Four by Four (stolen from Only Connect)

[Quailman]

For the second, after Mr. Enigma's, is it:

Apollo, Adeplhi, Globe, Rose --> Theatres
Fist, Duke, Cross, Duchess (of Queensbury) --> Boxing Terms
Tegan, Sarah Jane, Ace, Lady? --> Dr. Who characters??

[Zag]

Duchess as a boxing term? Gosh, I hope not.

[Scurra]

Quailman - you've got two of the themes identified, but you only have three right in each of the groups. The "kicks in martial arts" group was right, although the actual team was thrown by "Roundhouse" which they started out by trying to put in the Theatres group.
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[ChickenMarengo]

Yes, I don't think the Marquess of Queensbury would be too happy that you called him a duchess!

I don't think Lady was a Dr. Who character, so how about:

Tegan, Sarah Jane, Ace, Rose --> Dr. Who characters
Apollo, Adeplhi, Globe, Duchess --> Theatres

Which leaves Fist, Duke, Lady, Cross

Before you posted Scurra, I was going to put Cross as a kick and Crescent in the Theatres.

[Mr Nigma]

Holy crap, I though I was joking.

[Scurra]

CM - those are indeed the right groups. All you need is the link for the last set...
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[ChickenMarengo]

Of course: iron

[ChickenMarengo]

I think Quailman's right about the first pic, with the rest of the answer being Blackmail is also a Hitchcock film, and Pew, Silver, Hands and Bones are characters from Treasure Island.

[lexprod]

Since mine is near solved, I'll post the four groups, but not the fourth's connection...

NIGHT
FOOD
CENTER
SUPERIOR

courts

BIRTHDAY
BUSINESS
SANTA
LAW

suits

POUND
HOUSE
DAYS
PILE

dog _____

and the last group

INDEPENDENT
GLORIA
PASSION
DIVORCE

Here's a hint, it could also include GLAMOROUS, BINGO, and RESPECT.

[Quailman]

I thought I knew the answer from Gloria and Divorce, but had Divorce in the wrong group, and hadn't heard of the others (or couldn't remember them at my advanced age).

[Scurra]

Here are this week's boards:

Alpha


Beta



(yes, this is a quiz show which uses Greek letters to identify the rounds!)
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[Zag]

Wow. These are hard! In the show, do they have opportunity to guess, get some feedback, and guess again? Or is it a one-time guess and you're right or wrong.

Alpha:
Hume and Locke are both philosophers. With a little work on Wikipedia, I see that there were philosophers named Berlin and Green and Mill, but I had never heard of them. (Well, maybe Berlin.)

Grass and Pot (and maybe Tea) are nicknames for marijuana. Don't see another.

Beta:
Time, Vogue, and Forbes are well-known magazines, but I don't see another.

Rockefeller, Agnew, Fairbanks, Humphrey were all U.S. Vice-Presidents who never became President. I feel pretty good about this one. Bush was also a Vice-President -- if the division is post WW II vs. pre-WW II, he could replace Fairbanks (who was Teddy Roosevelt's VP), or you could replace Humphrey with Bush and they are all republicans, but I like the first grouping better.

[ChickenMarengo]

Beta:
The fourth magazine is Arena

Zag, I think the other category you've got is allowed to be simply U.S. Vice Presidents and any of the 5 can be in a different group. (Like 300 and the films, from the all-numbers round).

[Persona]

Yay, new series! Thanks for the updates while I wait for all of them to be available in the States. Until then...

BEAN
BURNS
CUT
DOUBLE
FLEA
FROST
HIGH
HOMER
LONG
POUND
SINGLE
SKI
SKINNY
TRACK
TRIPLE
TUNE

[Quailman]

I see Burns, Pound, Frost... Homer?
Single, Double, Bean, Ski

[Zag]

umm, how about single, double, triple, homer? Seems kind of straightforward, eh?

Though I would like to use triple with high, long, and ski, as ___ jump

[meh*]

For alpha:
HAMMER, QUESTION, TEA and HAY time

[Dented Ford]

I think for 2 groups:HIGH, LONG, SKI, TRIPLE (JUMP) [edit] just uninvizzed Zag's "wanna try" - I agree[/edit]

BURNS, FROST, HOMER, POUND (POETS)

BEAN, SKINNY and DOUBLE make me think of coffee

[Zag]

Hmmm. Maybe the baseball hits were there as misdirection, after all.

The trickiest word here, IMHO, is FLEA. "Flea market" and "flea circus" are all I can think to do with it, and those go nowhere.

Hmmm. How about flea bag, bean bag, double bag , and ...?

[Quailman]

Flea, Bean, Double, Skinny - DIP
Track, Cut, Single, Tune - SONGS

and of course,

Homer, Pound, Frost, Burns - POETS
Long, Triple, Ski, High - JUMP

[Scurra]

Alpha board


Beta board

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[Quailman]

Alpha:
Cartwright, Fletcher, Goldsmith, Chandler (occupations)
Kitten, Fry, Elver, Lamb, (young animalia)
Platform, Wedge, Cuban, Joey (shoes)
Ross, Greene, Benton,Carter (ER docs)

Beta:
All I see right off is Fu Manchu, Walrus, Hitler, Dali

[Quailman]

Also for Beta:
Biro, Bartok, Houdini, Rubik (Hungarians)

That leaves:

Pen, Tail, Headed, Skin (Light?) just guessing here
Pencil, Bubble, Tulip, Hobble

[Zag]

I think Pencil, Bubble, and Hobble are all skirts I don't know if tulip or any of the others fits.

[Quailman]

Tulip fits that, but I didn't know the others did.

[Scurra]

Catching up. Here are the last two "first round boards"

Alpha
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Beta
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[Scurra]

And here are the first semi-final boards (one of which contains perhaps the best idea yet - I'm surprised they didn't save it for the final.)

Alpha
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Beta
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[lexprod]

[ralphmerridew]

Re beta, I noticed quite a few anagrams: Alice / Celia, Brush / Shrub, Pea / Ape, Palm / Lamp

[Zag]

In beta, I see three soups: Alphabet, mock turtle, and pea, I don't recognize a fourth. The Through the Looking Glass characters is an obvious false lead, so I'm not even going to invis it.

Also are things that one can be "Mad as" (March Hare, Wet Hen), making me disappointed not to find a Hatter. Maybe it's just classic similies, including "Dumb as a bag of hammers" and "Hairy as an ape."

[Zag]

[Scurra]

Sorry about that. I realised that I had missed a week but of couse posting two together looks silly. I should have labelled the second two Gamma and Delta I suppose...?
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[lexprod]

Series 3 is on right now in the UK, anyone know a good place for the fans across the pond to....less than legitimately...watch them?

In return, here's a 4x4 of my own:

Date
Lemon
Scary
Fiesta
Fire
Daisy
Barf
Disaster
Sugar
Orange
Desire
Epic
Electra
Rose
Magnificent
Edgar

[Scurra]

I actually remembered this thread at the weekend, but decided not to post any of the boards from the show until we got to the second round stage.

Mind you, there have been some killers this series already...
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[Quailman]

I see two obvious (to me) groups in lexprod's list College Football Bowls and Movies' first names, but I can't make anything from the rest names of fragrances?. That usually means my two groupings are wriong.

[PuzzleScot]

I could see a few groupings/lists too:
Rose/Sugar/Fire/Barf --- water?
Scary/Disaster/Epic/Magnificent --- movies?
Desire/Electra/Fiesta/Edgar --- Vehicle models? (ford?)
Date/Orange/Lemon/Daisy --- flowers?
FWIW</shrug>

[lexprod]

Few, I was worried there was not enough false connections to keep this puzzle for more than a day.

[Zag]

It took me a long time to parse that, until I realized you meant "Phew"

[PuzzleScot]

[lexprod]

http://buzzerblog.flashgameshows.com/bbc4s-only-connect-starts-new-series-monday-january-4th/