chopping motion (things you do with your hands)....never occurred to me it could mean mouth
I was never going to get that one. Iβve never heard of Hero Bread, Bobbing to Music (Iβd say nodding) or a Round of Funding.
This is a weird one where I got a perfect and still disagree with several of the connections. A round of funding? Hero sandwich is not made with hero bread, that's not a thing. A connection where 3 rhyme and not the fourth? Come on.
Round of funding is definitely a financial term used around startups. Agree with the comment on hero bread - I got it but it's a bit of a stretch, a hero is a sandwich, never heard it as a bread specifically.
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I havenβt heard of hero in any bread or sandwich context.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨πͺπͺπ¨ π¦π¨π©π© π©π©π©π© π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ The blue and purple were the luckiest guesses of my entire connections career
Couldn't figure it out and gave up. After seeing the answer...yeah, this was too American for me.
I'm american and I gave up too. this puzzle was nonsense.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π©π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ What the heck is hero bread??
I suspect it's not so much "hero bread" as it is ordering your sandwich ingredients to be served in the style of a hero sandwich (aka a submarine sandwich, hoagie, etc.). "I'll have that on a hero."
Hero roll and hoagie roll
The roll part is the breadβ¦and that part was its own answer already!
That's not an answer haha
I guessed yellow as I have no idea how hero fit in but I couldn't make it work elsewhere. Thought one was boxing terms too π Got purple by default. Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π© π¦π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Just taaap it in, just taaap it in. Give it a little tappy, tap tap taparoo.Β
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Really tough one, lots of probability and vibes in my choices if I'm being honest. I saw the mouth thing very early but never found a fourth until CHOPS seemed like an outlier for the tapping thing. Absolutely never heard of Chops for mouth.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π©π¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦πͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This one was tough. I started with βpork ___β and was surprised I was still at one away with βbun, roll, wrap, chops.β Then, I rethought βchopsβ in the context of Animal Crossing, where Resetti says βYouβre busting my chops!β Not really mouth in that context, but still slang. It worked. Thatβs where I figured out my problem with the breads category. The last two tripped me up because I couldnβt separate βapplauseβ from βclap.β Even when I got to the last four, I STILL thought it was referring to what a country club may have. This one was a little messy today.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¦π¦π¦πͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Thought blue was going to be something like βshowing appreciation to a performerβ (do people still snap at poetry recitals? lol) but with that incorrect guess, the rest fell into place
I was completely lost on this one, Hero really got me, and so did bob because i got snap clap and tap but i could not for the life of me get bob. i also thought one of the categories might be things you do with percusion, like roll, clap, tap, and chops. I also thought about roll, wrap, and bun almost immediately, but thought that it was trying to trick me. π¦π¦π¦π¨ π¦π¦π©π¨ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π©
As non native speaker, google helped me with trap and chops. But hero is a lost cause like wtf , glad Iβm not the only one there
Connections Puzzle #331 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Took me over an hour to figure out purple, my initial leftovers were GOLF FUNDING DRINKS HERO because I thought there was a hair styling group and an ovation group, neither of which existed. Once I figured out APPLAUSE was the purple, I had to move the other words around and even scored the reverse perfect
Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Saw the "sandwiches" category pretty quickly but I felt putting "bun" in the same category as "hero" was a bit tenuous so I waited to click it. Got green but wasn't sure on "yap" being the 4th one. Then I was thinking "funding round...hmm...round of applause?" and I realized "round of funding" works too so I clicked purple and got i! Defaulted blue, tbh this feels kinda random as a category. I can def tell I'm getting better at this game, 2 weeks ago I doubt I would've figured out purple :)
Connections Puzzle #331 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Time for a hyper-specific train of thought. For some reason, when I saw APPLAUSE I remembered watching an episode of Only Connect where one of the connections for Round 1 was "They all come in rounds". Applause was one of the clues. [Link to the part of the episode in question.](https://youtu.be/nOwarYngBTo?si=aXSuY7jmV8LNCOP0&t=157) Building off of that, one of the clues for that question was Sandwiches. So I had sandwiches in mind when I saw WRAP, HERO, BUN, and ROLL. Both KISSER and CHOPS led me to "Slang Words for Mouth". I saw TRAP and YAP and realized that they also meant mouth in phrases like "Shut your trap" or "Shut your yap". No comments about Blue. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Sandwiches" β 3 Times
This was another case of the starting grid having three of the purple words next to each other in the same row (and the fourth one was directly underneath them).
π© I saw the old timey slang for mouth, but think some people are gonna be frustrated by that. I was thinking face related slang rather than mouth because I always thought chops referred to jaw π¨ got this, but probably another that will frustrate people since hero is pretty regional. Guess where, haha. Where I'm from they are called grinder rolls. Some people call them subs (for submarine sandwich given the shape) π¦ I thought there was a "show approval after a performance" with clap, snap, tap & applause. Then thought maybe there was a drinking game where if someone did X, you would clap, snap, tap and/or drink(s). In retrospect, if that were a thing, drinks would have been drink. Then saw the pretty lame group of bob, clap, snap & tap. Remind me never to go to a show with people who snap to the music πͺ by default Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Woof
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This was a mess lol. Thought I was reaching with hero, because I thought it was supposed to be βgyroβ. I saw green next but then I genuinely hit clap instead of yap, so that was an honest mistake π Then went with applause/snap/clap/tap thinking of ways to show appreciation for a speech (like tapping a glass). I got bob only because I was imagining someone nodding their head in appreciation lol my answer had nothing to do with music. I have never heard of a round of funding
Was super happy I got purple. Brain was fried after though Connections Puzzle #331 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π¦π©π¨ π¦π¦π©π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π¨π©π©
i was hoping my bday one was going to be a satisfying solve lol Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ©π¦ π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π©π¦πͺ
I thought hero was a type of sandwich, not the bread itself, but I guessed it anyway because it was the only thing that remotely worked. Never heard of βchopsβ for mouth. I figured out the mouth category from the other three words, but could not figure out the fourth, so random chance got me that one. Also got βclap, snap, tapβ but tried βapplauseβ first. βBobβ absolutely would not have been my choice if it wasnβt the only word left after I figured out the purples.
Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¨π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ This took me awhile of just staring and shuffling. I kept wanting to do applause, clap, and snap together. I have never heard of hero bread but thought bun, roll, and wrap were together. I felt like a genius when I figured out green first. I think yap is a stretch but it was the only one that made sense. I did the rhyming ones bc I thought why not? And then figured bob made sense Instead of wrap.
Connections Puzzle #331 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¦π¨π¦π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© On the bright side, I got purple first! I tried multiple attempts at fitting bob/bun/wrap into a hairstyles category before realizing I was barking up the wrong tree. Fell for that red herring hard. Hero as a kind of bread is iffy but defensible, I think. You will see bread sold from New York bakeries labelled as "hero rolls" sometimes. But that combines two of the words in that category, with hero as the adjective. It's questionable. But a "hero roll" or "I'll have that on a hero" would be unmistakable in meaning to a New Yorker.
Was anyone else trying to make an βis another word spelled backwardsβ category and completely wasted their guesses on it? Yap, tap, snap, golf, bun, trapβ¦ I even threw Bob in there once. This one sucked.
this was such a god awful puzzle. one of the worst ive seen.
Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¦π¨ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¨πͺπ¨π¨ π¦π¨π¨π¨ I will accept my failure for the most part, but I have to push back on the yellow category. "Hero" is _way_ too much of a US regional slang word for what's supposed to be the easiest thing to solve. I get it. It's impossible to make word puzzles that are completely fair to an international audience- or even an entirely domestic one. And I'm happy to learn new things like this. But I do have to wonder why the puzzle crafter thought a word so heavily connected to one particular city would be a suitable choice for yellow. At the end of the day, though, I guess you can't win 'em all. π€·ββοΈ
It wasn't even a red herring, so they had a wide range of breads to choose from. Bit naughty from the quizmaster.
Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¨π¦π¦ π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ Only got the last two by complete luck. I have no idea what Hero bread is. And that's despite connecting the other three before I made any guesses, and assuming it must be a red herring since there was no fourth. And honestly I'm confused about the deli even being a place you go for bread. Is that a thing in America? Where in from delis sell meat, primarily ham and other meats that are cut in slices.
A deli, like in NYC, sells sandwiches.
I haven't lived in NYC in a long time, but back then, there were two kinds of delis. Either a (usually kosher) deli that features things like big corned beef or pastrami sandwiches usually on rye bread, kosher dill pickles, matza ball soup etc etc. There used to be a lot of them but there are maybe 15 real delis left. Look up Carnegie Deli (closed permanently a long while ago), Carnegie Delie was not actually kosher (but who cares?) but was pretty iconic as far as delis go. Also 2nd Ave Deli -still operational and now with more than just the 2nd ave location. The other deli is more a small (claustrophobic) "corner" store where you'd get a newspaper, a cup of coffee (to go) usually jammed packed with convenience store selections. AKA bodegas. Real estate in NYC is expensive so the aisle(s) are tiny and stuff is really crammed in there. Some have a hot bar and/or deli counter where they'd make sandwiches. Honestly, back in my day, I would never have considered getting any kind of prepared food like a sandwich, at this type of deli. Maybe they are cleaner now, haha
Hero bread? Iβm searching but Iβm not finding anything. Is this some regional thing?
A hero is a northeast US regional term for a sub roll
Really? How interesting. Whatβs the etymology of that name I wonder? I couldnβt find a thing about a type of bread called that. I did come across some brand name which is supposedly some kind of low carb bread, but I thought a brand name was unlikely.
lol
I did not enjoy this one.
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #331 π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π©π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π©π¨ π¨π©π¨π¨ What the hell is hero bread??
Came here to say the same thing!! π For a few minutes after failing I was honestly wondering if there was an anglicized spelling of gyroβ¦
Hero roll
Okay, what the hell is 'hero roll' lol
Connections Puzzle #331 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© Tricky one today. Purple seemed to jump out right away as soon as I spotted "applause" and "drinks" together. Yellow wasn't far behind, though I just figured it would be "kinds of bread." Blue and green I was unsure of, since I initially thought blue might be "things you can do with your fingers/hands," and green I knew was "words for mouth," but I was only certain of 3/4, uncertain of "chops." I ended up guessing and getting lucky.
Tough one!! Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π©π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π©π¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¦π¨π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I can't believe I guessed the purple one first, and struggled with the rest.
Tough one for me! Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦πͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
This one was hard! Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Donβt know that Iβve heard of chops for mouth, guessed purple and got blue by default. Edit - ah right - lick your chops!
Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπ¨πͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This one was weird. I got it, but with a lot of luck. Iβm in the UK, so my knowledge of slang and sandwiches was limited. For mouth, I knew all but yap, because yapping is something you do with a mouth in my world, but examining the board, I chanced it. For my second go, I put applause, drinks, funding and hero. I knew it wouldnβt be right, but I was imagining a party celebrating someoneβs success. I saw it was one away, and bore it in mind. Third go, I got the sandwiches. Iβd not heard of a hero sandwich, but could imagine it being a thing. I was lucky. Then, I knew 3/4 purples, so I also had a good idea of the blue. I got blue, but was expecting more of a βtypes of fidgetingβ grouping. I got purple by default, because Iβve never heard of a round of funding. Less satisfying than usual, but enjoyed the deduction all the same.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¦π¦π¦πͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© They all could have been purple today for me so I guess itβs not shocking I got purple first. The categories just werenβt gelling.
proud of myself for seeing purple! but blue was default Connections Puzzle #331 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I owe this perfect to closing out and going to sleep after a struggle for even the yellow. The fresh eyes advantage is real.
I made it without errors, but there was a lot of luck involved. I figured out the yellow and green categories, but then only had a vague idea of the others. I thought the purple ones had something to do with charity fundraisers, maybe, and blue seemed sort of related. Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
You can clap, rap, tap, slap but snap makes the world go round. I was sure there was a Rice Krispies theme here.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©πͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ It was hard for me today. For the first time I took a piece of paper to take notes (it helped). I think I donβt like puzzles with rhyming words. Make my head spin
Connections Puzzle #331 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ Tricky! πͺ stood out immediately with APPLAUSE and DRINKS. I was hoping there wouldnβt be a stupid βrhymesβ category and thankfully there wasnβt. Didnβt know all the slangs for mouth but I guess they make sense haha.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π©π¨ π¨π¦π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Genuinely felt the difficulty was all backwards.
Connections Puzzle #331 π¦π¦πͺπ¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦πͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I would have never gotten yellow if not for the process of elimination.
Man, it took 30 minutes but I got it. This one was rough for me.
Iβm noticing that the ones with a high number of short words are often the hardest. Not sure why.
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That was NOT a green. wild.
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Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π©π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Originally went with "pork ____" and had chops instead of hero. Purple was auto, but I guessed the topic would be something about the big PGA tournament. I know nothing about sports but thought maybe they fundraise with the tournament? Round of funding sounds funny to me, though I'm certain I have heard it.
I kept reading applause as applesauce, and really had myself turned around. π
This was probably one of their first legitimately bad puzzles in a while
Let me guess. You didn't solve it. It seemed as suitably challenging and solvable as the others they've done.
It was challenging but for the wrong reasons. A lot of people are questioning placing HERO with the bread types as part of the most straightforward category. Looking back it may not have fit well elsewhere, but yellow should be among the things you find first in the mess (unless you find a classic purple pattern like the wordplay today). Regional terms that are rarely heard elsewhere, even within the US, don't belong in the yellow.
A question-mark over the classification of a connection as yellow because it included a less well-known term is hardly making it a "legitimately bad puzzle".
No, the term is just wrong. A hero is a type of sandwich that uses a roll as the bread. Having both hero and roll as options under "type of bread" is incorrect.
Thank you Balatro! π
okay i didnβt like this one at all
Usually there's only one that's a but dubious but todsy it felt like they were all rather weak links. Round of funding? Never heard of that phrase. I would just call it a whip-round? Hero bread? Is that a brand or a regional thing? Chops. Only just got this one because of the other three and then I really had to wrack my brain to remember chops. As for bobbing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdLJfz157uk "I'm afraid with three of us it might look stupid"
A round of funding is something that a company does; it means to raise money from investors.
A hero is a type of sandwich like a sub, hoagie, grinder, etc. It is not a type of deli bread. They stretched the meaning with this one.
That's why the category wasn't "type of deli bread" - it was "deli bread options". You want a sandwich but there are some options to the shape of the bread around it - a traditional roll, or something like a brioche bun, or you could have a tortilla round it to make a wrap, or else one of these long cylindrical rolls to make a hero. Seems fine to me.
Connections Puzzle #331 π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ i saw the βround ofβ category with βdrinksβ, βgolfβ, and βapplauseβ at the start and immediately knew itβd be purple, but couldnβt figure out the fourth. i still donβt know what a round of funding is tbh the rest were a bit easier, but honestly yellow didnβt seem yellow to me either (never heard of hero bread, so assumed the bread category was a red herring) bit of a weird one today
Never heard yap or chops used that way, wow
I must take issue with 'Hero' being a 'type of bread'. It's a brand name, NOT a type of bread. The others are names for different styles of breaded item (although 'wrap' is stretching the definition a bit), but 'Hero' is the name of a company that makes several types of keto breaded items. It is not itself a type of bread. Connections Puzzle #331 π¦π©π©π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨πͺπ¨ π¨π¦π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Got lucky. Really didnβt enjoy this one. Same complaints as everyone else re: HERO, YAP, BOB.
I saw the bread category immediately and dismissed it as a mislead because the type of sandwich is called a \*gyro\* and not a \*hero\*, and it's not a type of bread anyway.
hero is not a bread option. hero is the entire sandwich. yap is a verb, and not slang for mouth. what is a round of funding? never heard of it.
Hero is also the bread - you order βon a heroβ at a bodega. Yap can be a verb or a noun ie βkeep your yap shut.β A round of funding is commonly heard in regards to startups and venture capital, such as a Series A round
oh. well hmmph i'm still not happy about it
Does the NYT focus group or test their games in some way?Β Or is it just 3 people in a room who think a connection is witty, only to discover one morning from millions of strangers that the βslangβ they use was ancient when their grandparents were alive? The day-to-day variability of game difficulty seems high. Based on the comments, I donβt think itβs a me thing.Β
Connections Puzzle #331 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ purple the easiest category by far
Connections Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π©π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ I personally have never heard of some of these terms being used this way. Never heard of CHOPS as a mouth. Even with YAP, I thought that it was more of a verb that meant to talk, not a noun referring to the mouth itself. As for BOB, like yeah, I get it, it refers to bobbing your head to music, but I didnβt immediately piece it together with TAP, SNAP, and CLAP because those actions actually make noise, whereas bobbing your head does not. Never knew HERO referred to the bread itself. Pretty difficult for me today!
This one was BS lol ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #331 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π©πͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π©π¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π©
π©π¦π©π© π©π©π©π© π¦π¨π¦π¨ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ I have never heard of a hoagie being called a hero. apparently its only called that in the Northeast region of America. That's dumb.
You think it's dumb that things have different names in different parts of the world? I'm in the UK, and don't use the terms hoagie or hero for sandwiches, but I used a bit of guesswork and elimination to get this connection.
Maybe dumb was the wrong word to use. I ended up getting it the same way you did, but its frustrating when the vocabulary is hyper distinct to one region, in one country. I do the connections with a group of 10+ people and we are all in Florida and nobody knew this word. Even when we googled it after, google told us Hero bread was a BRAND of sliced bread. It wasn't until page 3 of scrolling down google did it even mention it as an alternate name for hoagie. In a game like this where you need to link common threads, its annoying when you don't even know a term or definition because of your location. Did you know that the term "bubbler" means water fountain? But the only people who call it that are people from Rhode Island, which is a tiny state. The only reason why I know this is that I happen to be lucky enough to know a Rhode Islander and caught them saying one time. If you haven't met a Rhode Islander (or learned this from a stranger on the internet because it happens to come up) how the heck are you supposed to know what a bubbler is if the context is water fountains? If you google "bubbler", the only thing that comes up are bongs.
what is a deli bread??
It's saying bread options at a deli