FourPlay - A Game of Connections

FourPlay - A Game of Connections

Fourplay, hosted by Carmela Smith, is a game show that tests a player's ability to make a connection. Contestants are given four different sets of four words in 2 minute intervals and are challenged to find the connections between the words in each set and then the connection between the sets themselves. Think you have what it takes to be a four time champion? There's only one way to find out. Welcome to FourPlay FourPlay is an Oakes Media Group podcast.

Episodes

July 18, 2025 13 mins

After a terrific win last week, Bing Kao has returned to see if he can do it again. Listen in and play along!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. A Breakfast Club member, one who shifts shapes?, indulgence spree, a curveball (informally). 
2. One, Phone, Help Desk, India. 
3. Black being Shallow, Green Lantern, Cranston in the Middle, Chalamet’s middle. 
4. A ring song, A League of Their Own, American women known for her riveting performan...

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We've got a new contender this week! Bing Kao is here to play our game of connections. Listen in and play along!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. snake, Edmonton, hydrocarbon outcome?, Tennessee Titans. 
2. sunglasses, publicly criticize, a nocturnal plant?, a desert oasis or beach refuge?. 
3. Barbara Eden, Christina Aguilera, Will Smith, Shaquille O’Neal. 
4. cake, rock phase, a game floor?, Sharkboy complement?. 

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July 4, 2025 18 mins

It's July 4th! It's also the 4th game for Nikki Bates! Let's find out if she'll gain her spot in the 4Play Hall of Fame.

Here are today’s clues: 

1. reportedly about a quart?, spiritual, fearless, ruler. 
2. Florence addition?, type of gun, learning, make metal parts. 
3. radical, bring it down a notch?, violet to green descriptor, Whip. 
4. Labour, type of animal?, event, search. 

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June 27, 2025 10 mins

Nikki is back at it again this week! Will she take her streak to three? Listen in to find out!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. Pop, bathtub, One, call. 
2. spinner, dressing, wedge, word. 
3. black, perfect, hurl, tar. 
4. Prospero, Atari, storm, Bledsoe. 

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June 20, 2025 10 mins

After a win last week, Nikki Bates is back again to go for a repeat. Listen in and play along!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. like, REALLY high?, beans, bread, made some dough?. 
2. Monkeys, Circle, Ocean, frigid. 
3. playable D&D species, garden resident, perhaps?, Linux desktop option, metro- . 
4. that's just the way it is?, political division, mental, Farm. 

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June 13, 2025 11 mins

We've got TW host Nikki Bates in the hot seat today. Join in, play along, and see if Nikki will be returning next week!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. A famous 33, sounds like something the writer could be?, crane, arguably the First Lady?. 
2. X, perfect, it preceded 1993's Vs., base. 
3. cheese cohort, non-PC?, Little boxer, Studio Fix makers. 
4. monk address, blood, soul, musical septet member. 

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June 6, 2025 19 mins

This week, Liz is going for the threepeat! Will she make it to game four? You're about to find out!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. Charlotte, prick, entrapment in a sense, bee. 
2. precipice, advantage, you can take it off to make it weaker, uou can put it on to make it sharper. 
3. Hudson, clear your throat, sell some goods, Kitty. 
4. Teen Titan, it's disputedly like a writing desk?, Jackson, Henry, or Hunter as of 2024, that's so w...

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May 30, 2025 12 mins

After a win last week, Liz is BACK! Play along and find out if Liz will be returning again next week.

Here are today’s clues: 

1. ash, Ed, a famous one is about a sixth of a square mile, some get it in the morning?. 
2. black, skin source, dog, follower. 
3. wall, failed shot attempt, some are yellow while some are gold?, non-functional tech. 
4. birth name of a famous athlete, you'll find it at the French Open, potter's need, pige...

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May 23, 2025 12 mins

This week, we've got Liz Thaler here to play our game (and talk a bit about a new podcast!). Listen in and see if she'll be returning next week!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. child's play, musician E, comparable to a Sunday morning, chair. 
2. one is known for being Great, where writing can be found, the 4th can be broken, bulwark. 
3. Van Halen directive, Pointer Sisters directive, Kris Kross directive, Harry Belafonte directive. 
4...

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May 16, 2025 18 mins

We're back for Season 17! Returning from last season, we've got Zahkia Mendoza to see if she'll get her third win!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. card holder, sole provider, it can be found on a tree, Air Force 1. 
2. 3rd in a vocal list, Brown, Day, military slang for an enemy. 
3. chair, beams, five, drug trial result?. 
4. plant, Chuck D and co.'s 1989 foe, authority, Ranger. 

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February 28, 2025 14 mins

After a terrific win last week, Zahkia is back this week to see if she can get another win. Listen in and play along!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. lock, monstrous jewelry?, nominatively deterministic athlete?, nuts . 
2. West Coast baller, familiarly?, one of mid-April's high?, non-athletic Sportswear?, former first daughter's middle name. 
3. Courtney Love locale, Rum, Petras performance, where you might find an absolute doll or tw...

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February 21, 2025 11 mins

We've got OMG royalty here! Zahkia Mendoza is in the contestant seat to see if she can make the connections and return again next week. 

Here are today’s clues: 

1. nickname for Venice or Pittsburgh, a problem for Königsberg?, title structures for Meryl Streep, Dude.
2. first of three in a two-person game, classic, ice, bottom.
3. movie millionaire, 80s role for a small Frye, video game barista, Internet Archive founder.
4. 90s den...

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February 14, 2025 11 mins

Newcomer Doug Hooton joins Carmela this week to see if he can make our connections. Listen in and play along!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. business, something you deal with?, score, determine one's age.
2. neighborhood, timekeeper, view, Apple.
3. top, hunter, Edith, Radio.
4. 8 to 2?, Cosmic, Nintendo Game, Nissan model.

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February 7, 2025 12 mins

We're going for a threepeat! Join Anthony as he sees if he can keep his streak alive.

Here are today’s clues: 

1. complete, I heard you're from Helsinki?, what gives a surface its appearance, wine quality. 
2. candy, place to learn how to work?, chop, emporium. 
3. what comes after the point?, darn, fire, opposite of work in wrestling. 
4. part of a Freudian trio, caller, meteoric suffix, contraction. 

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January 31, 2025 12 mins

After a win last week, Anthony is back this week. Listen in and play along!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. blanket, China that's really in Vietnam?, ocean front, nude. 
2. island show, Ark, what you get by wandering?, we got the beat?. 
3. poor, spoiled, it's Billie Eilish, duh!, Religion. 
4. trans, lip, cat, Tuesday. 

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January 24, 2025 10 mins

This week, newcomer Anthony Brandofino joins Carmela. Will he make the connection and return next week? Listen in and find out!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. Colonel, brown, deli, Kendrick collaborator. 
2. Aux, phone, string, parachute activator. 
3. Cassette, PowerPoint, lido, flight. 
4. Chuck, smile prompter, shredded, head. 

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January 17, 2025 12 mins

Ian Schulze is in the contestant seat this week. Join in and play along as we find out if Ian will be back again next week!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. Boston parcel, artist with an EGO? one day it'll all make sense..., type of law. 
2. it's good for nothing?, 2-player card game, the First was Great until the Second?, land-based admiral?. 
3. Gang namesake, Blunt, First Of The Fifteenth?, New Testament book. 
4. Finger, great condu...

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January 10, 2025 13 mins

This week, Drew Buxbaum joins Carmela to try to start up a winning streak. Listen in and play along!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. brush, canine cure?, American tribal love-rock musical, pin . 
2. homebound bunnies?, RWBY element, particulates, jacket. 
3. soil, rare metal type, Google, a Kitt? . 
4. sentinel, Galaxy resident, recent Cleveland worker?, British news source. 

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January 3, 2025 14 mins
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December 27, 2024 14 mins

Brittany Shaw is here for a final time, going for the 4-peat on 4Play! Play along and find out if Brittany will be joining the 4Play Hall of Fame!

Here are today’s clues: 

1. six, end, meaningful, dive. 
2. baby, coat, lined, pelt. 
3. sake, first, Tune, maiden. 
4. side, wipe, inside, ground. 

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