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[Eevee]

Anyone want to play?

The randomizer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TXkY5snm_uhZQNYvGqwrLSHjuHARIZouOP5pBEWRMXA/edit#gid=0

[Jimmmmm]

/in

[Jimmmmm]

Do I need to have any idea what's going on with the randomiser?

[Eevee]

Sweet!

No need, I can set up the games.

[scolapasta]

Interested. How does this work? Timing wise, I mean.

[Eevee]

Asynchronous. People make their guesses, other team gives them the result when they see the message, etc.

You can check out one of the previous games (I believe still on the first page) to get an idea how it looks on this platform.

[scolapasta]

Thanks, just didn't know if it all had to finish in a day, or could take longer (I saw at least one that took weeks).

/in

[Eevee]

Looking for one more!

[Galzria]

Looking for one more!

I do believe I played an earlier game long ago, but it was indeed long ago.

Run down the how-to, and I’ll probably /in

[Eevee]

We split into team blue and team red. One player from both teams is the spymaster and gets a randomly generated 5x5 word grid from me via pm where they can see which words belong to team blue and which to team red. In this thread the same grid without the color codes is posted, and the spymasters post their clues (format is one word: a number for how many words the clue refers to). As long as you guess correctly, you can go on, until n+1 guesses has been reached where n=the number the spymaster specified in the clue. We take turns until one team has gotten all their words or either team picks the assassin (a single, instant loss card). The team that goes first has 9 words, the second team 8. It's pretty simple, I think just browsing through the first page in Codenames VI (in the first page) will catch you up.

[Galzria]

We split into team blue and team red. One player from both teams is the spymaster and gets a randomly generated 5x5 word grid from me via pm where they can see which words belong to team blue and which to team red. In this thread the same grid without the color codes is posted, and the spymasters post their clues (format is one word: a number for how many words the clue refers to). As long as you guess correctly, you can go on, until n+1 guesses has been reached where n=the number the spymaster specified in the clue. We take turns until one team has gotten all their words or either team picks the assassin (a single, instant loss card). The team that goes first has 9 words, the second team 8. It's pretty simple, I think just browsing through the first page in Codenames VI (in the first page) will catch you up.

I’ll /in, hopefully go second, and re-read a previous game tomorrow morning!

[Galzria]

We split into team blue and team red. One player from both teams is the spymaster and gets a randomly generated 5x5 word grid from me via pm where they can see which words belong to team blue and which to team red. In this thread the same grid without the color codes is posted, and the spymasters post their clues (format is one word: a number for how many words the clue refers to). As long as you guess correctly, you can go on, until n+1 guesses has been reached where n=the number the spymaster specified in the clue. We take turns until one team has gotten all their words or either team picks the assassin (a single, instant loss card). The team that goes first has 9 words, the second team 8. It's pretty simple, I think just browsing through the first page in Codenames VI (in the first page) will catch you up.

I’ll /in, hopefully go second, and re-read a previous game tomorrow morning!

Lied. Re-read now. If all words are guessed correctly off a clue then team turn passes?

[Galzria]

We split into team blue and team red. One player from both teams is the spymaster and gets a randomly generated 5x5 word grid from me via pm where they can see which words belong to team blue and which to team red. In this thread the same grid without the color codes is posted, and the spymasters post their clues (format is one word: a number for how many words the clue refers to). As long as you guess correctly, you can go on, until n+1 guesses has been reached where n=the number the spymaster specified in the clue. We take turns until one team has gotten all their words or either team picks the assassin (a single, instant loss card). The team that goes first has 9 words, the second team 8. It's pretty simple, I think just browsing through the first page in Codenames VI (in the first page) will catch you up.

I’ll /in, hopefully go second, and re-read a previous game tomorrow morning!

Lied. Re-read now. If all words are guessed correctly off a clue then team turn passes?

What’s to (outside general gamesmanship) stop me from listing every clue as:

Clue: 9 to give my teammate maximum guess chances? Even if they’re just randomly guessing past every seemingly obvious matching clue, they either get it right and he’l keep going or get it wrong and pass the play, which they would’ve done after completing the clue anyway.

I mean, your risk flipping an opposing word I guess, but still.

[Jimmmmm]

I mean, your risk flipping an opposing word I guess, but still.

You also risk flipping the Assassin, which loses the game. I think the rules also state that the number you give must correspond to the number of words you're thinking of, so I guess you can be asked to verify which words you were thinking of and justify how they relate to your clue. Also, I believe you can say "unlimited" instead of the number, but I would say that generally it's very helpful to know how many words you're looking for.

[Galzria]

I mean, your risk flipping an opposing word I guess, but still.

You also risk flipping the Assassin, which loses the game. I think the rules also state that the number you give must correspond to the number of words you're thinking of, so I guess you can be asked to verify which words you were thinking of and justify how they relate to your clue. Also, I believe you can say "unlimited" instead of the number, but I would say that generally it's very helpful to know how many words you're looking for.

Fair - I didn’t really think it was tactically sound unless facing a 1-word & lose deficit, but was more curious.

Alright, I’m good to go.

[Eevee]

Randomized teams for us, it’s me and Galzria as blue and Jimm and scolapasta as red.

Me and scola as the first spymasters, grid coming to scola via pm and here in my next post.

[Eevee]

Red goes first

FAIR	TRACK	BOLT	COPPER	ALIEN
AMBULANCE	SOUTH	PLATE	CRASH	BALL
BUGLE	PLATYPUS	JAM	TUBE	SILVER
FIGURE	SHAKESPEARE	WELL	ANTARCTICA	PIPE
GERMANY	WASHER	HEART	MAJOR	LOCK

[scolapasta]

TRUMPET: 4

[Jimmmmm]

BUGLE

[Eevee]

Bugle is red.

[Jimmmmm]

TUBE

[scolapasta]

Tube is red.

[Jimmmmm]

PIPE

[Eevee]

Pipe is red.

[Jimmmmm]

COPPER

pass if correct

[scolapasta]

Copper Is Neutral.

Updated Grid:

FAIR	TRACK	BOLT	COPPER	ALIEN
AMBULANCE	SOUTH	PLATE	CRASH	BALL
BUGLE	PLATYPUS	JAM	TUBE	SILVER
FIGURE	SHAKESPEARE	WELL	ANTARCTICA	PIPE
GERMANY	WASHER	HEART	MAJOR	LOCK

It is Blue's Turn.

[Eevee]

Foreigner: 4

[Galzria]

Alien

[scolapasta]

Alien is blue.

[Galzria]

Shakespear

[scolapasta]

Shakespeare is blue.

[Galzria]

Germany

[scolapasta]

Germany is blue.

[Galzria]

Antarctica

Pass if correct.

[scolapasta]

Antarctica Is Neutral.

Updated Grid:

FAIR	TRACK	BOLT	COPPER	ALIEN
AMBULANCE	SOUTH	PLATE	CRASH	BALL
BUGLE	PLATYPUS	JAM	TUBE	SILVER
FIGURE	SHAKESPEARE	WELL	ANTARCTICA	PIPE
GERMANY	WASHER	HEART	MAJOR	LOCK

It is Red's Turn.

[scolapasta]

DISH: 2

[Jimmmmm]

PLATE

[scolapasta]

Plate is red.

[Jimmmmm]

WASHER

[scolapasta]

Washer is red.

[Jimmmmm]

pass

[Eevee]

Door: 3

[Galzria]

Lock

[Eevee]

Lock is blue.

[Galzria]

Jam

[Eevee]

Jam is red!

[Galzria]

Jam is red!

Whoops lol

[scolapasta]

RACING: 2

[Jimmmmm]

Updated Grid:

FAIR	TRACK	BOLT	COPPER	ALIEN
AMBULANCE	SOUTH	PLATE	CRASH	BALL
BUGLE	PLATYPUS	JAM	TUBE	SILVER
FIGURE	SHAKESPEARE	WELL	ANTARCTICA	PIPE
GERMANY	WASHER	HEART	MAJOR	LOCK

[Jimmmmm]

TRACK

[Eevee]

red

[Jimmmmm]

AMBULANCE

[Eevee]

Blue!

[Eevee]

Downward: 3

[Galzria]

Can you post updated board?

[Galzria]

South

[scolapasta]

South is blue.


Updated Grid: (including South)

FAIR	TRACK	BOLT	COPPER	ALIEN
AMBULANCE	SOUTH	PLATE	CRASH	BALL
BUGLE	PLATYPUS	JAM	TUBE	SILVER
FIGURE	SHAKESPEARE	WELL	ANTARCTICA	PIPE
GERMANY	WASHER	HEART	MAJOR	LOCK

[Galzria]

Well

[scolapasta]

Well is blue.

[Galzria]

Bolt for 8.

[Eevee]

Bolt is blue! Team blue wins.

Red goes first

FAIR	TRACK	BOLT	COPPER	ALIEN
AMBULANCE	SOUTH	PLATE	CRASH	BALL
BUGLE	PLATYPUS	JAM	TUBE	SILVER
FIGURE	SHAKESPEARE	WELL	ANTARCTICA	PIPE
GERMANY	WASHER	HEART	MAJOR	LOCK

[Eevee]

For a new game, either Jimm or Galzria needs to go to this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TXkY5snm_uhZQNYvGqwrLSHjuHARIZouOP5pBEWRMXA/edit#gid=0 , and copy paste the cell from the middle right. The first one you send as a pm to the other spymaster and the one below it you copypaste here without the colors (just checl that you didn't accidentally refresh the page and rerandomize the words).

[Jimmmmm]

scola, what was the last one for Trumpet? I considered Track and Jam (both of which were red), and possibly Silver.

Sorry about Ambulance. I assume it was Heart?

[Jimmmmm]

Oh nevermind, it wasn't Heart.

[ipofanes]

May I join in?

[Jimmmmm]

May I join in?

I'm happy to play or not. Take my spot unless someone else wants to out or we want bigger teams.

[ipofanes]

While I would not mind bigger teams, I would gladly take your spot and prepare the grid. You may still play on either team if you haven't visited the link above already.

[ipofanes]

Blue goes first

LEAD	BUFFALO	STRAW	CHANGE	CHAIR
SCALE	FRANCE	FLY	WELL	PIE
WHALE	SCHOOL	PICK	BEAR	BUG
CENTER	BRAZIL	BREAD	NUT	HIRE
HELICOPTER	FIRE	KETCHUP	ROOF	SCORPION

[ipofanes]

sorry, was re-randomized, how do I delete post?

[ipofanes]

Here's the real McCoy.

Blue goes first

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

[scolapasta]

Post Mortem:

Trumpet was: Bugle, Tube, Pipe, and Jam
Dish was: Plate and Washer
Racing was: Track and Crash

For trumpet, Copper was a concern, but at least it was neutral
For Racing, I preferred Nascar, but not knowing anything about you, I looked at your profile, saw your location as Australia, and was worried you wouldn't know what Nascar was. So I went with the more generic term.

I also wanted to do Round: 4 (for Track, Plate, Washer, Figure), but was scared about Ball.

Eevee, which word was your 4th Foreigner?

Downward was a very good clue, though I hoped that maybe Galzaria would guess Crash (like the stock market) before Bolt.

[scolapasta]

For the next game, I'd be happy to do 3 on 3, if we can find one more. (I always enjoy the discussion amongst guessers).

[Eevee]

Post Mortem:

Trumpet was: Bugle, Tube, Pipe, and Jam
Dish was: Plate and Washer
Racing was: Track and Crash

For trumpet, Copper was a concern, but at least it was neutral
For Racing, I preferred Nascar, but not knowing anything about you, I looked at your profile, saw your location as Australia, and was worried you wouldn't know what Nascar was. So I went with the more generic term.

I also wanted to do Round: 4 (for Track, Plate, Washer, Figure), but was scared about Ball.

Eevee, which word was your 4th Foreigner?

Downward was a very good clue, though I hoped that maybe Galzria would guess Crash (like the stock market) before Bolt.

I was worried about crash, but I was hoping Galzria would realize it must be red based on your previous clue. The 4th word for foreigner was bolt (for Usain Bolt), bit of a stretch but Galzria wanted big clues so I wanted to go for it. Door was for bolt, ambulance and lock, not realizing jam was a risk with that clue was a bad oversight from me.

I prefer 2v2, but I'll play 3v3 too if you like it more. I think we could also fill a second game easily (I could play two if needed) so everyone who's interested gets to play.

[Galzria]

Post Mortem:

Trumpet was: Bugle, Tube, Pipe, and Jam
Dish was: Plate and Washer
Racing was: Track and Crash

For trumpet, Copper was a concern, but at least it was neutral
For Racing, I preferred Nascar, but not knowing anything about you, I looked at your profile, saw your location as Australia, and was worried you wouldn't know what Nascar was. So I went with the more generic term.

I also wanted to do Round: 4 (for Track, Plate, Washer, Figure), but was scared about Ball.

Eevee, which word was your 4th Foreigner?

Downward was a very good clue, though I hoped that maybe Galzria would guess Crash (like the stock market) before Bolt.

I was worried about crash, but I was hoping Galzria would realize it must be red based on your previous clue. The 4th word for foreigner was bolt (for Usain Bolt), bit of a stretch but Galzria wanted big clues so I wanted to go for it. Door was for bolt, ambulance and lock, not realizing jam was a risk with that clue was a bad oversight from me.

I prefer 2v2, but I'll play 3v3 too if you like it more. I think we could also fill a second game easily (I could play two if needed) so everyone who's interested gets to play.

I knew Crash was racing so no risk there. I knew Bolt for Door and would’ve guessed it before Jam had I not been so confident in Jam! 😁

[Galzria]

Here's the real McCoy.

Blue goes first

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

Fire: 3

[Eevee]

(la)light

[Eevee]

(la)light

to not risk being unclear, my guess is light

[scolapasta]

I knew Crash was racing so no risk there. I knew Bolt for Door and would’ve guessed it before Jam had I not been so confident in Jam! 😁
[/quote]

Ah, good point. Well done!

[jotheonah]

Can I get in the next one?

[Galzria]

(la)light

to not risk being unclear, my guess is light

Light is Blue

[Galzria]

Can I get in the next one?

Certainly!

I think Swan might want in on one too. He was following yesterday.

[Swowl]

Word

[jotheonah]

Can we just get in on the current game?

[Eevee]

bomb

How does it work with multiple guessers from the same team, do they plan their guesses via pm or discuss here in public?

[Galzria]

bomb

How does it work with multiple guessers from the same team, do they plan their guesses via pm or discuss here in public?

Bomb is blue.

I don’t know for more than 2 per team. Take turns?

[Eevee]

This is really risky, but liar liar pants on fire?

How does it work with multiple guessers from the same team, do they plan their guesses via pm or discuss here in public?

Bomb is blue.
I don’t know for more than 2 per team. Take turns?

In that case why not just run two games?

[Galzria]

This is really risky, but liar liar pants on fire?

How does it work with multiple guessers from the same team, do they plan their guesses via pm or discuss here in public?

Bomb is blue.
I don’t know for more than 2 per team. Take turns?

In that case why not just run two games?

Pants is blue

[Eevee]

Pass

[jotheonah]

I think talk it out? More like the RL game?

[scolapasta]

I think talk it out? More like the RL game?

Right, I would say teammates discuss on forum (public).

In RL, we make players touch the card to lock it in (and any teammate can do it and even choose to short circuit conversation).

We can do something similar, where any player on the team has to say an arbitrary phrase, like "lock it in".

[jotheonah]

really just bolding should serve to lock it in

[scolapasta]

Sure, bold can be official. I just have to get out of the happen of bolding more frequently then!

[Jimmmmm]

For trumpet, Copper was a concern, but at least it was neutral

Yeah, I think having one neutral word related to your clue is usually fine. I can always finish that clue on a future turn.

For Racing, I preferred Nascar, but not knowing anything about you, I looked at your profile, saw your location as Australia, and was worried you wouldn't know what Nascar was. So I went with the more generic term.

We know what Nascar is (personally I know it's car racing but very little else). I don't know how I missed crash though. I was imagining an ambulance racing to get somewhere, and hoped it was at worst neutral.

[ipofanes]

AIDA 4

[ipofanes]

I would love to see an open discussion between team members. It is so much easier following it without having to keep a straight face. But I get it that some people prefer a quick match without additional discussions.

[scolapasta]

OK, so who's joining our (ipofanes and mine) team?

I'll start the discussion: I don't know much about Aida, besides it being an opera. So that's the obvious first choice.

After, that? Some ideas (in very vague order)

Church (is Aida a Bible story?)
Guitar (opera -> music -> instrument)
Lead (singer)
Line (of a song)
Dream

And a few others which are even more of a stretch.

[jotheonah]

I'll join your team. Standby.

[jotheonah]

Aida is a love story, so HEART could apply. It involves royalty (Egyptian, I think), so COURT is a possibility.

I don't think CHURCH. GUITAR for sure, it's a modern musical. LEAD, LINE are reasonable but seem like a stretch.

So I guess i like

OPERA
GUITAR
HEART
COURT

in that order

[jotheonah]

Updated table:

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

For some reason I feel like EYE should be in the mix. I think the official poster/CD art for Aida prominently featured an eye.

[jotheonah]

I'm thinking about the Elton John one, not the original opera.

[ipofanes]

I think answers are ignored before they are in bold or contain a "point to:".

[jotheonah]

Since we both agree it's number one, let's go ahead and submit OPERA

[scolapasta]

Heart was one of my "stretch" ones; I couldn't remember the story, but so many stories are in fact love stories. And I know vaguely recall the Elton John one.

So, if Opera is correct, I'm guitar and heart next, either order.

[scolapasta]

if we get to the 4th, our candidates then are:

Court
Eye
Line
Lead
Eye

Is there anything about a dream in the story?

And got it, not a bible story. I remembered there were Egyptians, but not their context.

if no dream in the story, I like Court or Lead for the 4th.

[jotheonah]

There might be? Honestly, I saw a high school production more than 10 years ago lol.

[scolapasta]

Ha - the production I saw was 16 years ago. That said it was amazing because it was in Italy at the Verona Coliseum!

[jotheonah]

Ha - the production I saw was 16 years ago. That said it was amazing because it was in Italy at the Verona Coliseum!

That's ... pretty much the opposite of a high school production in Cleveland. But the kids did alright.

[Galzria]

Since we both agree it's number one, let's go ahead and submit OPERA

Opera is Red

[scolapasta]

OK, so guitar or heart next. Whichever you choose, @jotheonah, I'm fine with. (and fine with picking the other directly as 3rd)

[jotheonah]

HEART

[Eevee]

Swan, will you join team blue?

[Swowl]

yes

[Swowl]

super pumped!

[Eevee]

I am too! It's fun to read team red's speculation too.

[jotheonah]

Bump!

[ipofanes]

HEART is red

[jotheonah]

GUITAR

I think I'd rather do Eye than Court for the 4th, is that crazy?

[scolapasta]

So the question I think we need to ask is why Aida instead of any other opera. Assuming we're actually guessing why ipofanes had in mind, so far, like you pointed out, Aida is a love story. But I'm sure there are other opera love stories.

The two I had suggested, lead and line, are generic for any opera.

So which of court or eye more specific to Aida? I still prefer court on that front (eye just seems like too specific a piece of info, knowing the cover art of one version).

[jotheonah]

So the question I think we need to ask is why Aida instead of any other opera. Assuming we're actually guessing why ipofanes had in mind, so far, like you pointed out, Aida is a love story. But I'm sure there are other opera love stories.

The two I had suggested, lead and line, are generic for any opera.

So which of court or eye more specific to Aida? I still prefer court on that front (eye just seems like too specific a piece of info, knowing the cover art of one version).

Codenames is so much a game of associations though. So I can see seeing "Eye" and thinking "Aida" because of the visual association. I have a harder time imagining seeing "Court" and thinking "Aida". A royal court is a fairly esoteric use of the word court to begin with, and at least for me I associate it more with middle ages/fantasy courts than I do with Egyptian royalty.

[scolapasta]

True, but as Dominion players, I do think we're more likely to think of "King's Court" when we hear Court.

That said, if you feel strongly about it, I'm willing to defer to you. When I play in RL with my friends, we have a "benefit of the doubt" arrow, similar to the possession arrow in basketball. i.e. we can go with Eye this time, and the benefit of the doubt arrow now points to me, next time we have differing opinions.

[Galzria]

GUITAR

I think I'd rather do Eye than Court for the 4th, is that crazy?

Guitar is neutral

[jotheonah]

True, but as Dominion players, I do think we're more likely to think of "King's Court" when we hear Court.

That said, if you feel strongly about it, I'm willing to defer to you. When I play in RL with my friends, we have a "benefit of the doubt" arrow, similar to the possession arrow in basketball. i.e. we can go with Eye this time, and the benefit of the doubt arrow now points to me, next time we have differing opinions.

I love it. And good point about Dominion. Also I guess our turn is over.

[jotheonah]

Updated table:

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

[Galzria]

Jasmine: 3

[Swowl]

Jasmine is princess in Aladdin - Hollywood

[Swowl]

Then possibly table? Like as a spice.

[Eevee]

Jasmine is princess in Aladdin - Hollywood

She also lives in a palace which is kind of a castle?

I would start with hollywood, then probably india (for the rice, which iirc is from thailand i would still associate rice with india). Third seems tough, is Galz a big disney fan?

[Eevee]

lets lock in hollywood

[Eevee]

Maybe you could infuse jasmine oil from the flower?

[Galzria]

lets lock in hollywood

Hollywood, is blue.

[Swowl]

yeah Jasmine oil is def a thing. I would be OK with a gambol on that.

[Swowl]

CASTLE   
TABLE   - as a spice?
FOOT   

LEAD   
CHURCH   - unless Jasmine has a religious element IDK about... i don't think so
MERCURY   
COURT   

CLUB   
GIANT   
CZECH   
INDIA  - Is it from India? maybe? IDK

LINE   
DREAM   
COFFEE   
OIL - potential #2

BAY   
SHOP - you can buy jasmine.   
HOLLYWOOD - #1
EYE



Eevee - crossed out the ones I do not think it could be.

I think oil is a solid guess for #2. I have pretty low faith any any third guess I can come up with though.

[Eevee]

oil

You don't like India for the rice connection? I think it makes sense for specifically choosing Jasmine as the clue.

[Galzria]

oil

You don't like India for the rice connection? I think it makes sense for specifically choosing Jasmine as the clue.

Oil is blue.

[Eevee]

I'm calling an audible.

India

[Swowl]

oil

You don't like India for the rice connection? I think it makes sense for specifically choosing Jasmine as the clue.

Thats like the only reason I did not cross it out (it clicks with oil and with Jasmine princess). wanna go for it? I think I like it better than the other options.

[Swowl]

drumrolllllll

[Galzria]

I'm calling an audible.

India

Had to put shoes back on, sorry. Stupid American TSA.

India is Blue!

[Eevee]

Beautiful!

Pass to red

[Swowl]

yayyyy

[Swowl]

eevee you were the poker player right? do you still play?

[Eevee]

eevee you were the poker player right? do you still play?

Yeah, I still play.

[jotheonah]

I also play Poker. If work sends me to Helsinki as planned next year, I want to play poker with Eevee. I visited the Helsinki casino last year and won $190 off those too-nice Fins who didn't call my bluffs.

[WestCoastDidds]

If ya'll need people later, hit me up. I'll play.

xoxo

[Swowl]

eevee you were the poker player right? do you still play?

Yeah, I still play.

live/online?

[Swowl]

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

[/quote]

[Eevee]

90% online, but I travel somewhere to play live a few times a year as well.

[jotheonah]

wow, we are getting our butts kicked!

[scolapasta]

Oh man, I was in Helsinki in October!

[Eevee]

Codenames VIII, The Helsinki Affair.

[Eevee]

Swan, do you play poker?

And bump!

[ipofanes]

GOD 2

[scolapasta]

Church and Mercury seem fairly likely for this one. My preference would be that order, so @jotheonah, feel free to lock it in, if you agree. And we can try for our bonus if they're right.

[jotheonah]

CHURCH

Yeah, that sounds good. Church and then Mercury and then, maybe court?

Other possibilities are eye again (A God's Eye is a thing), Giant, maybe Table and Foot if we're thinking about Jesus (though the clue wasn't Jesus, it was God)

[scolapasta]

I did consider those some of the others but Church and Mercury were clearly the strongest for 2.

Are you now leaning more towards Court than Eye? (though, as guitar was neutral, means we still have two Aida words left)

[Galzria]

CHURCH

Yeah, that sounds good. Church and then Mercury and then, maybe court?

Other possibilities are eye again (A God's Eye is a thing), Giant, maybe Table and Foot if we're thinking about Jesus (though the clue wasn't Jesus, it was God)

Church is red.

[jotheonah]

MERCURY

[jotheonah]

I did consider those some of the others but Church and Mercury were clearly the strongest for 2.

Are you now leaning more towards Court than Eye? (though, as guitar was neutral, means we still have two Aida words left)

Personally, I'd rather do eye, but I'm second-guessing myself. So I'll leave the bonus guess up to you.

[Galzria]

MERCURY

Mercury is Red

[scolapasta]

We can go with it.

EYE

[Galzria]

We can go with it.

EYE

Eye is neutral

[Galzria]

I’m out for a few hours do Ipofanes will need to do the reveals. I’ll leave my team with:

Squid: 2

[Eevee]

Giant for sure, perhaps bay for second?

[jotheonah]

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

[Swowl]

Giant for sure is agreed.

[Galzria]

Giant for sure is agreed.

Giant is blue

[Swowl]

squid

going for the W! I agree with you again on this one eevee so just pulling the trigger

[Swowl]

lol try that again

bay

[Galzria]

lol try that again

bay

Bay is blue.

Also, Blue went first so we have 9, so not yet won.

[Swowl]

so that means that red needs 8 to win, correct?

[Galzria]

so that means that red needs 8 to win, correct?

Yes. Red 8, Blue 9.

[Swowl]

cool. making the call.

blue team passes

[Swowl]

Swan, do you play poker?

And bump!

Played full time a bit back. Mainly live NL and PLO in the states and online STTs. How about you?

[jotheonah]

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

Ok, so we need to get 4 in one go here. Good luck ipofanes.

[scolapasta]

Are we allowed to discuss strategy for ipofanes? (Obviously he can't respond, but he would hear our ideas and determine his guess based on that)

[Galzria]

Are we allowed to discuss strategy for ipofanes? (Obviously he can't respond, but he would hear our ideas and determine his guess based on that)

I don’t care? But I’m not sure what etiquette is.

[Eevee]

Are we allowed to discuss strategy for ipofanes? (Obviously he can't respond, but he would hear our ideas and determine his guess based on that)

I don’t care? But I’m not sure what etiquette is.

This is why I'm hesitant about playing in teams - I find it tough to draw the line.

Like, instructing the spymaster directly "(if it's xyz, give us this clue") is obviously forbidden. But I don't have any good guidelines for what you could say. I also don't mind anything people want to do, this is not so serious after all.

[Eevee]

Swan, do you play poker?

And bump!

Played full time a bit back. Mainly live NL and PLO in the states and online STTs. How about you?

I used to play exclusively 6max holdem, then exclusively heads up holdem. These days mostly online plo (hu and 6max) with some nl mixed in.

[scolapasta]

Are we allowed to discuss strategy for ipofanes? (Obviously he can't respond, but he would hear our ideas and determine his guess based on that)

I don’t care? But I’m not sure what etiquette is.

This is why I'm hesitant about playing in teams - I find it tough to draw the line.

Like, instructing the spymaster directly "(if it's xyz, give us this clue") is obviously forbidden. But I don't have any good guidelines for what you could say. I also don't mind anything people want to do, this is not so serious after all.

Fair enough. And agree on the obviously forbidden. I'll take the safe approach and send you a PM to see what you think.

[scolapasta]

OK, I got a "Definitely okay in my book" from Eevee, so I'm going with it:


Realistically, we need to get all 4, and we (probably) know that 2 of the remaining clues are for AIDA.

So if ipofanes cannot find a good clue for 3, he could find something for the other 2, and says XYZ: Infinity. That way we suspect 2 for the new clue and 2 for AIDA and be able to guess for all 4.

[Swowl]

So if we are taking opinions... I think that like what pasta said right before here is exactly what SHOULD be allowed. I imagine it like I am playing it in a room with a 5x5 grid of note cards laying on a table.

If we were in teams they could talk back and forth, and the spy master would be in the room right?
So, saying things that influence the spymaster should be like for sure not allowed. Like you should not be able to say anything hinting in any way - examples being like...

a) "so they are not going to say something that links words A B and C together"... cuz that is a slippery slope
b) no direct commands to the spy master
c) probably no arbitrary hints. So like, WORD X is on the board right... it would not be ok (IMO) for a team to be like "well WORD X is obviously a stand alone".


But in regards to talking about strategy for how many words or even saying stuff like "well we had it narrowed to option A or option B before, and we guessed A and got it wrong so we know it is A"... I feel like all of that is fair game.


I base most of it on the concept that everyone playing is playing on a similar field. The one thing to consider, which I actually think makes it kind of more interesting, is that the spy masters know the solution already... so really everything that is speculated over by the team is ACTUAL speculation... kind of like modding a game and reading a town players thoughts about who is skum or something lol

[Swowl]

Swan, do you play poker?

And bump!

Played full time a bit back. Mainly live NL and PLO in the states and online STTs. How about you?

I used to play exclusively 6max holdem, then exclusively heads up holdem. These days mostly online plo (hu and 6max) with some nl mixed in.

6Max PLO on FTP was my shiznit for like 4-5 years!

FDS Poker night? we could totally make that happen!

[Swowl]

Swan, do you play poker?

And bump!

Played full time a bit back. Mainly live NL and PLO in the states and online STTs. How about you?

I used to play exclusively 6max holdem, then exclusively heads up holdem. These days mostly online plo (hu and 6max) with some nl mixed in.

6Max PLO on FTP was my shiznit for like 4-5 years!

FDS Poker night? we could totally make that happen!

I am playing a super fun mafia spin off on Jimm's site right now called Dice mafia... could totally adapt that into a poker type of mafia game. that would be fun!

[ipofanes]

Sorry, was away for the weekend.

STARBUCKS unlimited

[ipofanes]

As for etiquette, I think it should follow what is fair game in the face-to-face version.

[jotheonah]

I would think COFFEE SHOP for sure

[EFHW]

/tag, would join the next one (or spin off)

[ipofanes]

/tag, would join the next one (or spin off)

A wild Codenames has appeared: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20002.0

[scolapasta]

OK, COFFEE is such a no brainer, I already put it on bold. I think Shop clearly makes sense next, and then we're back to our two for Aida.

So, I'm liking Lead more and more. If think if Aida not just as the name of the opera but as the character, she is clearly a lead. And then likely Court, though I'd like to check out the board again before we fully commit.

[jotheonah]

We're on the same wave scolapasta. You have my permission to lock in shop and then lead if you're around before I am.

[Galzria]

OK, COFFEE is such a no brainer, I already put it on bold. I think Shop clearly makes sense next, and then we're back to our two for Aida.

So, I'm liking Lead more and more. If think if Aida not just as the name of the opera but as the character, she is clearly a lead. And then likely Court, though I'd like to check out the board again before we fully commit.

Coffee is Red.

[scolapasta]

SHOP

[Galzria]

SHOP

Shop is red.

[scolapasta]

Current board:

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

[scolapasta]

LEAD

[Galzria]

LEAD

Lead is...

The death word.

Full table:

CASTLE	TABLE	FOOT	OPERA	BOMB
LEAD	CHURCH	MERCURY	COURT	GUITAR
CLUB	GIANT	CZECH	HEART	INDIA
LINE	DREAM	PANTS	COFFEE	OIL
LIGHT	BAY	SHOP	HOLLYWOOD	EYE

[jotheonah]

oh no!

[scolapasta]

Aaack!

Oh well, we went down fighting! COURT would have been correct (had we picked it first). But while dream was one I considered, I'm not sure we would have gone there before LEAD or LINE )which was the last blue).

Good game, blue!

ipofanes, since I don't really know the Aida story, can you explain a little more about the connection to DREAM?

[jotheonah]

Can I be the next clue giver for my team?

[scolapasta]

Can I be the next clue giver for my team?

Definitely!

[Galzria]

Eevee, I was going for Oil as my third for Fire, not Pants - but you going Pants made everything so much easier! 😂 I wasn’t sure how I was going to get Pants. If I had Pants and Line left I think I would’ve gone Clue: Pleated, but not sure. With just Line left, my next Clue was going to be Straight.

[scolapasta]

Aha - I thought that one was Oil for the 3rd!

[Eevee]

Oops!

Swan and Joth as spymasters for next game? Does either of you know how to randomize the words?

[jotheonah]

I can figure it out.

[jotheonah]

Blue goes first

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

Should we be blue this time so as to trade off who goes first? Or maintain colors for the sake of consistency and reducing confusion?

[Eevee]

The starting color is randomized. Let's keep the same colors for clarity.

[jotheonah]

ok. Then DatSwan is up!

[Swowl]

Ranch: 4

[Eevee]

Calf seems clearest. Not sure after that.

[Eevee]

You can start locking in guesses when you get on. This is probably more your cup of tea than it is mine.

[Galzria]

Calf

In agreement there.

Well, Straw seem the next level to me. Trying to think for a fourth.

[Swowl]

Calf is blue

[Galzria]

Straw

[Eevee]

Boom is one of the hardest words in the game to pair with anything I find, and I kind of associate ranches (or westerns where you would see ranches) with dynamite, but it's pretty far-fetched. I don't think passing is a bad play if we get 3 blues here. We'll most likely have an extra guess somewhere later to pick it up once we know more.

Agreed on straw and well, no preference on the order.

[Swowl]

Stray neutral.

[Swowl]

Straw is neutral*

Red turn

[Galzria]

Straw is neutral*

Red turn

Wow. Hmm...

Boom is one of the hardest words in the game to pair with anything I find, and I kind of associate ranches (or westerns where you would see ranches) with dynamite, but it's pretty far-fetched. I don't think passing is a bad play if we get 3 blues here. We'll most likely have an extra guess somewhere later to pick it up once we know more.

Agreed on straw and well, no preference on the order.

Yeah, we’re gonna have some catching up to do. 😝

[jotheonah]

Cannonball 4

[scolapasta]

OK, so the first few that I would go with are:
BOOM, POOL, PIRATE

Not sure yet on a 4th, but I'll keep thinking on it while I wait to see what you (@ipofanes) think.

Feel free to lock in any of those if you like them as your picks (they are in my preferred order, but only slightly)

[ipofanes]

ipofanes, since I don't really know the Aida story, can you explain a little more about the connection to DREAM?

I was going for an opera whose plot was leading to as many targets as possible. Not being an opera buff, I had to look up the plots of various operas on Wikipedia. A dream seems to play a role in the first act. I had the musical in mind but was hoping that the plot was sufficiently close to the opera plot. I cannot plame you for your choices.

[ipofanes]

Agree on your suggestions, including the order.

As for #4: Hmm, you can cannonball into a pool, but also into a well, you need more luck though. I'd rather skip fourth word and save for later.

[ipofanes]

My best guess for fourth yould be WASHINGTON (colonial wars), but we can save this for later.

[ipofanes]

OK, I got a "Definitely okay in my book" from Eevee, so I'm going with it:


Realistically, we need to get all 4, and we (probably) know that 2 of the remaining clues are for AIDA.

So if ipofanes cannot find a good clue for 3, he could find something for the other 2, and says XYZ: Infinity. That way we suspect 2 for the new clue and 2 for AIDA and be able to guess for all 4.

For the record, this would not have been A-OK in my book. But I would not have thrown a fit about it, and definitely did not read this before casting the final clues.

[ipofanes]

points to BOOM

[jotheonah]

Boom is red

[jotheonah]

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

[ipofanes]

pointing to POOL

[jotheonah]

Pool is red

[jotheonah]

BUMP

[scolapasta]

I still like Pirate for the next one. ipofanes, are you goo with that?

Assuming you agree, any thoughts on what the 4th could be?

[scolapasta]

OK, I'm going to go ahead and point to PIRATE.

Hope that's ok. Please let know ideas for a 4th word when you can.

[ipofanes]

What I said:

Agree on your suggestions, including the order.

As for #4: Hmm, you can cannonball into a pool, but also into a well, you need more luck though. I'd rather skip fourth word and save for later.

[ipofanes]

Also:

My best guess for fourth yould be WASHINGTON (colonial wars), but we can save this for later.

[ipofanes]

So I am fine with PIRATE.

[jotheonah]

PIRATE is red

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

[ipofanes]

I think we don't lose too much if we pass now, but I like WASHINGTON quite a bit better than the alternatives.

[scolapasta]

Oh, wow, somehow I missed a bunch of replies... sorry about that.

So I always like guessing more (even if wrong); partially because as a clue giver it makes me happy if my team figures out my my larger numbered clues.

So I'm willing to risk it: WASHINGTON

[ipofanes]

Fair enough: WASHINGTON

[jotheonah]

WASHINGTON is red!

[ipofanes]

partially because as a clue giver it makes me happy if my team figures out my my larger numbered clues.

You are right: Jothenoah must be gloating right now, and deservedly so: what a clue!

[ipofanes]

oh, and pass.

[Swowl]

Palace: 3

[Galzria]

Well Eevee, thoughts?

I think Crown is the most likely choice.

[Eevee]

agreed on crown. maybe beijing next? tale also comes to mind.

[Galzria]

agreed on crown. maybe beijing next? tale also comes to mind.

Beijing was my next gut guess, so assuming Crown is correct, I'm good with that.

[Galzria]

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

[Galzria]

Still thinking for Ranch:

Rabbit, as in what Fox's hunt, or perhaps a food of hunters
Olive, although I would think Vineyard before Ranch - I'm not convinced the connection is strong. (Unless we're looking for Olive B{ranch})?
Tale, as in story. There are many, many stories that take place on a Ranch.
Heart - Heart is where the Home is, or Heart and Hearth - both bring images of farms and ranch's to me.
Witch - Wizard of Oz reference? Dorothy grew up on, and wanted to get home to, her ranch.

[Swowl]

Crown is blue

[Eevee]

Beijing

Fwiw, Ranch for (b)ranch would be an illegal clue. The clue has to refer to the meaning, not the form of the word. Similarly how you couldn't give clues that start with the same letter or sound similar.

Maybe tale is best if Beijing is correct because it could be for either clue? I'm not feeling confident at all, you can choose. We are in a hole, guessing something is probably the thing to do.

[Swowl]

Beijing is blue

[Galzria]

Tale

[Swowl]

Tale is blue!!!

[Galzria]

Gonna take a shot on our extra guess to catch up:

You good with Rabbit for Ranch?

[Eevee]

Let’s go with rabbit

[Swowl]

Rabbit is blue!

[Eevee]

We’re back, baby!

[Galzria]

We’re back, baby!

Nice! High-five!

[Swowl]

We’re back, baby!

Nice! High-five!

[Galzria]

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

[jotheonah]

my turn?

[Galzria]

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

Sorry, no quote box this time.

[Galzria]

my turn?

Yes, sorry. Don't think we can guess again, so default pass

[jotheonah]

Test 2

[scolapasta]

ipofanes, what do you think? I have some initial ideas, but I'll let you make the first suggestions this time.

[ipofanes]

first guess DRILL, clueless about 2nd guess

[scolapasta]

DRILL

For 2nd, I was thinking Screen, e.g. as in you screen patients, which is a way of testing. Or for movies, they do test screenings.

There are some other stretchy ones, that I would consider as last clues for a 4, but not as a 2.

[Swowl]

Drill is red.

[Swowl]

Bump

[scolapasta]

Ipofanes, thoughts on Screen? I'm ready to lock it in, if you are.

[scolapasta]

OK, I'm going with it, please don't be too mad!

SCREEN

[Swowl]

Screen is red

[scolapasta]

PASS

[jotheonah]

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

[Swowl]

Flying: 100

[Galzria]

Well Plane is obvious.

[Galzria]

Witch’s fly

[Galzria]

After those we’re searching for the rest of Ranch.

[Eevee]

Agreed, plane

[Swowl]

Plane is blue

[Galzria]

Witch

[Swowl]

Witch is blue!

[Galzria]

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

[Galzria]

Alright Eevee, Swan thinks we can finish off with the given clue set:

Ranch (4)
Palace (3)
Flying (X)

So far on our guesses, we’ve made connections to 3 Palace words, 2 Flying words & 2 Ranch words. It’s possible we’ve misguessed into some overlap (If Tale or Witch were somehow supposed to be associated with Ranch), so we’re not necessarily looking for 2 Ranch words here, but I feel like we probably are.

Ranch generally brings to mind two categories:
Farms/Western/Cowboy/etc
And Dressing

As far as dressing goes, the only word I could make an argument for is Olive - not that one necessarily eats them with Ranch Dressing, but both items could be found in, say, a salad.

For the first category, Well is a strong contender, I think, as something that’s often found on a farm. Beyond that... I mentioned Heart previously, but that’s a stretch. Whip... maybe? I could see an association with cowboys there - I think Lasso more than Whip, but it’s probably stronger than Heart. Tablet, Seal, Lion... not feeling anything strong. Luck... Horseshoe? Ring I’ve got nothing for... and East works if you’re thinking Ranch -> Western -> East, but that’s a little stretched.

[Galzria]

The more I think on Whip, like a bullwhip, the more I like it and Well for the final two.

[Eevee]

I'm in agreement.

Well and fingers crossed.

[Swowl]

Well is blue!!!

[Galzria]

For the win then....

Whip

[Galzria]

For the win then....

Whip

C’mon no Red & no Death...

[Swowl]

BLUEEEEEEE

[Galzria]

Yay! we did a thing!

[scolapasta]

Wow, well done! I thought we were set after we got that first 4.

For fun, what would've been our next clue?

[Galzria]

So we've had 1 Team Two win, and 2 Team One wins so far. Small sample size, and so far relatively balanced, but my gut says that Team One just has such a massive advantage, despite the extra word. If, over three rounds, they average 3 words per round, then in order to beat them Team Two needs to average 4 words per round in the first two. While you're likely to be able to pair one 4 word clue during play, the likelihood of doing two seems long. And if Team One ALSO gets a 4 word clue, then they only need a 2 word and a 3 word over the final two rounds to take the victory.

I guess on the flip side is that Team One is always guessing against a larger grid than Team Two. Team One has 25 words, Team Two has 25 minus whatever Team One flipped. In round two, it's the same concept, minus all flipped words from Round 1 so...

I don't know. Like I said, we've had a small sample size and no clear winner over that, so... maybe my gut is wrong.

[jotheonah]

It would have been Holidays 2

[Swowl]

here was the thingy:

HEART	BOOM	FILE	LION	PIRATE
CROWN	PLANE	STRAW	LUCK	RING
CALF	WELL	RABBIT	TALE	SCREEN
WITCH	OLIVE	TABLET	EAST	WASHINGTON
POOL	WHIP	SEAL	BEIJING	DRILL

good game everyone! totally in to roll again!

[scolapasta]

I think I would've leaned towards heart and luck. Darn it.

I'm still up for more.

[Eevee]

That was a crazy comeback. GG!

Galzria's up to be our spymaster, who is it in team red?

[scolapasta]

Hmm, it might be me again? This is the 4th game, right?

[Eevee]

I think first player advantage is accentuated in the forum version because the games tend to last fewer turns. IRL we play with a 2 minute shot clock (for thinking of your clue and the guesser getting all their guesses in), so it's usually not such a big deal because (good) big clues are harder to come by. I would still always want to go first, but I don't think it breaks the game or anything like that.

[Eevee]

Hmm, it might be me again? This is the 4th game, right?

Yes it is. Can you create the grids for us and send it to Galzria?

[scolapasta]

Sure. Incoming...

[Eevee]

Thanks, gl! 

[scolapasta]

Blue goes first

TRACK	PART	IVORY	TABLE	CREAM
SINK	MILLIONAIRE	LINK	KEY	COMIC
IRON	CONTRACT	EAST	LEMON	COVER
HORN	BOOM	BUG	WATCH	PASS
LEPRECHAUN	MIRROR	GUITAR	DREAM	SHADOW

[Galzria]

Alright, sorry - was thinking. Let’s go:

Avengers: 4

[Eevee]

Comic-iron-watch-boom?

[Swowl]

Yes comic
Yes iron
Yes watch

Hold up on 4th for a sec

[Eevee]

comic

[Eevee]

Could be contract, but it's not a great link.

[Swowl]

What about “bug” for ant man?

[Swowl]

Cover like comic book cover also possible.

[Galzria]

comic

Comic is blue

[Eevee]

Millionaire also comes to mind, the series sure made everyone rich.

I wouldn't have known Ant-Man is an avenger, do you know if he was following the series closely?

My reasons for liking boom the best for 4th assuming we get there clean: We are currently living in this wild boom of certain kind of superhero-movies that the Avengers franchise is the most emblematic example of. And the movies themselves feature a lot of explosions (booms).

[Eevee]

Iron

[Galzria]

Iron

Iron is blue

[Eevee]

watch

[Galzria]

watch

Watch is neutral

[Galzria]

Swan & I are out with friends for Christmas Brunch. We visited a Candy Store after and found...





Totally picked it up 😁😁😁

[Eevee]

Seems I locked this on accident. We’re back!

[scolapasta]

Leaves: 3

[jotheonah]

Huh.

Maybe track? Like someone leaves tracks? Or cover, like tree cover? Or bug, cause they eat leaves sometimes?

[scolapasta]

Any guessing here? (it's the holidays, but just seeing where we're at)

[jotheonah]

In the interest of keeping things going in my partner's absence, I'm going to make a guess. And I just realized tables have leaves, which is a bit better than my other thoughts, so TABLE. Lock it in.

[Galzria]

Table is Red

[jotheonah]

COVER

[scolapasta]

Cover is red.

[jotheonah]

Ok, let's try TRACK

[scolapasta]

Track is Neutral.

[Galzria]

Custard: 3

[Galzria]

TRACK	PART	IVORY	TABLE	CREAM
SINK	MILLIONAIRE	LINK	KEY	COMIC
IRON	CONTRACT	EAST	LEMON	COVER
HORN	BOOM	BUG	WATCH	PASS
LEPRECHAUN	MIRROR	GUITAR	DREAM	SHADOW

[Eevee]

lemon, cream? key for key lime pie? very unsure

[Swowl]

Lemon and cream 100%
Gonna run through it once to double check the third.

Lemon then cream?

[Swowl]

k I am just doing it to keep the game going

lock in LEMON

[Galzria]

k I am just doing it to keep the game going

lock in LEMON

Lemon is blue.

[Swowl]

eevee I am just rolling with our agreed upons and then I will pause for you to chime in on Key for the third. Though I cannot find anything I like better.


Lock in CREAM

[Galzria]

Cream is blue

[Swowl]

Sweet, so Eevee, just thinking ahead. We missed 3/4 on AVENGERS:4.
Assuming we get KEY correctly, we will get to guess again.

Options for Avengers:

SINK - nothing.
HORN  - Does one of them have a horn or something. Aquaman and the shell, but that isn't avengers.
LEPRECHAUN  - nothing.
CONTRACT - uhh yeah no nothing.
MILLIONAIRE - Iron man reference?
PART - Avengers are a team. Parts of a team?
BOOM - Outside shot. Don't think this would be one, but obviously explosions in Avengers.
MIRROR - Need to check on this. I wanna say this could be relevant.
IVORY - nothing?
LINK - avengers are linked together?
EAST - nothing
BUG - Antman. BC of LEAVES we have to be careful though.
GUITAR - nothing.
DREAM - Need to check, but nothing pops to mind.
PASS -  nothing.
SHADOW - Loki? but that is a stretch.


I think if we get CREAM then we go with MILLIONAIRE. Seems most safe. we can hone in on other option after that.

Thoughts?

[Eevee]

I maybe like team over millionaire. I mean, they are a team, right?

key sounds good

[Galzria]

Key is neutral

[Galzria]

TRACK	PART	IVORY	TABLE	CREAM
SINK	MILLIONAIRE	LINK	KEY	COMIC
IRON	CONTRACT	EAST	LEMON	COVER
HORN	BOOM	BUG	WATCH	PASS
LEPRECHAUN	MIRROR	GUITAR	DREAM	SHADOW

[Eevee]

I maybe like team over millionaire. I mean, they are a team, right?

key sounds good

Oh haha, the actual word is part not team. Not as good. Seems we hit neutral anyway.

[scolapasta]

Clapton: 2

[jotheonah]

I guess you were waiting for Cream to be gone, eh?

GUITAR for sure. But idk about the other one.

[scolapasta]

Guitar is red.

[jotheonah]

Ok. Well Clapton is a millionaire, so that's a possibility I guess.

I suppose contract is a possibility, because rockers have record contracts.

But neither of these is specific to Eric Clapton!

[Eevee]

Bump!

[jotheonah]

I seem to be partnerless since the holidays. And I'm really stumped here.

CONTRACT I guess?

[Galzria]

I seem to be partnerless since the holidays. And I'm really stumped here.

CONTRACT I guess?

Yeah, unfortunate to be playing alone. 

Also, contract is blue. 

[Galzria]

Porcelain: 2

[Galzria]

TRACK	PART	IVORY	TABLE	CREAM
SINK	MILLIONAIRE	LINK	KEY	COMIC
IRON	CONTRACT	EAST	LEMON	COVER
HORN	BOOM	BUG	WATCH	PASS
LEPRECHAUN	MIRROR	GUITAR	DREAM	SHADOW

[Galzria]

TRACK	PART	IVORY	TABLE	CREAM
SINK	MILLIONAIRE	LINK	KEY	COMIC
IRON	CONTRACT	EAST	LEMON	COVER
HORN	BOOM	BUG	WATCH	PASS
LEPRECHAUN	MIRROR	GUITAR	DREAM	SHADOW

[Eevee]

Ivory, then millionaire?

[Swowl]

contract was fucking  blue?

[Swowl]

I think sink is a gimme here actually evvee. almost always porcelain

[Swowl]

I think we go

Sink - bc porclian
Ivory - bc handles of sink


I have other thoughts I am gonna keep quiet for now, but I think that if we are right on those 2 (as RED needs 4 more), we pass here and give Galz the lay up. I assume if those two are correct then we are missing 1 from AVENGERS and there is a lot of potential overlap there.

[Eevee]

Agreed, I didn’t think of sinks also being in bathrooms etc.

sink

[scolapasta]

Sink is blue.

[Eevee]

ivory

[scolapasta]

Ivory is blue.

[Eevee]

We might miss one for custard as well, right?

Pass is safest I agree.

[scolapasta]

FIGURES: 4

[jotheonah]

MILLIONAIRE

[Galzria]

MILLIONAIRE

Millionaire is red

[Galzria]

TRACK	PART	IVORY	TABLE	CREAM
SINK	MILLIONAIRE	LINK	KEY	COMIC
IRON	CONTRACT	EAST	LEMON	COVER
HORN	BOOM	BUG	WATCH	PASS
LEPRECHAUN	MIRROR	GUITAR	DREAM	SHADOW

[scolapasta]

Bump.

[jotheonah]

SHADOW

[scolapasta]

Shadow is red.

[jotheonah]

PART

[Galzria]

PART

Part is Red

[Galzria]

TRACK	PART	IVORY	TABLE	CREAM
SINK	MILLIONAIRE	LINK	KEY	COMIC
IRON	CONTRACT	EAST	LEMON	COVER
HORN	BOOM	BUG	WATCH	PASS
LEPRECHAUN	MIRROR	GUITAR	DREAM	SHADOW

[jotheonah]

How many does each team have left here?

[Eevee]

Two left for each team.

[jotheonah]

Pass then

[Galzria]

Hmm

[Eevee]

drumroll!

[Galzria]

Ho hum.

Alright.

Explosion: 1

[Swowl]

Well obv

Boom

Gonna day lock that in

[Swowl]

We need to hit one more though

[Eevee]

yep boom. do we go for part next? i think a word we have speculated about is a likelier choice, but couldn’t he have said like “fuse” or something like that if it was boom and part? it’s got to be a word he didn’t think any way of connecting to boom.

[Galzria]

Well obv

Boom

Gonna day lock that in

Boom is Blue

[Eevee]

Oooops part was already guessed and red at that, I got confused with it again haha.


I think we can rule out horn (clue could have been alarm, sound or blare for example), dream (i'm sure there's something like "success" you could do), east (i think he could have thought of some explosion that happened in the east, like fukushima, krakatau or tunguska or something). Pass doesn't feel right also, he could have given a clue like "grenade" and I think it would have been better than giving a single word clue. I think even for bug there's something like "locusts" that would have worked as a two word clue, I think boom is such a crappy word you need to get creative with it and trust your guessers to understand.

That would leave us with leprechaun, mirror, or link.

Our clues:
avengers 4 - that was iron, comic, contract?, ?
Custard 3 -lemon, cream, ?
porcelain 2 - sink and ivory

So the last one is going to pertain to avengers and/or custard. Leprechaun and the avengers are both fictional? But if you know for a fact that Galzria would know that ant-man is an avenger (i wouldnt have), I think bug might be our best bet. Can't think of anything with mirror, I guess avenging is a LINK between the avengers but that seems too far-fetched to give a one word clue on the last turn. Can't connect custard with leprechaun or bug, maybe you could put bugs in a pie but sounds pretty out there as a clue.

So I would say it's either bug or leprechaun, and I'm leaning bug. Thoughts, please do ask if you can't follow my thought process somewhere, this was a stream of consciousness

[Swowl]

K so i don’t wanna day too much on the off chance that it somehow goes we get one they mess up and we get another shot.

But the obvious multi team is BUG (leaves and avengers).

Outside of that i cannot find anything we share on.

We got 2 on avengers and then did not get another but they potentially got CONTRACT for us.
The CUSTARD could of been SINK as a double on our next guess.
So i think we are looking for the last avengers here - so link for team or bug for Ant-Man. Personally i like bug but i am open to interpretation.

[Eevee]

Alright bug

[Galzria]

Alright bug

Bug is blue for 9!

Good job guys!

My clue list was:

Avengers: 4 - Iron, Comic, Bug, Boom (I thought Boom was the stretch word there)
Custard: 3 - Lemon, Cream, Ivory (Thinking color - Ivory is off-white, and Custard is pale yellow. Definitely the stretch though)
Porcelain: 2 - Ivory, Sink (Swan pretty much nailed both and my reasoning. Nothing dangerous here)
Explosion: 1 - Boom (Couldn’t come up with an absolutely clear tie between Boom & Bug, so decided on going with a 1 clue to direct you to look back instead of trying to stretch a 2 clue).
Never clue’d Contract, which would’ve been tough.

Avengers: Bug - Spider-Man & Ant-Man.

Good game guys! Joth, I’m sorry you had to guess solo! You did well though with some tough spots!

[Eevee]

GG's! Really fun game.

Anyone on the rail that would want to join joth and scola in the next game?

[jotheonah]

Scola, I am dying to know where you were going with your clues! But I’m glad I didn’t guess Bug for leaves. The thought that it might be red and you guys had discussed guessing it is what made me decide passing was strategically acceptable there.

[jotheonah]

Also, Galz can we get the full grid?

[Galzria]

TRACK	PART	IVORY	TABLE	CREAM
SINK	MILLIONAIRE	LINK	KEY	COMIC
IRON	CONTRACT	EAST	LEMON	COVER
HORN	BOOM	BUG	WATCH	PASS
LEPRECHAUN	MIRROR	GUITAR	DREAM	SHADOW

[scolapasta]

Post Mortem:

So I found this one to be a really tough board as a spymaster (obviously based on my clues...) I'd love to hear what better clues you all would use to connect some of these?

My clues:
LEAVES (3): COVER, PART, SHADOW
CLAPTON (2): GUITAR, MILLIONAIRE
FIGURES (4): SHADOW, MILLIONAIRE, DREAM, MIRROR 

And what I was thinking:

With the assassin as HORN, GUITAR seemed hard - I couldn't think of any GUITAR PARTs (maybe Strings, but that seemed not great). And then MILLIONAIRE / CONTRACT was another tricky path. So Ideally I wanted them to get CONTRACT out of the way first, which is why I went with "Leaves". (and didn't even notice that TABLEs have leaves, whew! TABLE was actually going to be part of my Figures clue, as well). I actually was thinking PART as in "to part", i.e. the verb form of leaves. But PART of a tree also worked! And of course I didn't even think of bug, probably because I knew that was Avengers.

So then I really needed to tie GUITAR with something I had hoped you'd guess MILLIONAIRE before CONTRACT. (basically I was trying to think of a rich guitarist - and I didn't notice the CREAM connection, so got lucky there)

"Figures" was the hail mary, but I do think fit the remaining clues: first, had to re give something for MILLIONAIRE, as the +1 was needed for PART; so figures as in numbers. Then SHADOW was easy, and  people look at their figures in a MIRROR. DREAM was maybe a stretch, but they seems hazy and figure like (and I didn't see any connection at all with any other words).

(and if TABLE was a still unguessed, I was thinking a figure is related to TABLEs in scientific papers and all)

Had we had one last turn, I would've gone with "Shattered": 2 for MIRROR and DREAM

[jotheonah]

Yeah it was a hard one. I think I generally followed you on Figures, and if I had guessed one more it would have been dream or mirror.

Leaves=part is really clever, so nice job there.

I think it was a hard board for us and we did fairly well all told.

[Swowl]

Again?

[Eevee]

again!

[Galzria]

In, of course!

[Eevee]

Whose turn to be the spymaster?

[scolapasta]

For us, it's be our new teammate, if we find one.

[Jimmmmm]

/in

[Eevee]

Yay! Good to have you. 

Spymasters are going to be Jimmm and myself! Grid incoming..

[Eevee]

Red goes first

WASHINGTON	MODEL	LIMOUSINE	CASTLE	GARAGE
BUTTON	PIANO	MILK	OLIVE	MICROSCOPE
SCHOOL	LIFE	BOW	NOVEL	LITTER
LUCK	TRIP	LINE	CAST	ATLANTIS
TURKEY	NURSE	HIMALAYAS	CONDUCTOR	BOTTLE

[Jimmmmm]

Throne: 3

[jotheonah]

Well castle seems like a shoo-in but past that idk.

[scolapasta]

Welcome back Jimmmmm!

So CASTLE for sure.

After that? Let's see, I'd associate throne with kings, queens, royalty and chairs.

How about Atlantis? For King Neptune? (a stretch but everything seems like a stretch here)

Or maybe Novel for Game of Thrones? (any other GoT references)

[Jimmmmm]

I guess bold and capitalised is a guess?

[jotheonah]

I guess bold and capitalised is a guess?

Correct

[Jimmmmm]

Castle is red.

[scolapasta]

@jotheonah thoughts on Atlantis or Novel? Or other ideas?

(I don't love those, but think we should at least make a second guess, maybe all the third)

[jotheonah]

What about Line? Like the line of succession?

[jotheonah]

I would also be on board with novel.

[scolapasta]

I also considered Line.

So we both like NOVEL

[Eevee]

novel is neutral

[Eevee]

Sinatra: 6

[Eevee]

WASHINGTON	MODEL	LIMOUSINE	CASTLE	GARAGE
BUTTON	PIANO	MILK	OLIVE	MICROSCOPE
SCHOOL	LIFE	BOW	NOVEL	LITTER
LUCK	TRIP	LINE	CAST	ATLANTIS
TURKEY	NURSE	HIMALAYAS	CONDUCTOR	BOTTLE

[Galzria]

Piano should be easy.

Luck (be a lady) second.

Limousine perhaps.

Umm...

[Galzria]

Possibly Conductor as in creator of music.

[Galzria]

Piano
Luck
.
.
.
Limousine
Conductor
Cast (?)
Model (?)
.
.
.
Life
School
Trip

That’s about where I’m at.

[Swowl]

Lock in
Piano

[Eevee]

blue

[Galzria]

Bow could also be in there... like, taking a bow after a performance.

[Galzria]

Bow could also be in there... like, taking a bow after a performance.

Probably like that above Life/School/Trip

[Eevee]

bump

[Galzria]

Luck

[Eevee]

luck is blue

[Galzria]

Limousine

[Eevee]

blue

[Galzria]

Hmm Bow

[Eevee]

argh, bow is red

[scolapasta]

Hmmm, come to think of it maybe bow was one of our words for throne.

[scolapasta]

Rules questions -  can we "whisper" (via DM) to our teammate about the other team's clues? I'm fine if not and all talk needs to be public.

(With my friends, in real life, we allow it, mostly because it's easy to have a side conversation while the other team is thinking about their clues.

[scolapasta]

Out of curiosity, where is everyone located (at least time zone wise). I'm in USA, East coast.
(though next week I'm traveling for work in Norway.

[Galzria]

argh, bow is red

Ah, my bad. 6 is expansive, so I assumed some would be slightly more obscure. Still, I’m confident in where we are.

[Galzria]

Out of curiosity, where is everyone located (at least time zone wise). I'm in USA, East coast.
(though next week I'm traveling for work in Norway.

Sean & I are USA West Coast.

[Galzria]

Out of curiosity, where is everyone located (at least time zone wise). I'm in USA, East coast.
(though next week I'm traveling for work in Norway.

Sean & I are USA West Coast.

Swan*

Eevee is Helsinki.

[Jimmmmm]

Out of curiosity, where is everyone located (at least time zone wise). I'm in USA, East coast.
(though next week I'm traveling for work in Norway.

I'm in Melbourne.

[Jimmmmm]

WASHINGTON	MODEL	LIMOUSINE	CASTLE	GARAGE
BUTTON	PIANO	MILK	OLIVE	MICROSCOPE
SCHOOL	LIFE	BOW	NOVEL	LITTER
LUCK	TRIP	LINE	CAST	ATLANTIS
TURKEY	NURSE	HIMALAYAS	CONDUCTOR	BOTTLE

[Jimmmmm]

GEOGRAPHY: 4

[scolapasta]

Speaking of geography...


So Washington and Himalayas seem clear.

Then there are both that we considered for Throne: Atlantis and Line
And I could see some reasoning for something like Trip or even Model.

[Galzria]

Bumpity-bump

[scolapasta]

@jotheonah any thoughts?

If I don't hear anything soonish, I'll probably lock in the first two, hopefully obvious, ones.

[Galzria]

@jotheonah any thoughts?

If I don't hear anything soonish, I'll probably lock in the first two, hopefully obvious, ones.

I know he’s busy with work & travel right now, so his check ins might be a little slow.

[jotheonah]

Sorry, I am a busy bee. But yes I think those are good. (I'm in Boston, btw, on the east coast of the USA).

[jotheonah]

I'd guess School (Geography is a school subject) and Atlantis next.

[jotheonah]

Model is a more distant possibility.

[scolapasta]

Washington

Huh, I'm also in Boston. Well, Cambridge.

[Eevee]

red

[scolapasta]

Himalayas

[Eevee]

red

[scolapasta]

So between school, atlantis, trip, line, model

you say school then atlantis?

[scolapasta]

I agree model is the worst of those.

I do also like school, and then sure atlantis

line then trip do have potential if one of those is a miss. (and could work for throne)

[jotheonah]

Washington

Huh, I'm also in Boston. Well, Cambridge.

I'm also in Cambridge actually.

[jotheonah]

School

[Jimmmmm]

School

Red

[jotheonah]

Atlantis

[Jimmmmm]

Atlantis

Neutral

[Jimmmmm]

WASHINGTON	MODEL	LIMOUSINE	CASTLE	GARAGE
BUTTON	PIANO	MILK	OLIVE	MICROSCOPE
SCHOOL	LIFE	BOW	NOVEL	LITTER
LUCK	TRIP	LINE	CAST	ATLANTIS
TURKEY	NURSE	HIMALAYAS	CONDUCTOR	BOTTLE

[Eevee]

Pitt: 4

[Galzria]

Alright, well we got 3 of 6 for Sinatra. Left as likely options are:

Model
Conductor
Cast
.
.
.
Life
Trip

For Pitt, the most obvious is Olive. After that, Conductor seems the logical second - which presents an overlap word with Sinatra. Cast (Brad Pitt) could be a third, and might also present an overlap word. That would leave us one word short on both Sinatra and Pitt, for a total of 8 words.

Remaining options for 1 Pitt & 1 Sinatra:

Button
Turkey
Model
Life
Trip
Nurse
Milk
Line
Garage
Microscope
Litter
Bottle

With Brad Pitt the connection for Cast, he could also fill Model - which may be another double with Sinatra. That would leave us at 7 words and a pass, unless you feel strongly about anything else on that list. Red has 5 with open clues still, so they are technically in striking distance - but 7 & Pass gives Eevee the solo if it gets back around.

Thoughts?

[Eevee]

I think this should be clarified, at least irl if someone didn’t know the rules I think it would be fair to tell them. Quoting the rulebook:” English has many homonyms and homo- phones. E. g. night sounds like knight, but these two words don't mean the same thing.
Same-sounding words with different meanings and different spellings are considered different words. So you can't give knight-related clues for NIGHT.”

Basically the clue always has to refer strictly to the meaning of the word - not what it looks or sounds like, how many letters it has or where it’s placed on the board.

[scolapasta]

I think this should be clarified, at least irl if someone didn’t know the rules I think it would be fair to tell them. Quoting the rulebook:” English has many homonyms and homo- phones. E. g. night sounds like knight, but these two words don't mean the same thing.
Same-sounding words with different meanings and different spellings are considered different words. So you can't give knight-related clues for NIGHT.”

Basically the clue always has to refer strictly to the meaning of the word - not what it looks or sounds like, how many letters it has or where it’s placed on the board.

👍

[jotheonah]

I've never been the biggest fan of that rule, but it is the rule.

[Galzria]

I've never been the biggest fan of that rule, but it is the rule.

Generally would agree as in person you’re verbally saying a word, not spelling it... so your partners wouldn’t know what meaning you meant.

Still,

Pitt (4):
- Brad Pitt:
- - Model (Actor)
- - Cast (Movies)
- - Button (Curious Case of...)
- - ??
- ?
- - ??

According to our list for Sinatra, two of those are overlap words {Model, Cast}. That puts us at 5/6 for Sinatra & 3/4 for Pitt, which is a total of six words.

The last Sinatra is probably Conductor (Frank Sinatra Jr), which brings us to 7 words. That leaves one word for Pitt... which... I can find stretch references to Turkey (Ancient TROY located in Turkey, Kivanc Tatlitug is known as the Turkish Brad Pitt, Turkey has reached out to Pitt to help with their ailing tourism industry...), but I would feel more confident passing at that point with one word left to guess.

[Swowl]

Ok well agreement so let’s start with

Model

[Swowl]

I think keeping conductor on the list is a good idea too.

[Eevee]

Blue

[Galzria]

Cast

[Eevee]

blue

[Galzria]

Button

[Eevee]

blue

[Galzria]

Let’s go:

Conductor

[Eevee]

conductor is neutral

[Galzria]

conductor is neutral

Damn. That’s ok. Feel good on forcing them to run out the table.

[Jimmmmm]

WASHINGTON	MODEL	LIMOUSINE	CASTLE	GARAGE
BUTTON	PIANO	MILK	OLIVE	MICROSCOPE
SCHOOL	LIFE	BOW	NOVEL	LITTER
LUCK	TRIP	LINE	CAST	ATLANTIS
TURKEY	NURSE	HIMALAYAS	CONDUCTOR	BOTTLE

[Jimmmmm]

VETERINARIAN: 3

[scolapasta]

Here's what we've gotten so far:

Throne (3): Castle, Bow (assume they got it for us)
Geography (4): Washington, Himalayas, School

OMG How did we miss Turkey for Geography?!

Anyway, it's now also for Vet, I'd say. That, Nurse, and maybe Litter (as in a litter of kittens)

That would leave probably 1 still left for Throne. We had considered Line for that? Though now I also wonder if Litter could be for that too. Isn't that the term for what they carried royalty in?

[scolapasta]

So let's assume for a second that litter is also for throne. Then we possibly don't have any unknown, but we should probably guess. So we could assume one of these isn't doubled up and then line for throne or line or trip for geography. Or just guess randomly?

I don't know. Let's first try to get the three for Vet, then decide.

[jotheonah]

I like the way you're thinking. Also, yeah, Turkey was pretty obvious. I'd be down to guess that first. So maybe

TURKEY
LITTER
NURSE

Bottle is a possibility for Veterinarian too, they sometimes bottle-feed sick animals.

[jotheonah]

go ahead and lock those three in in whatever order scola

[jotheonah]

Life is another possibility for Veterinarian. Although, they're just as likely to have to deal with the other one.

[scolapasta]

Yeah, I also consider life, but liked the others better. Let's start with the first two:

TURKEY, then NURSE (otherwise why vet, instead of something like animals)

[Jimmmmm]

red and red

[jotheonah]

LITTER

[Eevee]

red!

[jotheonah]

how many left??

[Galzria]

how many left??

You have 8 of 9

[jotheonah]

ok, so possibly line, life, trip, or bottle.

I sort of like line since it could have been the last one for Royal or for Geography. What do you think scola?

[scolapasta]

Hmm, it helps my thinking sometimes to go through it all again, even if it means repeating things that either you or I already typed I hope you can bear with that.

Currently we have:
Throne (3): Castle, Bow, Litter
Geography (4): Washington, Himalayas, School, Turkey
Vet (3): Turkey, Nurse, Litter

of course, two words are repeated so we're still one word shy. So either:
a) Jimmmmm wasn't thinking those exact clues and our missing word is from one of those, OR
b) the last word has no clue for it, meaning random choice

a) by definition, is less risky, so sure, one of:
Line, Life, Trip, or bottle, maybe even microscope

I do think we likely got all the geography, and that maybe little wasn't meant for either throne or vet. But I'm leaning towards it being the one for Throne, because why Throne? Why not just king or royalty if the third word we're line. Litter is the one that specifically refers to the chair-like aspect of throne. Which makes me think the missing word goes better with vet.

Of life, bottle, and microscope, I'm leaning more towards life.

Thoughts on my revised logic?

[jotheonah]

Bow-throne is a connection I'm not terribly sold on, which means we might need a third one for throne. It could be Castle, Litter, Line.

If we are guessing randomly, I think we can dodge the kill word as long as we guess something that could conceivably be connected to a given clue, since we can assume Jimmmmm was conscious of the assassin. Same goes for the other team's last clue. So I think it does benefit us to make a guess here, provided that guess is associated with one or more of the given clues.

So I'm still inclined toward line, but you know, life is ok. Life has a vague connection to royalty.

I leave it up to you.

[scolapasta]

OK. If I fel stronger about Vet -> Life I would go that way, but I also don't feel great about it.

AND we have been talking about Line a lot. So sure, LINE.

[Jimmmmm]

Red!

[Jimmmmm]

WASHINGTON	MODEL	LIMOUSINE	CASTLE	GARAGE
BUTTON	PIANO	MILK	OLIVE	MICROSCOPE
SCHOOL	LIFE	BOW	NOVEL	LITTER
LUCK	TRIP	LINE	CAST	ATLANTIS
TURKEY	NURSE	HIMALAYAS	CONDUCTOR	BOTTLE

[Jimmmmm]

My clues:

THRONE: 3
Washington, Castle, Line

Not super happy with this clue, especially with so much available for Geography.
Line as in "2nd in line to the throne" etc.
I hoped the connection between king and president was strong enough for Washington, but I guess not.
I didn't consider Bow as a verb, and I didn't know the thing a king is carried around in was called a Litter.


GEOGRAPHY: 4
Washington, School, Turkey, Himalayas


VETERINARIAN: 3
Litter, Turkey, Nurse (with Line as the spare guess)

Life was probably a risk for anything clued for Nurse. Without Life, I probably would have clued something like BIRTH: 3 for Litter and Nurse and to reinforce Line, as Turkey was probably safer than Line.

[scolapasta]

Yeah!

Wow, I had actually typed out the message with Life in bold, then changed my mind. Whew, as that would have basically been a guaranteed win for blue.

Yeah, I didn't even think of bow as a verb until they guessed it.

RED's first win! (1-4, one loss via Assassin)

[Eevee]

What a nailbiter! Congrats on the deserved win team red.

[Eevee]

Writing out my clues in advance for the post mortem:

Sinatra 6: piano, luck, limousine, model (either role model, or because he probably hung out with/dated some models), life (he had a famous life), cast (I'm not sure if he was in movies but surely he was at least played by someone in a movie). I was hoping my team would realize bow was clued to with "Throne", but alas.

Pitt 4: cast (movies), button (benjamin button), model (same than sinatra), life (same than sinatra)

I realized the pit-pitt connection, but it wasn't my intention to clue in that direction, Pitt was given to include "button" and guide my team away from conductor and toward cast and life. Fwiw I would think that my team would know that I'm aware of homonyms not being legal clues.

Shouldn’t have used Pitt as a clue, too confusing with olive. Noted for future.

[scolapasta]

Yeah, sorry about that. I was sure OLIVE* was one of the Sinatra words, so thought maybe you were going for pit/pitt.(I sent a PM tot the spymasters at the time to check)

* Sinatra as a martini drinker

[jotheonah]

What a fun one! scola is a great teammate and Jimmm is a superb spymaster.

Am I up next as spymaster? Who's up for blue?

[Galzria]

Yeah, sorry about that. I was sure OLIVE* was one of the Sinatra words, so thought maybe you were going for pit/pitt.(I sent a PM tot the spymasters at the time to check)

* Sinatra as a martini drinker

I had made this as a possible connection, but it seemed really, really far fetched.

I would’ve bet Line was Blue (Lines -> Scripts -> Movies -> Pitt/Sinatra) & Life was Red. I thought for sure guessing Line would give us the game. Definitely felt it was the strongest possible word to be blue left on the table. Ah well.

[Galzria]

What a fun one! scola is a great teammate and Jimmm is a superb spymaster.

Am I up next as spymaster? Who's up for blue?

Swan is Blue’s Spymaster.

[jotheonah]

The new grid (red goes first):

PRIVATE	CHECK	RULER	BOOM	AIR
CHANGE	TOWER	SATELLITE	DISEASE	CROWN
EAGLE	TRIP	BRICK	EMBASSY	TICK
PART	DIAMOND	TOOTH	DRILL	SNOWMAN
SERVER	ROSE	STAR	PAN	GLASS

[jotheonah]

I know it's a one-word rule...  what's the ruling on abbreviations. Like, say NASA or USA or AWOL?  Are they allowed?

[jotheonah]

for now, let's go with Safety 3

[Eevee]

I know it's a one-word rule...  what's the ruling on abbreviations. Like, say NASA or USA or AWOL?  Are they allowed?

I find it more challenging and fun the more you restrict the clues so I’d vote no.

[Jimmmmm]

Safety seems like a tough clue to me, since there are lots of words that you could argue have a connection to safety.

The ones with the strongest connection seem to be:

CHECK: As in checking that things are safe, making a checklist.
TICK: Similar to check.
AIR: Air safety.
GLASS: Windows can keep us safe, you want  to be safe around glass, safety glasses.
BOOM and DISEASE: Ie staying safe from explosions and diseases.

I count about 10 other words which could have some kind of connection to safety. Thoughts, scola?

[scolapasta]

I'm very happy with check then glass. Lots of options like you said for the third.
I'm flying today for about 16 hours, so let me think on it and get back.

[scolapasta]

One to consider is private.

[scolapasta]

Two more to consider Eagle (as in Eagle scout) and Drill.

I'd put Eagle with Boom, Disease and some others we haven't mentioned as unlikely.

My top three choices:
Air
Private   
Drill

with Drill being my top choice (for 3rd).

[Eevee]

fly safely scola!

[scolapasta]

Thanks! Actually made it into Finland on an Aurora "chase" tour. Some random spot right on the border, and happily, with clear skies!

[Eevee]

I’m constantly surprised how many of my f.ds friends have made it here at some point in their life!

[jotheonah]

Check is red

[scolapasta]

fly safely scola!

Home! (also reading this in the context that we are considering Air (Safety) as one our guesses here is amusing)

So, Jimmmmm, do you agree with Glass next?

[Jimmmmm]

GLASS

[jotheonah]

Glass is red!

[scolapasta]

So Drill or Air? (or Private or ...)

Those are the two I like best, if you're happy with them, I'm ok with either.
(I'm 51-49, Drill vs Air)

[Jimmmmm]

I keep forgetting about DRILL as an event. Yes DRILL is good.

[jotheonah]

Drill is red!

[Jimmmmm]

pass

[scolapasta]

I'm liking Knife and Plastic (with Table as a distant honorable mention).

[Galzria]

I'm liking Knife and Plastic (with Table as a distant honorable mention).

Wrong code names. 😋

[scolapasta]

WHOOPS!

(I just went to the other one and was wondering where did my post go...)

Sorry, y'all.

[Swowl]

Atmosphere: 3

[Eevee]

Air and satellite look clearest. Do eagles fly that high, no? Star also comes to mind but is not perfect, what do you think?

[Galzria]

Tower, maybe.
(Sonic) Boom, perhaps.

Those are the only two I think I could add into the possibilities.

I’m good with Air & Satellite, and then if we don’t feel confident in the third we can pass to try and wait for the board to fill out more before circling back.

[Eevee]

air

[Swowl]

Air is blue!

[Galzria]

Satellite

[Swowl]

Satellite is blue!

[Galzria]

Your call Eevee

[Eevee]

pass

[jotheonah]

ahh sorry guys! this is a very busy week  for me.  I'll get you some clues soon.

[jotheonah]

Updated grid:

PRIVATE	CHECK	RULER	BOOM	AIR
CHANGE	TOWER	SATELLITE	DISEASE	CROWN
EAGLE	TRIP	BRICK	EMBASSY	TICK
PART	DIAMOND	TOOTH	DRILL	SNOWMAN
SERVER	ROSE	STAR	PAN	GLASS

[jotheonah]

Delegation 4

[scolapasta]

So Trip and Embassy look strong to me.

Then maybe Ruler and Crown? (if one is right, likely the other)

Another possibility could be private (feels like anything could be private!)

[Jimmmmm]

So Trip and Embassy look strong to me.

Then maybe Ruler and Crown? (if one is right, likely the other)

Another possibility could be private (feels like anything could be private!)

I agree exactly. Embassy

[jotheonah]

Embassy is red.

[scolapasta]

TRIP

[jotheonah]

Trip is red

[Jimmmmm]

Ruler

[jotheonah]

Ruler is red!

[Jimmmmm]

Crown and pass

[jotheonah]

Crown is neutral.

PRIVATE	CHECK	RULER	BOOM	AIR
CHANGE	TOWER	SATELLITE	DISEASE	CROWN
EAGLE	TRIP	BRICK	EMBASSY	TICK
PART	DIAMOND	TOOTH	DRILL	SNOWMAN
SERVER	ROSE	STAR	PAN	GLASS

[scolapasta]

Crown is neutral.

Oh dip! Though we're still in pretty good shape.

[jotheonah]

bump?

[Swowl]

Bomb: 2

[Galzria]

Boom/Tick?

[Eevee]

boom

[Swowl]

Boom is blue!

[Eevee]

tick

[Galzria]

Assuming blue, and we still can’t exactly guess out...

Pass?

Boom could’ve been applicable to Atmosphere, but I doubt Swan gives us 3 & and then 1+repeat from Atmosphere.

We’ll be at 4 right now, with an open on the 5th word - give the board one more chance to fill out and Swan one more chance to clue us to the remaining words?

[Swowl]

Tick is blue.

[Galzria]

Assuming blue, and we still can’t exactly guess out...

Pass?

Boom could’ve been applicable to Atmosphere, but I doubt Swan gives us 3 & and then 1+repeat from Atmosphere.

We’ll be at 4 right now, with an open on the 5th word - give the board one more chance to fill out and Swan one more chance to clue us to the remaining words?

Downside is they currently have 6 of 9, with an outstanding clue to be 7 of 9... which means they’re just looking to pair 2 words on their next clue... but what can we do?

[Eevee]

i agree with pass, it would be such a death blow to hit their word

[jotheonah]

Acrophobia 2

[scolapasta]

Hmm, whic phobia is this??? Is it fear of heights?
If so I'd say disease and tower.

And still thinking private for delegation, since it wasn't crown.

[Jimmmmm]

Yeah heights. TOWER

[jotheonah]

tower is red

[scolapasta]

Are you good with disease, next? (which is way phobia as the clue)

If so and red, any other possible for delegation? I mean, maybe Part (I'm part of a delegation), but private seems better to me.

[Jimmmmm]

Are you good with disease, next? (which is way phobia as the clue)

If so and red, any other possible for delegation? I mean, maybe Part (I'm part of a delegation), but private seems better to me.

I was thinking Eagle, with the meaning of the clue to exclude Star (stars are way too high for a fear of heights to be relevant), but Disease is probably better.

I don't have a better idea for delegation than Private.

[scolapasta]

Disease

[jotheonah]

Disease is red

[scolapasta]

Private (for the win!)

[Swowl]

Private is neutral.

[scolapasta]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[Eevee]

oh baby!

[Swowl]

Columbarium: 3

[Eevee]

Oof, I have no idea what this word means. Sounds like an element or a Tolkien elf..

[Galzria]

Oof, I have no idea what this word means. Sounds like an element or a Tolkien elf..

So... With Google I can tell you what it means... but I can’t tell you how it helps us lol.

[jotheonah]

this has been a fun round

[Eevee]

PRIVATE	CHECK	RULER	BOOM	AIR
CHANGE	TOWER	SATELLITE	DISEASE	CROWN
EAGLE	TRIP	BRICK	EMBASSY	TICK
PART	DIAMOND	TOOTH	DRILL	SNOWMAN
SERVER	ROSE	STAR	PAN	GLASS

[Eevee]

Ah, I've been not using google because we banned it in the other game. In that case...

Eagle seems good, if one meaning of the word is a pigeon house. I can't find anything connected to the respectful storage of cremated remains though.. I feel we must be missing something, it's just a specific clue. This is so much easier when you know what the word means, haha. Googling past the basic definition feels iffy too..

[Galzria]

I like

Rose - flowers for a grave
Brick - I don’t know... I could see mausoleum’s being brick
Eagle - For Atmosphere, they soar high
And... fuck all if I know lol

[Eevee]

Brick came to mind for me too, them being buildings. Also would make sense that Swan held on giving a clue for brick until they got tower. Our earlier clue was atmosphere, that could have been eagle also.

Eagle

[Swowl]

Eagle is neutral.

[Eevee]

damnit

[scolapasta]

Wow - I was sure Eagle was yours.

[Galzria]

Uhhh...
Well, that was rough haha.

[jotheonah]

Segment 1

[scolapasta]

Let's see a Server can have a segment fault error, snowmen are made up of segments, bricks are segments if buildings...

OK, Just kidding, it must be Part, yeah?

(Stars are located in certain segments of the sky...)

[scolapasta]

@Jimmmmm any objection to part?

[Jimmmmm]

Oh sorry no. Part

[jotheonah]

Part is .... red! We win!

The full grid:

PRIVATE	CHECK	RULER	BOOM	AIR
CHANGE	TOWER	SATELLITE	DISEASE	CROWN
EAGLE	TRIP	BRICK	EMBASSY	TICK
PART	DIAMOND	TOOTH	DRILL	SNOWMAN
SERVER	ROSE	STAR	PAN	GLASS

This one was hard because most of the clues I thought of also pointed to other words. For instance, I really wanted to do "BIT" for Drill Bit and Bit Part, but it's also the past tense of bite which would point to Tooth, the assassin word.

Delegation was intended to point to "Part" along with the ones you guessed, since a delegation is a part of a larger group, and when you delegate a task you assign it to a part of the team. But that's pretty weak, so I don't blame you for missing it. Part is just a really, really hard word it turns out.

[scolapasta]

Part was on the shortlist for our Delegation guesses.

Acrophobia for Tower and Disease was brilliant! Great job, Red.

[Eevee]

I believe galzria is our spymaster for the next game, who’s yours?

[scolapasta]

I believe it's me.

[scolapasta]

I have a flight tonight, so Galzria, feel free to set up. If you can't get to it by late tonight (after I land), I can set it up.

[scolapasta]

Blue goes first

MOLE	CLOUD	GRACE	PLAY	CARROT
LONDON	SEAL	BRUSH	FILM	SHARK
BEAT	PILOT	LASER	CHICK	TRUNK
TABLET	PORT	BREAD	FINGER	MATCH
BALL	NEW YORK	BEIJING	PLATE	PICK

[Galzria]

Thanks Scola -

Little slow on my end. Working on clue. Will post something by early this afternoon.

[Galzria]

Despatie: 3

[Swowl]

Swimming knowledge - swimmer/diver that was in the olympics a while back. Like when i was still swimming so 2000 onwards

[Swowl]

Beijing for his olympics

[Eevee]

trunk for swimming trunks?

feel free to lock in anything. i’ve never heard of this guy

[Eevee]

a diver must dive in a graceful manner?

seals and sharks also spend time in water, but i doubt that’s what galzria is after as its hard to differentiate between the two with this clue.

[Eevee]

are london olympics too late for mr despatie?

[Swowl]

Nah Manchester would of been in his era

[Eevee]

what do you mean by manchester?

[Eevee]

beijing

[Galzria]

beijing

Beijing is Blue

[Eevee]

grace

[Galzria]

grace

Grace is Red

[scolapasta]

Baby: 3

[Eevee]

oh baby

[jotheonah]

is it as simple as

Baby Shark
Baby Carrot
Baby Seal

?

Those are all things

[jotheonah]

But there's also chick.

So it seems more likely it's Shark, Chick, Carrot.

[Jimmmmm]

Baby seals are a thing. Other possibilities are Play, Ball and Finger. But I think you're right.

I'd go Chick first.

[jotheonah]

I’d go shark next — it’s such a cultural moment, no way scola missed it. After that it’s trickier.

[Eevee]

bump!

Baby seals are a thing. Other possibilities are Play, Ball and Finger. But I think you're right.

I'd go Chick first.

[Galzria]

Baby seals are a thing. Other possibilities are Play, Ball and Finger. But I think you're right.

I'd go Chick first.

Chick is Red

[Jimmmmm]

Shark

[scolapasta]

Shark is Red.

[Jimmmmm]

Carrot

[Galzria]

Carrot

Carrot is Red

[Jimmmmm]

pass

[jotheonah]

high fives all around!

[scolapasta]

MOLE	CLOUD	GRACE	PLAY	CARROT
LONDON	SEAL	BRUSH	FILM	SHARK
BEAT	PILOT	LASER	CHICK	TRUNK
TABLET	PORT	BREAD	FINGER	MATCH
BALL	NEW YORK	BEIJING	PLATE	PICK

[Galzria]

Soufflè: 3

[Swowl]

Need to look at it more but potentially like plate and maybe bread?

[Eevee]

oof, i'm very lost here.

[Eevee]

Plate seems pretty safe, otherwise I'm not following why Galz chose souffle specifically of the plateable foods.

[Eevee]

I think I might lack the requisite cooking knowledge to decipher the clue, I hardly know what a souffle is. Cloud comes to mind for the texture I'm imagining I guess, but that's quite a stretch. Not sure if it's got anything to do with bread other than both being foods.. so did he mean to have us guess bread + plate for being food related things and then something else that's so specific he wants to use "souffle" as his clue?

Really feels like we are missing some reference here that Galz though we'd get.

[Eevee]

Despatie: 3

This was our previous clue, we only got one of those. Do you think trunk makes sense as a guess for swimming trunks?

[Galzria]

Plate seems pretty safe, otherwise I'm not following why Galz chose souffle specifically of the plateable foods.

Plate is Blue

[Swowl]

I think London olympics would be better based on Beijing

[Swowl]

Is there bread in soufflé? I’ll check

[Eevee]

lock in anything you want

[Swowl]

Screw it. Lock in

Cloud

[Galzria]

Screw it. Lock in

Cloud

Cloud is Blue

[Eevee]

Nice!

[Eevee]

I think London olympics would be better based on Beijing

There has to be a reason he gave that specific clue instead of, say, "Olympics". He for some reason wanted to reference this specific athlete.

[Galzria]

Bump-ity

[Eevee]

bread

[Galzria]

bread

Bread is Blue

[Swowl]

Eevee - good point on olympics.
We have a freebie guess with two to go. What do you like?

[Swowl]

Trunks may actually be good

[Eevee]

trunk

[scolapasta]

Trunk is Red

[scolapasta]

MOLE	CLOUD	GRACE	PLAY	CARROT
LONDON	SEAL	BRUSH	FILM	SHARK
BEAT	PILOT	LASER	CHICK	TRUNK
TABLET	PORT	BREAD	FINGER	MATCH
BALL	NEW YORK	BEIJING	PLATE	PICK

[scolapasta]

LaGuardia: 2

[Galzria]

😢

[jotheonah]

New York for sure. And then the other one is either Pilot or Port. I would lean toward pilot.

[Jimmmmm]

I don't know what LaGuardia is. Are we allowed to use Google?

[Eevee]

google is ok in this game

[Jimmmmm]

Okay in that case New York and Pilot seem good.

[scolapasta]

New York is red

[Jimmmmm]

Pilot

[scolapasta]

Pilot is red

[Jimmmmm]

pass

[scolapasta]

MOLE	CLOUD	GRACE	PLAY	CARROT
LONDON	SEAL	BRUSH	FILM	SHARK
BEAT	PILOT	LASER	CHICK	TRUNK
TABLET	PORT	BREAD	FINGER	MATCH
BALL	NEW YORK	BEIJING	PLATE	PICK

[Swowl]

hmmm... not the best spot for us.

[Galzria]

Buoy: 3

[Eevee]

I would go ball -> port, not sure about third

[Eevee]

maybe seal? both are round buoyant objects 

[Swowl]

k I am looking for connections before we go for one. Ill get a list together by this afternoon.

[jotheonah]

sorry Jimmmmm -- should not have assumed everyone knew LaGuardia.

[Jimmmmm]

sorry Jimmmmm -- should not have assumed everyone knew LaGuardia.

All good.

[Swowl]

don't know how I missed this but obviously PICK I think is one.

A Buoy Pick is a fairly common aquatic slang term for a tool you use to replace buoys

[Swowl]

Port would be my second choice just because you find Buoys in ports all the time. They act as like guidance lines for the boats as well as the ones that hang off the piers

[Swowl]

Then honestly SEAL probably Just cuz of all the pictures you see of those giant ocean buoys that have like a platform on them and they like always have seals or sea lions on them.


After that I agree with ball possibly, but we only have 3 for Buoy and I do not think that Galz would of put crossover here.

[Eevee]

aren’t buoys often ball-shaped? i would go ball over seal, otherwise agreed.

pick as per your read

[Galzria]

 

[Galzria]

Pick was death word

[Galzria]

MOLE	CLOUD	GRACE	PLAY	CARROT
LONDON	SEAL	BRUSH	FILM	SHARK
BEAT	PILOT	LASER	CHICK	TRUNK
TABLET	PORT	BREAD	FINGER	MATCH
BALL	NEW YORK	BEIJING	PLATE	PICK

[Galzria]

Despatie competed in the London & Beijing Olympics, and went on to have a career in Film.

Soufflé was cloud and bread based on look (yes, there’s no flour/bread in Soufflé - this was kinda an imagery reference) and plate.

Buoy was Port (Ocean reference), Ball (Many kinds of buoy’s are basically large floating balls), and Mole - which I knew was never going to get guessed here. A Mole is another name for a Pier or Breakwater. For Swan, there’s one in Oakland, 30 minutes from us - but I had no faith in either of you knowing that off hand 😁.

Sorry team, I didn’t know how better to tie that board together. 😢

[Galzria]

I missed the obviously wrong “Seal” for Buoy.

[Swowl]

all good we will get it next time
#On2theNext1

[Jimmmmm]

Sorry, I might sit out the next one.

[Eevee]

Darn.

Anyone from the rail want to fill in for Jimmm?

[scolapasta]

Great job team getting the right three babies (Baby Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo...)
And going Pilot instead of Port.

Of course, it helped that they got us both Grace and Trunk*.

* Had they not guessed it, I was thinking "disarm" for laser and trunk

Our first win with me as Spymaster! Woot!

[cayvie]

Can I try? Never played before but I think I get it

[scolapasta]

Can I try? Never played before but I think I get it

Welcome to team Red! (and good timing, we're on a 3 game streak )

[cayvie]

Can I try? Never played before but I think I get it

Welcome to team Red! (and good timing, we're on a 3 game streak )

Who else is on our team?

And who are we defeating?

[Eevee]

it’s me, galzria and swan for team blue. i believe it would be me and cayvie as spymasters, are you comfortable immediately jumping in the deep end or do you want to play as a guesser first?

[cayvie]

Sure let's go

[cayvie]

I mean idk where to see the secret board

[cayvie]

And no googling allowed, right?

[Eevee]

Googling is allowed in this game. Unless we decide to outlaw it? I’m for no google, but we should do what the majority prefers.

I’ll send you the grid for the game in 1-2 hours, cayvie

[scolapasta]

Our third is jotheonah.

My vote would be for limited google, i.e. if you don't know the definition of a word, the game's not as fun, so a simple search just to identify what it means. I know this is more difficult to referee, so if it's a strict yes or on, I'd lean towards no.

[jotheonah]

I’m not sure we 100% earned that win but I’ll take it. Welcome cayvie!

[Eevee]

Red goes first

CHANGE	DICE	TOWER	WEB	TIE
FLOWER	PRESS	MICROSCOPE	GLASS	PITCH
CANDLE	ELECTRIC	MINE	WIND	WALL
MAIL	BLOCK	KISS	DISEASE	WHIP
WITCH	COMIC	ICE CREAM	DUST	FILM

Team red is cayvie, joth and scola. Gl all!

[cayvie]

Lens: 3

[cayvie]

Our third is jotheonah.

My vote would be for limited google, i.e. if you don't know the definition of a word, the game's not as fun, so a simple search just to identify what it means. I know this is more difficult to referee, so if it's a strict yes or on, I'd lean towards no.

Can we ask our teammates what words mean if we're unsure? I mean our fellow guesser

[Eevee]

definitely. the two guessers are free to discuss basically anything, within reason.

[Swowl]

Our third is jotheonah.

My vote would be for limited google, i.e. if you don't know the definition of a word, the game's not as fun, so a simple search just to identify what it means. I know this is more difficult to referee, so if it's a strict yes or on, I'd lean towards no.

Can we ask our teammates what words mean if we're unsure? I mean our fellow guesser

yeah edicite so far has been if you are guessing you can do whatever you want. but if you are spymaster, pretty much just say word:#

[cayvie]

Lens: 3

[jotheonah]

I think Microscope, Glass, and Film are the words. I don’t really see any other contenders.

[scolapasta]

I think Microscope, Glass, and Film are the words. I don’t really see any other contenders.

Agreed: MICROSCOPE

[Eevee]

Red

[scolapasta]

GLASS

[Eevee]

red

[scolapasta]

FILM

[cayvie]

FILM

red

[scolapasta]

Excellent! Nicely done on the first clue!

PASS, of course.

[jotheonah]

::thumbs up::

[Galzria]

Alright team - we ran so well to start! Let’s turn out losing streak back around!

[Eevee]

Seconded, let's go team blue!


wilt: 4

[Galzria]

CHANGE	DICE	TOWER	WEB	TIE
FLOWER	PRESS	MICROSCOPE	GLASS	PITCH
CANDLE	ELECTRIC	MINE	WIND	WALL
MAIL	BLOCK	KISS	DISEASE	WHIP
WITCH	COMIC	ICE CREAM	DUST	FILM

[Galzria]

Seconded, let's go team blue!


wilt: 4

Flowers, obviously.
Candle, probably.
A Witch melting (Think Wizard of Oz) could be seen as wilting.
Ice Cream melting could be considered wilting.

Nothing else really stands out to me.

[Swowl]

agreed on flower:

lock in FLOWER

[Swowl]

the rest of your list are the ones that popout to me as well.

Only one I have also is Disease... causing you to wilt away? or like how a flower wilts when it is sick. idk. Eevee gave us 4 and I think there are only like 5 total that have any tie in.

I think Candle should be a solid next choice and then we pick after that take it from there.

[Eevee]

flower is blue

[Swowl]

k.

galz I think candle is a good second choice.

After that, I kind of disagree with the order of the last few and I think DISEASE would be a good third choice. But we can deal with that then if we agree on candle for next choice?

[Galzria]

Candle

[cayvie]

Candle

Blue

[Galzria]

k.

galz I think candle is a good second choice.

After that, I kind of disagree with the order of the last few and I think DISEASE would be a good third choice. But we can deal with that then if we agree on candle for next choice?

I like Ice Cream the most of {Witch/Ice Cream/Disease}, as it’s drooping (while melting) is very wilt-y imagery.

Witch was my weakest of the 4 I suggested. Why Disease?

[Swowl]

Disease because wilting away and shit.
Not a good case I just like it better than witch.

lock in ICE CREAM

[Eevee]

ice cream is blue (ick)

[Galzria]

Disease because wilting away and shit.
Not a good case I just like it better than witch.

lock in ICE CREAM

Alright. Let’s do it then.

Disease

[cayvie]

Disease is blue

[Galzria]

Nice!

(Pass)

[cayvie]

balrog: 5

[scolapasta]

Five, let's see what we can do!

SO Balrog is from Lord of the Rings.

I'm fairly certain it has a whip.
There's the Two Towers.
Then there's the Mines of Moria.

Those are my current top 3. After that?

Well Gandalf does go from Grey to White, so maybe Change.
And Web? (there's the giant spider thing)

Anything else LoTR related? (and I assume specifically Balrog for the whip part, so that's my first choice)

[Eevee]

cayvie is a spymaster after my own heart, loving the big clues

[jotheonah]

CHANGE	DICE	TOWER	WEB	TIE
FLOWER	PRESS	MICROSCOPE	GLASS	PITCH
CANDLE	ELECTRIC	MINE	WIND	WALL
MAIL	BLOCK	KISS	DISEASE	WHIP
WITCH	COMIC	ICE CREAM	DUST	FILM

Well, WHIP would be my top choice here. Followed very closely by MINE.

Does that scene even happen in The Two TOWERs? I thought it was during Fellowship...

WITCH is possible, since there's a witch king and a wizard is similar to a witch...

What about BLOCK? Gandalf blocks the way to let the others escape ("YOU SHALL NOT PASS")

[jotheonah]

For the sake of speeding things along: WHIP

[cayvie]

For the sake of speeding things along: WHIP

RED

[scolapasta]

Yes, it happens during Fellowship, but with a 5, I think some could be anything LoTR related.

After MINE, here are the words we've suggested:

Tower
Witch
Web
Block
Change

I think I like: Block, then Change, then Tower, but I'm open...

[cayvie]

is anything bolded like that a guess?

[Galzria]

is anything bolded like that a guess?

Generally, yes

[cayvie]

MINE is RED

[jotheonah]

BLOCK

[Eevee]

Block is red

[jotheonah]

Alright deferring to scola's order here: CHANGE

[cayvie]

Alright deferring to scola's order here: CHANGE

change is BLUE

[scolapasta]

NOOOOO... Sorry, team. We can still do this.

[Galzria]

Yay! We don’t lose before ever getting a second guess!!! 😅

[Eevee]

Maid: 3

[Eevee]

Yay! We don’t lose before ever getting a second guess!!! 😅

cayvie sure entered the game with a BANG

[Galzria]

CHANGE	DICE	TOWER	WEB	TIE
FLOWER	PRESS	MICROSCOPE	GLASS	PITCH
CANDLE	ELECTRIC	MINE	WIND	WALL
MAIL	BLOCK	KISS	DISEASE	WHIP
WITCH	COMIC	ICE CREAM	DUST	FILM

[Galzria]

Swan, thoughts on Maid? I have two words that I like, but neither are super-direct, so I want to know what your initial thoughts are first.

[jotheonah]

womp-womp

[Swowl]

Press and dust would be the ones that jump out.

Would start with dust.
I can look over again later tonight.

[Galzria]

Dust was one of my gut two.

The other was Kiss, if Eevee was going for Maid(en)’s Kiss. I also considered Press as a third - but didn’t see much beyond those 3

[Eevee]

dust is blue

[Galzria]

Coollio.

Press

[Eevee]

neutral

[cayvie]

Ok let's go team.

defenses: 3

[scolapasta]

CHANGE	DICE	TOWER	WEB	TIE
FLOWER	PRESS	MICROSCOPE	GLASS	PITCH
CANDLE	ELECTRIC	MINE	WIND	WALL
MAIL	BLOCK	KISS	DISEASE	WHIP
WITCH	COMIC	ICE CREAM	DUST	FILM

[scolapasta]

OK, so we know 2 of the 3 Defenses also should match Balrog.

The first two defenses that jump out at me are: Wall and Tower (in that order)

Tower was already a word we were considering for Balrog. What about Wall??

Other possible defenses maybe are: Pitch (as in Oil), Mail (as in Armor), and Web (though is that more of a trap than a defense? hmm...).

I could also make an argument for Tie (teams something play defensively in order to get a tie), but it's definitely lower on the list. Similarly, Dice (in some games, you "roll for defense"). I think it's just late now as I'm probably able to make a connection to defense with some of the other words too!

So what I think is best for third will depend on if we think there's a Balrog-Wall connection.

Are you happy with Wall and Tower for the first two?

[jotheonah]

Electric too— you can have an electric fence.

I agree we start with TOWER, then Wall.

After that I truly dunno.

[jotheonah]

I think maybe I like mail the best for the third.

[cayvie]

tower is red

[scolapasta]

Wall

Let's think a little (if ok) before picking the third. Do you think Wall was also for Balrog?

[cayvie]

wall is red

[jotheonah]

I don't think Wall was for Balrog, though I suppose it's possible.

I think Pitch and Mail are really clever. Like, I would not have thought of those meanings for those words. And I wish I knew Cayvie a little better, because either (A) she is also clever in that way and you are clever for figuring it out or (B) she is not thinking that way (and I promise this is not a diss, again, if it were me this is where I would be, just different people's brains work differently) and she's now going "oh shit, I totally didn't think about that". So those two are high risk/high reward. I think Pitch is this way moreso than Mail.

Electric is one where, again, a certain kind of person would really easily make the leap from defense to fence to electric fence.

Tie, I think, is too clever by half -- no one would expect someone else to get there. And Dice is similar.

I would put Web in that category too if not for the fact that we had also ID'd it as a LoTR reference, which makes me more inclined to pick it.

Still and all, gun to my head, I pick Mail. I think it's the most straightforward association with Defense of anything that's left, as long as you assume that Cayvie went the chainmail direction with it, which I would not have, but you did.

So that's where I am. If I had to rank them:

Mail
Web
Pitch
Electric
Dice
Tie
{Wind, Kiss, Witch, Comic}

[scolapasta]

Starting with your list:

Mail
Web
Pitch
Electric
Dice
Tie
{Wind, Kiss, Witch, Comic}

So we're agreed that we don't think Wall was for Balrog. Which means whatever we pick should match both.

That eliminates Dice and Tie. (and yes, I do agree that those were "clever by half")

Was there anything at all electric about the Balrog? I can't recall, anything, and if that's true, then I definitely prefer Mail to Web or Pitch.

[jotheonah]

not that I can think of. so, mail?

[scolapasta]

Mail it is.

[Galzria]

I like your chances.

[cayvie]

Mail it is.

Mail is neutral

[Galzria]

Mail it is.

Mail is neutral

Wow. Definitely would’ve been my choice in their spot!

[Eevee]

Porn: 2

[Galzria]

CHANGE	DICE	TOWER	WEB	TIE
FLOWER	PRESS	MICROSCOPE	GLASS	PITCH
CANDLE	ELECTRIC	MINE	WIND	WALL
MAIL	BLOCK	KISS	DISEASE	WHIP
WITCH	COMIC	ICE CREAM	DUST	FILM

[Swowl]

I like kiss and web

[Galzria]

Still like Kiss for Maid, Double with Porn.
Like Web second - Web as something a Maid gets rid of, and where Porn exists.

Don’t think it’s anything else.

[Galzria]

Kiss, then Web

[cayvie]

You win

[Swowl]

dont call it a comebackkkkkkkk

[Galzria]

You win

Yay!!!

That was -really- close, and I honestly thought we had no chance with the clues you gave!

[Galzria]

What was your last Defenses? When you posted the clue I told Swan “That’s game, we lose. Tower, Wall, Mail. Easy 3.”

[scolapasta]

Wow, another good one! Great clues, both.

So, even if we had gone with our probable 2nd choice of web, we would've lost. What's that leave, pitch?

[Eevee]

Whew! That certainly wasn’t easy. Their last word was electric.

[cayvie]

Yeah I was playing around maybe a little much. When I gave balrog, I only had 4 in mind, and I was like, what'll happen if I say five? I basically wanted y'all to guess until you hit a neutral, except I missed change.

The final word was electric. I was thinking elevator as a clue for electric/tower/wall but I was worried about press. Which of course I realized had already been guessed as soon as I gave my final clue.

For my second clue, I was really wracking my brain to come up with a fantasy clue that wouldn't trigger witch or dice

[cayvie]

I considered spelling it defence in order to make people think of electric fence even more.

[cayvie]

I elected for the plural defenses in order to imply a larger scale than just defending one person, to hopefully avoid mail. I didn't think electric would be so far down the list

[cayvie]

Anyway, fun game everyone!

[jotheonah]

Oh man, I got there I just didn't trust my instincts!

Very well played cayvie, awesome clues. I think we just outsmarted ourselves a little there at the end.

spelling it defence would have been clever and might have worked, but I think it also might have run afoul of the official rules, which discourage punning/using multiple meanings of a word.

[scolapasta]

I thought that was a great first round, cayvie. Now we get to see how you are at guessing!

[Eevee]

Joth and Swan for the next game?

[Galzria]

Joth and Swan for the next game?

Yep, think so!

[cayvie]

I'm sticking around too

[Swowl]

yeah im in

[jotheonah]

ok, hang on I'll do the thing

[jotheonah]

Blue goes first

WORM	AMERICA	AZTEC	ROOF	BUFFALO
COMPOUND	HIMALAYAS	DRAGON	FINGER	CAR
MATCH	WELL	DWARF	CASTLE	POLE
REVOLUTION	LIFE	TIME	PIRATE	NOTE
INFLUENZA	BASE	DICE	COPPER	PITCH

[Swowl]

checking in - its on me I know sorry - I will have a word this evening.

[Swowl]

just to clarify - the new rule is like "if a player doesn't know the word they may look up the defn of it, but that is it"?

[cayvie]

I don't think we agreed on any rule per se

[Eevee]

i’m fine with anything.

[Galzria]

just to clarify - the new rule is like "if a player doesn't know the word they may look up the defn of it, but that is it"?

That’s what I went with last game.

Basic google/Webster definition search only

[cayvie]

Sounds good to me

[scolapasta]

I think I was the one who suggested that, so clearly I'm ok with it.

[Swowl]

SMALLER:2

[Galzria]

Dwarf... Worm?

[Galzria]

Also, doesn’t bode well for us to open on a 2. 😂

[Eevee]

dwarf

worm seems best, could also see finger (would expect little as a clue in that case)

[Swowl]

dwarf is blue

[Galzria]

Worm

[Swowl]

worm is blue

[Galzria]

Sweet!

Pass

[Swowl]

Updated Grid:

WORM	AMERICA	AZTEC	ROOF	BUFFALO
COMPOUND	HIMALAYAS	DRAGON	FINGER	CAR
MATCH	WELL	DWARF	CASTLE	POLE
REVOLUTION	LIFE	TIME	PIRATE	NOTE
INFLUENZA	BASE	DICE	COPPER	PITCH

[jotheonah]

Music 4

[scolapasta]

Music 4

Let's see: Pitch, note - I'm. happy with either of those getting locked in.

Then probably Time? I'm clueless (well, not literally ) on the 4th.

[cayvie]

I agree on note, pitch, time, in that order.

Fingers are used to play instruments
You play music in the car
Compound meter is a thing
Pirates sing shanties
Revolutions per minute

[cayvie]

Also base sounds like bass

[scolapasta]

OK, let's start with the first 3 (assuming we're right).

Note -> Pitch -> Time

[Swowl]

All three words are RED

[cayvie]

do you feel confident about anything? i kinda wanna pass. if we do guess, finger is my top choice, followed by base.

[Eevee]

Also base sounds like bass

these kind of clues are forbidden. the clue needs to pertain strictly to the meaning of the word, not
how it looks or sounds like (or where it’s placed on the grid or how many letters it has or whatever)

[scolapasta]

I'm ok passing. We can always come back to it if we need to.

[cayvie]

Also base sounds like bass

these kind of clues are forbidden. the clue needs to pertain strictly to the meaning of the word, not
how it looks or sounds like (or where it’s placed on the grid or how many letters it has or whatever)

ok thanks!

yeah let's pass

[Swowl]

CANNONBALL: 4

[Swowl]

Updated Grid:

WORM	AMERICA	AZTEC	ROOF	BUFFALO
COMPOUND	HIMALAYAS	DRAGON	FINGER	CAR
MATCH	WELL	DWARF	CASTLE	POLE
REVOLUTION	LIFE	TIME	PIRATE	NOTE
INFLUENZA	BASE	DICE	COPPER	PITCH

[Eevee]

Pirate, castle for sure. Then maybe revolution? I see a lot of options for the 4th, nothing sticks out to me particularly.

[Galzria]

Well, Pirate (1).

The Cannonball Run is a “race” across America done in a car to see how quickly it can be done (super illegal, but super popular every time one iOS done). Swan and I talked some about it 4-5 months ago when the new record was just set. If he’s relying on either of us knowing this reference, that’s a potential for Car (2), and America (3).

That would leave just one more if those were correct. Revolution? Match? Other thoughts?

[Galzria]

Pirate since we both agree there.

[Swowl]

pirate is blue

[Eevee]

That sounds like a reasonable explanation for that clue, go for it!

[Eevee]

I think any of castle, revolution, match could be the 4th. Maybe not worth guessing if we get that far because they could be theirs or even the assassin too.

[Galzria]

Well, let’s try one and if we’re wrong we can change tact next round:

Car

[jotheonah]

Car is red.

[jotheonah]

Updated Grid:

WORM	AMERICA	AZTEC	ROOF	BUFFALO
COMPOUND	HIMALAYAS	DRAGON	FINGER	CAR
MATCH	WELL	DWARF	CASTLE	POLE
REVOLUTION	LIFE	TIME	PIRATE	NOTE
INFLUENZA	BASE	DICE	COPPER	PITCH

[jotheonah]

Tent 2

[Galzria]

Well... sorry Eevee!

4 seemed like a stretch number given an opening of 2 - and that was the first thing that came to mind, obscure a reference as it might’ve been... it just seemed to fit so nicely!

[scolapasta]

Pole, for sure. What else?

(and we still, possibly, have music, though I guess it. could have been car)

[cayvie]

Pole, for sure. What else?

(and we still, possibly, have music, though I guess it. could have been car)

Buffalo maybe? For teepees made of hide?

Either way, pole is obvious

[scolapasta]

Maybe? I usually think 2nd clues to be a little more obvious.

Some others: roof, base (as in base camp)


We could also pass early again. With Pole we have 5 of 8, they're still at 3/9 (though with a clue for 3 more).

What do you think of base?

(also, where do you live? You're usually posting in the middle of my night, so my guess is Australia?)

[cayvie]

Maybe? I usually think 2nd clues to be a little more obvious.

Some others: roof, base (as in base camp)


We could also pass early again. With Pole we have 5 of 8, they're still at 3/9 (though with a clue for 3 more).

What do you think of base?

(also, where do you live? You're usually posting in the middle of my night, so my guess is Australia?)

base is ok. probably my third pick after buffalo. i don't like roof. i'm in Minneapolis, often called the Australia of the Midwest.

[scolapasta]

Maybe? I usually think 2nd clues to be a little more obvious.

Some others: roof, base (as in base camp)


We could also pass early again. With Pole we have 5 of 8, they're still at 3/9 (though with a clue for 3 more).

What do you think of base?

(also, where do you live? You're usually posting in the middle of my night, so my guess is Australia?)

base is ok. probably my third pick after buffalo. i don't like roof. i'm in Minneapolis, often called the Australia of the Midwest.

Haha

OK, so no to roof. (I didn't love it). I also am not in love with Buffalo, so definitely prefer Base next. And I like that more than passing as well.

[cayvie]

all right, base it is.

[Galzria]

Are you follow up guessing assuming Pole is Red, or changing your guess to Base?

[scolapasta]

POLE, then (if correct), BASE

[cayvie]

POLE, then (if correct), BASE

oh yes, that. sorry.

[Swowl]

Both are red.

[cayvie]

nice! pass now, right?

[scolapasta]

I think so, PASS.

We might still have a music left, though it may have been Pole or Base or Car.

[Swowl]

ICE: 5

[Swowl]

Updated Grid:

WORM	AMERICA	AZTEC	ROOF	BUFFALO
COMPOUND	HIMALAYAS	DRAGON	FINGER	CAR
MATCH	WELL	DWARF	CASTLE	POLE
REVOLUTION	LIFE	TIME	PIRATE	NOTE
INFLUENZA	BASE	DICE	COPPER	PITCH

[Eevee]

Himalayas -> roof -> dragon (do you know if Swan watched the last seasons of Game of Thrones?) -> America (?) -> Well (?)

[Galzria]

Himalayas -> roof -> dragon (do you know if Swan watched the last seasons of Game of Thrones?) -> America (?) -> Well (?)

He did.

Himalayas & Roof I’m on board with.

Dragons... maybe? Ice Dragon is a thing I suppose.

Why America/Well?

[Eevee]

Because I can't think of anything better and the clue says 5.. any ideas?

[Eevee]

Well's have water which can freeze. America might be too much of a stretch, America as a location for ice..

Better ideas?

[Galzria]

I would do Buffalo, (New York) I think before America. They get pretty severe Winters.

Well I could see.

Copper pipes ice over when Frozen.

[Eevee]

Himalaya, then roof if blue

[Eevee]

What do you like as the third choice? I think well, dragon and Buffalo (agreed) are all comparable.

[Eevee]

America could be for cannonball (pirates). Revolution is an option from there too.

[Galzria]

America could be for cannonball (pirates). Revolution is an option from there too.

I think I like circling back to Castle/Revolution for Cannonball. I also agree with Dragon for the third Ice. Buffalo for fourth.

Assuming all of those are correct, we’ll be one short still... and the last word DEFINITELY fits Cannonball, and maybe ALSO fits Ice...

So... America, for the combination of American Revolution?

[Galzria]

I would go:

Himalayas -> Roof -> Dragon -> Castle -> Revolution -> Buffalo -> America

[Galzria]

I would go:

Himalayas -> Roof -> Dragon -> Castle -> Revolution -> Buffalo -> America

And that’s one too many, isn’t it?

For Cannonball: 4 - Pirate, Revolution, Castle, America
For Ice: 5 - Himalayas, Roof, Dragon... Castle/America?

The extra word here is Buffalo, which I like better for Ice than America, but can’t pair with Cannonball well.

[Eevee]

Haha, confused me too. I think I like this order. Dragon has me somewhat worried, it's the kind of connection he'd totally overlook if it wasn't our word.. Of course with such a big clue it's very difficult to tie everything anyway. I think this is a fine order.

[Eevee]

It's possible Swan had this 5 clue ready from the beginning, and was just waiting for pole to get picked first.

[Eevee]

Let's go castle before dragon, I think it's more likely.

[Galzria]

And I completely left off Well. Ugh.

9 Needed:
Smaller (2): Dwarf, Worm
Cannonball (4): Pirate,
Ice (5): Himalayas, Roof,

There are likely two overlap words for Cannonball and Ice. If there weren’t, Swan could’ve said Ice (3) or Ice (4). I don’t believe Himalayas or Roof fit there. That means of the final 4 words, 2 double up, and 1 from each category is unique.

Possible words for Cannonball (Need 3): Revolution, Castle, America... ?
Possible words for Ice (Need 3): Dragon, Well, Buffalo, America...?

I think that strengthens America. I like Dragon as the unique word for Ice. I like Revolution for the unique word for Cannonball.

Do you think Cattle can be a shared word for Cannonball/Ice?

[Galzria]

Cattle = Castle

[Galzria]

Himalayas -> Roof -> Castle

[Galzria]

I think I like America, Revolution & Dragon to try and finish.

[Swowl]

Blue Himalayas
Red for Roof

[Eevee]

Damn!

[Galzria]

Well that’s unfortunate.

[jotheonah]

I just have one left then, right?

[Eevee]

yes

[jotheonah]

Penny 1

[cayvie]

copper, then, yes?

[scolapasta]

While you could throw a penny into a wishing well, I agree COPPER is the best for a 1 clue.

[jotheonah]

Copper is red! We win!

the grid:

WORM	AMERICA	AZTEC	ROOF	BUFFALO
COMPOUND	HIMALAYAS	DRAGON	FINGER	CAR
MATCH	WELL	DWARF	CASTLE	POLE
REVOLUTION	LIFE	TIME	PIRATE	NOTE
INFLUENZA	BASE	DICE	COPPER	PITCH

Gang, I have a confession. I was trying to do the illegal Base/Bass thing. I'll remember for next time.

If Roof hadn't been handed to me, I was going to try "Tin" for the final clue. Curious as to if that would have worked. Also if I hadn't gotten "car" for free I was going to do Siren 3 for [ROOF, CAR, COPPER] (playing on the double meaning of Copper). In retrospect, that would have been a great starting clue for Note and Pitch as well, a legit fiver.

[Eevee]

whose turn next?

[Galzria]

Me/Scola, I believe

[Eevee]

And no problem on the rules confusion joth, it's a very common mistake and clearly wasn't game changing at all here. Blue team really couldn't get it going this round!

[scolapasta]

And no problem on the rules confusion joth, it's a very common mistake and clearly wasn't game changing at all here. Blue team really couldn't get it going this round!

Agreed, we never even tried to guess the 3rd music.

All overall your clues where great this round (Tin for Copper and Roof, would've been great!)

[scolapasta]

I should be able to set the next one up late tonight; othewise, Galzria, feel free to do it.

[scolapasta]

Red goes first

SUB	TRIANGLE	BOTTLE	BAT	WHIP
PISTOL	RULER	SHOP	JACK	NIGHT
LINE	DIAMOND	AFRICA	SWING	WALL
NINJA	TICK	MERCURY	MOUNT	SUIT
ANTARCTICA	GLASS	FAIR	ROOF	KNIGHT

[Swowl]

Sorry on the last one blue team! I messed up on the first clue pretty hard and then dig a hole i couldn’t come up with a way out of.

[scolapasta]

Time: 5

[cayvie]

Time: 5

wow, 5!

the ones i see are:

Line (as in time line)
Swing (as in swing time)
Glass (as in hourglass)
Night (as in night time)
Tick (what clocks do)

[jotheonah]

Well the only other one I see is Mercury, because you can tell time by tracking the movements of the stars and planets but that feels like a stretch.

Also, don't they use diamonds in high-end watches sometimes? I suppose Fair relates in a cosmic sense -- time is the ultimate equalizer since it comes for us all. Wow, that got dark.

I like yours but I would do this order: Tick, Night, Line, Glass, Swing.

[cayvie]

Yeah ok let's start with tick

And go from there. I would prefer moving night later.

Tick, line, glass, night, swing?

[scolapasta]

Tick is red.

[jotheonah]

Yeah ok let's start with tick

And go from there. I would prefer moving night later.

Tick, line, glass, night, swing?

Fine with that order.

[cayvie]

all right,

line, glass, night, swing

[scolapasta]

Line is red, Glass is red, Night is red, Swing is red.

[Eevee]

omg! well done red

[cayvie]

maybe the whole board is red, i say we just guess randomly

[cayvie]

jk pass

[jotheonah]

wow cayvie,  nicely  done!

[Galzria]

SUB	TRIANGLE	BOTTLE	BAT	WHIP
PISTOL	RULER	SHOP	JACK	NIGHT
LINE	DIAMOND	AFRICA	SWING	WALL
NINJA	TICK	MERCURY	MOUNT	SUIT
ANTARCTICA	GLASS	FAIR	ROOF	KNIGHT

[Galzria]

Catwoman: 4

[Eevee]

I'd go with

Whip - she carries one
Bat - known from the Batman universe
Suit - she's famous of wearing one
Diamond -  she's a notorious diamond thief

and these seem like the other contenders

Roof - many a rooftop chase and conversation
Ninja - she's kind of ninja-like

[Eevee]

Jack is also a synonym for stealing.

[Swowl]

Jack is also a synonym for stealing.

I think whip -> bat ->suit 100% and I agree with the order.

then Diamond I am also good with. I guess the only others I would consider would be Ninja and Roof. But I like Diamond the best.


lets lock in WHIP
(since we both agree there)

[Galzria]

Whip is Blue

[Eevee]

bat

if blue

suit

[scolapasta]

Bat is blue.
Suit is red.

[Eevee]

Ugh!

[scolapasta]

!: 2

[scolapasta]

Whoops, that should say:

DELTA: 2

[cayvie]

Huh. Triangle is obvious.

The only other one I see is Africa, referring to the Nile Delta. However I also feel like pyramid would be a more obvious triangle/Africa clue--except that would also indicate ruler as well I guess. So maybe that's where Delta came from.

Wanna start with triangle?

[cayvie]

Free association about Delta.

Delta is a Greek letter shaped like a triangle, when capital. Capital Delta means rate of change. Lowercase Delta is used in limits. Delta is an airline in the US. It also sometimes is a geographical phenomenon at the mouth of big rivers. The Nile, Amazon, and Mississippi all have famous deltas.

A deltoid is a muscle in the upper body. Shrug.

[jotheonah]

SUB	TRIANGLE	BOTTLE	BAT	WHIP
PISTOL	RULER	SHOP	JACK	NIGHT
LINE	DIAMOND	AFRICA	SWING	WALL
NINJA	TICK	MERCURY	MOUNT	SUIT
ANTARCTICA	GLASS	FAIR	ROOF	KNIGHT

[jotheonah]

DIAMOND is also a shape, and a diamond could be made with two Deltas stacked on top of each other.

And a ROOF is sort of Delta-shaped too.

What about SUB? Is there a math or physics thing. I know Delta is used in physics and I think they also use subscripts and sometimes refer to them out loud as "sub".

Honestly, I think AFRICA is the logical next choice.

Let's lock in TRIANGLE

[scolapasta]

Triangle is red.

[cayvie]

AFRICA

[scolapasta]

Africa is red.

[cayvie]

pass? i feel like scola would have given us a 3 if he saw one

[cayvie]

actually, heck, i think the chances that jo posts and accidentally bolds a word that turns out to be the assassin are greater than the chances that we lose if we pass

[cayvie]

actually, heck, i think the chances that jo posts and accidentally bolds a word that turns out to be the assassin are greater than the chances that we lose if we pass

(no diss you you, jo, i just think we're very far ahead so i want to cut off all random chance i can)

[Galzria]

actually, heck, i think the chances that jo posts and accidentally bolds a word that turns out to be the assassin are greater than the chances that we lose if we pass

I couldn't really see a situation where you didn't pass here, but also didn't want to go with a new clue until it was made formal.

Well.... now... uhhh.... give me a few.

[Eevee]

Bump!

[Galzria]

Carnival: 3

[Swowl]

so unfortunately I think Galzy made a woopsie here. I believe the rules state that we can only guess +1 the number he puts.

Alas, go down swinging.

Fair - because similar
Knight - because renaissance theme
Mount/Shop/Bottle

Then for Catwoman I think the ones we missed were:

Ninja and either Roof or Diamond.



Assuming Mount as the primary third pick...Alters to Mount:

SUB - makes no sense with anything. out.

Antarctica - makes no sense. out.

WALL - I think just plain out.

Mercury - Thermometers and the planet and the element. None of those make sense.

PISTOL - Because I think our first guess is Ninja/+1, I do not think that Mount can be replaced by Pistol (sometimes in carnivals) because G could of just said something like Weapons:4 and we would of easy got bat/whip/pistol.. and then either knight/ninja. Actually he could of put a 5 on it if all of those were ours... and I do think Knight is a Carnival word so pistol is out.

RULER - Like circus leader? Again I don't like this one because of crossover. First guess could of been like Tyranny o or something like that and we would get assumed Knight along with whip, diamond, pistol, so yeah idk if I like that one.

JACK - Like a jester? maybeeeeee?

and then..

SHOP - Carnivals have shops.

BOTTLE - Carnies like to drink.

MOUNT - like this the most. I think possible the line of though would be use synonym to FAIR to get us to FAIR to get us to jousting with KNIGHT and MOUNT.


SOOOOOOO (not that it matters I think lol) but... I would say:

Carnival is FAIR-KNIGHT-MOUNT
Catwoman is ROOF-NINJA

and then I have a theory on the last word, which on the extreme offchance that we get another turn, I am just gonna keep quiet for now, but yeah. That is 5. Obviously Diamond instead of roof could be a thing and Mount could be something else I guess. but if those 5 are right then it would put us at 7 and we need 8. and I think we can only guess 4 lol.

[Eevee]

fair

[Galzria]

fair is blue

[Eevee]

so two out of diamond/roof/ninja for catwoman. diamond i think is most likely

[scolapasta]

Diamond is neutral.

[scolapasta]

REPLACE: 1

[cayvie]

would that be SUB, like in substitute? that's all i see

[jotheonah]

yeah, it's probably SUB

I supposed you also SHOP around for a replacement, so that's a distant possibility.

Sub ftw

[scolapasta]

Sub is red.

RED WINS!

(I almost went with Grinder:1, but I is that too much of a New England term?)

[scolapasta]

Full board:

Red goes first

SUB	TRIANGLE	BOTTLE	BAT	WHIP
PISTOL	RULER	SHOP	JACK	NIGHT
LINE	DIAMOND	AFRICA	SWING	WALL
NINJA	TICK	MERCURY	MOUNT	SUIT
ANTARCTICA	GLASS	FAIR	ROOF	KNIGHT

[scolapasta]

Red Post mortem:

Not too much here as you guys were awesome! (though one of my 5 for Time was different)

Time (5): Night, Line, Tick, Swing, Triangle
Delta (2): Triangle, Africa
Replace (1): Sub

My 5th for Time was a stretch, but I thought about Triangle the instrument and somehow it worked it my mind. I would've been happy if just 4 had been guessed, but was very happy that glass fit a connection I didn't see and was ours.

It's funny because I did consider Pyramid as a clue if I needed for Glass and Triangle (i.e. the Louvre), but didn't even think of Africa. You are right, it would've been better here, but you still got it.

If they hadn't gotten Suit for us, I was considering trying Admiral for Sub and Suit.

[jotheonah]

cayvie/eevee, you're up!

[Eevee]

Blue goes first

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

Gl all! Revenge game for blue!

[Eevee]

Watering: 5

[jotheonah]

5! Look out, we gotta badass over here.

[Swowl]

hole - watering hole
stream - because water
pool - because water
eye - when your eye waters

then

Wheel - like for energy
Ground - like watering plants
Duck - habitat water
Alps - melting ice?


yeah IDK about the fifth, but I like the first 4.

[Galzria]

Watering: 5

Not reading Swan's thoughts - don't want any influence.

Watering:

Blue goes first

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

Gl all! Revenge game for blue!

Dial back to Water for a moment, will build up to Watering after:
Water -Stream-
No Kiwi
No London
Water -Wheel-
Water -Chest- (like Cooler)
Water: Life (necessary component of)
No Cap
No Novel
Water -Break-
No Alps
No Train
No Mass
Watering -Ground-
-Cold- Water
Watering: Eye
Water: Duck
No Lawyer
Water: Pool
No Letter
No Degree
No Shoe
No Bark
No Hook
No Helicopter
Watering Hole

Boiled Down:
Stream : Wheel : Chest : Life : Break : Ground : Cold : Eye : Duck : Pool : Hole

Now, to pull up Swan's thoughts:

hole - watering hole
stream - because water
pool - because water
eye - when your eye waters

then

Wheel - like for energy
Ground - like watering plants
Duck - habitat water
Alps - melting ice?


yeah IDK about the fifth, but I like the first 4.

Let's start with Hole, then Eye, then Stream - and pause there to see where we're at.

[Eevee]

Hole is blue

Eye is blue

Stream is blue

[Galzria]

By grouping, I like:

Top:
Ground

Middle:
Wheel

Lower:
Break

Bottom:
Pool, Duck, Cold

Sub Bottom:
Life, Chest, Alps

I think we do Ground, then Pass.

[Swowl]

Let’s go
GROUND

agree on that. Hold off on the pass for a sec

[Eevee]

ground is red

[scolapasta]

Huh, I liked ground as your 4th, too. But I'll take the red!

[Galzria]

Huh, I liked ground as your 4th, too. But I'll take the red!

We are EXTRAORDINARILY good at guessing Red words. I feel like 80% plus of our misses over the past 5 or so games have been Red Words. 

[cayvie]

oh right my turn

[cayvie]

SOLICITOR: 2

[jotheonah]

Updated grid:

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

[jotheonah]

A solicitor is a kind of lawyer in the UK and a salesperson in the US.

So I would say LAWYER and LONDON.

LETTER and DEGREE are also possible, but I think we don't want to overthink. HOOK maybe, as something a salesperson tries to do to you.

[scolapasta]

I had been thinking Lawyer and Degree (and Letter as a 3rd), but you're right, Solicitor is a specific choice (as opposed to Attorney) and points to London.

So I'm happy with Lawyer -> London

[jotheonah]

Though I might have gone for Barrister in that case, since it's less ambiguous.

[Eevee]

red

and



red

[scolapasta]

Nice!

Now should we guess something the blue team would guess, since it'll just turn out to be red?

[jotheonah]

I think we pass here.

[Galzria]

Nice!

Now should we guess something the blue team would guess, since it'll just turn out to be red?

Wheel. You should guess Wheel. It's probably Red.

[scolapasta]

I think we pass here.

Yes, of course (not sure if my humor came through).

[Eevee]

Breather: 3

[Galzria]

Breather: 3

Break is the first.

Chest (Lungs) could be two.

Not sure on 3.

[Swowl]

updated.

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

[Swowl]

yeah agreed on break and chest

lock in BREAK

[Eevee]

break is blue

[Galzria]

Chest

[Eevee]

chest is blue

[Galzria]

Pool

[Eevee]

pool is red 

[Galzria]

Sorry - realized Swan and I were talking to each other but not posting here (we are usually pretty good about posting our thoughts here):

We were debating to Pass, or guess at another Water word, try to find the last Breather word, and trying to guess how much overlap there might be.

We boiled it down to Wheel and Pool - I liked Wheel, he liked Pool. Decided Pool had a better chance at being a double connection so went with Pool.

[Galzria]

pool is red 

🤬

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[Swowl]

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

[Eevee]

 

[jotheonah]

Pretty sure I know what the last one for breather was but I won't say it. But scola, if you suggest something and I ignore it or cryptically dismiss it, that's probably why

[scolapasta]

Maybe we should guess it, I feel we owe blue a word or two...

BTW, how's your side of Cambridge? Pretty quiet here by Alewife...

[jotheonah]

I haven't been outside further than the recycling bin in 2 days I just did a 50-minute children's concert on Zoom, though, so I'm sure my neighbors love me right now. People love hearing "Let It Go" performed at the top of one's lungs and range, right?

[scolapasta]

That's awesome. What do you do?

I've taken to "commuting" to and from work each day. It gets me out, and it separation when is work time and when is home time. Being  a software developer, I've always have done some stuff from home anyway, so this delineation definitely helps mentally.

[cayvie]

g: 2

[scolapasta]

Hmmm...

OK, so g is a letter, seems like a good $1 choice.

What can it represent:
Music
Gravity / force
Transportation systems?
as an Initial

So some possibilities: mass (weight = mass * gravity), train, helicopter (also for gravity), cap (Some team must were a cap with a G on it)

Of those, I like mass best, the other ones are me probably overthinking.

[jotheonah]

That's awesome. What do you do?

I'm a journalist/editor so my day-to-day is very WFH friendly. The weird thing is that I haven't been on a business trip since January.

So I agree, we gotta start with LETTER

After that, maybe HOOK? Though if cayvie wanted to convey a letter shaped like a hook, J seems like a way better and more obvious choice. So maybe MASS is good?

[Eevee]

letter is red

[scolapasta]

I'm going for it: Mass

[Eevee]

mass is red

[jotheonah]

guess we gotta pass again

[Eevee]

consumable: 4

[Galzria]

consumable: 4

A kiwi can be consumed (eaten)
A novel can be consumed (read)
A duck can be consumed (eaten)
A Degree can be consumable (Time)
A Shoe can be consumed (Worn)
A Life is consumed metaphorically and literally

Uhh...

For which falls under “Consumable” or “something to be used”...

1. Kiwi
2. Duck?
3/4. Shoe/Novel
5. Life

Those would be my top choices here, with only Kiwi being 100%

Which one do you think is Red? Let’s not guess that one (for a change).

[scolapasta]

Which one do you think is Red? Let’s not guess that one (for a change).

Kiwis are green not red.

Novels can have red covers, the red-breasted merganser is a diving duck, and of course shoes:



 

[Swowl]

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

[Swowl]

consumable: 4

A kiwi can be consumed (eaten)
A novel can be consumed (read)
A duck can be consumed (eaten)
A Degree can be consumable (Time)
A Shoe can be consumed (Worn)
A Life is consumed metaphorically and literally

Uhh...

For which falls under “Consumable” or “something to be used”...

1. Kiwi
2. Duck?
3/4. Shoe/Novel
5. Life

Those would be my top choices here, with only Kiwi being 100%

Which one do you think is Red? Let’s not guess that one (for a change).

I have forgotten where the fuck we were from the misses before lol.

WATERING 4 - we got 3
BREATHER 3 - we got 2

So, either there is overlap or there isn't. What's weird is Cayvie gave us 4... not 3. We only need 4 words, so I wonder if that is a hint that there is overlap with this clue.

[Galzria]

consumable: 4

A kiwi can be consumed (eaten)
A novel can be consumed (read)
A duck can be consumed (eaten)
A Degree can be consumable (Time)
A Shoe can be consumed (Worn)
A Life is consumed metaphorically and literally

Uhh...

For which falls under “Consumable” or “something to be used”...

1. Kiwi
2. Duck?
3/4. Shoe/Novel
5. Life

Those would be my top choices here, with only Kiwi being 100%

Which one do you think is Red? Let’s not guess that one (for a change).

I have forgotten where the fuck we were from the misses before lol.

WATERING 4 - we got 3
BREATHER 3 - we got 2

So, either there is overlap or there isn't. What's weird is Eeveegave us 4... not 3. We only need 4 words, so I wonder if that is a hint that there is overlap with this clue.

ftfy

And I assume based on the number provided being 4 that he feels confident that all 4 remaining words fall into this category.

I'm also extremely uncomfortable guessing at how many of the Watering clues are hit at this point - as the words we got for Breather (Break/Chest) could both have been for Watering. There is one missing for Breather, though, for sure.

[Swowl]

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

Words I think match with this word, or have overlap from previous words:
Kiwi - food or someone from NZ, but def best choice.
Bark - bark can be eaten.
Duck - tied with kiwi for a favorite. Could also somehow be a cross with watering I guess.
Wheel - Wheel of cheese, and it could have overlap with WATERING.
Life - I mean it is generic, anything works with this damn word.

Might want to consider:
CAP - Consumable goods normally have lids or caps to put on them?
COLD - like consuming medicine when you have a cold?

Middle Ground:
Novel - maybeeee?
Shoe - maybeeee?
Hook - fish eat hooks?


Hard Passes:
Alps
Helicopter
Train
Degree - this one is a stretch lol


I would say we go Kiwi->Duck->Wheel->Then guess the last red word

[Galzria]

Kiwi

Duck

I don’t like Wheel here. Shoe would probably be my next choice as something that is bought, used, and then repurchased. I would then primarily look for a word that fits Breather & Consumable - Novel & Life being my top choices. (Novel COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, making breathing harder)

[cayvie]

Kiwi

Duck

I don’t like Wheel here. Shoe would probably be my next choice as something that is bought, used, and then repurchased. I would then primarily look for a word that fits Breather & Consumable - Novel & Life being my top choices. (Novel COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, making breathing harder)

BLUE, BLUE

[Swowl]

Novel

*Fingers crossed Emoji*

[Swowl]

we are trapped indoors together.

our thought process is novel corona virus is a breathing desiese for BREATHER and novels as a book are a consumable (as in purchase multiples of them).

[Galzria]

Novel is Red

[Galzria]

Novel is Red

Oh, wait, I think I jumped the gun on that.

[cayvie]

It's blue

[Galzria]

It's blue

Now that’s what I like to see!

[Galzria]

Which one do you think is Red? Let’s not guess that one (for a change).

Kiwis are green not red.

Novels can have red covers, the red-breasted merganser is a diving duck, and of course shoes:



 

Scola says Shoe is our last one. 😉 I agree. I think we need to end on Shoe.

[Swowl]

i need a sec to math this out in my head but I am pretty sure I am equal tie between shoe life and cap so yeah . just gimme a sec.

[Swowl]

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

OK.

OFF THE TABLE:
Helicopter, Train, Alps, Cold, Degree, Hook, Bark

GAP:
Wheel - if it happens to be the last watering somehow, but honestly probably off the table.

OPTIONS:
Life - bleh, but possible.
Shoe - points been said.
Cap - It could be like a hat, same concept as shoes. Or a lid to a food item.


so my though process here....

SHOE could of been an easy 3 at any point with like "CLOTHES:3" and we go shoe cap chest. But as it can't be shoe and cap, that explains why that didn't happen. So Shoe or Cap both still on the table in that logic.
CAP doesn't have a lot to go off on all on it's own in terms of pairs. It could of been like HIGHEST:3 and that is a pretty easy cap, alps helicopter... but again, not an option so Cap is still on the table based on that.
LIFE is like the hardest word out there. So many pairs... and this is my hold up, so I am kinda just like we can go with whatever its you're call.

WATERING:4 = HOLE, EYE, STREAM. Then could be crossover with CHEST, BREAK, or DUCK.
BREATHER:3 = BREAK. Then CHEST - which I truly believe was intended to be our 4th word for WATERING.
So, going into CONSUMABLE:4, we were being told 4 words that go with CONSUMABLE, but we need one more for BREATHER. That could of been NOVEL, or I guess DUCK. It also could of been LIFE.

So I guess Galz my man it comes down to CONSUMABLE. I think technically speaking, like if Eevee had put CONSUMABLE:3, I would go with LIFE here every time. But since they hinted at 4 instead... I think the more "consumable" choice is best. And I rank life the lowest of cap/shoe/life on that.

So I am on board with cap shoe or life. Prefer Cap or Shoe. But the call is yours.

[Swowl]

fuck it go shoe. there are things for CAP that eevee could of done as I look at it.

[Galzria]

Shoe

[Eevee]

Shoe is blue

Yeeesss!!!!

[Eevee]

Blue goes first

STREAM	LIFE	TRAIN	DUCK	SHOE
KIWI	CAP	MASS	LAWYER	BARK
LONDON	NOVEL	GROUND	POOL	HOOK
WHEEL	BREAK	COLD	LETTER	HELICOPTER
CHEST	ALPS	EYE	DEGREE	HOLE

This was another great game. Never in doubt!

[Swowl]

dont call it a comeback!!!

[Swowl]

scola bluue team MVP

[Galzria]

Watering (4): Stream, Hole, Eye - Break? Chest? Duck?
Breather (3): Break, Chest - Novel? Duck?
Consumable (4): Kiwi, Duck, Novel, Shoe

[Galzria]

Cap was red 😂

[Swowl]

me and joth next for masters.
sent the grid.

[cayvie]

Arghhhhhh I thought for sure my ultraconservative play would take the day

Nice nice nice

[Eevee]

Watering (4): Stream, Hole, Eye - Break? Chest? Duck?
Breather (3): Break, Chest - Novel? Duck?
Consumable (4): Kiwi, Duck, Novel, Shoe

Watering was a terrible clue.. I was going for stream, hole, duck (it lives in water) and kiwi (a tree you could water). I have no idea what I was thinking, I guess I just didn't realize pool and ground were red and way more likely to be guessed than duck or kiwi.

Breather was break, chest and duck (it's a breather in the literal sense - it breathes), I thought this was pretty clever and was surprised you hadn't even considered duck at this point.

Consumable I didn't have a lot of faith in (for future reference, Galzria read it correctly - for me the number I give always just means how many words I'm referring to. I would have given a 3 had I not been able to connect all 4 words). Well done pulling it off! I wouldn't have given us more than 20% when giving the clue.

Reading this post:

consumable: 4

A kiwi can be consumed (eaten)
A novel can be consumed (read)
A duck can be consumed (eaten)
A Degree can be consumable (Time)
A Shoe can be consumed (Worn)
A Life is consumed metaphorically and literally

Uhh...

For which falls under “Consumable” or “something to be used”...

1. Kiwi
2. Duck?
3/4. Shoe/Novel
5. Life

Those would be my top choices here, with only Kiwi being 100%

Which one do you think is Red? Let’s not guess that one (for a change).

was such a delight! Could have kissed Galzria right there if we weren't socially distancing.

[jotheonah]

Knight 4

[jotheonah]

what was the last one for breather? I was sure it was life

[cayvie]

whats the grid?

[Eevee]

what was the last one for breather? I was sure it was life

break, chest and duck

[jotheonah]

whats the grid?

oops

Swan, did you happen to save the grid without the colors? Otherwise I have to remove them manually...

[jotheonah]

ok, I went ahead and did it:

DAY	MOLE	REVOLUTION	COMPOUND	HOSPITAL
BOOT	MOUNT	IVORY	ROCK	VET
CHANGE	CREAM	GIANT	WEB	PLATE
JACKET	CARD	ROULETTE	BAT	CASTLE
BEAT	FENCE	BERRY	GERMANY	MAIL

[scolapasta]

OK, 1st choice seems pretty clear to me as Castle.

Then several possibilities:
Mount (knights on horseback)
Plate (armor)
Mail (armor)
Germany (Teutonic Knights)
Giant (I'm sure some knight fought some giant at some time)

Giant is least likely. Not sure of the other 4, which 3 I prefer.

What do you see?

[cayvie]

castle, plate, mail definitely

mount as well, probably.

there's also the Knights HOSPITALer which i would maybe even put ahead of germany.

germany, beat, boot are all possibilities.

[scolapasta]

Castle

[Swowl]

CASTLE is NEUTRAL

[Galzria]

What? 😳

[scolapasta]

Are we looking at the same boards?!

[jotheonah]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[scolapasta]

Heh, I know you can't say more now. Maybe you didn't see castle, maybe you thought it wouldn't be our first guess.

Either way, we can come back!

[Swowl]

HEALING: 3

[Galzria]

Vet(rinarian)’s heal
Berries (herbs) can have healing properties
Cream (salve) is a good third

[Eevee]

Hospital!

Change is also a possibility, healing is going from one state to another.

I’d say hospital -> vet, but the third could be any of the three. I’d prefer change, I think it’s less roundabout than berry or cream.

[Eevee]

Change might not be a good guess yet, there's a higher risk of hitting red or black with that if Swan's brain didn't go there with the connection. I wouldn't associate berries with healing properties unless we are talking about pokemon games (are we?). Cream or pass might be the prudent thing to do if and when hospital and vet are blue.

[Galzria]

I missed Hospital. Agree there, so:

Hospital -> Vet

I don’t know that Swan would’ve thought of a Change connection for Healing. I think Cream is probably more likely, and Berries about the same -> but honestly I’m not super confident in any of those, so passing may be the better play here.

[Swowl]

Hospital and Vet are blue!

[Eevee]

pass

[jotheonah]

money 3

[cayvie]

roulette, change, card?

also there's still at minimum 3 good ones for Knight out there (mount, plate, mail)

[scolapasta]

Those are decent... Also maybe, as a stretch, fence (where you sell stolen items)

I'd say we go for change, then the three for might you listed.

[scolapasta]

Or even the Knight ones first.

[cayvie]

i'm down. CHANGE

[jotheonah]

Change is red!

[scolapasta]

Plate

[jotheonah]

Red!

[scolapasta]

Mount

[jotheonah]

Red!

[scolapasta]

Mail

[Swowl]

Mail is RED

[scolapasta]

Nice!

(Blue's turn)

[Swowl]

Updated Grid:

DAY	MOLE	REVOLUTION	COMPOUND	HOSPITAL
BOOT	MOUNT	IVORY	ROCK	VET
CHANGE	CREAM	GIANT	WEB	PLATE
JACKET	CARD	ROULETTE	BAT	CASTLE
BEAT	FENCE	BERRY	GERMANY	MAIL

[Swowl]

CAKE: 3

[Galzria]

I like:

Beat (eggs to make cake)
Cream (Ice Cream served with cake or icing/frosting)
Berry (Served with cake)

Maybe Ivory (Color)?

[Eevee]

Could be cake too (cake day).

I'd go cream (high likelihood we were supposed to guess that for healing) -> berry -> day. I think day is a little more straightforward than beat that requires the eggs - detour before connecting to cake. It probably skews me to liking day more that I've been reading some reddits where people use the expression somewhat often.

[Galzria]

I’ve never heard of Cake Day.

I know Pi Day, but that seems different.

Either way, let’s try:

Cream -> Berries

[Eevee]

People call their forum joining date that in reddit. At least in the (very stupid) subreddits I've lurked in my day.

[Eevee]

i'm fine with going with beat. it's not a connection i wouldn't have made, but i also never bake.

[Swowl]

Cream is blue
Berries is blue

[Galzria]

Beat

[Galzria]

Beat

EBWOP

[Swowl]

death word

[Swowl]

sorries all. I took a weird path on that one trying to set up for win on the next turn because they were gonn ahave so many. had to risk it :/

[mail-mi]

I would like to be in for the next game, if possible.

[cayvie]

does the game work with uneven size teams?

[bitwise]

I don't think having more people is clearly an advantage for this game.
I would like to join too though!

[mail-mi]

I don't think having more people is clearly an advantage for this game.
I would like to join too though!

We could also start a new thread.

[scolapasta]

In person, I've played with 4+ people to a team and it's fun (albeit, more chaotic). More room to mess up as more people means more, different ideas.

I say we try it at least for a round and see how it goes.

[Eevee]

One minus is you get to be the spymaster less and less often. I'd be in favor of making a new game (I'm sure you'd fill it quickly!), but it's no big deal. 

[Galzria]

Shit.

Sorry Eevee.

That's the first Death Word either team has hit.

[Eevee]

What's the full grid?

[jotheonah]

DAY	MOLE	REVOLUTION	COMPOUND	HOSPITAL
BOOT	MOUNT	IVORY	ROCK	VET
CHANGE	CREAM	GIANT	WEB	PLATE
JACKET	CARD	ROULETTE	BAT	CASTLE
BEAT	FENCE	BERRY	GERMANY	MAIL

[jotheonah]

I foolishly completely missed Castle but you guys had the other ones for Knight right. The 4th was BAT — I was thinking the Dark Knight. In retrospect, that was a long path to walk...

Ivory was the last one for money. Though if you had gone with fence that would have been great too. Ivory is worth a lot of money and I believe at some point it’s been used as money (it is I. The Earthsea books anyway)

[Swowl]

In person, I've played with 4+ people to a team and it's fun (albeit, more chaotic). More room to mess up as more people means more, different ideas.

I say we try it at least for a round and see how it goes.

I am in for anything, so yeah.

[Swowl]

sorry guys on that one.

I played conservative on the first word and you guys were all over both cream and berries which I figured would NOT happen

So then I was trying to iso out boot/rock/compound and do like DIRT as a last word bc we were gonna be win or go home.

If it isn't obvious now - I was going for cake and card :/ Sorries!

[jotheonah]

mail-mi, you can have my spot! And if we get one more person who wants to join I'm happy to come back to keep teams even.

[Eevee]

Galz and scola as spymasters?

[mail-mi]

mail-mi, you can have my spot! And if we get one more person who wants to join I'm happy to come back to keep teams even.

I know bitwise wanted in as well, so I think you're good to keep playing!

[Galzria]

One minus is you get to be the spymaster less and less often. I'd be in favor of making a new game (I'm sure you'd fill it quickly!), but it's no big deal. 

I'm in favor of this as well - if we have the capacity for it (which, I think we definitely do!), I would be open to joining into a new thread game with you, Eevee, bit-wise & Mail-Mi.

[Galzria]

One minus is you get to be the spymaster less and less often. I'd be in favor of making a new game (I'm sure you'd fill it quickly!), but it's no big deal. 

I'm in favor of this as well - if we have the capacity for it (which, I think we definitely do!), I would be open to joining into a new thread game with you, Eevee, bit-wise & Mail-Mi.

Or anybody else that wanted in.

[bitwise]

New thread is okay with me.

[mail-mi]

I made the new thread, here it is: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20277.0

[jotheonah]

is this thread continuing with Swan, scola, cayvie and me then?

[cayvie]

is this thread continuing with Swan, scola, cayvie and me then?

I would like that

[jotheonah]

OK, cayvie and scola are up!

[scolapasta]

Wait so did we lose Eeevee and Galzria? Or are they just playing multiple?

If the former, what are the teams, then?

[Swowl]

so cavie/scola and joth/swan?

[jotheonah]

Oh yeah. That works for me.

[cayvie]

So who is up? And how do I get a grid lol

[scolapasta]

So they just left us??

@cayvie, if you go to the first post, you'll see a link to generate a board (it's a google sheet). On the right side of the sheet you'll see two cells where it tells you what to copy. one for mailing your fellow spymaster, the other for posting to the board.

Hope that helps!

[cayvie]

So me and joth are the spymasters?

[jotheonah]

I don't mind spymasterin' twice in a row!

[scolapasta]

I'm good with that.

[cayvie]

Blue goes first

LEAD	BUFFALO	STRAW	CHANGE	CHAIR
SCALE	FRANCE	FLY	WELL	PIE
WHALE	SCHOOL	PICK	BEAR	BUG
CENTER	BRAZIL	BREAD	NUT	HIRE
HELICOPTER	FIRE	KETCHUP	ROOF	SCORPION

[cayvie]

(and i suppose that's you joth)

[jotheonah]

Am I Blue now? OK!

[jotheonah]

Water 4

Swan, you're my partner now.

[Swowl]

Water 4

Swan, you're my partner now.

Got it! Lglglgl

[Swowl]

Whale

[scolapasta]

OT: Are any of you interested in joining Decrypto 3? We lost two players and I think the game is more fun when you have 3 per team.

[jotheonah]

Whale is blue!

[jotheonah]

OT: Are any of you interested in joining Decrypto 3? We lost two players and I think the game is more fun when you have 3 per team.

Link to the thread? I’m game but idk the rules.

[scolapasta]

I'd describe as Bizarro Codenames.

In Codenames you think of a clue that is specific and points to many words.
In Decrypto you think of a clue that is vague but only points to one word.

Here is the Decrypto 3 thread:
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20281.0

and in this post (Decrypto 1) there's a general description of the rules:
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20039.0

[Galzria]

I’m sure I could get the hang of it. I think I tagged Game 1 to follow but didn’t end up doing so. Didn’t seem quite as intriguing a game as Codensmes... but if another player is needed I could certainly give it a go (and with a game to reread in place, that should help)

[Swowl]

WELL

[scolapasta]

Feel free to both hop on over then! Do note, that a lot of discussion goes on int the QTs. I think we did post them for Game 1 at the ned of the thread.

For me, I find it more challenging, because screwing up (e.g. not picking a vague enough word, or alternatively picking too vague) has more more severe consequences. In Codenames, you can survive these a little more, unless of course you hit the assassin.

[jotheonah]

WELL

blue.

[Swowl]

uhhh

SCALE?

[jotheonah]

Blue!

[Swowl]

alright screw it... going for it. Have some second tier ones but....

FIRE

[cayvie]

Blue!

[Swowl]

Woot.
Pass it then!

[cayvie]

WARM: 5

[cayvie]

Blue goes first

LEAD	BUFFALO	STRAW	CHANGE	CHAIR
SCALE	FRANCE	FLY	WELL	PIE
WHALE	SCHOOL	PICK	BEAR	BUG
CENTER	BRAZIL	BREAD	NUT	HIRE
HELICOPTER	FIRE	KETCHUP	ROOF	SCORPION

[scolapasta]

5, nice. Here's where I'll miss having a partner to tell me connections I miss.

Even without, I still think it makes sense to say what I'm thinking.

So here's what I've got:
Warm foods:
Bread, Pie

Warm Places:
Brazil, maybe France?

And maybe the warm venter?

Let's start with (up to) two of those:

Brazil -> Pie

[cayvie]

RED, RED

[scolapasta]

OK, good start, let's go with:

Bread -> Center

[cayvie]

RED, NEUTRAL

[cayvie]

LEAD	BUFFALO	STRAW	CHANGE	CHAIR
SCALE	FRANCE	FLY	WELL	PIE
WHALE	SCHOOL	PICK	BEAR	BUG
CENTER	BRAZIL	BREAD	NUT	HIRE
HELICOPTER	FIRE	KETCHUP	ROOF	SCORPION

[scolapasta]

Darn. That leaves 2 more. (And now I see one I missed that night be good)

[jotheonah]

Fish 2

[Swowl]

SCHOOL
.
then
.
FLY

[cayvie]

BLUE and BLUE

[Swowl]

weeeeee!
PASS

[cayvie]

LEAD	BUFFALO	STRAW	CHANGE	CHAIR
SCALE	FRANCE	FLY	WELL	PIE
WHALE	SCHOOL	PICK	BEAR	BUG
CENTER	BRAZIL	BREAD	NUT	HIRE
HELICOPTER	FIRE	KETCHUP	ROOF	SCORPION

[cayvie]

SOLDIER: 3

[scolapasta]

I hope you're a Marley fan...

Helicopter -> Buffalo

Third one is harder, so I'm going to think about it, and likely go with my warm guess. We'll see.

[cayvie]

I hope you're a Marley fan...

Helicopter -> Buffalo

Third one is harder, so I'm going to think about it, and likely go with my warm guess. We'll see.

RED, RED

[scolapasta]

OK, going back to warm first:

ChestNUTs roasting on an open fire...

[jotheonah]

Nut is... blue

[scolapasta]

Aaack. That is bad, very bad.

[jotheonah]

LEAD	BUFFALO	STRAW	CHANGE	CHAIR
SCALE	FRANCE	FLY	WELL	PIE
WHALE	SCHOOL	PICK	BEAR	BUG
CENTER	BRAZIL	BREAD	NUT	HIRE
HELICOPTER	FIRE	KETCHUP	ROOF	SCORPION

[jotheonah]

Wicker 2

[Swowl]

ahhhhhh. I will explain the ahhh after the game lol here we go...

CHAIR -> STRAW

fingers crossed.

[cayvie]

ahhhhhh. I will explain the ahhh after the game lol here we go...

CHAIR -> STRAW

fingers crossed.

you win

[Swowl]

weeee gj Joth
GG all

[Swowl]

There are wicker roofs too!!!

[Swowl]

me and scola next?
I can send out the thing if everyone is in still

[cayvie]

i'm still in, though i really preferred it when there were people to talk about the guesses, made for more banter!!

[Swowl]

i'm still in, though i really preferred it when there were people to talk about the guesses, made for more banter!!

agreed :/

[jotheonah]

wooo! 

you're right Swan, but it was all I  could think of for Chair and Straw.

Thank  god we got nut for free because  I couldn't think of anything for all three.

[jotheonah]

I figured fish could connect to fly either through flying fish or fly fishing, so the odds were good someone would make that connection, even though fish famously do not fly.

[cayvie]

my 5 for WARM included buffalo and bear; i was thinking warm-blooded animals
my 3 for SOLDIER were the two you got and HIRE

[scolapasta]

my 5 for WARM included buffalo and bear; i was thinking warm-blooded animals
my 3 for SOLDIER were the two you got and HIRE

Ah, warm blooded. Makes sense, I just didn't see it. (I also was thinking bear could be their's because Waterbears and I wasn't sure scale was actually correct for water.

For Soldier, I was likely going to guess Lead, next.

Anyway, yeah, I'd love it of we could get 2 more, as I like the discussion part (isn't it obvious?)

I think 3 per team is the ideal size for online.

[bitwise]

I'd be happy to play in this game, hint hint

[jotheonah]

I'll see if I can find us one more

[mail-mi]

I could play 2 games.

[jotheonah]

That seems fine.

[Swowl]

where we at here all?

[scolapasta]

I think we just need to split up the teams and then start a new round.

[Swowl]

i mean mailmi are you in for this game as well?

[mail-mi]

i mean mailmi are you in for this game as well?

Yes!

[Swowl]

ok does anyone care how the teams work? I can just roll and highest number goes to us or what?

[bitwise]

Anything is fine with me!

[cayvie]

ok does anyone care how the teams work? I can just roll and highest number goes to us or what?

yeah sure! i hope i get to be on the same team as swan, we've just been enemies so much here >:|

[scolapasta]

No pref.

[Swowl]

k I am complete re rolling teams then on random.
1-3 go together
4-6 go together... on sec.

[Swowl]

Blue Team = Bitwise, MailMi, scolopasta
Red Team = Joth, Swan, Cayvie

lets do the rotation in that order.

So, Joth and Bitwise are spymasters first. Unless there are any objections?

[scolapasta]

I'VE LOST BOTH MY OLD PARTNERS!!

OK, new partners, we got this - though it may take me a little to get used to being on team BLUE!

[bitwise]

Assuming everything is ok, I made a board.

Blue goes first

TOOTH	STICK	SERVER	BEAR	HIMALAYAS
SILVER	BOTTLE	BAR	SPY	PILOT
CASINO	CORNER	DIAMOND	SUB	WEB
FORCE	PRICE	BOLT	ORANGE	DOG
DATE	BRICK	CLUB	CALF	TIE

[bitwise]

Bite: 5

[cayvie]

yay yay yay it's back goin again

[jotheonah]

lol spymaster thrice in a row. I love it.

[mail-mi]

Bite: 5

Definitely Tooth and Dog, not sure on the rest. Bear? Maybe.

[scolapasta]

Agree on Tooth > Dog

It's five, so 4 and 5 will likely be stretchy, so I see a lot that could be, but are probably not (e.g. Spider bite, spiders make webs so web)

But I think we can continue with things that bite or things you bite, so I like Orange and/or Bear for next.

[bitwise]

Tooth and Dog are blue.

[mail-mi]

Orange > Bear

[bitwise]

Orange is red.

[mail-mi]

Orange is red.

 

[jotheonah]

Yoda 3

[cayvie]

ok i've seen a couple SW movies once, and watched "seagulls (stop it now)" many times so im kind of an expert here

FORCE seems obvious.

he carries a STICK, right? and there's a PILOT in a star war right? basically top gun in space? i've never seen top gun.

TIE fighters are the evil planes, right, so probably not them. maybe his stick is actually a CLUB?

[Swowl]

Updated.

TOOTH	STICK	SERVER	BEAR	HIMALAYAS
SILVER	BOTTLE	BAR	SPY	PILOT
CASINO	CORNER	DIAMOND	SUB	WEB
FORCE	PRICE	BOLT	ORANGE	DOG
DATE	BRICK	CLUB	CALF	TIE

[Swowl]

OK..

Force - 100%yes
Stick - 100% yes
Pilot - Yes... because I can kind of link "Bear" but it is a super long shot. Also, in the new SW series (during the pilot) that got released the "big gasp moment" is at the very end when baby yoda comes on the screen.

So I would say FORCE-STICK-PILOT

But Ill let you lock it in in case you have second thoughts.

oh duh. also xwings and shit - like pilots zoom zoom not TV. So yeah prob this is good.

[scolapasta]

Also, in the new SW series (during the pilot) that got released the "big gasp moment" is at the very end when baby yoda comes on the screen.

Spoilers! (just kidding; while I haven't watched I also haven't been living under a rock - even if quarantine feels like it!)

[cayvie]

force>stick>pilot

[bitwise]

Red, red, neutral.

TOOTH	STICK	SERVER	BEAR	HIMALAYAS
SILVER	BOTTLE	BAR	SPY	PILOT
CASINO	CORNER	DIAMOND	SUB	WEB
FORCE	PRICE	BOLT	ORANGE	DOG
DATE	BRICK	CLUB	CALF	TIE

[bitwise]

Angled: 3

[mail-mi]

Angled: 3

Corner and Diamond are the first that come to mind.

[scolapasta]

Corner for sure

Diamond is good, I was also thinking Himalayas, as they are mountains, which always make me think of this shape: /\

We also have 3 more from Bite, with Bear still leading. And up to 3 more guess after corner.

I'm thinking: Diamond -> Bear -> Himalayas

[bitwise]

Corner is blue.

[mail-mi]

Corner for sure

Diamond is good, I was also thinking Himalayas, as they are mountains, which always make me think of this shape: /\

We also have 3 more from Bite, with Bear still leading. And up to 3 more guess after corner.

I'm thinking: Diamond -> Bear -> Himalayas

Looks good to me, I'll finalize it.

Diamond -> Bear -> Himalayas

[bitwise]

All blue!

TOOTH	STICK	SERVER	BEAR	HIMALAYAS
SILVER	BOTTLE	BAR	SPY	PILOT
CASINO	CORNER	DIAMOND	SUB	WEB
FORCE	PRICE	BOLT	ORANGE	DOG
DATE	BRICK	CLUB	CALF	TIE

[mail-mi]

woot! Pass obviously, we're out of guesses.

[jotheonah]

Footrace 3

[cayvie]

Footrace 3

Tie, calf, bolt?

[Swowl]

maybe silver, but yeah those work. Tie and Bolt should probably go first.

[cayvie]

bolt

i am not confident on that ordering and i kinda like silver

but i'll let you make the call on the others, if bolt is the good color.

[cayvie]

also there's another yoda out there, which might be... club?

[bitwise]

Bolt is red.

[Swowl]

TIE

[Swowl]

and then probably I would say silver if we are doing bets on that.
Also for yoda almost certainly club.

Gonna do a little mini SW marathon to see if anything pops out

[bitwise]

Tie is red.

[Swowl]

alright cayvie.

Here is the thing - he could of just said "race".
Tie would be the obvious one there.
Then Silver (I think).
Then Bolt.
But we are never considering Calf or anything else there. MAYBEEEEE casino but that is a long shot.

I think because he put footrace instead of just race... your Calf guess may be more appropriate.

Or whatever not... we can always just guess at club.

In fact... if we are more certain about club than the silver/calf choice we should for sure guess that first and then decide on the the last word.

[cayvie]

alright cayvie.

Here is the thing - he could of just said "race".
Tie would be the obvious one there.
Then Silver (I think).
Then Bolt.
But we are never considering Calf or anything else there. MAYBEEEEE casino but that is a long shot.

I think because he put footrace instead of just race... your Calf guess may be more appropriate.

Or whatever not... we can always just guess at club.

In fact... if we are more certain about club than the silver/calf choice we should for sure guess that first and then decide on the the last word.

okay.

CLUB

[cayvie]

(also we already got bolt, it was red)

[bitwise]

Club is blue.

TOOTH	STICK	SERVER	BEAR	HIMALAYAS
SILVER	BOTTLE	BAR	SPY	PILOT
CASINO	CORNER	DIAMOND	SUB	WEB
FORCE	PRICE	BOLT	ORANGE	DOG
DATE	BRICK	CLUB	CALF	TIE

[bitwise]

Cheaper: 2

[scolapasta]

OK, so we have 2 more. One or more could be BITE though Club also could have been (like a club sandwich). Which makes me think maybe Sub?

But we also now two are CHEAPER.

That points to PRICE. And I think SUB fits here too (since sub is about under or less)

So unless you see something else, I'd say PRICE > SUB.

[mail-mi]

OK, so we have 2 more. One or more could be BITE though Club also could have been (like a club sandwich). Which makes me think maybe Sub?

But we also now two are CHEAPER.

That points to PRICE. And I think SUB fits here too (since sub is about under or less)

So unless you see something else, I'd say PRICE > SUB.

Sounds good to me! Price -> Sub

[bitwise]

Both blue. We win!

[scolapasta]

Woot!

[jotheonah]

Blue goes first

TOOTH	STICK	SERVER	BEAR	HIMALAYAS
SILVER	BOTTLE	BAR	SPY	PILOT
CASINO	CORNER	DIAMOND	SUB	WEB
FORCE	PRICE	BOLT	ORANGE	DOG
DATE	BRICK	CLUB	CALF	TIE

What a hard grid! My other one for Yoda was Bolt -- I was thinking about how he deflects the lightning bolts in the fight with Palpatine. I was going for Calf with Footrace (as well as the two you guessed) 

[cayvie]

Blue goes first

TOOTH	STICK	SERVER	BEAR	HIMALAYAS
SILVER	BOTTLE	BAR	SPY	PILOT
CASINO	CORNER	DIAMOND	SUB	WEB
FORCE	PRICE	BOLT	ORANGE	DOG
DATE	BRICK	CLUB	CALF	TIE

What a hard grid! My other one for Yoda was Bolt -- I was thinking about how he deflects the lightning bolts in the fight with Palpatine. I was going for Calf with Footrace (as well as the two you guessed)

yeah wow! so many tricks in there. like i wanna try "golden 3" for orange/brick/calf but there's silver and tooth mucking things up. i think footrace was a good one, if we'd stuck to our guns there we woulda gotten it right.

[Swowl]

Ah damn! Good game!

[scolapasta]

Who's next?

[Swowl]

Red goes first
Spymaster for Blue is Mail Mi
Spymaster for Red is Swan

CAT	HAM	STREAM	FILM	TRIANGLE
SATELLITE	WAKE	LONDON	COMIC	LINK
SERVER	TELESCOPE	CELL	LIGHT	ANTARCTICA
BAND	KANGAROO	PART	EAST	NEW YORK
ORGAN	CAST	SETTLE	TIE	CROWN

[Swowl]

ENGLAND: 2

[jotheonah]

I want to say it's London and Crown.

[cayvie]

I want to say it's London and Crown.

Sounds good.

London, crown

[Swowl]

RED RED

GJ!

[Swowl]

Blue's turn.

CAT	HAM	STREAM	FILM	TRIANGLE
SATELLITE	WAKE	LONDON	COMIC	LINK
SERVER	TELESCOPE	CELL	LIGHT	ANTARCTICA
BAND	KANGAROO	PART	EAST	NEW YORK
ORGAN	CAST	SETTLE	TIE	CROWN

[cayvie]

Blue's turn.

CAT	HAM	STREAM	FILM	TRIANGLE
SATELLITE	WAKE	LONDON	COMIC	LINK
SERVER	TELESCOPE	CELL	LIGHT	ANTARCTICA
BAND	KANGAROO	PART	EAST	NEW YORK
ORGAN	CAST	SETTLE	TIE	CROWN

Excuse me we haven't passed yet, we could still just random guess for no reason

pass

[Swowl]

Blue's turn.

CAT	HAM	STREAM	FILM	TRIANGLE
SATELLITE	WAKE	LONDON	COMIC	LINK
SERVER	TELESCOPE	CELL	LIGHT	ANTARCTICA
BAND	KANGAROO	PART	EAST	NEW YORK
ORGAN	CAST	SETTLE	TIE	CROWN

Excuse me we haven't passed yet, we could still just random guess for no reason

pass

oh yeahhhhhhhhh
mbmbmb

[mail-mi]

Internet: 3

[scolapasta]

I see several that could fit:

satellite, server, (broad)band, cast, stream, east (i.e Amazon AWS East), Link, maybe some others

Of those I think there are some stronger ones: server, stream, and possibly link?

[bitwise]

I like server, stream, and link best, followed by satellite.

[scolapasta]

We are agreed, then.

SERVER -> STREAM -> LINK

[mail-mi]

We are agreed, then.

SERVER -> STREAM -> LINK

Server is the assassin.  sorry y'all that was my bad, I didn't even realize how well that related to Internet

[scolapasta]

OUCH!

It happens, no worries.

[mail-mi]

OUCH!

It happens, no worries.

It was supposed to be link, stream, and satellite.

[jotheonah]

code names is hard!

[cayvie]

oh wait shit it's my turn huh

[cayvie]

Red goes first

NURSE	WATCH	RAY	STICK	BAR
RABBIT	SHOT	PITCH	MINT	BUCK
CAT	LUCK	LONDON	FORCE	CENTER
PASTE	KING	SOUTH	BASE	BOTTLE
CHURCH	BUGLE	CRICKET	GRASS	DUCK

[cayvie]

SPORTS: 4

[jotheonah]

Cricket, Base, Pitch are the gimees.

Beyond that there are a lot of options. CENTER is a position in a lot of sports, the RAYs are a baseball team, the KINGs are a team of some sort I'm pretty sure, sports are something you WATCH, you take a SHOT in sports like basketball, DUCK, RABBIT, and BUCK hunting could be considered a sport.

[Swowl]

agreed.
I would say
Cricket
Base
Pitch
Watch

But we could sub watch out for one of the others.

[jotheonah]

I feel like shot is the best bet for #4.

[jotheonah]

CRICKET - BASE - PITCH

[scolapasta]

Cricket is Red.
Base is Red.
Pitch is Red.

[Swowl]

throwing this out there because I don't think it was listsed:
Sports BAR is also a thing.

Shot and Watch are tied in my mind so I am good with Shot if you want.

[jotheonah]

ok, what the hey: SHOT

[scolapasta]

Shot is Red.

[jotheonah]

Woo! that's a pass from us.

[cayvie]

Woo! that's a pass from us.

nice!!

[jotheonah]

Red goes first

NURSE	WATCH	RAY	STICK	BAR
RABBIT	SHOT	PITCH	MINT	BUCK
CAT	LUCK	LONDON	FORCE	CENTER
PASTE	KING	SOUTH	BASE	BOTTLE
CHURCH	BUGLE	CRICKET	GRASS	DUCK

[scolapasta]

ARTS: 2

[mail-mi]

ARTS: 2

I can see London, paste, and church as options.

[bitwise]

I can see paste and church as well. Center seems somewhat plausible, and maybe London.

[mail-mi]

I can see paste and church as well. Center seems somewhat plausible, and maybe London.

Let's do paste and church then, and see what happens?

[bitwise]

Sounds good to me! Paste

[scolapasta]

Paste is red.

[mail-mi]

Church

[bitwise]

Red is the bad one, we don't get another guess.

[mail-mi]

Red is the bad one, we don't get another guess.

Woops, I'm red in the other game, lol.

[scolapasta]

OH, that was my mistake! (I'm red in my other game too!)

Paste is blue.

[scolapasta]

To be clear, Paste is correct for our team.

[bitwise]

What a roller coaster of emotions this has been. Let's guess Church again.

[scolapasta]

Church is red.

(and sadly, this is not a mistake on our part; Church is theirs)

[cayvie]

Red goes first

NURSE	WATCH	RAY	STICK	BAR
RABBIT	SHOT	PITCH	MINT	BUCK
CAT	LUCK	LONDON	FORCE	CENTER
PASTE	KING	SOUTH	BASE	BOTTLE
CHURCH	BUGLE	CRICKET	GRASS	DUCK

LEAVES: 2

[Swowl]

leaves....

Stick

gap

grass

gap

rabbit, buck, duck

[jotheonah]

I like grass then stick, because Walt Whitman.

[Swowl]

oh solid. yeah thats fine we can start there.

[jotheonah]

GRASS

[cayvie]

GRASS

GRASS is RED

[Swowl]

Sweet roll with it then

STICK

[cayvie]

Sweet roll with it then

STICK

STICK is neutral

[cayvie]

Red goes first

NURSE	WATCH	RAY	STICK	BAR
RABBIT	SHOT	PITCH	MINT	BUCK
CAT	LUCK	LONDON	FORCE	CENTER
PASTE	KING	SOUTH	BASE	BOTTLE
CHURCH	BUGLE	CRICKET	GRASS	DUCK

[jotheonah]

Ugh I know what it is. But I’ll wait until our turn to say. I feel dumb for missing it.

[scolapasta]

POWER: 3

[bitwise]

Power looks like Force, maybe Bar, maybe Ray, maybe King.
One more for Arts too. Center?

[mail-mi]

Power looks like Force, maybe Bar, maybe Ray, maybe King.
One more for Arts too. Center?

Force

I think I like King the best out of those three, followed by ray then bar. Center is also good.

[cayvie]

Force is BLUE

[bitwise]

Alright, let's go with King.

[scolapasta]

King is blue.

[bitwise]

I'm thinking Center over Ray/Bar. I'm not sure which of Ray or Bar I like better.

[mail-mi]

I'm thinking Center over Ray/Bar. I'm not sure which of Ray or Bar I like better.

Cool Center

[cayvie]

Center is Neutral

[cayvie]

Red goes first

NURSE	WATCH	RAY	STICK	BAR
RABBIT	SHOT	PITCH	MINT	BUCK
CAT	LUCK	LONDON	FORCE	CENTER
PASTE	KING	SOUTH	BASE	BOTTLE
CHURCH	BUGLE	CRICKET	GRASS	DUCK

[cayvie]

Sunscreen: 2

[Swowl]

ray and bottle

[Swowl]

joth what did we miss before that you saw? I still don't see it.

[jotheonah]

Mint! Mint leaves. I'm like pretty sure.

[jotheonah]

I like your guesses for sunscreen. I also think South is a possibility. If we're talking about the region of the US, a trip to the south would usually require sunscreen.

[Swowl]

I like your guesses for sunscreen. I also think South is a possibility. If we're talking about the region of the US, a trip to the south would usually require sunscreen.

cool. What order do you like for [mint, south, ray, bottle]? obviously we only need 3

[jotheonah]

I’d say Mint, Ray, Bottle. South was worth mentioning but it’s not as strong as your two.

[Swowl]

awesome. exactly what I was thinking:

MINT

[Swowl]

you know what is super funny about this. Since quarantine my pass time has been starting and growing an herb garden, and like every day of my life for the last 2 weeks the one that keeps dying on me is mint, so it has been on my mind constantly - and still no connection here haha

[scolapasta]

Mint is red.

[jotheonah]

Ray then Bottle

[scolapasta]

Man, this was a bad round. Oh wait, I'm not supposed to say anything while I'm codemaster.

Ray is red.
Bottle is red.

Game Over.

OK, now I can talk...

Sorry team, I was not good this round. Board coming; let me know if there's any good clues out there for Blue.

[Swowl]

GG!

[scolapasta]

Full board:

Red goes first

NURSE	WATCH	RAY	STICK	BAR
RABBIT	SHOT	PITCH	MINT	BUCK
CAT	LUCK	LONDON	FORCE	CENTER
PASTE	KING	SOUTH	BASE	BOTTLE
CHURCH	BUGLE	CRICKET	GRASS	DUCK

[scolapasta]

Blue Post Mortem:

Clues:
Arts:2 - Paste, Bugle
Power:3 - Bar, Force, King

OK first let me say cayvie knocked it out of the park (pun intended) with her first clue. That put us behind early. I didn't see many options for multi word clues tha I liked (how the hell do you tie Bugle, South, Luck, Rabbit?!). Arts was trying to tie art and music together. I didn't Center, which was a great guess.

Power was my best clue, but I saved it for 2nd, so you could have extra guesses for Arts, since I knew it wasn't a great clue. Plus I was worried about Church, though of course, which is ironic since that was guessed for Arts.

Another not great clue idea I had was Cereal 2: for Rabbit and Luck.

Even if we had gotten that far, that still would have left South. Again, how to tie that with anything? (I did think something like Scotland for King and South, but London was the Assasin)

Anyway, sorry guys - I think this was a tough board for blue.

[bitwise]

Maybe Paw:3 for Rabbit, Luck, South? It would probably hit Cat but I don't see any other big problems for it. Then your other two clues would cover the rest.

[cayvie]

Man, this was a bad round. Oh wait, I'm not supposed to say anything while I'm codemaster.

Ray is red.
Bottle is red.

Game Over.

OK, now I can talk...

Sorry team, I was not good this round. Board coming; let me know if there's any good clues out there for Blue.

this was a bad board for both teams; i took a big gamble with my first clue (Sports 4) and y'all read my mind. you could have guessed Bar (Sports Bar) or Center (SportsCenter) or so many things that would have helped the opponent. but i didn't see any other way to get ahead. so thanks guys for being psychic! after that it was just playing it safe and protecting the lead. my first win as codemaster!!

[cayvie]

ray and bottle

also holy crap this post, swan! that was less than 30 secs after i posted my clue!!

[jotheonah]

Yeah, cayvie, Sports was majorly high-risk high-reward, it connected to more than half the board, but also I think we were able to identify the words that most closely aligned. There was a slight risk in that Swan and I are both American and might have skipped over Cricket, but I guess we're trained to think globally on this forum.

Weirdly, there is a fictional baseball team in Star Trek called the London Kings and so seeing both those words on the board I was immediately drawn to them, but I was able to recognize that not everyone lives in my weird Trekkie head.

After sports though, I thought you played it brilliantly and Swan guessed it brilliantly. My only real contributions were Shot and Mint; other than that I think I just confirmed what Swan came up with.

[jotheonah]

According to Star Trek history, the London Kings should have already been around for five years by now: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/London_Kings

But we were also supposed to have a Eugenics War in 1996, so you know.

[Swowl]

The randomizer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TXkY5snm_uhZQNYvGqwrLSHjuHARIZouOP5pBEWRMXA/edit#gid=0

I believe it is Joth and bitwise up?

[jotheonah]

Oh, is it me again! Ok.

[jotheonah]

Red goes first

COOK	ROULETTE	MILK	FIGURE	SWITCH
DANCE	EGYPT	WINE	GUITAR	STREAM
CHEST	PHOENIX	STOCK	SOUTH	ELECTRIC
AMAZON	IVORY	OIL	AFRICA	TIME
SOUL	KANGAROO	HORSESHOE	DRESS	DWARF

[jotheonah]

Red 4 checking in

(to be clear, since it's also our team name, the word is "Red")

[cayvie]

Ok red.

Red wine
Red dwarf

Then below those

Red on a roulette wheel
Red dress is kind of a thing

Then below those

Red chest? Phoenix is fiery, that's red?

[Swowl]

i would say

roulette
wine
dress
dwarf, phoenix, stock (in the red)

we agree on roulette and wine tho, and those are solid so probably starting there is good. dwarf would be an agreeable third.

I know roulette is on your below list, but I very strongly think roulette is one.

if I had to choose:
Roulette
Wine
Dwarf
Dress

[Swowl]

i mean who doesn't know the woman in the red dress - thats like matrix 101 lol

[cayvie]

i mean who doesn't know the woman in the red dress - thats like matrix 101 lol

can we do wine first? wine/roulette/dress/dwarf?

[Swowl]

yep!

WINE

[jotheonah]

Red!

[cayvie]

my one argument for pushing dwarf higher (i mean it's highly probable that we got the right 4 and none of this matters but...)

joth has already claimed to be a big star trek nerd with the London Kings thing. i find it highly probable that he has the Red Dwarf TV show as a touchstone, and i doubt he'd use "red" as a clue if "dwarf" was a different color.

[Swowl]

good point. I am fine with dwarf if you wanna go for it. personally I think we have all 4 so not sweating too much

[cayvie]

DWARF

[bitwise]

Dwarf is neutral.

[Swowl]

awwwwww noooo lol star trek has failed ussss

[cayvie]

awwwwww noooo lol star trek has failed ussss

Haha welp that one's on me

[bitwise]

Arab: 3

[mail-mi]

Egypt and Oil for sure, probably Africa for 3rd?

[scolapasta]

There are bunch of others I see, like Dance, Dress...

Definitely Egypt first, and good with Oil 2nd.

Probably Africa 3rd makes sense (I'd think at worst it'd be neutral).

[bitwise]

Egypt and oil are blue.

[mail-mi]

I'll do Africa then.

[bitwise]

Africa is blue.

[mail-mi]

Pass?

[scolapasta]

Woot. Pass.

[jotheonah]

Gauntlet 3

[Swowl]

COOK	ROULETTE	MILK	FIGURE	SWITCH
DANCE	EGYPT	WINE	GUITAR	STREAM
CHEST	PHOENIX	STOCK	SOUTH	ELECTRIC
AMAZON	IVORY	OIL	AFRICA	TIME
SOUL	KANGAROO	HORSESHOE	DRESS	DWARF

that where we at.
Thinking still roulette and dress for RED. last one, no longer 100% on. Could be south, like a political reference.

So super nerd x 1000 but the first thing that pops out for Gauntlet is the video game. but... I got nothing to go with on that. Maybe chest?

IDK def need help for the new clue. im drawing blanks.

[cayvie]

Ok so a gauntlet is a piece of armor that covers the forearm and hand. It is also a phrase like "run the gauntlet".

So I like horseshoe maybe, as they're both associated with knights

I also feel like there's some nerd famous gauntlet that is possessed by a ghost so maybe soul.

But I feel like I'm also missing the intended obvious referent.

Wanna go with our red guesses?

[cayvie]

Did they update gauntlet for the switch?

[Swowl]

They ported it in like hella long time ago (5-10 years). I say we do red guesses first and look at it a little bit.

[Swowl]

I think it should be Roulette - Dress - X for our previous guesses.

[cayvie]

oh i also remembered the infinity gauntlet from the MCU idk if that helps

[cayvie]

welp

ROULETTE => DRESS

[cayvie]

time is an infinity stone, right? in the gauntlet

[jotheonah]

welp

ROULETTE => DRESS

Red and Red.

[Swowl]

time is an infinity stone, right? in the gauntlet

oooo good catch. also soul I believe wow good catch one sec lemme look at list.

[Swowl]

yeah I can't find a third one unfortunately...

But ok we have 2 more guesses this round.

We can either pick between like whatever we think the last RED is. Personally, I would say South-Stock... but im shrugs on those.

Or we can go with the infinity stone thing, go with Time and then try to carry it to Soul.

I think my favorite of all is probably Time? what you think? which way you wanna go?

[cayvie]

Time

[bitwise]

Time is red.

[Swowl]

woot!

I am 100% sure that Soul stone is the one thanos gets after throwing the blue girl off the cliff. Might be a good last one if we wanna go for it?

[cayvie]

woot!

I am 100% sure that Soul stone is the one thanos gets after throwing the blue girl off the cliff. Might be a good last one if we wanna go for it?

let's go let's go SOUL

[bitwise]

Soul is red.

[bitwise]

COOK	ROULETTE	MILK	FIGURE	SWITCH
DANCE	EGYPT	WINE	GUITAR	STREAM
CHEST	PHOENIX	STOCK	SOUTH	ELECTRIC
AMAZON	IVORY	OIL	AFRICA	TIME
SOUL	KANGAROO	HORSESHOE	DRESS	DWARF

Salsa: 3

[mail-mi]

Probably dance, guitar, cook?

[scolapasta]

DANCE for sure.

I think I like those - Guitar, and Cook.

I could also see maybe Amazon or South, since Salsa Music comes from South America.

But Guitar and Cook are probably better.

[mail-mi]

DANCE for sure.

I think I like those - Guitar, and Cook.

I could also see maybe Amazon or South, since Salsa Music comes from South America.

But Guitar and Cook are probably better.

I think Cook because why wouldn't he use a different dance name, you know?

[bitwise]

Dance is blue.

[mail-mi]

Guitar

[scolapasta]

I'm ok with Cook for 3rd.

[cayvie]

(just wanted to pop back in and hi 5 you on our teamwork on that last clue swan!!)

[bitwise]

Guitar is neutral.

[jotheonah]

Ok, well Animal 4 FTW

[cayvie]

okay so Kangaroo obviously.

Phoenix, Horseshoe, Milk, and Ivory are the other main ones i see. Not sure which one to cut from that list. Also Stock potentially, but it's weaker than those 4 i think.

[Swowl]

Thanks Cayvie, you too!!

yes agreed Kangaroo.

We should do it backwards for the other one.

There is one in there that overlays with the third pick of Gauntlet, unless we randomly guessed those 2 others.

I would say Kangaroo and Pheonix because they are like literally animals.
Horseshoe seems like a really solid third.
And then top of the head I wanna say Milk over Ivory just on straight forwardness.

dont really see how any of those work into Gauntlet, unless it is somehow Horseshoe... but yeah order I would say is

Kangaroo-Pheonix-Horseshoe-Milk

[Swowl]

oh shit! Gauntlet and Phoenix? like harry potter? since they were on the avenger kick with the other two not that far fetched actually

[cayvie]

oh shit! Gauntlet and Phoenix? like harry potter? since they were on the avenger kick with the other two not that far fetched actually

what's the gauntlet in harry potter? i'm forgetting.

regardless let's start with KANGAROO

[bitwise]

Kangaroo is red.

[Swowl]

oh shit! Gauntlet and Phoenix? like harry potter? since they were on the avenger kick with the other two not that far fetched actually

what's the gauntlet in harry potter? i'm forgetting.

regardless let's start with KANGAROO

Gauntlet of fire yeah? 4th book

[cayvie]

oh shit! Gauntlet and Phoenix? like harry potter? since they were on the avenger kick with the other two not that far fetched actually

what's the gauntlet in harry potter? i'm forgetting.

regardless let's start with KANGAROO

Gauntlet of fire yeah? 4th book

that's a goblet

[Swowl]

oh shit! Gauntlet and Phoenix? like harry potter? since they were on the avenger kick with the other two not that far fetched actually

what's the gauntlet in harry potter? i'm forgetting.

regardless let's start with KANGAROO

Gauntlet of fire yeah? 4th book

that's a goblet

right dammit

[cayvie]

im still down for the order you proposed earlier tbh (phoenix/horseshoe/milk) if you are

[Swowl]

sweet. lets go with...

Phoenix

[bitwise]

Phoenix is red.

[Swowl]

coolio.

HORSESHOE

[bitwise]

Horseshoe is red.

[bitwise]

COOK	ROULETTE	MILK	FIGURE	SWITCH
DANCE	EGYPT	WINE	GUITAR	STREAM
CHEST	PHOENIX	STOCK	SOUTH	ELECTRIC
AMAZON	IVORY	OIL	AFRICA	TIME
SOUL	KANGAROO	HORSESHOE	DRESS	DWARF

[Swowl]

ahhhhhhh

MILK

[bitwise]

Milk is neutral.
Sculpture: Unlimited

[mail-mi]

For sculpture, I see figure, ivory, maybe chest?

For salsa I see cook still, and south like you had mentioned.

[Swowl]

dahhhhh so close!

[scolapasta]

I like figure and ivory. Then let's try cook and if we're still alive, we can reassess our last?

[mail-mi]

figure -> ivory

[bitwise]

Blue, blue.

[mail-mi]

Cook

[bitwise]

Blue!

[cayvie]

jfc nail biter here

[Swowl]

I am doing a drumroll in my head so hard rn

[Swowl]

standing behind the back board during free throws
"DONT MESS UP! DONT MESS UP!"

[mail-mi]

I mean, is there any other good option than south?

[scolapasta]

Let's see:

CHEST
AMAZON
STOCK
SOUTH
SWITCH
STREAM
ELECTRIC

The only other one is still Amazon for the same reasons (Amazon River). BUT that connection definitely needs a few extra steps, so I'm happy to stick with SOUTH.

The shot is up, off the backboard, off the rim, rolls around, and..

[bitwise]

Blue. We did it team!

[scolapasta]

... it's falls in the hoop - it's good! The crow goes wild!

Great job team!

[scolapasta]

... it's falls in the hoop - it's good! The crow goes wild!

Great job team!

Wow, so many typos, I really need to sloow down my typing:

... it falls in the hoop - it's good! The crowd goes wild!

[Swowl]

hahaha nice job!

[jotheonah]

So Amazon was our last one and Chest was the kill word, so that game was closer than you all even know.

Kudos to my team for figuring out the Marvel connection! My apologies about missing Red Dwarf. That's on me.

I figured it wasn't super likely you'd get to Amazon from animal, but I thought it was possible -- since the Amazon is home to many unique animals -- and I couldn't think of a better clue.

Great job red team! You pulled it off.

[Swowl]

So Amazon was our last one and Chest was the kill word, so that game was closer than you all even know.

Kudos to my team for figuring out the Marvel connection! My apologies about missing Red Dwarf. That's on me.

I figured it wasn't super likely you'd get to Amazon from animal, but I thought it was possible -- since the Amazon is home to many unique animals -- and I couldn't think of a better clue.

Great job red team! You pulled it off.

all good that was a fun one!

[mail-mi]

Me and Swan up next? Or is it scola and cayvie?

[scolapasta]

I'm not sure which is actually next, but I'd be happy with it being Yams* and Swan next as I'm for codemaster in my other game (codenames IX).

* yes, I already feel comfortable using this new name

[mail-mi]

I'm not sure which is actually next, but I'd be happy with it being Yams* and Swan next as I'm for codemaster in my other game (codenames IX).

* yes, I already feel comfortable using this new name

Cool, I'll make a board.

[mail-mi]

Blue goes first

PLATYPUS	POLICE	CASINO	SAIL	PIE
WEB	CANDLE	POUND	SPY	SHOE
KIWI	RING	PLATE	LITTER	COFFEE
BACK	ICE	PILOT	SLUG	NIGHT
BOX	RIVER	MOUSE	MINE	BOOT

Fruit: 2

[bitwise]

Kiwi and Pie?

[scolapasta]

Yes to Kiwi.

Pie is on my list, but I also wonder about Plate? A fruit plate's a thing, right?

Another stretch one could be pound, but plate and pie are definitely better. I could see it being either one of those.

[mail-mi]

Kiwi is blue

[bitwise]

Agreed that fruit plate is a thing, though it didn't immediately jump out at me. I feel like Pie can't be worse than neutral (whereas to me it's possible Plate is) so I would prefer guessing Pie first, but I'm happy picking either.

If the number were higher I could see pound or box too.

[scolapasta]

Sure. let's go with Pie, and Plate can be an extra guess, if it's needed.

[mail-mi]

Pie is blue

[scolapasta]

Yay! PASS

[Swowl]

DARKNESS: 2

[jotheonah]

I think Night for sure. After that, I like SPY, CANDLE, and CASINO in that order.

[cayvie]

I think Night for sure. After that, I like SPY, CANDLE, and CASINO in that order.

agreed on NIGHT.

there's also MINE (which i would at least put ahead of Casino). i would prefer CANDLE for a second choice, then SPY, then MINE, then CASINO

[jotheonah]

Oh I missed MINE. Yeah I would even consider that next.

[mail-mi]

Night is Red

[jotheonah]

Candle is associated with Darkness as an antonym (and through an idiom) which seems weaker than Mine which is straight-up dark. That's my thinking.

[cayvie]

what's the idiom?

[jotheonah]

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

[cayvie]

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

yep i've heard of that.

let's go candle

[Swowl]

CANDLE is RED!

[cayvie]

if i may be so bold, pass

[mail-mi]

Blue goes first

PLATYPUS	POLICE	CASINO	SAIL	PIE
WEB	CANDLE	POUND	SPY	SHOE
KIWI	RING	PLATE	LITTER	COFFEE
BACK	ICE	PILOT	SLUG	NIGHT
BOX	RIVER	MOUSE	MINE	BOOT

Malware: 3

[scolapasta]

Hmm, Web and Spy seem likely.

3rd, not sure, something like police? or maybe pound (as a currency, ransomware you have to pay), or boot (reboot? but doesn't specifically fit maware, i don't think).

I don't know, I like the top 2, after that, meh.

[bitwise]

Web sounds good.
Happy to guess Spy next.

I feel like Litter, Mouse, or Box could be plausible, in addition to Boot.

[scolapasta]

Why Litter? or Box?

Mouse because general computer?

[mail-mi]

Web is Blue

[scolapasta]

SPY

[mail-mi]

Spy is Blue

[bitwise]

Litter I was thinking just because I associate malware with junk mail and such. Box is pretty tenuous--just is a term for computer. Mouse in the same vein as that.

What do you think about Boot? I think I like it the next best.

[scolapasta]

I'm happy to try boot.

[mail-mi]

Boot is Blue

[scolapasta]

Woot! PASS

[Swowl]

Blue goes first

PLATYPUS	POLICE	CASINO	SAIL	PIE
WEB	CANDLE	POUND	SPY	SHOE
KIWI	RING	PLATE	LITTER	COFFEE
BACK	ICE	PILOT	SLUG	NIGHT
BOX	RIVER	MOUSE	MINE	BOOT

DUMPSTER: 3

[jotheonah]

Ok. Well a Dumpster is basically a BOX. And LITTER is a word for trash, so I like that quote a bit.

Not really sure where to go from there COFFEE grounds are somewhat emblematic of trash, I suppose?

[cayvie]

Mouse? Living in a dumpster maybe

[jotheonah]

let's try Litter first

[mail-mi]

Litter is red.

[jotheonah]

Box

[Swowl]

Box be Red

[cayvie]

i can see mouse, i can see coffee

i can also see BACK; i think dumpsters are usually "out back". idk that's probably a reach.

[jotheonah]

I'm fine with taking a swing at Mouse for the third one, but you have to submit it

[jotheonah]

honestly fine with any of those three. I kind of like back.

[cayvie]

BACK

[mail-mi]

Back is Blue

Blue goes first

PLATYPUS	POLICE	CASINO	SAIL	PIE
WEB	CANDLE	POUND	SPY	SHOE
KIWI	RING	PLATE	LITTER	COFFEE
BACK	ICE	PILOT	SLUG	NIGHT
BOX	RIVER	MOUSE	MINE	BOOT

Boat: 2

[scolapasta]

Hmm, there are several that could fit in some way (e.g. Casino, Pilot), but for only two, I think obvious words must be obvious:

Sail
River

[bitwise]

Sounds good to me. Sail, River

[mail-mi]

Both blue.

[scolapasta]

I don't think we have any more unknowns this round, do we?

[bitwise]

Pass

[Swowl]

Heads up - This is DatSwan. i had my username changed.

[Swowl]

PLATYPUS	POLICE	CASINO	SAIL	PIE
WEB	CANDLE	POUND	SPY	SHOE
KIWI	RING	PLATE	LITTER	COFFEE
BACK	ICE	PILOT	SLUG	NIGHT
BOX	RIVER	MOUSE	MINE	BOOT

EVERYDAY: 3

[cayvie]

plate, coffee, shoe? and mouse for dumpster?

[jotheonah]

sounds good. Ring is also possible -- you wear your wedding ring every day.

[cayvie]

Do we care about order? We have to get em all

[jotheonah]

Heads up - This is DatSwan. i had my username changed.

I approve.

[jotheonah]

Do we care about order? We have to get em all

I would do Mouse last.

COFFEE - SHOE - PLATE - MOUSE

Unless you like ring. What's the argument for plate? I might like ring better.

[cayvie]

Do we care about order? We have to get em all

I would do Mouse last.

COFFEE - SHOE - PLATE - MOUSE

Unless you like ring. What's the argument for plate? I might like ring better.

plate is just an everyday object. everyday as in ordinary (whereas rings are kinda fancy imo)

[mail-mi]

bump?

[jotheonah]

COFFEE

[mail-mi]

Red

[jotheonah]

SHOE

[mail-mi]

Red

[jotheonah]

cayvie. all you for the next ones.

[cayvie]

cayvie. all you for the next ones.

Well I'm going with my gut then

PLATE then MOUSE

[mail-mi]

Red and red!!

Gg

[Swowl]

woot! Good Job you guys!

[jotheonah]

Good job you!

Full grid?

[cayvie]

i think im gonna sit out for a bit! ggs everyone

[Swowl]

anyone down to roll another one of these?

[jotheonah]

you know I am always in

[scolapasta]

Same here.

[Swowl]

*Summon Galz?*

[Galzria]

/insies

[Swowl]

a wild galz appears!

Me and Galz will split bc twin claim.

I can just rando roll it or if there is a pref that is cool.

[scolapasta]

I'd love to see if we got two more - I enjoyed the 6 person version over the 4 person. Takes longer, but I think the discussion of clues is more interesting.

[Swowl]

cool with me. ill try to bump some ppl

[mail-mi]

I'm in

[faust]

Is there some room? If so, /in.

[jotheonah]

I think that's a group!

[Swowl]

yeah thats a group. I will just randomized teams then and start a new thread.

got nothing going on today, so it will be done shortly.

[Swowl]

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20486.new#new

boom. all set up and grid sent. GL all!

[WestCoastDidds]

I'm free-ish this fall...holler at me if you all need another at some point although, fair warning, for a word person I am uniquely bad at codenames.

[Swowl]

I think Evvee is tagged in 10 which would be the 2v2 thread.

If you wanna throw your name in there that one would be 50% filled!

[Eevee]

Would we have enough people for a second game? 2v2 or 4v4, whatever we can fill!

[infangthief]

I would like to try.
I've only played the co-operative Duet version before, so can someone fill me in on how many words of each colour etc

[Eevee]

Welcome!

The starting player has 9 words, the other 8 words,  there is 1 assassin and 7 neutral words.

[infangthief]

Thanks! Just reading the rules online too. Looks like the other main difference from the co-op game is only being allowed to guess up to 1 more word than is given in the clue. There's no limit in the co-op game.

[jotheonah]

It seems like we might need a. Codenames Hub thread.

[Swowl]

Haha word.

So eevee Didds and fang

Galz and or i can jump in to make it start but other than that one other person and good to roll.

[Eevee]

Let's get this going! Will someone join, or will it be Galzria or Swowl?

[Galzria]

I’m in if there’s no fill for sure!

[Eevee]

I'm eager to start, let's roll with

Eevee and infangthief as team blue against and Galzria and WestCoastDidds as red.

[Eevee]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TXkY5snm_uhZQNYvGqwrLSHjuHARIZouOP5pBEWRMXA/edit#gid=0

Here's the spreadsheet for creating new games. Can also be found in the first post of the thread. I'll go as spymasters with Galzria first because he just posted.

Blue goes first

PLAY	ROOT	PRICE	CARD	TAIL
PLATE	SLIP	LITTER	RACKET	LAWYER
DOG	COFFEE	WELL	DINOSAUR	PAPER
MAMMOTH	ROULETTE	BUG	GIANT	CLIFF
FOOT	OCTOPUS	EYE	AGENT	POINT

[Eevee]

Pelvis: 3

[infangthief]

Hmm, Tail?

I'm assuming no googling etc?

[Galzria]

Tail is Blue

[infangthief]

Oh and hi Eevee, Galzria and Didds!

Didds, did you actually sign up for this?

I'm free-ish this fall...holler at me if you all need another at some point although, fair warning, for a word person I am uniquely bad at codenames.

Er, consider yourself hollered at?

I'll go for Point then Foot then pass.

[Galzria]

Point is Neutral

[Galzria]

Barbecue: 3

[Eevee]

I'm in favor of no googling.

I pm'd Didds.

[WestCoastDidds]

Thanks, Eevee!

[WestCoastDidds]

Okay, Galzy....

I am not used to playing with getting to talk!

Plate, then
Paper, then
Coffee

[Galzria]

Plate is Red
Paper is Red
Coffee is Red

[WestCoastDidds]

Whew! And hooray!!!

Pass

[WestCoastDidds]

Galzy, how are you and how are things? Are people allowed to swim again yet?

Eevee!! How goes it way over there? Is it Denmark? How are you?

Fang!! It’s been too long? How are you and how is the family?

[Galzria]

Galzy, how are you and how are things? Are people allowed to swim again yet?

Eevee!! How goes it way over there? Is it Denmark? How are you?

Fang!! It’s been too long? How are you and how is the family?

Things are going well. Still not re-open out here in California, which is well past tiresome at this point. Would very much enjoy being able to work again!

Swimming is spotty. Indoor pools are *mostly* closed, although some schools are bending the rules/guidelines to have limited reopening. Most outdoor pools are open, but with severe restrictions on capacity and usage. Unfortunately for us, we do not own any outdoor water right now, and I have been unable to obtain any, so we're all just sitting around bored.

On one of our escape the house trips to Lake Tahoe earlier in the Summer, Raptor asked me if we could swim across the lake (I've done the 21-mile length crossing in the past). It's "only" 12 miles across the width, so I said that we could... so we spent a few days a week for 3 months up in San Francisco Bay training. We swam across it on September 14th in just over 8 hours. Swowl got to kayak in support for us. Unfortunately we were fighting Air Quality due to the fires - ended up swimming in an AQI rating of 163... which definitely isn't healthy... but with the season turning the water will soon become too cold to stay in for that amount of time, so it we pretty much had to do it then.

But other than all of that... life is pretty much at a standstill still.

[Eevee]

Didds entering with a bang, nice job!

I'm in Finland. Things are good, although the COVID cases are really spiking up here again, so I'm pretty much preparing for another lockdown. Which honestly isn't too painful for me or even that big of a deviation from norm, I would work from home anyway, but obviously still not great.

Wooden: 3

[infangthief]

Card, then Root, then Foot, then pass.

[Eevee]

Card is.. the assassin!

Blue goes first

PLAY	ROOT	PRICE	CARD	TAIL
PLATE	SLIP	LITTER	RACKET	LAWYER
DOG	COFFEE	WELL	DINOSAUR	PAPER
MAMMOTH	ROULETTE	BUG	GIANT	CLIFF
FOOT	OCTOPUS	EYE	AGENT	POINT

[WestCoastDidds]

Finland! I remembered like five minutes after I sent the message. Helsinki, not Copenhagen. ugh on the lockdown. I know I wouldn’t be doing much very different in a day to day way, but not being able to travel is killing me. Finally, finally the weather isn’t so hot we can’t go outside. We had 6 weeks of temperature over 38 degrees. It was miserable.

Galzy! That’s an impressive swim. I worry for your lungs, but it must have turned out okay. It’s crazy yo me that you can swim further than someone might be able to even see.

Doh! The assassin! Blerg.

[Galzria]

I actually intended Play over Coffee for my 3rd Barbecue - I should’ve gone 4 words!

[WestCoastDidds]

Ha! Coffee goes in bbq sauce sometimes. I don’t think I’d have guessed play!

[WestCoastDidds]

Red goes first

MILLIONAIRE	PIN	YARD	ORANGE	PAW
GIANT	WINTER	ROCK	SCHOOL	PENGUIN
COVER	BOLT	SERVER	TEACHER	BERLIN
DISEASE	PIPE	BOARD	LOG	ARM
BUG	BERMUDA	PLOT	FOREST	BELL

[WestCoastDidds]

Spycraft: 4

[Galzria]

Cover -> Bug

[WestCoastDidds]

Cover is neutral

[infangthief]

Wow, that was a short game. Oops! Sorry Eevee.

[infangthief]

Sandy: 3

[Eevee]

rock

[infangthief]

Rock is neutral

[Eevee]

Damn, clearly I didn't get the clue. Will keep thinking!

[WestCoastDidds]

Education: 2

[Galzria]

School -> Bug -> Teacher

[WestCoastDidds]

School is red
But is red
Teacher is red

[Galzria]

And then clearly, pass, as I'm at my guess limit.

[infangthief]

MILLIONAIRE	PIN	YARD	ORANGE	PAW
GIANT	WINTER	ROCK	SCHOOL	PENGUIN
COVER	BOLT	SERVER	TEACHER	BERLIN
DISEASE	PIPE	BOARD	LOG	ARM
BUG	BERMUDA	PLOT	FOREST	BELL

Isotropic: 3

[Eevee]

Server -> Bermuda -> Yard

[infangthief]

Server is blue
Bermuda is blue
Yard is blue

[Eevee]

Eh we are still behind, gamble gamble:

Log and pass if blue obviously

[infangthief]

Log is blue

[Eevee]

isotropic as the clue made me smile, high five!

[WestCoastDidds]

I would never, ever have figured out anything from isotopic!

[WestCoastDidds]

Widowmakers :3

[Galzria]

Disease -> Plot -> Bell

[Galzria]

I’m an idiot - Can I retract Bell? It might work for Wodowmakers, but Didds would’ve given me 3 for Education.

[infangthief]

Fine by me.

Disease is red
Plot is red

Keep guessing if you like.

[Galzria]

Let’s go Arm and then Pass.

[infangthief]

Arm is red

MILLIONAIRE	PIN	YARD	ORANGE	PAW
GIANT	WINTER	ROCK	SCHOOL	PENGUIN
COVER	BOLT	SERVER	TEACHER	BERLIN
DISEASE	PIPE	BOARD	LOG	ARM
BUG	BERMUDA	PLOT	FOREST	BELL

[infangthief]

Dutch: 2

[Eevee]

Orange

[infangthief]

Orange is blue

[Galzria]

Orange is blue

Pffffft 😋

[Eevee]

Board

[WestCoastDidds]

Board is blue!

[Eevee]

There’s a word I’d otherwise guess for sandy, but since we can’t end it this turn, pass is the play I believe

[infangthief]

Orange is blue

Pffffft 😋

I saw in a recent game Galz you had to state that green is blue.

[WestCoastDidds]

Location: 2

[Galzria]

Berlin -> Forest.... and I need to think about another guess if those are red.

[infangthief]

Berlin is red
Forest is red

[Eevee]

Cue drumroll!

[Galzria]

MILLIONAIRE	PIN	YARD	ORANGE	PAW
GIANT	WINTER	ROCK	SCHOOL	PENGUIN
COVER	BOLT	SERVER	TEACHER	BERLIN
DISEASE	PIPE	BOARD	LOG	ARM
BUG	BERMUDA	PLOT	FOREST	BELL

[Galzria]

Spycraft: 4
Education: 2
Widowmakers: 3
Locations: 2

That’s 11 clued, which means there’s two overlap.

Education is 2 of 2.
Location is 2 of 2.

The final word will need to match either Spycraft or Widowmakers. Although I’m pretty sure I have all 3 for Widowmakers. So...

... I need to walk to get a coffee with Swowl and his pups lol. Will think on my Guess as I walk.

[Galzria]

So the problem(ish) that I'm running into, is that for the clue 'Spycraft', the following connections jumped out to me:

Millionaire - Rich Person, James Bond type imagery
Cover - Cover of Darkness, Subtlety
Disease - More of a stretch, but like, gas-filled espionage rings (James Bond type stuff)
Bug - Bug a phone line
PIN - As in Code, something that might be important.
Winter - A lot of Spycraft films take place in Winter
Bermuda - Also a stretch, but I believe there was a Bond film that took place there.
Plot - Espionage Plot
School - It's something that's learned?
Teacher - It's something that's taught?
Log - Spy's might keep logs/notes.
Berlin - Germany is the setting of many an American Spycraft Movie.
Arm - Arm a bomb.
Bell - Alarms (something you don't WANT, but might be concerned about)

Now, some of those are better options than others, certainly. My top 4 at the start of the game were:

Bug, Cover, Plot, Arm

However, Berlin was a close follow, and with Cover coming up Neutral, I could've seen subbing Berlin in for the fourth...

Except... I don't think Berlin was INTENDED for the 4th, as I think the 4th is left unguessed.

My list of unguessed possibilities: Millionaire, PIN, Winter, Bell

Bell again, I think, would've been clued with Education. So I'm going to pass on that.

That brings me to Millionaire, PIN and Winter.

Spycraft... I don't think I -really- like Winter here. It's a stretch, and doesn't super fit anything else that's been given. PIN/Millionaire is really close. Neither have me concerned about the opposing 'Sandy' clue...

Ugh.

I should go with Miliionaire. I really should.

PIN

[Galzria]

The other reason I should have gone Millionaire instead of PIN (although I'm not changing) is that it's an outside fit for Widowmakers as well... but not gonna' do it!

[Eevee]

Drumroll intensifies!

[Galzria]

Drumroll intensifies!

Right?!?

[infangthief]

Pin is ... blue

[Eevee]

Woah!

[infangthief]

Smoking: 1

[Galzria]

Well... that was unfortunate.

[Galzria]

Sorry Didds!

[Eevee]

Pipe

[Eevee]

Would millionaire have won it for red? That was a real fun game!

[infangthief]

Pipe is blue

Here's the full table:
Red goes first

MILLIONAIRE	PIN	YARD	ORANGE	PAW
GIANT	WINTER	ROCK	SCHOOL	PENGUIN
COVER	BOLT	SERVER	TEACHER	BERLIN
DISEASE	PIPE	BOARD	LOG	ARM
BUG	BERMUDA	PLOT	FOREST	BELL

[infangthief]

Good guessing Eevee! I was so glad you got Yard early on - that was the one I was finding hardest to link with anything else.

On turn 3 I considered "Rolling: unlimited" to clue Pin and Pipe, hoping you would pick up Orange (from "Sandy") and Board (from "Isotropic"). But looking at their words I couldn't see them getting Berlin, Forest and Bolt in a single turn, so I thought it would be ok to play safe.

Didds, bad luck, I think your words went much closer to the Winter assassin than mine did. Very tense, close game.

Eevee, what was the other one you were considering for Sandy at the end?

My intentions were:
Sandy: Orange, Bermuda, tenuously Yard.
Isotropic: Server, Log, tenuously Board. Bug was already red by then. Couldn't do "Goko" because Giant (and Teacher) got implemented in Goko IIRC.
Dutch: Orange, Pipe
Planned to do Bulletin for Pin and Board

[Eevee]

I was going to go for forest, figuring there’s a lot of sand in forests too (compared to the alternatives). We got really lucky! Sandy was for orange because the hurricane that hit Florida? Bulletin would have been a great clue, and as previously said, isotropic was delicious.

[infangthief]

isotropic as the clue made me smile, high five!

Couldn't resist a Dominion themed clue. Later I realised it probably means other things outside the Dominion context; no idea what though?

I would never, ever have figured out anything from isotopic!

Likewise I was very much in the dark about Spycraft and Widowmakers. Going to be tricky (yet fun) if you and I are on the same team sometime!

[Eevee]

Good thing we outlawed googling, we were helped by me not knowing what it means others than the dominion server either.

Pipe came to mind for dutch, but it was the kind of clue where knowing a little bit about your partner would have made it easier to deduce if you’d make that connection. Same for isotropic, no way I would have dared to give that clue if the roles were reversed!

I’ll create a new board shortly when I go to my computer.

[infangthief]

I was going to go for forest, figuring there’s a lot of sand in forests too (compared to the alternatives). We got really lucky! Sandy was for orange because the hurricane that hit Florida? Bulletin would have been a great clue, and as previously said, isotropic was delicious.

We were lucky with forest then! Yes, I suppose I was slightly concerned about that.
Is the sand in Finland not yellowy-orange? I'm glad I reclued that then Thought we should have some European content.

[infangthief]

Same teams or switch around? Maybe same for one more as Eevee and Galz didn't get much of a turn as spymasters?

[Eevee]

More snow than sand here! I would connect sand to yellow rather than orange, also though you were going for places/things that could have sand on them because you went sandy, not sand, so I didn’t stop to think about the actual properties of sand enough. Lucky us!

[Eevee]

Let's do another round with these teams, our go as spymasters was so quick!

Red goes first

CASTLE	PASTE	INFLUENZA	AMAZON	SUIT
SHIP	COMPOUND	MARBLE	TOWER	PAPER
LINK	COPPER	EYE	MATCH	PLASTIC
PIE	BUFFALO	DINOSAUR	SPOT	SMILE
DISEASE	LITTER	FOOTBALL	LOCK	SOLDIER

[infangthief]

Desease or Disease or Decease or ...?

[Eevee]

It's disease, a typo in the randomizer. I'll edit for clarity.

[WestCoastDidds]

Sorry Didds!

Good gravy! Don’t apologize to me! I didn’t give you a clue for bolt.

Spycraft was Berlin, plot, bug, and arm....and literally after I sent the clue I saw that cover was on the neutral list. I was thinking too hard about not getting a blue word.

Education was school and teacher, obvi

Widowmaker was supposed to be forest, disease, and arm....but that left out bolt. I could have been treehouse for forest, and bolt (and maybe arm you were thinking of it as a limb) but then it wouldn’t have captured disease.

So, that was all my fault. You can add this to the long list of drinks I owe you!

[Galzria]

Sauron: 3

[WestCoastDidds]

How about:
Eye
Tower
Soldier

[Galzria]

Eye is Red
Tower is Red
Soldier is Red

[WestCoastDidds]

Sweet!

Pass

[Eevee]

Logistics: 4

[infangthief]

Ship -> Amazon

[Eevee]

blue -> blue

[infangthief]

Link

[Eevee]

blue

[infangthief]

Paper or pass? Hmm. I'll try my luck Paper then pass.

[Eevee]

blue

[infangthief]

Wonderful. I think that's me done for today. Better start than last time I was guessing

[Galzria]

Dungeon: 4

[WestCoastDidds]

Red goes first

CASTLE   PASTE   INFLUENZA   AMAZON   SUIT SHIP   COMPOUND   MARBLE   TOWER   PAPER LINK   COPPER   EYE   MATCH   PLASTIC PIE   BUFFALO   DINOSAUR   SPOT   SMILE DISEASE   LITTER   FOOTBALL   LOCK   SOLDIER

[WestCoastDidds]

So much darkness!

Castle
Lock


Then I need to think some..... I can see ship, spot, or compound. Oh, wait...ship was played.

Compound
Spot

[infangthief]

So much darkness!

Yes! I was thinking the same. To have seven words clued with either Sauron and Dungeon...

[Eevee]

castle is red

lock is red

compound is blue!

[Eevee]

Season: 2

[infangthief]

Football

[infangthief]

If that's blue, then Influenza then pass

[Eevee]

football is blue

influenza is blue

[Galzria]

Calves: 3

[WestCoastDidds]

Hmmm...

Marble

Buffalo

[WestCoastDidds]

Red goes first

CASTLE	PASTE	INFLUENZA	AMAZON	SUIT
SHIP	COMPOUND	MARBLE	TOWER	PAPER
LINK	COPPER	EYE	MATCH	PLASTIC
PIE	BUFFALO	DINOSAUR	SPOT	SMILE
DISEASE	LITTER	FOOTBALL	LOCK	SOLDIER

[Eevee]

neutral


Notice: 1

[Galzria]

Ack!

[infangthief]

Spot

[Eevee]

Blue, gg. Good guessing fang!

[infangthief]

Thanks! Good clueing.

What colour was pie? After guessing influenza I was kicking myself thinking I should have gone for pie instead. Season as in make spicy, thought it might be slightly more likely than influenza.

[Eevee]

Uh, didn’t think of that at all.. Pie was neutral.

[Eevee]

One more and then switch teams, or switch teams already?

I'm fine either way. We're clearly finding our groove with fang!

[infangthief]

vote: playagain
Everyone up for more?

[EFHW]

I'd play, if you have an opening.

[Eevee]

More!!

[Galzria]

More, definitely! I'm also open to added another set of people (EFHW/??).

Didds - Sorry, that was almost entirely on me! I had quite a few stretches... but they were team 2 and were crushing their words. I definitely felt I had to push and hope for the best.

Sauron: 3: Tower, Eye, Soldier
Dungeon: 4: Castle, Lock, Suit (of Armor), Match (This was the largest stretch - but you actually GOT to my WHY for this one! Darkness! I was hoping you might go for Match as in Light).
Calves: 3: Buffalo, Match (I wouldn't have included this in my count for this clue, but I was trying to move you away from Spot, which you had been considering for Dungeon. The thought process was that the clue was Calves (plural), not Calf - We have Calves, two, a pair, or a Match), Litter (Ok, so Calves aren't birthed in a litter - but maybe... MAYBE one might THINK of a large group of Calves as a Litter)...

And... yeah. It wasn't a crazy, crazy difficult set of words - but I definitely felt the pressure from Blue to keep pressing big clues on this one. Really good clueing Eevee, and great guessing Fang!

[Galzria]

CASTLE	PASTE	INFLUENZA	AMAZON	SUIT
SHIP	COMPOUND	MARBLE	TOWER	PAPER
LINK	COPPER	EYE	MATCH	PLASTIC
PIE	BUFFALO	DINOSAUR	SPOT	SMILE
DESEASE	LITTER	FOOTBALL	LOCK	SOLDIER

[EFHW]

I'll ask in non-mafia forum games.

[EFHW]

No hub! So I asked in "this is where people talk when it is night."

[infangthief]

Calves: 3

And there was I wondering whether young dinosaurs could be called calves...

[WestCoastDidds]

Dinosaur calves were definitely a possibility!! I hadn’t thought about other meanings for litter...

I talked over match for dungeon for awhile, so not that much of a stretch.

Really, for being a word person I’m just really novice at this game! So my sympathies for having me as a partner!

Additional player ideas To join with EFHW....awaclus?  scolapasta?

[Swowl]

oh right! I need to make a hub I said I would do that.

I also would be glad to join this game as well... I just wanna make sure I don't take a spot from someone that wants it that is not in a Codenames currently.

But if you need the fill lmk and I will jump in - love this game!

[WestCoastDidds]

Should we plan again with EFHW and Swowl added?

[Awaclus]

I want to play and am not in any game currently.

[Swowl]

Sweet you got it then Awaclus!

[Eevee]

As the newest comer, you can divvy up the teams Awaclus!

Playerlist is
Awaclus
Galzria
Eevee
Didds
fang
EFHW

[WestCoastDidds]

Hooray Awa!

[Awaclus]

As the newest comer, you can divvy up the teams Awaclus!

Playerlist is
Awaclus
Galzria
Eevee
Didds
fang
EFHW

I don't really have a preference either way, so let's do

Awaclus
Galzria
Eevee

vs

Didds
fang
EFHW

[WestCoastDidds]

Cool....awa, Galz, and Eevee....y’all are red. Based on this lost, Awa, you’ll give the clues. I’ll send you the word list.

After we all give clues, we can mix up the teams!

[WestCoastDidds]

Red goes first

SCORPION	PALM	CAP	BLOCK	SHOE
FLY	ENGINE	FENCE	BRICK	ATLANTIS
CLUB	DICE	KETCHUP	FIELD	BARK
TIME	PRIVATE	SCIENTIST	ROCK	MOLE
SKYSCRAPER	STICK	NEEDLE	PIPE	GRACE

[Awaclus]

Cool....awa, Galz, and Eevee....y’all are red. Based on this lost, Awa, you’ll give the clues. I’ll send you the word list.

After we all give clues, we can mix up the teams!

That's fine with me.

[Awaclus]

Animal: 3

[Galzria]

{Scorpion, Mole, Bark}?

[Galzria]

Bark is the only one I’m not sure on, but I don’t see a strong third contender. Thoughts?

[Eevee]

Scorpion - > mole

Surely we'll go fly for third?

[WestCoastDidds]

Scorpion is red!
Mole is red!

[Galzria]

Scorpion - > mole

Surely we'll go fly for third?

Ah, yes - I'm good with Fly.

Fly

[Awaclus]

Fly is red!

[Eevee]

we'll pass

[WestCoastDidds]

Okay EFHW and fang!  Let's do this! (Is fang better than thief??)

Tachometer: 3

[infangthief]

(Is fang better than thief??)

Fang did ok in the last couple of games, so let's have him again.

Alas on this one I am stumped by the clue! EFHW are you able to shed some light on what tachometer means? Or better still tell us what three words are linked to it...

[EFHW]

I think it measures how hard a car engine is working. Hope I'm not embarrassing myself.

[EFHW]

Engine and needle look good. Then maybe time? It might be xx/time. Rev/min? I drive an EV. These gas burning cars are strangers to me now!

[infangthief]

Sounds good.

Engine -> Needle

Happy with Time for the third. Or is it worth considering Stick, because the gear stick has an impact on how hard the engine is working? (Do you call it a gear stick? It's gear lever here.)

[Awaclus]

Both blue!

[EFHW]

Let's go with time.

[Awaclus]

Time is neutral.

Tomato: 2

[Eevee]

Ketchup andddd? Field comes to mind first, palm (another plant) as second. Not even sure if tomatoes grow on fields, I guess?

[Awaclus]

Ketchup is red!

[Awaclus]

bump

[Eevee]

galz seems to be camping or something. let’s wait, he’s going to be back soon

[Galzria]

Apologies. Should be the end of any absence time that I have. Showering & Bed - but I will look over the board between the two.

[Galzria]

Gut agrees with Field.

[Galzria]

Maybe Dice - as in a preparation method of Tomatoes.

[Galzria]

FYI - Tomatoes grow on vines, but you could have a field of them.

[Galzria]

I like Field and Dice about equally. Both more than Palm.

[Eevee]

Ooh, I like dice. Definitely diced some tomatoes in my day, but never seen a field of them.

Dice and we have a good backup guess for later if it's wrong. Some worry that it could be blue or the assassin if Awaclus overlooked the connection like I did, let's hope not!

[Awaclus]

Dice is neutral.

[WestCoastDidds]

Firewall: 4

[EFHW]

I'm thinking brick, block, private and fence.

[infangthief]

SCORPION	PALM	CAP	BLOCK	SHOE
FLY	ENGINE	FENCE	BRICK	ATLANTIS
CLUB	DICE	KETCHUP	FIELD	BARK
TIME	PRIVATE	SCIENTIST	ROCK	MOLE
SKYSCRAPER	STICK	NEEDLE	PIPE	GRACE

[infangthief]

Block certainly.
Probably fine with the others, though having a bit of a think.

[infangthief]

If it is those 4, I'd have thought the clue would have been just 'wall' - seems a better fit.

[infangthief]

Although, wall would have led us to skyscraper I suppose.

[Awaclus]

Block is blue!

[EFHW]

If it is those 4, I'd have thought the clue would have been just 'wall' - seems a better fit.

I had the same thought. Firewall does direct us to privacy more than just wall would.

[EFHW]

private

[Awaclus]

Blue!

[EFHW]

fang, are you good with brick and fence?

[infangthief]

Brick -> Fence

If they were both blue we would have a chance to guess the other tachometer one. Not got any great ideas there, unless it is gear stick?

[Awaclus]

Both blue!

[Eevee]

Wow!

[EFHW]

It might have been block, as in engine block.

[EFHW]

Let's pass

[Awaclus]

Construction: 4

[Eevee]

skyscraper, brick, fence, ?

[Galzria]

skyscraper, brick, fence, ?

Brick & Fence both just flipped Blue. 😋

[Galzria]

SCORPION	PALM	CAP	BLOCK	SHOE
FLY	ENGINE	FENCE	BRICK	ATLANTIS
CLUB	DICE	KETCHUP	FIELD	BARK
TIME	PRIVATE	SCIENTIST	ROCK	MOLE
SKYSCRAPER	STICK	NEEDLE	PIPE	GRACE

[Eevee]

Hehe. Skyscraper, pipe, Atlantis, ?

[Galzria]

It’s worth noting their last clue was ‘firewall’, and not ‘wall’. This was likely to keep them away from ROCK, SKYSCRAPER, and possibly FIELD.

With ‘Construction’, I think we open SKYSCRAPER. From there, I think we need to look slightly creatively at possible options, given the best options are both gone already, and are Blue anyways.

Cap - Hard Hats are commonly required in Construction.
Pipe - Plumbing, Gas, Electricity - all things in various Construction industries that would use pipe.
Shoe - Steel Toe Boots are often worn on Construction sites.
Field - A place Construction might take place.

I could stretch to Stick, but I think there are better options. I think we should avoid Rock.

We have 4 words, and we need 9 total. We have 4 for ‘Construction’, and 1 unguessed for ‘Tomato’. If those don’t overlap then we’re clued to win. I’m not convinced it’s that easy though. While they only need 3 to win, I think it’s safer for us to assume FIELD is a double word for us - meaning both ‘Construction’ and ‘Tomato’.

I think our strongest 4 are: Skyscraper, Field, Cap & Pipe.

[Eevee]

skyscraper

[Eevee]

You don’t like atlantis, the mythical city that was constructed underwater?

[Eevee]

I think pipe is the clear second, but then it gets tough. I’d go field because it works for both clues but i’m open to any of the ones you listed. I don’t think we should pass this turn.

[Awaclus]

Skyscraper is red!

[Galzria]

Pipe -> Field

[WestCoastDidds]

Both RED!

[Galzria]

I like Cap over Atlantis for our 4th. Hard Hats are such a staple image of Construction Workers - and while Atlantis is certainly a city under the sea... I’ve just never seen or heard of imagery surrounding it’s construction.

[WestCoastDidds]

SCORPION	PALM	CAP	BLOCK	SHOE
FLY	ENGINE	FENCE	BRICK	ATLANTIS
CLUB	DICE	KETCHUP	FIELD	BARK
TIME	PRIVATE	SCIENTIST	ROCK	MOLE
SKYSCRAPER	STICK	NEEDLE	PIPE	GRACE

[Eevee]

I’m just worried the word isn’t hat but cap, it’s like an extra step, admittedly one is required for atlantis too.

[Eevee]

I’m fine with guessing cap, but let the record state i’m very doubtful about it!

[Eevee]

I think we should only guess if we’d feel comfortable trying to win this turn if red. Is that the case?

If not, better to pass and maximize our chance of getting another turn.

[Eevee]

It’s problematic that it like 50-50 if field was included in the 4 for construction or not.

[Eevee]

If we think it was, i think we should pass now because we can’t win this turn. If it wasn’t, i think we should gamble and shoot for the two remaining construction words.

[Galzria]

pass

[Galzria]

Field was definitely a double-clued word. We have one word that we’ve seen no clue for.

Awaclus can’t change Cap to Hat on the board - gotta go with what’s there. If I’m clue’ing the word ‘Construction’, and Cap is in our list, I definitely add it to my total. I just don’t think I add Atlantis to a ‘Construction’ clue.

[Eevee]

Now just crossing our fingers hoping for one more shot!

[WestCoastDidds]

Good job, y’all! This is so exciting!

[WestCoastDidds]

Halo: 2

[infangthief]

Let's see, nothing really obvious to me... What words are left?

Palm - nope?
Cap - goes on the head, like a halo does.
Shoe - unlikely.
Atlantis - not as far as I know.
Club - there could be a Halo Club somewhere. Not sure what sort of members it would have.
Bark - surely not.
Scientist - Halle was a scientist, right? Too much of a stretch, surely. There might be a Dr Halo I haven't heard of.
Rock - Any rock groups called Halo?
Stick - I suppose in school Christmas plays the angels have to stick their halos on somehow.
Grace - Angels have halos and are gracious I suppose.

[EFHW]

grace

[EFHW]

What are the google rules for this group?

[EFHW]

I actually prefer no Google. Cap seems ok. There could be a Halo science project or rock group, but I don't know about it. You made a joke with stick, but actually, I think that might be a good guess.

[Eevee]

my understanding is we are doing no google (also my preference)

[WestCoastDidds]

Grace is blue!

Concur on no google

[infangthief]

You made a joke with stick, but actually, I think that might be a good guess.

I don't see any realistic connection with stick. Can you sell it to me?

There's the halo you sometimes see round the moon (ice crystals I think?) >> 'scientist'.
And I can almost picture the word "Halo" in my wife's CD collection, as a group or album name or something >> 'rock'. I wonder why Galz thought their team should avoid rock? Is there a rock group called "Firewall" or something?
But mostly I think I'm happiest with 'cap'. Unless Didds is hoping we'll rule it out based on the conversation about it maybe being one of red's words for construction? Would have been helpful if Eevee and Galz could have guessed that one.

I'm assuming no googling actually means no research in general. It should be like we're actually sitting round a table playing a game. We know what we know and that's it. No getting up and looking in reference books, no phone-a-friend, no going and looking through my wife's CD collection.

[EFHW]

Because of the sticks used to hold rhem up in costumes,  like you said.

[infangthief]

I like cap best.

Also, it could possibly have been the other tachometer word. Cap as in some upper limit? Or even the fuel cap or something.

[EFHW]

I think stick feels more like Didds. It is also a better guess for tachometer than cap, because the tachometer tells you when to shift in stick shift cars.

[EFHW]

It's also more satisfying because it is funny.

[infangthief]

How likely do you think Block was the third one for Tachometer? Is there a clear link there, or is it a link Didds might have overlooked?

Do people actually use sticks to hold up halos in costumes? When I mentioned it I'd only thought in terms of stick, the verb, like using glue or sticky-tape or something to hold it on. I thought super-tenuous because we had to think of stick as the verb in order to get there. And now that I'm putting some serious thought into my (limited) experience of nativity plays, I think halos are just bits of tinsel balanced upon the head. How do American halos work?

Halo = grace-cap. Nice ring to it?

Am I over-analysing?

[EFHW]

I think block was probably from tachometer.  Engine block is a thing. Here, halos are absolutely held up by sticks. Even on Xmas tree ornaments.

[EFHW]

There's also Palm Sunday to consider.  I'm not Christian,  so I don't what it celebrates,  though, or even when it is.

[Eevee]

Oh the suspense!

[infangthief]

There's also Palm Sunday to consider.  I'm not Christian,  so I don't what it celebrates,  though, or even when it is.

It's the Sunday before Easter. Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey. No halos recorded. Unlikely I think.

If halos are held up by sticks over there, then maybe. I really don't like it. But you know Didds better than me, and you've been on the same wavelength this game so far, so I'm happy to go with it if it's still the one you want.

Or what do you think about passing and hoping that red's final two words are tricky also?

[infangthief]

At least we know we are at least on the same team. A town v town argument, except we're not trying to hit red here.

[EFHW]

Let's go for it. I'll be appropriately rueful if I'm wrong, but it's too fun of an answer to let go by.

stick

[Awaclus]

Stick is neutral.

[Awaclus]

SCORPION	PALM	CAP	BLOCK	SHOE
FLY	ENGINE	FENCE	BRICK	ATLANTIS
CLUB	DICE	KETCHUP	FIELD	BARK
TIME	PRIVATE	SCIENTIST	ROCK	MOLE
SKYSCRAPER	STICK	NEEDLE	PIPE	GRACE

[Awaclus]

Orthopedics: 2

[Eevee]

Shoe and scientist?

[Galzria]

Shoe (Also fits the Construction Clue), and Club?

[Galzria]

I was thinking Club Foot being a thing - although that isn't exactly fixed by Orthopedics. Bark (as in, "My feet are barking") also fits.

Scientist isn't a bad go either though.

[Eevee]

Ah interesting, why club? I figured scientist because medicine is science.

[Eevee]

shoe

[Awaclus]

Shoe is red!

[Eevee]

If he wanted club foot, pretty sure the clue would have been foot.

[Eevee]

I strongly prefer scientist.

[Galzria]

I strongly prefer scientist.

I think I agree over Club, the more I think about it.

But, over Bark?

What would you clue for {Shoe, Scientist} vs {Shoe, Bark}?

[Galzria]

Slipper might've been better for {Shoe, Bark}, perhaps...

[Galzria]

Alright, I think I'm good with Scientist. That's probably the best fit here.

[Eevee]

If I had bark with our 3 animal words, I'd add it as 4th in the first clue (though not saying Awaclus necessarily would have). Maybe wooden for shoe and bark? Although that runs to the issue of club. Can you think of a better clue for scientist and shoe though? Feels to me he specifically chose a scientific-sounding word.

Btw scientist may also have been for construction now that I think of it, through engineering.

[Galzria]

Scientist

[WestCoastDidds]

Scientist is red!

Good game y’all!

[Galzria]

Yay!

Good clues Awaclus! I feel like we were able to read them well, and make good decisions based off them as we went too.

[WestCoastDidds]

The last blue was cap!

Fang, you were dead on. Halo was a grace cap!

Block went with engine on tachometer. (Engine block needle). Sorry for the confusion!

[Awaclus]

Phew, that was a close game! Atlantis was the assassin.

[Awaclus]

And indeed, construction was for scientist, shoe, pipe and skyscraper. I figured Didds could hint grace and cap with a piece of headgear associated with grace (which she sort of did, although I didn't see halo coming) so I had to try to end the game that turn. I guess I should have included field in the clue to make it less ambiguous.

[Eevee]

Great game, couldn’t have been closer! More!

[infangthief]

Wow! Great game. So close!

And what do you know, Halo is indeed a British rock band and their 2002 album is on our shelf. (Well actually as a result of this it is on playing now.)

[WestCoastDidds]

And indeed, construction was for scientist, shoe, pipe and skyscraper. I figured Didds could hint grace and cap with a piece of headgear associated with grace (which she sort of did, although I didn't see halo coming) so I had to try to end the game that turn. I guess I should have included field in the clue to make it less ambiguous.

Is there another piece of headgear associated with grace? A mitre, maybe?

[Awaclus]

And indeed, construction was for scientist, shoe, pipe and skyscraper. I figured Didds could hint grace and cap with a piece of headgear associated with grace (which she sort of did, although I didn't see halo coming) so I had to try to end the game that turn. I guess I should have included field in the clue to make it less ambiguous.

Is there another piece of headgear associated with grace? A mitre, maybe?

I didn't think too hard about it, I thought of tiara (because it's stereotypically worn by graceful people) and I considered that dangerous enough so I didn't try to come up with something better.

[WestCoastDidds]

Great game, couldn’t have been closer! More!

Make a board and share it with either fang or EFHW, and we’re off to the races!

[EFHW]

Stick is neutral.

[infangthief]

As the newest comer, you can divvy up the teams Awaclus!

Playerlist is
Awaclus
Galzria
Eevee
Didds
fang
EFHW

I don't really have a preference either way, so let's do

Awaclus
Galzria
Eevee

vs

Didds
fang
EFHW

Second on the list, me and Galz spymasters? Got a lot on this morning, but I'll get round to making a board soonish.

[infangthief]

Blue goes first

MOON	SPOT	CORNER	CLIFF	MERCURY
TEMPLE	BILL	THEATER	GAME	CHICK
GIANT	FILE	CHOCOLATE	MASS	HORN
FINGER	TICK	CARROT	CODE	BERMUDA
SCIENTIST	BUFFALO	STRING	DRAGON	ORGAN

[infangthief]

Stomach: 3

[EFHW]

Organ, chocolate,  carrot?

[WestCoastDidds]

Agree....

Organ for sure

Then chocolate

[infangthief]

Organ is blue
Chocolate is blue

[EFHW]

carrot

[infangthief]

Carrot is blue

[WestCoastDidds]

Hooray!

Pass

[Galzria]

Migraine: 3

[Awaclus]

Temple is probably one of the words.

Other options I can think of:

File - as in a diagnosis
Tick - can ticks (the animal) cause migraine? I vaguely feel like I might have heard something like that, but I'm not sure if it's a thing, I might be confusing it with something else.
Scientist - neurology is a field of science
Moon - some people believe that migraines could be related to moon phases, I don't know if that's scientific and if not, I also don't know how widely held the belief is
Spot - migraines sometimes involve having a blind spot

[Eevee]

Temple

I'm really at a loss after that.

[infangthief]

Temple is red.

[Eevee]

I'm fine with any of your guesses. If I was playing alone, I would pass here. Lucky to never have had a migraine!

[WestCoastDidds]

I'm fine with any of your guesses. If I was playing alone, I would pass here. Lucky to never have had a migraine!

Same on the migraine! I consider myself exceeding lucky on that.

[Awaclus]

We do have a precedent for medicine related words to be clues for scientist, and I want to guess at least one more because if we're only one answer short, it gives Galz the option to just hope we guess it right without further clues if that ends up being necessary. So I would probably guess scientist here and then pass.

[Eevee]

scientist

[infangthief]

Scientist is blue

[infangthief]

Cornucopia: 2

[WestCoastDidds]

Blue goes first

MOON	SPOT	CORNER	CLIFF	MERCURY
TEMPLE	BILL	THEATER	GAME	CHICK
GIANT	FILE	CHOCOLATE	MASS	HORN
FINGER	TICK	CARROT	CODE	BERMUDA
SCIENTIST	BUFFALO	STRING	DRAGON	ORGAN

[WestCoastDidds]

So, horn seems clear

Others are less clear...
Game because it’s a Dominion version?
Giant because it seems big?
Mass for the same kind of bigness?

Of those, I probably prefer game

[WestCoastDidds]

Blue goes first

MOON	SPOT	CORNER	CLIFF	MERCURY
TEMPLE	BILL	THEATER	GAME	CHICK
GIANT	FILE	CHOCOLATE	MASS	HORN
FINGER	TICK	CARROT	CODE	BERMUDA
SCIENTIST	BUFFALO	STRING	DRAGON	ORGAN

Oh wait, I screwed that up. I didn’t realize scientists was blue. Fixed now.

[EFHW]

I agree. Horn --> game

[infangthief]

Horn is blue
Game is blue

[WestCoastDidds]

Yea!

Pass

[Galzria]

Identify: 5

[Eevee]

Spot
Finger

Tick
Code
Corner

Come to mind. Pretty sure about the first two at least. I guess moon has shapes one could identify and giants are big, hence easy to identify as well. If he meant to clue that our words are verbs such as identify string (and bill?) are also possible, but that's a real long shot.

[Eevee]

We are so far behind, time to start putting some red on the board.

[EFHW]

BUMP

[Eevee]

Thoughts Awaclus? Feel free to lock in at least the first two when you see this.

[Awaclus]

Sorry! I was #1 in my Duolingo league last week and the #2 didn't give up easily so I spent pretty much the entire yesterday learning Swedish and forgot to think about this game.

Spot -> Finger


I like Code the best out of the other three options.

[Awaclus]

What's the idea behind corner?

I could see a thought process for mass, because identifying individuals from a mass of people is a thing, especially when it comes to mass surveillance. It's a bit of a stretch, but on the other hand, it's pretty much impossible to clue 5 words and not have some of them be a bit of a stretch.

[WestCoastDidds]

Ha! Extremely same on the Duolingo pressure! It brings out some weird competitive streak because I don’t even know why I care about winning.

[infangthief]

Spot is red
Finger is red

[Eevee]

What's the idea behind corner?

I could see a thought process for mass, because identifying individuals from a mass of people is a thing, especially when it comes to mass surveillance. It's a bit of a stretch, but on the other hand, it's pretty much impossible to clue 5 words and not have some of them be a bit of a stretch.

You can "corner" someone, which I guess is not exactly identify but sort of similar maybe. Tick for "ticking a box".

Let's go code

[infangthief]

Code is neutral

[infangthief]

Knotted: 1

[WestCoastDidds]

Blue goes first

MOON	SPOT	CORNER	CLIFF	MERCURY
TEMPLE	BILL	THEATER	GAME	CHICK
GIANT	FILE	CHOCOLATE	MASS	HORN
FINGER	TICK	CARROT	CODE	BERMUDA
SCIENTIST	BUFFALO	STRING	DRAGON	ORGAN

[WestCoastDidds]

I don’t think EFHW will mind string

[infangthief]

String is blue

[WestCoastDidds]

I think we’ll pass, but I’ll let EFHW make that call

[WestCoastDidds]

Okay, pass

Not sure why the hold up, but it’s the right call regardless

[infangthief]

BUMP

[infangthief]

I will be VLA from Saturday, for about a week. It would be nice to finish this game by then.

I suppose if we don't manage that then I could just PM Galzria with what my next clue would be before I go and he could give it for me if it is needed.

[Awaclus]

I'm still playing but we can't do anything until Galzria gives the clue.

[Eevee]

Yeah, still in!

Also debating creating a new game and limiting it to 4 players to ensure it going faster.

[Eevee]

In addition to this! I’d love to play two.

[infangthief]

Yeah, still in!

Also debating creating a new game and limiting it to 4 players to ensure it going faster.

4 players is much faster. Also, being able to 'hear' the thoughtprocesses makes it quite different.

Or (and?), I wonder if anyone would be interested in the 2-player co-op version. Would need an independent moderator to set up the board, but I'd be happy to do that.

[Galzria]

Checking clue now - sorry, just didn't get a chance to check yesterday. When I looked on Tuesday, I was still waiting on the other team to pass.

[Galzria]

Manicure: 2

[EFHW]

Sorry, usually I'm checking this several times a day, but I got out of the habit when there was a long lull. Agree it's more fun fast paced.

[EFHW]

Don't wait so long to pm me next time!

[Awaclus]

File is definitely one. I think the other could be theater because actors could get manicures or chick because women are stereotypically more likely to get manicures than men. Do manicure products ever contain mercury?

[Eevee]

i think chick and file.

file -> chick

[Galzria]

Red & Red

[Awaclus]

It's not possible to win this turn so it's probably best to just pass, I think.

[Awaclus]

We've got a bunch of info to work with so 3 words in one turn seems doable, but they only need 2 so we might not even get that turn, so I like denying the flip more than trying to guess a word based on the existing clues.

[Eevee]

agreed, pass

[infangthief]

Gravitational: 2

[EFHW]

Definitely mass. I would say moon for the 2nd one, but I'm a little concerned because of Mercury. But the moon's gravity actually affects us, so that's probably #2.

[WestCoastDidds]

Whew, you are up early EFHW!

Moon would be my first guess, so let’s go with...

Mass
Moon

[infangthief]

Mass is blue
Moon is blue

[infangthief]

The whole table:

MOON	SPOT	CORNER	CLIFF	MERCURY
TEMPLE	BILL	THEATER	GAME	CHICK
GIANT	FILE	CHOCOLATE	MASS	HORN
FINGER	TICK	CARROT	CODE	BERMUDA
SCIENTIST	BUFFALO	STRING	DRAGON	ORGAN

[EFHW]

gg!

[Eevee]

Well played blue! Everyone in for more?

[infangthief]

Well played blue! Everyone in for more?

I'm going to need to sit out as I'm VLA for a week. Sorry Team.

[Awaclus]

GG! I'm up for more.

[EFHW]

Play 3 against 2?

[WestCoastDidds]

Hooray!!

Good call on mass EFHW.  Left o my own devices Id have done the moon and mercury.

[Eevee]

from memory, is it me and efhw as spymasters?

[WestCoastDidds]

from memory, is it me and efhw as spymasters?

Yep!

[WestCoastDidds]

I asked ADK and swowl if either of them would want to sub in for the week.  Just FYI!

[Swowl]

same as before. would love to, but in fairness I'll give ADK first dibbs if they want to because I am already in XI

[Swowl]

alright, well feel free to tag me in I guess and if ADK bumps in I will just back out after the first round.

I be bored lol

[WestCoastDidds]

Sweet

[EFHW]

Blue goes first

CORNER	DISEASE	SOLDIER	WHEEL	ALIEN
TAG	TABLE	ROOT	SKYSCRAPER	DWARF
STOCK	BUG	PICK	OLIVE	AUSTRALIA
CRANE	CLUB	PARK	CHINA	PORT
AMAZON	JACKET	ROOF	BUTTON	ICE CREAM

[EFHW]

Swowl, you're on the blue team.

OUT: 4

[Swowl]

TAG and OUT are synonyms in baseball
You go out to a CLUB
You sail out of a PORT
You wear a JACKET when you go out
You go out for ICE CREaM


I don’t think it is stuff that is outside or far away bc they could of used outside or far or something. So while roof, alien amazon bug etc could all be - i think it is a better fit this way.

Tag-club-ice cream-port/jacket.

Your call if you like those. If not lmk.

[WestCoastDidds]

Tag for sure

Port seems likely


But I’m not sold on CLUB or ICE CREAM And iffy on JACKET

What about PICK out?
Out of STOCK?

[Eevee]

tag is blue

port is neutral

[WestCoastDidds]

:/

[Eevee]

Vested: 2

[Eevee]

Bump!

[Awaclus]

Jacket seems pretty clear. Can a stock be vested? Besides that, the best I can think of is soldier, but that would seem like a somewhat odd clue.

[EFHW]

Bump

[Galzria]

Jacket seems pretty clear. Can a stock be vested? Besides that, the best I can think of is soldier, but that would seem like a somewhat odd clue.

Yeah, you vest stocks.

Good with:

Jacket -> Stock

[Eevee]

red and red

[Galzria]

pass

[EFHW]

Blue goes first

CORNER	DISEASE	SOLDIER	WHEEL	ALIEN
TAG	TABLE	ROOT	SKYSCRAPER	DWARF
STOCK	BUG	PICK	OLIVE	AUSTRALIA
CRANE	CLUB	PARK	CHINA	PORT
AMAZON	JACKET	ROOF	BUTTON	ICE CREAM

[/quote]

[EFHW]

MARTIAN: unlimited

[WestCoastDidds]

Okay...

Martian has to be Alien

from OUT
it could still be
BUG
PICK
ROOT
in the sense that those are all words that we use as with out appended. Bug out, pick out, root out

What do you think, Swowl?

[Eevee]

alien is blue

[WestCoastDidds]

Swoooooooowllllllllll....where you be?

[Swowl]

Sorry! Gimme a minute sorry to slow it down y’all!

[Swowl]

ok yeah I agree that because we have 3 more and we already got "tag out" that the OUT words make sense.

I don't think the order on which we put those in is gonna matter, but I would suggest Root-Bug-Pick, simply because root and bug could have potential Martian overlap, so I think them safest.

If we happen to get those correct, then we be at 5/9 and all remaining words can somehow be tied to Martian. Obv, none of the words on the board are like technically "from mars" so I think we going for a little bit looser of a defn here.

I think Dwarf (like white dwarf, star or whatever) would be a good one.
Also - because I think you me and she are all USA, could be Australia/Amazon/China.

[WestCoastDidds]

Cool...let's give it a shot:
Root
Bug
Pick

[EFHW]

All Blue

[Swowl]

Ok i think the play here is actually to test the water and go with one of the locations first - bc if one is right then they all are. Then end with dwarf.
Unless you have another idea?

[WestCoastDidds]

Hooray!

Okay, Swowl....  here is the question. Was Martian really infinite, or did she just want to give us space to get the OUTS without messing up the what we were trying to find. So did infinite really mean 1 Martian (alien) + the rest of the out words, or did it mean they are all Martian? Root, bug, and pick don’t really go with Martian to me, so I don’t know.

We could guess another Martian word, but all of them are a reach for me, especially the world location ones since they are so earth-bound. Or we could pass.

If we’re gonna guess, let’s try Dwarf. Or pass. You can decide.

[Swowl]

Ok deal. But if we get dwarf can we try a destination instead of pass? Or do you lean pass. I guess i would be goos either way actually.

DWARF

[EFHW]

Assassin.

[EFHW]

Didds was right about my intention there.

[Swowl]

Aw shucks!
Sorry all!

[Swowl]

Don’t know how long y’all needed a sub for but i am good to go again if you you need me again.

If not - ‘‘twas fun!

[Eevee]

Gg, more!

[WestCoastDidds]

Oof!

[EFHW]

Who's up? Should we split up into two groups so play goes faster? I would play 2.

[Eevee]

I’d love to play two too! Two groups sounds great.

[Swowl]

I am fine with whatever. I can make a code names... 11? whatever we are on to split off if needed.

[EFHW]

I think it's 12 now. Who wants to keep playing?

[WestCoastDidds]

I’m going to take a break, but will tag back I once l get past some deadlines.

Have fun!

[Swowl]

I’m in.

[Awaclus]

Actually I think I'll take a break too, might want to join a game at some later unspecified point in time. Have fun!

[Galzria]

So Me, Swowl, EFHW & Eevee?

[Eevee]

Sounds good, what are the teams and spymasters?

[EFHW]

We should probably split up Galz and Swowl - they'll have an unfair advantage since they know each other well.

[Swowl]

We should probably split up Galz and Swowl - they'll have an unfair advantage since they know each other well.

fair enough. rando or anyone have a pref on partner?

[Eevee]

I don’t think I’ve played with Galz yet, let’s try that!

[EFHW]

Swowl and Galz go first?

[Swowl]

Sure I’ll send the grid in a sec

[Swowl]

Red goes first

BALL	CODE	COLD	DOCTOR	LOG
UNDERTAKER	FAIR	MAIL	SPOT	LETTER
MOLE	RING	CROWN	POUND	LUCK
SPIDER	SLUG	ROBIN	BRIDGE	NEEDLE
DEGREE	TRIP	SUB	COURT	SUPERHERO

Swowl and EFHW are RED
Galz and Eevee are BLUE.

GLGL!

[Swowl]

GOOGLE: 2

[EFHW]

Shoot. Well, there's needle in a haystack; are web crawlers called spiders? code is used. Gmail. This is a way to clue mail without clueing letter.

MAIL

[Swowl]

Mail is RED

[EFHW]

Pass. Not confident in my other choices.

[Galzria]

Maths: 2

[Eevee]

degree
 debating between log and code for next if blue

[Swowl]

Degree is red

[Swowl]

BALL	CODE	COLD	DOCTOR	LOG
UNDERTAKER	FAIR	MAIL	SPOT	LETTER
MOLE	RING	CROWN	POUND	LUCK
SPIDER	SLUG	ROBIN	BRIDGE	NEEDLE
DEGREE	TRIP	SUB	COURT	SUPERHERO

BUGS: 3

[EFHW]

spider

[EFHW]

If that's right then slug => code

[Galzria]

Spider is Red
Slug is Red
Code is Red

[EFHW]

pass

[Galzria]

Darts: 3

[Eevee]

log -> needle

im so lost!

[Galzria]

Log is Blue
Needs is Blue

[Galzria]

Needle*

[Eevee]

too mad of my sizable biden bets. back in 1-2 days, really sorry.

[Eevee]

Got to guess, not confident

spot

[Swowl]

SPOT is red

[Eevee]

Bah!

[Swowl]

ARRYN: 2

[EFHW]

What's that? Swan, you know I'm old, right? Fuddy duddy old. And I was a fuddy duddy before I was old, too! Is it like Game of Thrones or something?

crown. See how that goes.

[Galzria]

Crown is Red

[EFHW]

BALL	CODE	COLD	DOCTOR	LOG
UNDERTAKER	FAIR	MAIL	SPOT	LETTER
MOLE	RING	CROWN	POUND	LUCK
SPIDER	SLUG	ROBIN	BRIDGE	NEEDLE
DEGREE	TRIP	SUB	COURT	SUPERHERO

[EFHW]

Maybe it really is GoT! I'm thinking court now.

pass. Can't win this turn anyway without blind guessing an extra word.

[Eevee]

This is like in Rocky movies when he's down for the seventh time and rises back up once more! Comebaaack?

[Galzria]

Fell: 2

[Eevee]

trip

[Swowl]

Trip is blue

[Eevee]

undertaker

[Swowl]

UNDERTAKER is Neutral

[Swowl]

BALL	CODE	COLD	DOCTOR	LOG
UNDERTAKER	FAIR	MAIL	SPOT	LETTER
MOLE	RING	CROWN	POUND	LUCK
SPIDER	SLUG	ROBIN	BRIDGE	NEEDLE
DEGREE	TRIP	SUB	COURT	SUPERHERO

[Swowl]

Renaissance: 1

[EFHW]

fair

[Swowl]

Fair is red

[Eevee]

Heh, most the words I've been contemplating have been red too! Never played a game this inaccurate in my life.

[EFHW]

court

[Swowl]

Court is neutral 

[Galzria]

Basket: Unlimited

[Eevee]

ball

[Swowl]

Ball is Blue

[Eevee]

doctor

[Galzria]

Doctor is Neutral.

Yikes! Eevee and I are not on the same page! 😳😅

[Eevee]

Glorious!

[Swowl]

BIRD: 1

[EFHW]

robin

[Swowl]

Robin is RED!

GGs!

Here was the full table!

BALL	CODE	COLD	DOCTOR	LOG
UNDERTAKER	FAIR	MAIL	SPOT	LETTER
MOLE	RING	CROWN	POUND	LUCK
SPIDER	SLUG	ROBIN	BRIDGE	NEEDLE
DEGREE	TRIP	SUB	COURT	SUPERHERO

[Eevee]

Oof oof oof!

Blue goes first

OCTOPUS	FIGURE	SMILE	KANGAROO	SLIP
WELL	SATURN	POOL	TRAIN	TOWER
BOOT	KNIGHT	GARAGE	EUROPE	BEACH
HAM	KID	KETCHUP	GRACE	ENGINE
MOSCOW	KIWI	NEEDLE	BALL	CYCLE

[Eevee]

Astronomical: 2

[EFHW]

What was the other Arryn?

[Swowl]

** note from previous game** the other Arryn was Robin (you were right! it was GOT!)

[Galzria]

Maths: Log & Sub
Darts: Needle, Luck, Ring
Fell: Trip, Bridge
Bouncy: Ball

[Galzria]

Saturn... Figure?

[Eevee]

blue and



blue

[Galzria]

Pass, clearly

[EFHW]

Rapunzel: 2

[Swowl]

hmm

OK Tower 100%.... TOWER

[Swowl]

Actually not hmm.. I think I am overthinking it.


TOWER -> KNIGHT

if both are correct I pass

[EFHW]

Both red!

[Swowl]

weeee!

PASS

[Eevee]

Joey: 3

[Galzria]

Kid, Kangaroo

[Galzria]

Should’ve flipped those. Shouldn’t matter. Need to think on the third.

[EFHW]

Both blue!

[Galzria]

I’m torn between Slip - as a synonym of pouch, and Kiwi, as a reference to New Zealand, which doesn’t have kangaroos but is geographically close to Australia. Might be some reference to boots that I’m not certain about - but I’m not even close to certain on anything, so pass.

[EFHW]

Cured: 2

[Swowl]

Updated Grid:

OCTOPUS	FIGURE	SMILE	KANGAROO	SLIP
WELL	SATURN	POOL	TRAIN	TOWER
BOOT	KNIGHT	GARAGE	EUROPE	BEACH
HAM	KID	KETCHUP	GRACE	ENGINE
MOSCOW	KIWI	NEEDLE	BALL	CYCLE

[Swowl]

almost missed the second one... assuming it is correct

HAM -> WELL


If correct -> PASS

[EFHW]

both red!

[Eevee]

Sandwich: 2

[Galzria]

Ketchup

[EFHW]

Ketchup is blue.

[Galzria]

Uhhh....

Octopus?

[Eevee]

neutral

[EFHW]

PINK: 2

[Swowl]

Slip

[EFHW]

red

[Swowl]

Alright but have some thoughts but i think the play here is to PASS

[Eevee]

Locomotive: 2

[Galzria]

Train -> Engine

[Galzria]

And then try Kiwi if those are both blue.

[EFHW]

Train and Engine are both blue!

Kiwi is red

[EFHW]

Updated Grid:

OCTOPUS	FIGURE	SMILE	KANGAROO	SLIP
WELL	SATURN	POOL	TRAIN	TOWER
BOOT	KNIGHT	GARAGE	EUROPE	BEACH
HAM	KID	KETCHUP	GRACE	ENGINE
MOSCOW	KIWI	NEEDLE	BALL	CYCLE

[EFHW]

Hockey: 2

[Swowl]

So we have 2 words left.... and unless kiwis are pink then it is overlap of hockey: 2 and pink: 1....

Me confused. Need a minute.

[Swowl]

Well i guess i will start with

MOSCOW

[EFHW]

red!

[Swowl]

OK I have no idea how in the bloody hell Moscow would be considered PINK... so if it can be and I am missing it then I apologize EFHW.

Possible Hockey words:

Smile - known for missing teeth I guess?
Garage - practicing on garage door, table hockey in garage, where you would store your gear I guess.
Europe - OK yes, but if it was Euorope and Moscow I would not of gotten HOCKEY as a clue.
Ball - Street hockey is played with a ball instead of puck
Cycle - you cycle hockey players when they like sub in and out?


so either the last one is one of those or I am just screwed lol.

Of those the only ones that overlap are:
Smile - like when you blush or the pink of your gums?
Ball - recess balls were traditionally pink, or like going to a ball and wearing pink?
Cycle - outside shot, but possible.


I was leaning hard into BEACH prior to this, but hockey kind of removes that...


I guess I go with..... BALL

*fingers crossed*

[Eevee]

Ball is red!

[Swowl]

Hayyyyyyy.

Gg all.
Good clues EFHW

[EFHW]

Good job Swowl! Pink was a reference to Communism.

[Swowl]

Good job Swowl! Pink was a reference to Communism.

Hahaha i was literally like “is the kremlin pink?l”

[Swowl]

Good job Swowl! Pink was a reference to Communism.

Can you post the Board?

[Eevee]

Blue goes first

OCTOPUS	FIGURE	SMILE	KANGAROO	SLIP
WELL	SATURN	POOL	TRAIN	TOWER
BOOT	KNIGHT	GARAGE	EUROPE	BEACH
HAM	KID	KETCHUP	GRACE	ENGINE
MOSCOW	KIWI	NEEDLE	BALL	CYCLE

[ipofanes]

Would there be any chance to join in for next round?

[Swowl]

Yeah sure we can either find another and run teams, open new thread for 2v2, or if not enough interest i can sit out so you can play a bit

[Eevee]

Let’s keep this one 2v2. Team EeveeGalz is ready for revenge!

[EFHW]

So new thread or EeveeGalz vs. EFHWIpof? I would play two games.

[Eevee]

I’d play two

[EFHW]

I made a new thread and advertised for a 4th player.

[Swowl]

Ok sooo can we fire one more off here same teams then and at the end if there is no 4th for your other game I’ll back out to make room for ipo?

[Swowl]

or I can sit out this one. Either way someone just let me know so we can get this thread rolling

[Swowl]

OK Galz and I are up then

Red goes first

GLASS	TALE	CLUB	BRAZIL	OCTOPUS
CZECH	STATE	TRIANGLE	JACKET	PRIVATE
TOKYO	NINJA	HELICOPTER	MIRROR	APPLE
SILVER	PLASTIC	SCORPION	SOCK	SMILE
LONDON	SMUGGLER	BARK	CARD	ARM

[Swowl]

PIRATE: 2

[EFHW]

smuggler
Is that a new word?

[Swowl]

I know right!

Smuggler is RED

[EFHW]

card. Does Swowl play dominion?

[Galzria]

Card is Red

[EFHW]

Yay! pass

[Galzria]

Jazz: 2

[Eevee]

Uhhhhh.. feels stupid to pass but I've got nothing..

Pass

I don't know anything about jazz, other than that it's a music style and a basketball team..  would have guessed club but pass feels stronger.

The struggle continues for me and Galzria, oh dear.

[Galzria]

😅

[Swowl]

VAMPIRE: 2

[EFHW]

mirror

[Galzria]

Mirror is Red

[EFHW]

Taking a chance - silver?

[Galzria]

Silver is Red

[EFHW]

Phew. pass

[Galzria]

Vinci: 2

[Eevee]

Smile -> helicopter

[Galzria]

Both Blue

[Eevee]

Club

[Galzria]

Club is Blue

[Swowl]

Updated Grid

GLASS	TALE	CLUB	BRAZIL	OCTOPUS
CZECH	STATE	TRIANGLE	JACKET	PRIVATE
TOKYO	NINJA	HELICOPTER	MIRROR	APPLE
SILVER	PLASTIC	SCORPION	SOCK	SMILE
LONDON	SMUGGLER	BARK	CARD	ARM

[Swowl]

Pair: 2

[EFHW]

sock => arm => pass

[Galzria]

Both Red

[Galzria]

Speargun: 2

[Eevee]

Scorpion -> Private

[Galzria]

Scorpion is Neutral

[Eevee]

Back to form 

[Swowl]

GLASS	TALE	CLUB	BRAZIL	OCTOPUS
CZECH	STATE	TRIANGLE	JACKET	PRIVATE
TOKYO	NINJA	HELICOPTER	MIRROR	APPLE
SILVER	PLASTIC	SCORPION	SOCK	SMILE
LONDON	SMUGGLER	BARK	CARD	ARM

[Swowl]

FRUIT: 1

[EFHW]

hmm, tough one. Apple

[Swowl]

Red

[Galzria]

Lapel: 2

[Galzria]

Erm, sorry Efoo- I assumed pass. You of course have another guess if you would like.

Lapel: 2

[EFHW]

Erm, sorry Efoo- I assumed pass. You of course have another guess if you would like.

Lapel: 2

Yes, pass.

[Eevee]

jacket

[Galzria]

Jacket is Blue

[Eevee]

Let's try private

[Galzria]

Neutral

[Swowl]

EAST: 2

[EFHW]

Tokyo

[Swowl]

Red

[EFHW]

Now what? Not ninja, since Swowl could have just said Japan.  Going with London.

[Galzria]

London is Blue

[Galzria]

GLASS	TALE	CLUB	BRAZIL	OCTOPUS
CZECH	STATE	TRIANGLE	JACKET	PRIVATE
TOKYO	NINJA	HELICOPTER	MIRROR	APPLE
SILVER	PLASTIC	SCORPION	SOCK	SMILE
LONDON	SMUGGLER	BARK	CARD	ARM

[Galzria]

Aztec: 2

[Eevee]

To continue the geographical theme, Brazil

[Galzria]

Brazil is Blue

[Eevee]

Third time's the charm, ninja

[Galzria]

Neutral 😢

[Eevee]

I can't believe how badly we match up as a pair!   

[Swowl]

This game has been insane lol

[Swowl]

Slovakia: 1

[EFHW]

Czech! I wasn't sure if that was east of Finland, so I didn't want to pick it before.

[EFHW]

Czech! I wasn't sure if that was east of Finland, so I didn't want to pick it before.

Just checked (haha) and it's not. It is east for both of us, though, so maybe a safer guess than I thought.

[Swowl]

All good!
Good job!

GG

[EFHW]

Again?

[Eevee]

Blue goes first

SCIENTIST	KEY	RULER	CHINA	GERMANY
MOUSE	CARD	MODEL	WHIP	PLANE
JACKET	TAP	EMBASSY	COLD	SPIDER
POINT	GUITAR	PRICE	TIME	ROBIN
CALF	AMAZON	STAR	FLOWER	PISTOL

[Eevee]

Animal: 3

[Galzria]

Wait, did teams change? Eevee sent me the board.

[Eevee]

Uh got mixed up, sorry! Reroll:

[Eevee]

Blue goes first

TALE	PIANO	FARM	NOTE	EAST
ROULETTE	POLICE	BOW	NET	WIND
EMBASSY	WEB	PILOT	LINK	VACATION
ALPS	FAN	WATCH	CALF	WINTER
RAY	MOUNT	AMERICA	CHURCH	STREAM

[Eevee]

Mississippi: 3

[Galzria]

Hmm

Farm -> Calf

[Galzria]

Lol oh

And then America if that works.

[Eevee]

Blue goes first

TALE	PIANO	FARM	NOTE	EAST
ROULETTE	POLICE	BOW	NET	WIND
EMBASSY	WEB	PILOT	LINK	VACATION
ALPS	FAN	WATCH	CALF	WINTER
RAY	MOUNT	AMERICA	CHURCH	STREAM

 

[Eevee]

Was thinking of stream, america and east. 

[EFHW]

Man, I had Sting: 5 ready. Want to try it Swowl?

[Galzria]

Hahahahaha

[Galzria]

I mean, I should’ve opened America, obviously - but I was still always going Farm second lol

[Galzria]

Eevee, we gotta turn this around!

[Swowl]

Knowing the answers makes it easier but i think i woulda gone ray, Police, web then passed.

Also just lol sorry guys gg

[EFHW]

Knowing the answers makes it easier but i think i woulda gone ray, Police, web then passed.

Also just lol sorry guys gg

Yeah, the others were net and wind. Winter would work, too.

[EFHW]

Swowl and Galz next.

[Eevee]

I mean, I should’ve opened America, obviously - but I was still always going Farm second lol

Totally didn't make the farm connection, not sure I still do! Is it just that the Missisippi river area is known for being farmland?


But yeah, I'm very amused at how badly we are doing. No way are we switching teams until we get at least one decent game!

[Swowl]

RED goes first

MINE	ROME	SINK	AUSTRALIA	SHOT
TALE	RACKET	CAT	TIME	CRICKET
MODEL	FIGHTER	BOOT	ATLANTIS	SLUG
CAP	POOL	MATCH	NOTE	PIANO
GERMANY	WASHINGTON	ROOF	SETTLE	APPLE

[Swowl]

UTOPIA: 4

[EFHW]

Lots of real places in this one, but none of them Utopias . Atlantis.

[Swowl]

Lots of real places in this one, but none of them Utopias . Atlantis.

Atlantis is RED

[EFHW]

Ok, tale, then sink.

[Swowl]

Both RED

[EFHW]

How exciting! Now I'm not sure. Model could fit. Apple could be a reference to the Garden of Eden. Settle is what you want to do if you find a utopia. Time could refer to Atlantis being ancient. So I'll pass for now.

[Galzria]

Physics: 3

[Eevee]

Time -> apple

[Galzria]

Both Blue

[Eevee]

pass

[Swowl]

GLADIATOR: 2

[EFHW]

Rome -> match

[Swowl]

Rome is RED
Match is NUETRAL

[Swowl]

MINE	ROME	SINK	AUSTRALIA	SHOT
TALE	RACKET	CAT	TIME	CRICKET
MODEL	FIGHTER	BOOT	ATLANTIS	SLUG
CAP	POOL	MATCH	NOTE	PIANO
GERMANY	WASHINGTON	ROOF	SETTLE	APPLE

[Swowl]

or you know... neutral... lol

[Galzria]

Test: 2

[Eevee]

model

[Swowl]

Model is RED :/

[Eevee]

Oof! Thought it fit both clues..

[Swowl]

LOUD: 2

[EFHW]

racket. If correct,  then fighter for the gladiator clue. Thinking about 2nd loud.

[Galzria]

Both Red

[EFHW]

shot

[Galzria]

Neutral

[Swowl]

MINE	ROME	SINK	AUSTRALIA	SHOT
TALE	RACKET	CAT	TIME	CRICKET
MODEL	FIGHTER	BOOT	ATLANTIS	SLUG
CAP	POOL	MATCH	NOTE	PIANO
GERMANY	WASHINGTON	ROOF	SETTLE	APPLE

[Galzria]

Canberra: 3

[Eevee]

australia - washington - cricket

[Galzria]

All Blue!

[Eevee]

Guess coming tomorrow, hoping for a vision in my sleep.

[Eevee]

Pool

[Galzria]

Two steps forward, and one step back. 😂

Swowl said it would be our luck you would guess Pool. I thought you would get Note. Alas! Ack!

Pool is Assassin.

Physics: Time, Apple, Roof (I probably should’ve gone 2, not 3. This was a stretch, but I was really, really struggling to pair clues & answers this board)
Test: Note, Cricket (Again, struggling with this board. I really hoped you had knowledge of Cricket as a sport, where the highest level of play is called Test Cricket)
Canberra: Australia, Washington, Cricket (Easily my best clue - an inspired choice with my back in a corner. Swowl watched as I stared at the board for 20 hours coming up blank for a clue. Everything I could think of resulted in a word I didn’t want guessed being more (or equally) appropriate)

Unclued: Boot

Had you gotten Note for Test, I would’ve been left with Roof & Boot for the final words.

[Galzria]

MINE	ROME	SINK	AUSTRALIA	SHOT
TALE	RACKET	CAT	TIME	CRICKET
MODEL	FIGHTER	BOOT	ATLANTIS	SLUG
CAP	POOL	MATCH	NOTE	PIANO
GERMANY	WASHINGTON	ROOF	SETTLE	APPLE

[Eevee]

Dem are dem beats. More!

[Eevee]

Blue goes first

RACKET	SPELL	LINE	BAT	BOTTLE
MOLE	SOLDIER	HOSPITAL	ELECTRIC	ALPS
PILOT	CHOCOLATE	BOND	ROCK	CAT
HORN	STOCK	APPLE	CHINA	KEY
EAGLE	HONEY	KID	BEAR	SNOW

[Eevee]

Wealth: 4

[Galzria]

Stock

[Galzria]

Bond

[Galzria]

China - I’ll wait for updates to guess after this. Fancy China (plateware) might be a stretch and I’m not confident at this point.

[Eevee]

stock is blue

bond is red!

[EFHW]

Play: 5

[Swowl]

Wow. I looked first and was like “oh i got this” then looked back and was all... nope. Lol
Ok to start i will go

Kid -> Bat -> Racket -> Spell

And if those are somehow all right, then i gotta flip a coin on 5th.

Hope you play MTG!

[Swowl]

Kid->Bat->Racket->Spell

[EFHW]

red red red neutral

[Swowl]

Nice! I’ll take it!

[Eevee]

Cider: 3

[Galzria]

Apple -> Bottle

[Eevee]

blue and blue

[Galzria]

China -> Honey

[Eevee]

blue and blue!

[Galzria]

And that’s a forced pass

[EFHW]

Alert: 3

[Swowl]

Horn

[EFHW]

[bred][/b]

[Swowl]

RACKET	SPELL	LINE	BAT	BOTTLE
MOLE	SOLDIER	HOSPITAL	ELECTRIC	ALPS
PILOT	CHOCOLATE	BOND	ROCK	CAT
HORN	STOCK	APPLE	CHINA	KEY
EAGLE	HONEY	KID	BEAR	SNOW

[Swowl]

HOSPITAL -> CAT

and then I guess pass if those are good.

[EFHW]

Hospital is . Cat is neutral.

[EFHW]

Hospital is red. Cat is neutral.

ebwop

[Eevee]

Tunnels: 2

[Galzria]

Mole -> Alps

Going to gamble on Alps here vs Rock. Hoping it’s a cross over word with Wealth.

[Eevee]

blue and blue

[Galzria]

pass

[EFHW]

Fort: 2

[Swowl]

Soldier

[EFHW]

Red

[Swowl]

RACKET	SPELL	LINE	BAT	BOTTLE
MOLE	SOLDIER	HOSPITAL	ELECTRIC	ALPS
PILOT	CHOCOLATE	BOND	ROCK	CAT
HORN	STOCK	APPLE	CHINA	KEY
EAGLE	HONEY	KID	BEAR	SNOW

[Swowl]

apologizing in advance if I mess this one  up.

Play = Racket, Kid, Bat, Horn, and (snow) - would be done.
Alarm = Horn, Soldier, Hospital - is done.
Fort 2 = Soldier, andddddd..... assuming it is not snow fort lol shit man idk.

That means either I am wrong about the overlap (probably somewhere in alarm if true), or it is another for Fort.

Either way, for now - SNOW

[EFHW]

RED!

[EFHW]

There were actually 6 plays: kid, bat, racket, soldier, snow and horn
There were actually 4 alerts: soldier, hospital, snow and horn

I didn't give the higher numbers because if the associations felt too obscure to you, there was a bigger chance you'd pick blue answers.

[Swowl]

weeeee

complete honesty thought I needed 3 lol

good job!!!!!

[Galzria]

We were closer this time Eevee!

[EFHW]

weeeee

complete honesty thought I needed 3 lol

good job!!!!!

Did living in California trip you up with the snow clues?

[Swowl]

weeeee

complete honesty thought I needed 3 lol

good job!!!!!

Did living in California trip you up with the snow clues?

Ha a little bit - but the other way around! I was like “does the rest of the world always play when they see snow or is that just us?” Lol

[Swowl]

Red goes first

HORSE	RABBIT	SPOT	WORM	PRINCESS
NAIL	SETTLE	FENCE	PART	WASHINGTON
TURKEY	MINE	PLOT	EUROPE	BANK
THEATER	DUST	TAG	SQUARE	TELESCOPE
SKYSCRAPER	BACK	SHARK	ORGAN	VAN

[Swowl]

Demolition: 3

[EFHW]

dust ->fence

[Swowl]

Dust is red
Fence is blue

[Galzria]

Acre: 2

[Eevee]

plot

going to sleep, next guess tomorrow if right.

[Galzria]

blue

[Eevee]

settle

[Galzria]

Neutral

[Swowl]

HORSE	RABBIT	SPOT	WORM	PRINCESS
NAIL	SETTLE	FENCE	PART	WASHINGTON
TURKEY	MINE	PLOT	EUROPE	BANK
THEATER	DUST	TAG	SQUARE	TELESCOPE
SKYSCRAPER	BACK	SHARK	ORGAN	VAN

[Swowl]

Tower: 2

[EFHW]

skyscraper

[EFHW]

If right, then princess.

[Swowl]

Red and red!

[EFHW]

Cool. Still unsure about demolition.  Skyscraper could have been one. I want to sy mine for some reason. I'll wait until the risk is worth it. pass

[Galzria]

I’ll post a word later tonight - coaching right now.

[Swowl]

HORSE	RABBIT	SPOT	WORM	PRINCESS
NAIL	SETTLE	FENCE	PART	WASHINGTON
TURKEY	MINE	PLOT	EUROPE	BANK
THEATER	DUST	TAG	SQUARE	TELESCOPE
SKYSCRAPER	BACK	SHARK	ORGAN	VAN

[Galzria]

Playground: 2

[Eevee]

square

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

I have this idea in my head of these horse swings they have at playgrounds in Finland, let's see if it's a thing in overseas too.

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

square

[Galzria]

You guessed that 4 posts ago 😋

[Eevee]

Oops, pass. And sorry for the wait, I should play quicker again now.

[Swowl]

sorry to slow things down. will get a word in the AM. Promise!!

[Swowl]

HORSE	RABBIT	SPOT	WORM	PRINCESS
NAIL	SETTLE	FENCE	PART	WASHINGTON
TURKEY	MINE	PLOT	EUROPE	BANK
THEATER	DUST	TAG	SQUARE	TELESCOPE
SKYSCRAPER	BACK	SHARK	ORGAN	VAN

ROADKILL: 2

[EFHW]

Rabbit -> Worm

[Swowl]

rabbit is red

worm is blue

[Galzria]

Stage: 2

[Eevee]

theatre - back

[Galzria]

Both Blue

[Eevee]

pass

[Swowl]

HORSE	RABBIT	SPOT	WORM	PRINCESS
NAIL	SETTLE	FENCE	PART	WASHINGTON
TURKEY	MINE	PLOT	EUROPE	BANK
THEATER	DUST	TAG	SQUARE	TELESCOPE
SKYSCRAPER	BACK	SHARK	ORGAN	VAN

[Swowl]

gl

LIVER: 30

[Swowl]

as I just typed that out Galzria made me aware of a rule where the "number cannot be a clue".

The number is not a clue. I just put in a random number. It could of easily been 1000, 555, 10,000. They also informed me I am allowed to type "infinite" which I did not know.

So the more appropriate clue would be LIVER: infinite - sorry about that. mb.

[EFHW]

organ -> spot

[Swowl]

red and red!

[EFHW]

Ok, now I need two more demolitions and one roadkill.

Nail?

[Swowl]

Ah! Nail is Green!

its ok, I kind of messed up on word pairing on that round. You were shooting pretty slim bc of me lol

GG!

[Swowl]

HORSE	RABBIT	SPOT	WORM	PRINCESS
NAIL	SETTLE	FENCE	PART	WASHINGTON
TURKEY	MINE	PLOT	EUROPE	BANK
THEATER	DUST	TAG	SQUARE	TELESCOPE
SKYSCRAPER	BACK	SHARK	ORGAN	VAN

Demolition: Skyscraper, Mine, Dust

Tower: Skyscraper, Princess

Roadkill: Rabbit, Van/Organ (didn't wanna go 3 on that one)

Liver: My mindset here was that you had mentioned you were thinking Mine for Demolition, so i needed to clue either infinity or exactly 4. I could not think of something for everything except mine. So I needed to go infinity and shoot for stars. Wanted to make sure you didn't go Turkey for roadkill so included organ, hoping you would think it was unique and get van.... Part was always gonna be the pain in the ass there.

GGs!

[EFHW]

I couldn't find a connection between mine and demolition. 

[Galzria]

I reaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllly wanted to open:

Coffin: 7

Coffin's are a style of jump in Equestrian Competition. That covers Horse (Equestrian), Back (Horseback), and Fence (that's being jumped over). Coffins are buried in Plots, and those plots are usually rectangular - which I thought could tie to Square. Worms are often associated with Coffins and death, and Coffins are an item found on stage and in theatre's.

Ok, some of those are stretches - but with a 7 clue, some would have to be!

.... If only the death word had been Telescope instead of Nail (in the coffin)...

[EFHW]

The irony! Nail was the nail in your coffin coffin.

[EFHW]

Should I make a new table? Same teams?

[Swowl]

im game!

[EFHW]

Red goes first

FOOT	MOUNT	RABBIT	BEACH	EGYPT
SNOWMAN	CZECH	KIWI	SCORPION	CALF
LAWYER	HAWK	NINJA	STATE	EAST
SUIT	CLUB	CHANGE	ATLANTIS	VET
VACUUM	SOLDIER	WAKE	BERRY	PIN

[EFHW]

I'll post a clue tomorrow,  sorry!

[EFHW]

Unseeable: 3

[EFHW]

Bump! 

[Swowl]

Ninja -> Atlantis

[EFHW]

Both red

[Swowl]

SOLDIER

[EFHW]

Blue

[Eevee]

white: 2

[Galzria]

Apologies on holding this up - missed my clue being given!

Rabbit -> Snowman -> Pass

[Eevee]

blue and blue

[EFHW]

Whale: 3

[Swowl]

FOOT	MOUNT	RABBIT	BEACH	EGYPT
SNOWMAN	CZECH	KIWI	SCORPION	CALF
LAWYER	HAWK	NINJA	STATE	EAST
SUIT	CLUB	CHANGE	ATLANTIS	VET
VACUUM	SOLDIER	WAKE	BERRY	PIN

[Swowl]

CALF -> BEACH -> and then fingers crossed on.... VET

[Eevee]

triple RED

[Swowl]

AH! I wanna guess so bad, but I will PASS

[Eevee]

password:3

[Galzria]

Pincode -> Change your password.... State? Uhhh, sure, why not: State -> Pass

[Eevee]

blue


blue


assassin

 

Got greedy, was going for club as the third word.

[Galzria]

Nooooo - Our 1 Game Winning Streak!

[Eevee]

Red goes first

FOOT	MOUNT	RABBIT	BEACH	EGYPT
SNOWMAN	CZECH	KIWI	SCORPION	CALF
LAWYER	HAWK	NINJA	STATE	EAST
SUIT	CLUB	CHANGE	ATLANTIS	VET
VACUUM	SOLDIER	WAKE	BERRY	PIN

[EFHW]

Bummer.

I'm relieved I don't have to think up a clue for Czech, Kiwi and Egypt while avoiding state!

[Swowl]

Bummer.

I'm relieved I don't have to think up a clue for Czech, Kiwi and Egypt while avoiding state!

jesus that would of been rough!

[Swowl]

everyone groovy to roll again?

[EFHW]

Sure

[Eevee]

gogogo

[Swowl]

Blue goes first

GARAGE	CENTAUR	TRIP	SHARK	SHOP
YARD	EAST	HORSE	AMBULANCE	NUT
TEACHER	BAY	PASS	LEMON	DANCE
TRUNK	POLE	VACATION	CHAIR	BERLIN
HORN	CASINO	HELICOPTER	SNOWMAN	SCIENTIST

[Galzria]

Antarctica: 6

[Eevee]

am i with galz? please say yes

[Galzria]

am i with galz? please say yes

Yepyepyep - We gotta get back on the winning train!

[Eevee]

Happy 2021 all!

pole - scientist - snowman - trip - berlin - bay can’t resist trying for all six!

[Galzria]

Pole is Blue
Scientist is Neutral

[Swowl]

Animals: 3

[EFHW]

Horse - > Shark -> Centaur -> pass

[Galzria]

All Red.

Tree: 2

[Eevee]

Lemon

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

snowman -> trunk

[Galzria]

Snowman is Blue
Trunk is Neutral

[Swowl]

GARAGE	CENTAUR	TRIP	SHARK	SHOP
YARD	EAST	HORSE	AMBULANCE	NUT
TEACHER	BAY	PASS	LEMON	DANCE
TRUNK	POLE	VACATION	CHAIR	BERLIN
HORN	CASINO	HELICOPTER	SNOWMAN	SCIENTIST

[Swowl]

Underground: 2

[EFHW]

garage

[Galzria]

Red

[EFHW]

Now I have a couple ideas, but they aren't compelling. pass.

[Galzria]

Pirouette: 3

[Eevee]

GARAGE	CENTAUR	TRIP	SHARK	SHOP
YARD	EAST	HORSE	AMBULANCE	NUT
TEACHER	BAY	PASS	LEMON	DANCE
TRUNK	POLE	VACATION	CHAIR	BERLIN
HORN	CASINO	HELICOPTER	SNOWMAN	SCIENTIST

Dance

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

Trip

[Swowl]

Trip is blue

[Eevee]

Nut

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

I think pass, I can still go for it next turn.

[Swowl]

GARAGE	CENTAUR	TRIP	SHARK	SHOP
YARD	EAST	HORSE	AMBULANCE	NUT
TEACHER	BAY	PASS	LEMON	DANCE
TRUNK	POLE	VACATION	CHAIR	BERLIN
HORN	CASINO	HELICOPTER	SNOWMAN	SCIENTIST

[Swowl]

Gorbachev: 3

[EFHW]

chair

[Swowl]

Neutral :/ Sorry!

[Galzria]

Flight: 2

[Eevee]

helicopter

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

vacation

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

Bay

[Galzria]

Neutral

[Swowl]

GARAGE	CENTAUR	TRIP	SHARK	SHOP
YARD	EAST	HORSE	AMBULANCE	NUT
TEACHER	BAY	PASS	LEMON	DANCE
TRUNK	POLE	VACATION	CHAIR	BERLIN
HORN	CASINO	HELICOPTER	SNOWMAN	SCIENTIST

[Swowl]

edit:

GARAGE	CENTAUR	TRIP	SHARK	SHOP
YARD	EAST	HORSE	AMBULANCE	NUT
TEACHER	BAY	PASS	LEMON	DANCE
TRUNK	POLE	VACATION	CHAIR	BERLIN
HORN	CASINO	HELICOPTER	SNOWMAN	SCIENTIST

[Swowl]

VISA: 3

[EFHW]

Berlin -> Shop -> Pass (That's a guess, not the game action.)

[Swowl]

ahhhhh soooo close.

underground was meant for casino

Shop is green :/

Good damn try though! you got Berlin and Pass.

I messed us up with Gorbachev - you did super good this round, I totally went for a win when I did not need to :/ m to the b.

GG

[EFHW]

What were the Gorbachev words? What was the last visa?

[Swowl]

Gorbachev I was going for East Pass... and long shot on Berlin (same for Visa words).

I thought they had it bagged last turn, so I took a reach on Gorbachev. In hindsight I should of laid it up

[Eevee]

What word did I miss? Yard?

What were the 6 for Antarctis?

[Galzria]

GARAGE	CENTAUR	TRIP	SHARK	SHOP
YARD	EAST	HORSE	AMBULANCE	NUT
TEACHER	BAY	PASS	LEMON	DANCE
TRUNK	POLE	VACATION	CHAIR	BERLIN
HORN	CASINO	HELICOPTER	SNOWMAN	SCIENTIST

Antarctica: 6 - Snowman, Helicopter (military/scientific surveying), Trip, Pole, Teacher (It's an area that might be taught about), Vacation (Hey - it might seem crazy, but I KNOW people that have gone there for "vacation"). The last two were a little out there, and I wasn't really expecting you to get them - but the words that I figured you might go to instead (Bay, Scientist) were both neutral, so I wasn't worried. Your consideration of Berlin wasn't something I saw coming though, so I had to take a slightly more measured approach after that lead.

Tree: 2 - Nut, Lemon

Piroutte: 3 - Dance, Teacher (something learned), Helicopter (twirling blades)

Flight: 2 - Helicopter, Vacation - I wasn't really concerned with you circling back to Berlin at this point, given Swowl's Gorbachev clue was on the board.

[Swowl]

good to roll again if all else are.

[Eevee]

im down to play more

[EFHW]

Always

[Swowl]

I am Galz' spirit animal and I feel he is good to go as well.
Efoo and Eevee are spymasters this run.

[EFHW]

Blue goes first

OPERA	SATELLITE	TEACHER	CLOUD	IVORY
SEAL	STOCK	LOCK	CASTLE	DISEASE
DUCK	CHARGE	SMUGGLER	GLOVE	AIR
PANTS	FIGHTER	GREECE	PLAY	DATE
OLIVE	SCORPION	SOLDIER	PAW	CHOCOLATE

[Eevee]

Plato: 3

[Galzria]

Whoops, saw this and then completely forgot! Let me look things over now.

[Galzria]

There are some tough choices here.

Let's open Greece -> Teacher, and then consider.

Plato spoke of [Disease]. He spoke of [Soldiers] (and in fact both served, and was known for being a strong young lad, which could lead to [Fighter] too...). I want to say there's a connection to The [Cloud]s, but I cannot recall and that feels pretty obscure. I'm weirdly attracted to [Play]/[Opera], but the clue doesn't help me really identify either specifically. There are probably other connections that I'm not thinking of here too... I could see [Charge], [Olive], [Date]... maybe [Scorpion] or [Air]?

I don't know. Haha. I think that's most of the board. Pick a more narrow clue!

Pass

[Eevee]

blue and blue

[EFHW]

Toy: 2

[Swowl]

PLAY -> SOLDIER -> PASS

[EFHW]

both red

[Eevee]

Bite-sized: 2

[Galzria]

Olive -> Date -> Pass

[Eevee]

olive is blue, date is neutral

[EFHW]

Animals: 3

[Swowl]

OPERA	SATELLITE	TEACHER	CLOUD	IVORY
SEAL	STOCK	LOCK	CASTLE	DISEASE
DUCK	CHARGE	SMUGGLER	GLOVE	AIR
PANTS	FIGHTER	GREECE	PLAY	DATE
OLIVE	SCORPION	SOLDIER	PAW	CHOCOLATE

[Swowl]

DUCK -> SCORPION -> SEAL

Pass

[EFHW]

All red

[Eevee]

Hand: 2

[Galzria]

Glove -> Paw -> Chocolate

Hoping Chocolate is the last bite-sized. Really not certain at all.

[Galzria]

Also on the fence between Paw & Lock, so... 🤞

[Eevee]

blue x3

[Galzria]

Neat-o!

Pass

[EFHW]

Transmit: 2

[Swowl]

OPERA	SATELLITE	TEACHER	CLOUD	IVORY
SEAL	STOCK	LOCK	CASTLE	DISEASE
DUCK	CHARGE	SMUGGLER	GLOVE	AIR
PANTS	FIGHTER	GREECE	PLAY	DATE
OLIVE	SCORPION	SOLDIER	PAW	CHOCOLATE

[Swowl]

Woops - Here is correct updated Grid.

OPERA	SATELLITE	TEACHER	CLOUD	IVORY
SEAL	STOCK	LOCK	CASTLE	DISEASE
DUCK	CHARGE	SMUGGLER	GLOVE	AIR
PANTS	FIGHTER	GREECE	PLAY	DATE
OLIVE	SCORPION	SOLDIER	PAW	CHOCOLATE

[Swowl]

DISEASE -> Satellite

[Eevee]

Red x2

[Swowl]

Oh pass sorry!

[Swowl]

Pass

Just to be sure :p

[Eevee]

Precious: 2

[Galzria]

I’ll get to this tonight. Need to go over Board state. Not sure if I’m clued to win or not.

[Galzria]

Ivory -> Air

[Eevee]

Blue and blue

[Galzria]

Plato: 3 - Greece, Teacher, [??]
Bite-Sized: 2 - Olive, [??]
Hand: 2 - Glove, Paw
Precious: 2 - Ivory, Air

Bonus: Chocolate

[Galzria]

There are some tough choices here.

Let's open Greece -> Teacher, and then consider.

Plato spoke of [Disease]. He spoke of [Soldiers] (and in fact both served, and was known for being a strong young lad, which could lead to [Fighter] too...). I want to say there's a connection to The [Cloud]s, but I cannot recall and that feels pretty obscure. I'm weirdly attracted to [Play]/[Opera], but the clue doesn't help me really identify either specifically. There are probably other connections that I'm not thinking of here too... I could see [Charge], [Olive], [Date]... maybe [Scorpion] or [Air]?

I don't know. Haha. I think that's most of the board. Pick a more narrow clue!

Pass

[Galzria]

OPERA	SATELLITE	TEACHER	CLOUD	IVORY
SEAL	STOCK	LOCK	CASTLE	DISEASE
DUCK	CHARGE	SMUGGLER	GLOVE	AIR
PANTS	FIGHTER	GREECE	PLAY	DATE
OLIVE	SCORPION	SOLDIER	PAW	CHOCOLATE

[Galzria]

Chocolate was probably the other bite-sized, which leaves one for Plato if I want to go for it.

[Galzria]

Opera

I don’t think it’s [Fighter], because I would’ve gone [Soldier] first. [Cloud] is still a decent connection... but I don’t think that’s what Eevee is looking for. [Opera] isn’t a slam dunk. With [Play] out there earlier that’s tough... but I don’t think anything else is stronger.

It’s POSSIBLE that [Olive] was a third for Plato, but that means I’m guessing blind. Maybe something entirely unrelated to any of my other words would fit best here then... [Pants]? Eh. It screams Assassin to me.

Nah, stick with [Opera], hope for the best.

[Eevee]

neutral

[Galzria]

Drat

[EFHW]

Palace: 1

[Swowl]

Castle

[Eevee]

Red, great game!

[Galzria]

What was the last one??

[Swowl]

Phew!

GG

[Eevee]

What was the last one??

Lock, never clued. I basically just gave up and hoped you'd blind guess it or that other team would miraculously miss their 1 - the other team played so well to end the game that fast and I just couldn't come up with a word to combine [air, ivory, lock], could someone else? I was trying to do think of something airlock-related earlier to connect 3 words, couldn't do it, or something poaching-related on my last turn, but smuggler really torpedoed those dreams.

[EFHW]

We had an easy board this time - three animals! I'm proud of my transmit clue, though.

[EFHW]

"Key" for air, ivory and lock, air being key to our existence. Bit of a stretch!

[Eevee]

We had an easy board this time - three animals! I'm proud of my transmit clue, though.

I meant to compliment it actually but forgot, very clever!

"Key" for air, ivory and lock, air being key to our existence. Bit of a stretch!

Better than having Galzria try to randomly guess the last word, certainly!

[Swowl]

Assuming everyone is good for another round


RED goes first

CARROT	LIGHT	BOOM	HAM	STOCK
SNOW	BELL	FINGER	FARM	WHEEL
FIRE	ANGEL	TEA	JAM	POINT
GAME	CHICK	TOWER	COLD	WATCH
AGENT	ATLANTIS	LION	ROUND	SCREEN

[Swowl]

TIP: 3

[EFHW]

Finger and point to start.

[Galzria]

Both red

[EFHW]

Stock. I wanted to say agent, but this is better.

[Galzria]

Stock is blue

[Galzria]

String: 2

[Eevee]

bell

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

tea

[Swowl]

tea is blue!

[Eevee]

such a lovely clue, pass

[Swowl]

CARROT	LIGHT	BOOM	HAM	STOCK
SNOW	BELL	FINGER	FARM	WHEEL
FIRE	ANGEL	TEA	JAM	POINT
GAME	CHICK	TOWER	COLD	WATCH
AGENT	ATLANTIS	LION	ROUND	SCREEN

PURE: 2

[EFHW]

Angel -> light

[Galzria]

Red & Neutral

[Galzria]

Sonic: 2

[Eevee]

boom -> game

[Galzria]

Both Blue

[Eevee]

pass

[Swowl]

CARROT	LIGHT	BOOM	HAM	STOCK
SNOW	BELL	FINGER	FARM	WHEEL
FIRE	ANGEL	TEA	JAM	POINT
GAME	CHICK	TOWER	COLD	WATCH
AGENT	ATLANTIS	LION	ROUND	SCREEN

[Swowl]

BERRIES: 3

[EFHW]

jam -> snow

[Galzria]

Both red

[EFHW]

farm

[Galzria]

Red

[EFHW]

round

[Swowl]

RED!!

[EFHW]

Used all my guesses.

[Galzria]

Livestock: 3

[Eevee]

farm

[Galzria]

Farm is already red 😋

[Galzria]

CARROT	LIGHT	BOOM	HAM	STOCK
SNOW	BELL	FINGER	FARM	WHEEL
FIRE	ANGEL	TEA	JAM	POINT
GAME	CHICK	TOWER	COLD	WATCH
AGENT	ATLANTIS	LION	ROUND	SCREEN

[Eevee]

Ham

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

chick

[Galzria]

Blue

[Eevee]

Wheel

[Galzria]

Wheel is blue!

Whoo! I didn’t know if you would get to Wheel from Livestock but there weren’t any better matches on the board so I was really hoping it would get the “least likely to be wrong” treatment even if it wasn’t “obviously correct”.

[Eevee]

I eliminated everything but wheel and carrot, and for carrot you could have given something food/eating related. Great clue!

[Galzria]

I eliminated everything but wheel and carrot, and for carrot you could have given something food/eating related. Great clue!

Indeed, carrot is Red and thus I could not just clue “farm” or “food” or the like!

[EFHW]

gg!

[Swowl]

ggS

[Swowl]

Again?

[Eevee]

in

[EFHW]

Yep

[Swowl]

fairly certain galz is in if yall wanna start it up

[Galzria]

Yep yep yep

[Swowl]

bumppppppppppp (bored )