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Quote from: Philosophers on May 26, 2024, 10:09:33 AMI dont want Dans to be a teacher. I want his coaches to be teachers. I want Dabs to have great organizational skills, strategize brilliantly and lead in a way that the team follows him.Good point. I've observed him in moments of one on one with a player but his position coaches are the teachers. He meets and coaches his staff. As a good leader, he should work through them. I even question how much one on one he had with Josh Allen over the QB Coach but an OC and HC he will spend more time with the QB than any other player or position. The QB is involved with the Game Plan on a weekly basis and a lot of the Offensive is developed around the QB.
Quote from: DaveBrown74 on May 26, 2024, 08:30:16 PMFeel like it's the same one but I don't know. I will do it tomorrow AM and I expect to see something different.If I did the same one this morning, why did it open as a new puzzle? I must have been half asleep this morning. Although I was wondering why it was so easy tonight. Lol
Quote from: BluesCruz on May 26, 2024, 06:54:37 AMCheers to youThis is what he does. Feel honored he even took the time. You bring this xxxx upon yourself with outrageous statements as the preponderance of fact. You do however, provoke discussion, even if it is to expose the lunacy. I have seen marked improvement and there is some wisdom tucked in there. So to that point keep up the good work. If you didn't exist, Rich would have to invent you.
but no need to hurl insults my friend
Being a Giants fan can elicit frustration of late. I'll chalk it up to that
enjoy your day
Quote from: DaveBrown74 on May 25, 2024, 04:51:25 PMNot too dissimilar from me.I do that sometimes too but I do get caught with the wrong theme and burn lives. I will also leave it and comeback as I do with Strands and then something becomes clear.
I read through the whole thing once ideally without rushing - sometimes twice - and try to spend a few seconds thinking about each word and potential multiple meanings it might have. Once I've gone through that, on most days, I can usually get one right away. Obviously some days are harder than others. Once I get that first one it's generally a process of finding pairs or possibly sets of three that I feel pretty good about and then finding the best candidate(s) for the last word(s).
I think I've mentioned this before, but one thing I try to do is when I think I have one dead right, and then it's wrong, and it's early in the puzzle, I try to move away from that category altogether and find something else. Too many times when I first started doing Connections I'd get stuck on one idea, and then it turned out the whole idea was wrong. By cutting my losses with a given theme when I get it wrong once, I have found the results seem to be better than when I keep using up guesses by just swapping out one word for another. Obviously if it's later in the puzzle you may not have any other option, but I try to avoid that when it's early.
Quote from: DaveBrown74 on May 25, 2024, 01:14:33 PMHow do you "do" Connections, Ed?I read the words from the bottom up and then scan for pairs. It's usually the case where I have three pretty solid matches and then there are a couple of words that could match as a 4th. Then I search for another set of words before I commit to that set. I try to get three sets with at least two word matches and then go process of elimination. Often I pick four and one is wrong. Sometimes two are wrong. Occasionally the purple is obvious but that's rare.
In other words how do you approach the puzzle each day? Do you have some sort of process that you rigidly apply to each game, or do you just kind of eyeball it and wing it?
Just curious.