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Streaking Along with Connections

Mark takes on four more days of the New York Times's Connections game, attempting to piece together four groups of four related answers for four days ...

See how he does in this video: 2025-02-07 10:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Connections - the Struggle Continues

Not always sure what the connections are that he's connecting, Mark struggles onwards...

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February Patreon reward - "Are You My Mamma?"

Hello Patreons!

Thank you so much for supporting the channel! As February's reward, we are bringing you "Are You My Mamma?", a collection of sudoku puzzles based on Number Sums, a technique e...

Stumbling around the Connections

Mark tackles 4 more days of the New York Times Connections boards, from 25th – 28th January. Remember to leave a comment on the video if you appreciate this content appearing!

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Clueless Connections

Welcome to another video of Mark struggling with the New York Times's connections game for four days. Will he get through the harder ones and keep a nascent streak alive? Find out here ...

Th...

Connections by Default

Mark takes on another five days of Connections by The New York Times, and finds that occasionally you have to identify one linked set (or even more) by virtue of nothing else being available ... 2025-01-21 09:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

The Connections Roller-Coaster

SIX more days of Mark taking on the New York Times's Connections boards - a bit of an emotional roller-coaster this time ...

You can watch the video here: 2025-01-16 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

A Cryptic Superstar, Gone too Soon

Mark takes on the Times's Monthly Club Special, a cryptic that reaches into the most arcane vocabulary possible. Today's puzzle, if our information is correct is the third by James Brydon, but also...

A Continuation of Connections

There's five days of Connections from Mark here, as he tries to continue his incipient streak, which began in the last two weeks of the old year, into the new ...

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Connections in a New Year

Mark tackles the first four New York Times Connections boards of a new year - see how he does in this video:

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January Patreon Reward - The Hobbit

Hello Patreons, and Happy New Year!

We are delighted to bring you the follow-up to Blobz's amazing Lord of the Rings sudoku hunt (from June 2024). This is The Hobbit, and Blobz himself descri...

Year End Connections

Watch Mark tackle five more days of Connections from December 27th all the way up to December 31st - the next video will take place entirely in 2025. Happy New Year, everyone!

Here's where yo...

Connections through Christmas

Mark tackles the New York Times's Connections game from 21st December all the way through Christmas until the 26th.

See the video here: 2024-12-27 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Connections that Elude One

Keeping that Connections streak alive should not of course be the entire focus of this game - which is fun in its own right - but somehow it feels like it is ...

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Evil Cryptic Deception

It's Roger Phillips' turn this week to set the evil Times Monthly Club Special, a cryptic crossword designed to send you scurrying to your dictionaries and other reference sources - but Mark tries ...

Picture these Connections!

Mark takes on the New York Times's Connections game for five days from 12th - 16th December, beginning with a rebus day!

You can watch the video here and see how he does:

Video link: 2024-12-17 09:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Making Good Connections

Mark tries another four days of the Connections game from the New York Times, hoping for some rather smoother sailing than in the last two videos ...

See how he does here: 2024-12-12 09:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post

An Absolutely GENIUS cryptic

Mark tackles the much-recommended November Guardian Genius cryptic crossword puzzle - and you won't believe the results.

There are some links in the video description to both where you can ac...

Connections on a Knife Edge

Watch Mark try and start a new sequence of successful Connections solves as he tries four more days - but put some time aside for this video!

You can watch it here 2024-12-08 09:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Connections becoming a tough watch

Mark takes on another four days of the New York Times's Connections game, but things begin to get a bit sticky ...

See the video here: 2024-12-04 09:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

December Patreon Reward - Swipe Right

Hello Patreons!

Thank you so much for supporting the channel. As the monthly reward for November, we are delighted to bring you Swipe Right by CtC, where you get to help out the "CtC Dating A...

Cleaning up the Connections

Mark takes on four more days of the New York Times's Connections game - can he figure out all the connections each day?

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2024-11-30 09:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Duality II Solution Videos - part 3

Here are the last five walkthrough solution videos, explaining the solutions to the Duality II pack by Skunkworks, and also another explaining the completion of the meta-puzzle. Thank you so much t...

Connections Including a Fail

Mark forgot to include a video from the 17th last time - it is included now. And then he tackles four days of Connections in a row from 22nd - 25th November. Don't worry - he will explain it all .....

Duality II Solution Videos - part 2

Here are the first five walkthrough solution videos, explaining the solutions to the Duality II pack by Skunkworks. Thank you so much to everyone at Skunkworks for creating the puzzles, the pack an...

November reward Solution Videos - pt 1

Here are the first five walkthrough solution videos, explaining the solutions to the Duality II pack by Skunkworks. Thank you so much to everyone at Skunkworks for creating the puzzles, the pack an...

Don't Let Connections Break You

Mark tackles the NYT's Connections puzzle for four days in a row, from 18th - 21st November.

After last week's fail, surely it can't happen again?

You can see the video here: 2024-11-22 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Thank You Very Much by James Sinclair

As mentioned in tonight's video, Simon was scheduled to attempt this puzzle today before we were inundated with requests to look at James' Fog Of Where?. Unsurprisingly this is also a wonderful sud...

A Decent Run of Connections

Mark has having a go at Connections, after losing his streak in the last video andstarting a new one. How will the American - British cultural differences play out this time?

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Our new Crossword Champion tangles with the Impossible

Each month Mark takes on the Times Monthly Club Special, WITHOUT A DICTIONARY. This vicious cryptic is not designed to be tackled that way!

This puzzle is James Brydon's second contribution t...