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.

Arjun Sivakumar Game 1 11/21/2025

Arjun Sivakumar Game 1 This week's newcomer is Arjun Sivakumar! Join us, play along, and see if Arjun will be coming back again next week! Here are today’s clues: 1. Charlize Theron, Cookie, American venomous lizard, truck. 2. Chicago, utter nonsense, market, April 20th-May 20th representative. 3. Explosive, a Battleship option perhaps, medical shorthand for the exact middle of the neck?, 100 IV in other words. 4. Elvis, Grand Theft Auto, Post Malone and Nickelback hits, a marble Sun perhaps?. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/39117635

Eugene Chang Game 1 11/14/2025

Eugene Chang Game 1 This week we've got Eugene Chang in the hot seat to see if he can make our connections. Listen in and play along! Here are today’s clues: 1. Jack, a sure bet for Snipes?, noire, beans. 2. flower, child, a place to return?, Adventures. 3. leather, sausage, a language for romance?, a purveyor of matrimonial soups and cookies?. 4. a friendly automaton, Fox, Park, a Suited princess?. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/39023090

Dustin Resch Game 1 11/07/2025

Dustin Resch Game 1 Jodie got her fourth win last week, so now we've got a newcomer! Dustin Resch is here this week to see if he can make the connections. Listen in and play along! Here are today’s clues: 1. Bush, Kiss, Spade, Moss. 2. Bridge, Botany, Michael, Old. 3. Little, Bottom, Lobster, Roshambo Option. 4. Kite, Lady, Eye, Tony. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/38939130

Jodie Steele Game 4 10/31/2025

Jodie Steele Game 4 Jodie is back to make her attempt at entering the 4Play Hall of Fame with win number four! Will she get there? Listen in to find out! Here are today’s clues: 1. horn, baloney, Jordan, pen. 2. it's full of beans?, Rock & Roll Band, Market, cream. 3. Pizza, tattle, gym, race. 4. Michael, silver, Homer's home?, kit. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/38843675

Jodie Steele Game 3 10/24/2025

Jodie Steele Game 3 It's week 3 of our season and it's week 3 for Jodie Steele! Join us and see how she does this time around. Here are today’s clues: 1. Barbie, power, Gossip, Scout. 2. spin, dog, shelf, crop. 3. slam, donut, baptize, humiliate. 4. ponder, music, fast, twice. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/38757870

Jodie Steele Game 2 10/17/2025

Jodie Steele Game 2 After a win last week, Jodie is back again! Listen in, play along, and see if Jodie can get a repeat. Here are today’s clues: 1. Thread, wealth, shared area, Thomas Paine. 2. Monopoly, slim, second, he’s Homeward Bound?. 3. The next generation, Fry, Fox mission?, an oft-misnamed Dickens’ spirit. 4. Investigate secretly, Felicia Pearson on The Wire, Peanuts, person who pries. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/38611535

Jodie Steele Game 1 10/10/2025

Jodie Steele Game 1 Welcome back! We're kicking off season 18 with Jodie Steele. Listen in and play along! Here are today’s clues: 1. theatrical production, pen, film villain Charles Lee Ray, Station. 2. love, Jack Skellington pup, bottom of Kelvin, missing year?. 3. the other Napoleon, motor bike, Washington Commander mascot, to be selfish. 4. Fiji, famous Gate?, fall, Cancer for example. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/38526010

Bing Kao Game 4 08/01/2025

Bing Kao Game 4 It's our last episode of season 17, and we've got the exciting conclusion of Bing Kao's run! Will he join the 4Play Hall of Fame, or will he retire as "merely" a 3-time champ? Join us and find out! Here are today’s clues: 1. Cash, William, injure, leverage. 2. mate, green, waiting, space. 3. note, Fruit, pay, Little. 4. infinite, one-two, amalgam, mixture. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/37628870

Bing Kao Game 3 07/25/2025

Bing Kao Game 3 Bing Kao is back with us again! Listen in, play along, and see if he'll be back again for our final Season 17 episode next week. Here are today’s clues: 1. building extension, clip, Nike characteristic, specialty of Western New York. 2. Green, Black, Nike character, Elba and Elton for example. 3. life, yellow, varsity, dinner. 4. page, Biblical censorship?, loose, Nissan model. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/37534435

Bing Kao Game 2 07/18/2025

Bing Kao Game 2 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 performance, Perez. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/37444595

Bing Kao Game 1 07/11/2025

Bing Kao Game 1 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?. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/37373410

Nikki Bates Game 4 07/04/2025

Nikki Bates Game 4 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/37275085

Nikki Bates Game 3 06/27/2025

Nikki Bates Game 3 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/37162565

Nikki Bates Game 2 06/20/2025

Nikki Bates Game 2 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/37079970

Nikki Bates Game 1 06/13/2025

Nikki Bates Game 1 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/36973455

Liz Thaler Game 3 06/06/2025

Liz Thaler Game 3 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 what?. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/36699300

Liz Thaler Game 2 05/30/2025

Liz Thaler Game 2 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, pigeon. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/36699285

Liz Thaler Game 1 05/23/2025

Liz Thaler Game 1 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. water, sounds like a Banger?, principal, key event. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/36674330

Zahkia Mendoza Game 3 05/16/2025

Zahkia Mendoza Game 3 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/36577730

Zahkia Mendoza Game 2 02/28/2025

Zahkia Mendoza Game 2 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 two?. 4. plug, provide Marie with joy?, initial attraction, TL;DR notes for college students?. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/35458280

Zahkia Mendoza Game 1 02/21/2025

Zahkia Mendoza Game 1 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 denim, DERV in the UK, inventor Rudolf, Shaq behind the decks. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/35364815

Doug Hooton Game 1 02/14/2025

Doug Hooton Game 1 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/35273675

Anthony Brandofino Game 3 02/07/2025

Anthony Brandofino Game 3 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/35180170

Anthony Brandofino 01/31/2025

Anthony Brandofino 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/35083625

Anthony Brandofino Game 1 01/24/2025

Anthony Brandofino Game 1 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/34985060

Ian Schulze Game 1 01/17/2025

Ian Schulze Game 1 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 conductor?, Rush, leaf material?. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/34883340

Drew Buxbaum Game 1 01/10/2025

Drew Buxbaum Game 1 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/34791445

Jane Hansen Game 1 01/03/2025

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Brittany Shaw Game 4 12/27/2024

Brittany Shaw Game 4 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. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/34622855

Brittany Shaw Game 3 12/20/2024

Brittany Shaw Game 3 Brittany Shaw is back again after nailing the connections on her first two episodes. Join in and find out if she'll be coming back again next week! Here are today’s clues: 1. Yungblud song with Dan Reynolds, a novel concept, gangster, a beginning. 2. West, Nazgul, a regulated amount of innings, seven’s diet?. 3. Lost, Alpha, My, hypothetical space-faring vessel. 4. Album name shared by ELO and Daft Punk, eureka!, third space shuttle, Land Rover model. /episode/index/show/fourplay/id/34535220

FourPlay - A Game of Connections

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