Wow, that was a close one. I was worried because Egor's clues were very elaborate. I thought for sure that Blue was done for with the final clue, but that's because from my vantage, I could easily see that he was going for LINK. Of course, when you don't know the colors of the words, it's not as obvious. So we lucked out there.
Looking back, I see how dreadfully close I was to dooming our team. I didn't even think about the bear market in terms of investing. So, 50/50 shot of losing the game early. Good choice, blue.
I wanted to start off ambitious with "poke" to reference DRILL, STICK, and ROCK (admittedly a stretch). But I was certain that someone would pick up on "poke the bear" and end the game.
I thought the team format worked out. There were thought processes that I had not considered that my teammate did. But as we've seen, it was possible to go too far and reverse yourselves. This is an inherent danger in team games like this. I saw it at my in-laws' house last weekend when I introduced the game. Of course it's easier to maintain a poker face online if someone strays. It's more effort to not betray your thoughts when you hear your teammates talk about the assassin word (my cousin-in-law did admirably when her team decided to pick DEATH, which was the assassin word).
Good game. That was really quite close. I knew that if blue couldn't get the last two words then red would swoop in with Connection or some other synonym.