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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 25, 2015, 02:13:11 pm »
In our game, it would have been detrimental to add Rolling to Stones.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 25, 2015, 02:11:27 pm »
Not meaning to seed any doubt but the Stones were inspired quit a lot by Chuck BERRY.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 25, 2015, 05:44:35 am »
On Boardgamegeek, players were fine with giving a multi-word book title as a clue. Personally I don't like it. (I'd even be inclined to oppose full names.) What do you think?
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 25, 2015, 03:24:36 am »
To my mind, GENIUS > SCHOOL > CZECH.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 25, 2015, 01:57:23 am »
Frankly, I believe more in GENIUS than in REVOLUTION. But ok. Whether Weimar Republic was brought about by a revolution or a lost war is something rather to be discussed in RSP.
REVOLUTION
REVOLUTION
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Forum Games / Re: Codenames - New simple, but very intriguing word game by Vlaada Chvátil
« on: November 24, 2015, 03:36:42 pm »
'Well, if TANK and WEAR are on our team, I believe he would give "rhubarb 2" as a clue whereas if we'd be looking for DENT and AUSTRALIA we would expect a clue like "hamstring 2".'
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 24, 2015, 11:28:01 am »
Speaking about using Google: clicky I didn't know it existed but I think it kind of drives my point home ...
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 24, 2015, 11:20:56 am »
Seems our spymaster is bored, so GERMANY
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 24, 2015, 07:19:56 am »Yes, I'd use search engines to make up for cultural differences, which in my case may have more to do with cohort than with residence. I should know a bit more about 1980s pop culture than 2010s. I'd have to consult my son to spot a Pokémon reference.I think it's ok to spoiler all here:We're allowed to look things up on Google and Wikipedia, right?I am doing it all the time.
This was brought up on the main Codenames thread. I think as long as the spymaster isn't intentionally giving a clue with the intent of Google displaying the desired words, that should be fine. I wouldn't expect everyone to know what Weimar is (I didn't). It can help equalize cultural differences. For example, many Americans know of Chicago as the Windy City. So if WIND was one of the words, I might say Chicago, but non-Americans might need to learn a little more about Chicago to get it.
The danger, of course, is that the more you know about a subject, you more false associations you'll have. "Wait, Chicago's on a lake. Did he mean LAKE too?"
In the last match, as a blue spymaster I might have given euphorbia 2 as the last clue. Not only wouldn't I expect the agents to find the connotations without a dictionary, I wouldn't have brought it up without one (for the scientific name of the plant).
Oh, and on Chicago I'd point to LAKE before WIND, but I'd definitely consider both.
More to the match at hand, I'd expect Americans to be oblivious about the contributions of Czechoslovakia to 1970s children's TV, and to not consider hazelnut or mole as clues for CZECH.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 24, 2015, 05:53:09 am »
I still stand by GENIUS but SCHOOL may be ok too as Bauhaus originated in Weimar. Czech republic is the closest border from Weimar but it is still quite a drive.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 24, 2015, 05:50:39 am »
I think it's ok to spoiler all here:
We're allowed to look things up on Google and Wikipedia, right?I am doing it all the time.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 24, 2015, 12:15:20 am »
I don't agree that a revolution happened in Weimar but this would be my second guess also. My third would be GENIUS, as in genius loci, the spirit of the place where J.W.Goethe, F. Schiller and F. Liszt resided.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 11:31:42 am »Ahem.That makes Kuildeous and egorK the new spymasters. Please randomize a pattern where red goes first. I sense that red might have a bit of an advantage as it is a bit hard but possible to clear 8 words in three rounds, while 9 in three rounds is really really tough, and 9 in four rounds is not a walk in the park.
I won't be stubborn about this but it seemed like a good idea to me.
I'd have to rewrite the code for red to go first.
But even if red does go first, we would then have to randomize which team is red. I figured we could keep the teams the same to avoid confusion.
ok fair enough. I had thought the double agent was coded as well.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 10:51:47 am »
Ahem.
I won't be stubborn about this but it seemed like a good idea to me.
That makes Kuildeous and egorK the new spymasters. Please randomize a pattern where red goes first. I sense that red might have a bit of an advantage as it is a bit hard but possible to clear 8 words in three rounds, while 9 in three rounds is really really tough, and 9 in four rounds is not a walk in the park.
I won't be stubborn about this but it seemed like a good idea to me.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 09:48:38 am »
As blue, I might have tried and tie up COTTON, BAND and NOTE with bluegrass (or cajun/zydeco) 3, and CORNER, DIAMOND and SCHOOL with geometry 3.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 09:44:05 am »
That makes Kuildeous and egorK the new spymasters. Please randomize a pattern where red goes first. I sense that red might have a bit of an advantage as it is a bit hard but possible to clear 8 words in three rounds, while 9 in three rounds is really really tough, and 9 in four rounds is not a walk in the park.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 09:38:16 am »
Good game. After the SHIP guess it was hard to catch up.
I wonder if mint 1 would have been a clue that MINE is the assassin.
DIAMOND is not too flexible a turn that I could see emerging groupthink that it may well refer to the singer. Note that he is considerably popular (but still popular) in Europe than in North America.
I wonder if mint 1 would have been a clue that MINE is the assassin.
DIAMOND is not too flexible a turn that I could see emerging groupthink that it may well refer to the singer. Note that he is considerably popular (but still popular) in Europe than in North America.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 07:11:32 am »
WITCH
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 06:44:25 am »On the other hand Australians robin were first confused with tit birds. So this possibly is Australia
not sure if you're pulling a leg. Seriously, sheep would have been much better a clue for AUSTRALIA and MILK.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 04:07:35 am »
MILK
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 23, 2015, 03:58:55 am »
Ouch, I was hoping for a penalty kick.
This could be the bird or the female organ. If the female breast is meant exclusively, he could have chosen a less colloquial term. Milk should be a safe bet, but then the animal hint is gone, and we're on our own for the second guess. Witches have tits. Would there be a more fitting clue for WITCH and MILK? Milk doesn't readily associate with Cauldron, for instance. So I would go for WITCH as a second guess, but I am feeling less comfortable than I thought I would.
This could be the bird or the female organ. If the female breast is meant exclusively, he could have chosen a less colloquial term. Milk should be a safe bet, but then the animal hint is gone, and we're on our own for the second guess. Witches have tits. Would there be a more fitting clue for WITCH and MILK? Milk doesn't readily associate with Cauldron, for instance. So I would go for WITCH as a second guess, but I am feeling less comfortable than I thought I would.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 22, 2015, 09:31:09 am »
We are one away of winning I believe as you started the game
I think you guys started with 8 and we started with 9
Indeed, we have two to go, one is left from animal, but I trust in our spymaster to give us a clue which unequivocally points to the other card and gives a hint towards the animal one.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 22, 2015, 09:28:59 am »Note is Blue.
Miles Davis is smiling down from heaven.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames V -- team play
« on: November 20, 2015, 08:10:10 pm »I think no need to risk, we can play it safe and pass
indeed, we should be able to finish next round