Codenames

n_palum

2:00 PM

Woo

Rubio

and pass. :)

n_palum

PASS

Rubio

[PASSING]

(there actually is "PASS" on some grids, so using that isn't a great idea)

Sp3000

Gareth McCaughan

(I write it in lowercase and guesses in all-caps)

dcfyj

2:00 PM

Put it in [] like you did then

Gareth McCaughan

right @Sconibulus, hit us with it

n_palum

Gotcha

dcfyj

"Hit [us] with your best shot!"

Sconibulus

hmm

Accessories (2)

dcfyj

cap and belt?

Gareth McCaughan

2:03 PM

belt for sure. not certain whether a cap is an accessory

other candidates include tablet and maybe even whip

dcfyj

possibly jack, although that's more tenuous. I was thinking cap as in baseball cap.

n_palum

I wear rocks as accessories

dcfyj

good for belt though?

Gareth McCaughan

if belt and cap, why not clue with "clothes"?

pretty sure belt should be good

dcfyj

BELT

Rubio

2:04 PM

I always accessorize with snowmen, personally

Gareth McCaughan

oh, perhaps not clothes because we might have guessed button

dcfyj

true

n_palum

Button's are accessories to the shirt

dcfyj

verdict on belt?

@Sconibulus @Sp3000?

Sp3000

BELT is blue

dcfyj

2:05 PM

I think cap is a pretty strong link, what's your thoughts on it?

Gareth McCaughan

I think cap probably is the most likely other accessory. n_palum, despite being a traitorous opponent, isn't actually wrong that button could conceivably be an accessor.

I think we guess cap and see what happens. I'm not super-confident about it, though.

n_palum

I'm a good guy, what can I say

dcfyj

I think cap is better than button though

ok

CAP

Sp3000

CAP is blue

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum I'm pretty sure your religion officially forbids you to make that claim

dcfyj

2:06 PM

I'm good for passing then

Gareth McCaughan

pass

n_palum

@GarethMcCaughan Uhh.. erhmm

Sp3000

Gareth McCaughan

so each team has 6 to get now

n_palum

I guess so

dcfyj

2:07 PM

yup

Sp3000

FIELD (2)

n_palum

Oh geez

dcfyj

A lot of people TRIP in fields

Rubio

play, perhaps mount

there are also field agents

n_palum

Well you can play in a field, find rocks in a field, make snowmen in a field,

Rubio

2:08 PM

and field trips

Gareth McCaughan

I can see too many genuinely plausible fields

(not messing with you, I really can)

Rubio

VTD: too broad

n_palum

@_@ you sure you didn't mean field (6)

dcfyj

Yeah, me too. I was joking when I said trip, but field trip is perfectly viable lol

Gareth McCaughan

yeah, I was kinda cross when I saw you posted that :-)

Sconibulus

2:09 PM

Fields of Dreams

n_palum

Hm. @Rubio I think Sp probably wants literally field __ words, so Agent/Trip look best to me atm

dcfyj

JACKrabbits are in fields :P

agreed

Those two then?

trip, then agent

2:10 PM

TRIP

TRIP is red

AGENT

AGENT is red

woot.

Not comfortable with anymore

Rubio

2:11 PM

no need, we'd be blindly guessing. pass.

n_palum

[Passing]

Sp3000

dcfyj

Oh distracted @Sconibulus, tis your turn once more.

Sconibulus

SEASON (2)

dcfyj

fall and srping seem rather obvious

Gareth McCaughan

2:13 PM

unless @Sconibulus is completely on crack, it's gotta be those

dcfyj

spring*

agreed?

n_palum

You never know

Could be season, like season my drink with some Jack

Rubio

don't forget SNOWMAN season

Gareth McCaughan

definitely. either order.

dcfyj

FALL

Sconibulus

2:14 PM

FALL is BLUE

dcfyj

SPRING

Sconibulus

SPRING is BLUE

Gareth McCaughan

at this point I will remark that Springfield is a super-common US place name and made famous by The Simpsons.

dcfyj

Pretty sure we're not missing any older clues... so pass?

Gareth McCaughan

I didn't point it out for confusion's sake last turn because I thought there was a real chance it was intended by Red.

Rubio

2:15 PM

heh.

Sp3000

Springfield is indeed a very good point and I am sad I missed that :/

dcfyj

@GarethMcCaughan That would've been nice/entertaining

Rubio

is there a "VTD: way too broad" option?

Sp3000

(and also that gave me a lot less thinking time than I'd hoped)

Gareth McCaughan

Only reason for not passing would be if we think e.g. SNOWMAN has to be safe because it's too close to being seasonal. But I don't think that's enough reason to guess it.

pass

4 to guess for each side

dcfyj

2:16 PM

being "too close to seasonal" doesn't mean it's safe, or blue.

Gareth McCaughan

@dcfyj it means that if it were red then Sconibulus might have avoided using "season" as a clue lest we pick it

dcfyj

I know I completely missed cotton last game, so it's possible someone else could do it too

Gareth McCaughan

but it's rather weak evidence because fall and spring are so very obvious

dcfyj

@GarethMcCaughan I would hope so, but that doesn't make it true lol

anyhow, sp's turn

Sp3000

Yeah, this is harder than I thought and SEASON went by really fast :P

Gareth McCaughan

2:18 PM

as you grow older you will find that they increasingly do

dcfyj

I was thinking on the other teams turn last time, that helps a bit

lol

n_palum

@GarethMcCaughan Don't remind me that my life is exponentially increasing in speed

dcfyj

@GarethMcCaughan Yeah, 2 years went flying by after I got married, had a blast ^^

Haven't really had a slow feeling time in quite a while actually

Sp3000

ITALY (1)

... I'm sorry :/

dcfyj

The answer for that is clearly INDIA :P

Rubio

2:21 PM

so @n_palum - india, right? ;)

manshu

What is this room for?

Gareth McCaughan

There are many mountains in Italy.

n_palum

Haha I actually thought of that a bit, and then saw Rome

dcfyj

Another game

Gareth McCaughan

@manshu For playing a game called Codenames

dcfyj

2:22 PM

@GarethMcCaughan They used to be very rich with gold too

Gareth McCaughan

See CODENAMES RULES comment pinned near top right

manshu

Yay.

How to play?

dcfyj

14 secs ago, by Gareth McCaughan

See CODENAMES RULES comment pinned near top right

:P

Rubio

so then

ROME

n_palum

Haha that's a given

Sp3000

2:22 PM

ROME is red

Gareth McCaughan

An astonishing feat of deduction.

dcfyj

lol

Rubio

This is my proudest moment.

Sp3000

dcfyj

I think sp3k might be in the same situation I was

n_palum

2:23 PM

We share this proud moment

Rubio

[PASSING]

Gareth McCaughan

we need 4, they need 3.

n_palum

Do we guess Princess for Italian princess e.g mario and peach ;P

dcfyj

Wanting to clue something but not doing it being of the opposing team's words :P

Gareth McCaughan

@dcfyj yup. But note that they might instead just be neutral words

Sconibulus

2:24 PM

COLLISION (2)

dcfyj

Oh, I know

Gareth McCaughan

so we shouldn't go guessing things just because they would have made good pairs with Rome.

hmm

manshu

It's clearly more complex than Contact.

dcfyj

rock comes to mind

Gareth McCaughan

yes, rock was the first thing to occur to me. But what else? (Maybe something that would naturally collide with a rock :-).)

dcfyj

2:25 PM

Perhaps press or whip...

n_palum

Press a play button with your finger = collision

dcfyj

spine is at least somewhat viable

@n_palum I had thought of that already

Gareth McCaughan

once again, although @n_palum is the enemy, something gaming-related is not impossible.

dcfyj

heck, even tablet is viable, Thank Moses for that one

n_palum

That could also be a radio or tv remote, not everything I say has to do with a game

dcfyj

2:26 PM

We both agree on rock though?

Rubio

I immediately thought of GOLD, because I like to smash large gold bricks together when I need something to occupy my hands

@n_palum you sure?

Kind of sure

hehe

yeah, I think so, though I don't have any super-clear explanation for why it's right which bothers me.

ROCK

n_palum

2:26 PM

Me too Rubio

Sconibulus

ROCK is YELLOW

Gareth McCaughan

bollocks

dcfyj

oh well

better than red or black

Sconibulus

sorry, my bad

Gareth McCaughan

well, never mind, we know for next time that we need to find two plausible things for collisoin

*collision

and we recovered OK from a similar situation last time

Sp3000

2:28 PM

dcfyj

that unlimited clue did wonders

Gareth McCaughan

let's hope ROCK wasn't the thing that was getting in the way of Sp3000 making a convincing multi-word clue

dcfyj

(and there was a ton of luck there lol)

lol yeah

n_palum

Let's hope it was

dcfyj

no, definitely not

hmm, I wonder if I'm thinking correctly for black's location...

Sp3000

2:29 PM

I swear I should be able to convincingly multi-word, but nothing's coming to me

Trying not to hold the game up too much though

Rubio

10 hours ago, by Deusovi

@Rubio Either a single word, a dictionary phrase ("ice cream" is okay, but not "red fruit"), or a proper noun ("New York", "Sharknado", "Pride and Prejudice")

^^ if that helps any

dcfyj

hmm, didn't know dictionary phrases were valid

Sp3000

... MEDIA (1)

I feel like this is pretty disappointing, but I'm actually struggling :(

Rubio

hm

@n_palum best one I see is play

dcfyj

I recall seeing the food TRIANGLE on media

n_palum

2:36 PM

Hm

I like Press better than play

As in the reporters and such

Rubio

(yeah I was kidding. ;)

go with press please.

dcfyj

but it's clearly GOLD!

PRESS

PRESS is red

PRESS is RED

2:38 PM

too bad, would have been nice to make a joke about the yellow press

dcfyj

lol

Rubio

we've still got nothing helpful to use to try to squeeze out another guess, so - pass

Sp3000

dcfyj

I would find it amusing for gold to be yellow

Gareth McCaughan

right @Sconibulus...

dcfyj

2:39 PM

Give us a good clue @Sconibulus :) (once they finish passing)

[Passing]

INLET(Unlimited)

uh...

How does the unlimited thing work?

Gareth McCaughan

inlet??

dcfyj

2:40 PM

guess however many you like

Gareth McCaughan

is @Sconibulus looking at the same grid as us? :-)

dcfyj

but it doesn't let you know how many it relates to

lol, no idea

Gareth McCaughan

so, we have collision (2) and inlet (who knows how many?)

dcfyj

yeah...

n_palum

I would've said Spring would work if it was still up

Gareth McCaughan

2:41 PM

but I have to confess I'm not sure I see anything on the board that seems to connect much with either.

perhaps a jack is an inlet, kinda

or is the jack the bit that plugs into the socket? in that case it would be the wrong way around

dcfyj

I have no idea lol. I sort of think mount, but that's incredibly tenuous

jack = inlet would make sense, a jack goes into the outlet afterall

but that's a bit tenuous

Gareth McCaughan

several of the words contain IN but I think tying that to INLET is way too tenuous and in any case I think the links are supposed to be semantic rather than syntactic

any more ideas about "collision"?

dcfyj

Just spine and button really

Maybe string

Gareth McCaughan

why spine and button?

dcfyj

and whip and tablet are somewhat viable

Gareth McCaughan

2:44 PM

incidentally I need to leave some time in the next 5-10 minutes

dcfyj

I'm thinking spine fracture from a collision (cars) and a button being pressed on a remote

Gareth McCaughan

aarggh

n_palum

@GarethMcCaughan Gotta leave the office? :P

dcfyj

string is pretty tenuous, but guitar. whip colliding with its target, and a tablet being thrown down colliding with the ground

Sid

CEO is right behind you, eh, @Gareth? :P

dcfyj

2:45 PM

want to try whip?

Gareth McCaughan

as well as real-world collisions, there are collisions in computer games (collision detection is a thing, for which there are nontrivial algorithms), and hash collisions in crypto. Neither of which is terribly suggestive.

I think the thing I find least probably-wrong is JACK for inlet (though I'm no more than 50% confident about that one)

dcfyj

Honestly I think we're screwed lol

Rubio

PRINCESSes are in Mario, which has collision detection. Illuminati Confirmed!

Gareth McCaughan

maybe we need to stop looking for rational justifications for things and Use The Force.

dcfyj

heh, good luck with that

Gareth McCaughan

2:46 PM

anyway. my vote is that first of all we try JACK and see what happens

Mithrandir

Use the Force, Luke...

sure JACK

JACK is YELLOW :(

JACK is yellow

rats

2:47 PM

well, not red/black lol

n_palum

Take us home sp

Sp3000

TOBLERONE (2)

Gareth McCaughan

good news is that once again Sp3000 is facing a board that makes it difficult to find plausible multi-word clues

ah

Rubio

triangle and uhh

dcfyj

Although I guess India might have some inlets...

@Sp3000 What the heck is that?

n_palum

2:48 PM

Hmm. I like triangle.

Rubio

isn't all the packaging gold?

n_palum

Maybe Gold? The wrapper color is vaguely gold no?

Rubio

yeah let's try those

n_palum

Ha! Do it. Same thought, must be right

Rubio

tri first

dcfyj

2:49 PM

It must be snowman! they have triangles

TRIANGLE

TRIANGLE is red

GOLD

GOLD is red

:(

2:50 PM

Congrats Red

Sorry Blue, my fault

Gareth McCaughan

huh. I'd have guessed TRIANGLE and MOUNT for Toblerone.

Sconibulus

Collision was a dumb word, I regretted it as soon as I said it, it should have been WHIPLASH

Rubio

you could have done "latinum", as Gold Pressed Latinum is very much a thing ;)

Sp3000

dcfyj

I'm guessing inlet(india) collision (india, spine)

Sp3000

2:50 PM

I have no idea what latinum was :P

Gareth McCaughan

couldn't have said WHIPLASH

because it contains WHIP

dcfyj

never seen that

n_palum

couple tricky words

Sp3000

The fun part was PRESS with the presence of a grey BUTTON and yellow PLAY

Sconibulus

INLET was Supposed to be IN(-DIA)(-TAB)LET

Sid

2:51 PM

You flirted dangerously with BUTTON though..

Gareth McCaughan

ah, INLET is pretty clever. But I'm not sure it's really in the spirit of the game.

dcfyj

@Sconibulus :S

Sconibulus

didn't Deus use the word as a word for the last one last night?

or am I misremembering

Gareth McCaughan

Don't the official rules say something about connections being meant to be about meaning rather than letters, or something like that?

@Sconibulus if he did, then I'm pretty sure he cheated

Rubio

you can't use the word as your clue, or as any part of it

Gareth McCaughan

2:52 PM

anyway, I have to go and pick up my car from servicing. Have fun, all.

(gone)

Rubio

You can use words that have already been flipped, though - they are no longer relevant for any purpose

seeya @GarethMcCaughan

dcfyj

Yeah, I'm probably done for now, I may get back on later

Sp3000

waves bye to Gareth

Rubio

I also am out for a bit

Sp3000

That was fun, but I apologise for taking a while. Does anyone have good multi-clue thoughts for ROME/TRIANGLE/PRESS/GOLD? :D

n_palum

2:53 PM

I'll be away for a bit - if people ping I'll be around

Sp3000

(apart from latinum)

... oh it's Star Trek. Now that makes a lot more sense

That would have been good indeed

dcfyj

Coliseum might work for rome/gold

anyhow, later

Sconibulus

have fun, sorry I was bad

Sp3000

No worries - to be honest I looked at yours and couldn't come up with good multi-word clues either

Sconibulus

ROME TRIANGLE could be TRIARII? It doesn't actually say Triangle, but there isn't much else it could be

PRESS GOLD could then be LEAF?

Sp3000

2:58 PM

I really want to do gold leaf yeah, but LEAF on its own seemed too hard for the PRESS part of it

Sconibulus

Colisseum may have gotten ROME and WHIP

n_palum

Dunno if I would have gotten more than rome from that

Sp3000

I considered IRON at one stage for GOLD/PRESS, but IRON <-> GOLD seemed a bit loose (and was prone to other connections)

I'm trying to think of something witty for INDIAna Jones here but it ain't working :P (without using the word Indiana of course)

... probably too loose anyway, nvm

Sconibulus

IRON is probably most likely to connect ROCK or MOUNTAIN

Sp3000

Yeah the part that surprised me was I hadn't thought of MOUNT as MOUNTAIN until someone mentioned it - but ROCK at least is definitely plausible

Sconibulus

3:05 PM

If BUTTON was red or yellow instead of black, my first move might have been ACCESORIES(4), which looked like it might have worked based on the discussion

n_palum

It's tricky

But compared to the two boards I have run, yours was harder

Sp3000

I wish BUTTON was red too :P

Sid

3:34 PM

is anyone interested for a game?

n_palum

I'm vaguely about

Sid

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