Art Plays Connections For Monday May 18

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[00:00:00]What's up everybody? We're going to attempt to solve the Connections puzzle and this is going to be for uh Monday, May 18, 2026.

[00:00:07]Oh, ouch. I am not a fan of super short words.

[00:00:13]And without exception, they're all one syllable, except for padre and royal and wiki. Okay? But yeah, otherwise I think they're all one syllable. Now, the good news is I do see some word play and I see a French word, père.

[00:00:28]Okay?

[00:00:30]Oh, whoa. Hey.

[00:00:37]Padre.

[00:00:39]I think we have father.

[00:00:43]Uh at least so far we have it in three languages, right? We've got Spanish, pop would be, you know, English and père in French.

[00:00:56]Cheap, royal, crack, pair.

[00:01:01]But that could be That could be That might not be what they're looking at because there's also a homophones, pair, pair, pair and pair.

[00:01:12]I think that's what it is cuz I really didn't see another father.

[00:01:16]Okay, let's see what else we got here.

[00:01:20]Um Earp.

[00:01:26]Begins with ear.

[00:01:28]Hm.

[00:01:30]Think there will be a phrase here with a word like red and Oh, good. I got it. Okay, we've got that one. We can do something with padre. We got the Padres, the Royals, the Twins, and the Reds. Those are uh baseball teams. Not bad.

[00:01:47]And then we've got I guess pop, split, blow, and crack. Those would be like almost like onomatopoeia.

[00:01:56]And then that leaves you with probably purple. Let's find out.

[00:02:01]Wiki, lump earp Um and pair. No, not that.

[00:02:09]Cheap.

[00:02:13]Oh, that's that's strange. That makes me a little nervous because I'm not sure what the going on with that.

[00:02:23]Wiki, earp lump and cheap.

[00:02:48]Hm.

[00:02:50]>> [snorts] >> Wow. Okay, let's make sure everything else was correct here.

[00:02:56]The Reds, the Twins, the Royals, and the Padres.

[00:03:03]Pair, pair, pair, pair.

[00:03:06]Crack, blow, split pop.

[00:03:11]Unless I want to put Would lump go in there?

[00:03:14]Crack, blow crack.

[00:03:32]Harp.

[00:03:35]Maybe it's word play with the first letter. That's maybe what we could harp, hump.

[00:03:55]>> Okay. All right. We have to think about this pop, split, blow, crack.

[00:04:05]Huh.

[00:04:06]That's like comic book, you know, when you read a comic book and you'll see uh crack, blow, split, pop.

[00:04:19]Not lump, right? Lump, that would be a little weird. So, I do think, believe it or not, this is correct.

[00:04:26]I think. Heap.

[00:04:29]Oh, it's got to be word play. What is it though?

[00:04:34]Carp.

[00:04:53]>> [snorts] >> Hm.

[00:04:56]Although, they all they end in the P.

[00:05:02]I'm a little confused. Let's go with some stuff that I think is legit >> [snorts] >> um before we get into trouble. So, let's go with the Reds, the Royals, the Padres, and the Twins hopefully for uh Major League Baseball teams.

[00:05:17]Okay.

[00:05:19]And uh let's go with the hopefully these are homophones.

[00:05:29]Okay, good.

[00:05:31]And uh this is where I could be in trouble.

[00:05:35]But, let's start with crack, split, blow, and pop for like almost like sounds that you would hear like is sounds that are portrayed when you read comic books and almost for the onomatopoeia effect.

[00:05:57]Oh, thank god. Rupture.

[00:06:01]Uh, half point. That was a little lame.

[00:06:04]Okay, now this is your purple. It's too bad I didn't see this because Uh, yeah, I think a reverse rainbow would have been pretty doable.

[00:06:20]Cheep.

[00:06:22]It's word play for sure obviously, but what is the word play? That's That'd be great to get this. Cheep, wiki, lump, and earp.

[00:06:31]Uh.

[00:06:50]Oh.

[00:06:52]I got it.

[00:06:57]I got it. Uh, but I'm blown away because I'm asking myself, is this the first time they've done this?

[00:07:09]These are fruits scr- These are fruits, but they're scrambled. I don't remember any time in the past where they've done that.

[00:07:17]Right?

[00:07:20]Cuz I mean technically as you could say oh like cheep would be an anagram of peach.

[00:07:28]I guess yeah, you could say either these are scrambled fruits or these are anagrams of fruits, but you you got your peach, your kiwi, your plum, and your pear. Wow. Let's put it in. Let's see how they phrase it.

[00:07:40]Fruit anagrams, okay. Yeah, maybe I'm looking in too deep.

[00:07:44]Wow, that was good.

[00:07:46]Oh, I was so nervous at first, guys. I was like, "No, you got to be kidding."

[00:07:50]Um and they almost fooled me with fathers, but I really think there was only three: pair, padre, and pop.

[00:07:58]I don't think there's any more.

[00:08:03]Yeah, I don't think there was any more.

[00:08:07]You never know. Maybe p a r e could be father in another language as well.

[00:08:12]But I am really happy with that. That was great. Uh that was a fun puzzle, too, but I do get nervous when they're all single words, and I'm happy we got the fruit anagrams. That's That was pretty cool.

[00:08:21]Cuz what was getting me is I kept thinking of like Wikipedia or Uh yeah, like just wiki.

[00:08:28]I wasn't thinking of the kiwi, and that prevented me from anagramming the others, but we got it.

[00:08:34]>> [snorts] >> Guys, please, as always, share your results, let us know how you did, and we'll look forward to seeing you tomorrow for the next round of connections.