Codenames

numbermaniac

9:00 AM

didn't think of tap like that, nice

Gareth McCaughan

smartphones are developed in labs

numbermaniac

yep, go for it

Gareth McCaughan

some people are nuts about their smartphones

Wen1now

go with tap?

Gareth McCaughan

you can put a smartphone in a chest or a trunk

numbermaniac

9:00 AM

TAP

Tap is a blue word!

then palm?

@Sid okay with palm?

Should be fine, maybe..

Wen1now

maybe??

Gareth McCaughan

9:01 AM

don't forget that Captain Ahab had palms

You need to stop

go for it...

yeah, I know

palm

PALM

9:01 AM

Gareth is playing mind games, here..

Gareth McCaughan

just getting revenge for the endless pestering we had on our last turn

ffao

Palm is a blue word!

numbermaniac

:O

ffao

I'm finding Gareth's pestering really funny, myself :P

Wen1now

Keep thinking?

laser - pupil?

Sid

9:02 AM

Yeah, me too. Finding it really funny..

numbermaniac

You could use your pupils to look at your phone

Wen1now

because when you get your eye tested there's laser stuff hapening

I think

numbermaniac

True

Sid

Should we go for it? Could it be the assassin?

incesterror21

Assassins have eyes

Sid

9:03 AM

Maybe, it's not the assassin.

Whatever, let's go for Pupil..

numbermaniac

PUPIL

ffao

Pupil is a neutral word. :(

Sid

No problem..

Rubio

RED: Pregnancy test (2)

numbermaniac

Better than a red word

Wen1now

9:03 AM

or assassin

numbermaniac

Indeed

Gareth McCaughan

so surely lab

Wen1now

scoreboard update time!

incesterror21

Pregnant assassin

Gareth McCaughan

maybe chest, though that's not exactly where pregnancies happen :-)

numbermaniac

9:04 AM

Pregnancy tests obviously come out of phoenixes

wait

incesterror21

Chest changes during pregnancy

ffao

incesterror21

Chest could mean body sort of

Wen1now

How many are there of each colour?

Rubio

There are 3 remaining for red, 1 for blue

Gareth McCaughan

9:05 AM

we are so dead

Rubio

It started with 9 for red, 8 blue, 7 neutral, and 1 assassin

Gareth McCaughan

anyway, anyone got anything better than lab/chest?

incesterror21

We can guess lab and chest, then randomly pick the final one

Wen1now

Can ffao's clue be the word itself?

incesterror21

lab > chest

Gareth McCaughan

9:05 AM

LAB

@Wen1now no

ffao

no, it can't :(

Rubio

You cannot clue the word.

nor can your clue have any part of the word in it.

LAB is a RED word ✔

Gareth McCaughan

CHEST

incesterror21

You can say "land" even though there is "England" involved since "England" is a word on its own

Rubio

CHEST is a NEUTRAL word. :(

Gareth McCaughan

9:06 AM

damn it

Rubio

Red's turn ends.

Gareth McCaughan

I suppose rabbits have lots of babies

Wen1now

As long as we don't get asssassinated

incesterror21

I hope Rubio doesn't do pregnancy tests in a trunk

Sid

I am guessing that innocent rabbit is probably the assassin.

numbermaniac

9:07 AM

What did the rabbit ever do to you

so, clue?

BLUE: hoof, 1

HORSESHOE

Horseshoe is blue! Blue team wins!

incesterror21

9:08 AM

PHOENIX

numbermaniac

that was risky

Wen1now

Yay!

Rubio

that wasn't risky at all :)

Sid

YES!

Good job guys..

Gareth McCaughan

so @Rubio what were the other words you wanted us to get from Ahab and the pregnancy test?

numbermaniac

9:08 AM

Woo!

Rubio

Good try RED.

Sid

Which was the assassin?

Rubio

Ahab, two of you even sad, was a NUT

Wen1now

@GarethMcCaughan Chest?

ffao

Triangle and laser were both cluing WAVE, by the way

I think boboquack was the only one who caught on to that

numbermaniac

9:09 AM

Ohh yeah bermuda...wave...right

Rubio

and "the rabbit died" for old-school pregnancy tests is the 50s equivalent of a meme

Sid

Should have gotten wave, earlier..

Wen1now

laser and wave?

Oh, right!

Gareth McCaughan

"the rabbit died"? fair enough, but never heard anything like that before

incesterror21

Wavelength

Wen1now

9:09 AM

Okay, gtg

numbermaniac

laser, waves...yeah

lol

ffao

well, we won easier because you didn't get wave, so it sort of worked

Sid

Which was the assassin?

Rubio

FAIR

Wen1now

Cya waves

ffao

9:09 AM

assassin was fair

numbermaniac

rip rabbit

incesterror21

not fair

ffao

I guess no one even considered that word

Sid

Close to rabbit..

Anyway, I need to go for Lunch. Have a nice day. Folks.

Rubio

cya @sid, @Wen1now

Gareth McCaughan

9:10 AM

bye @Sid

ffao

bye sid, wen

Gareth McCaughan

bye @Wen1now

another game, or is that it?

incesterror21

I still have some minutes left

Rubio

who is still in?

incesterror21

People really should actively leave the room

numbermaniac

9:12 AM

closing the tab doesn't make you leave the room for some reason

ffao

I would be in

incesterror21

<<in

Rubio

we need a Game Hub room with pinned links to the other rooms ;)

ffao

not as spymaster again, please

that is too stressful

Rubio

@ffao You're pretty awesome as spymaster, by the way

numbermaniac

9:13 AM

I think i'll go do some work now but I might stick around/spectate, won't join in now though

incesterror21

I could be a spymaster if we get this over with in 30 min

numbermaniac

How long did that last game take?

Rubio

we finished one round in 23 minutes

this one here took about an hour

ffao

@Rubio ^_^ I liked your clues too, shame they didn't turn into as many words as you'd hoped

Rubio

an hour seems to be about par for 3/4 people per team.

(Yeah I wanted to scream when "Haunted" didn't get GHOST hehe)

numbermaniac

9:16 AM

I saw ghost immediately but was on the wrong team for that hehe

Rubio

I gave "London has fallen (3)" and got England and Bridge, but not "Trip" as hoped

incesterror21

So how do the multi-word clues work?

Rubio

Well, I've only seen me give them, but

if it makes sense contextually for what the clue is, then it's fair game

incesterror21

I musn't look up "London has fallen" so I could see London and Bridge. But Trip?

Rubio

"Back to Sherwood (3)" for example, is a return TRIP, to a FOREST, in ENGLAND

(think "have a nice trip, see you next fall" - it was tenuous, but meh)

incesterror21

9:18 AM

ah, so there's that dimension as well

Reading as an actual sentence

Good to know, Master

Rubio

I think you can use surface -

as those examples

or the actual meaning of the thing -

incesterror21

Yeh, where I'm from we only use single words

Rubio

as "Captain Ahab", who was a NUT over a WHALE, but you'd have to know who he is to know that

incesterror21

and the whale was a dick about it

Rubio

just a bit.

numbermaniac

9:20 AM

lol

incesterror21

Thinking of other clues for the last game

QUEEN = England, Ghost and Whale?

Seriously, the Sherwood think was very good

Rubio

how would you get to GHOST or WHALE from queen?

incesterror21

I was just joshing

numbermaniac

Maybe if they're fat then they could be called a whale

and a dead queen could be linked to ghost

incesterror21

And she's really old

Rubio

9:26 AM

I kinda treat it as - if you could clue a grid word with your hint in Contact, count it and hope your team gets 'em

if you're taking a second leap of indirection, it's probably too far to consider

incesterror21

Being spymaster can be a pain

Rubio

AHAB to ship captain to WAVE felt far enough to me to be safe, but apparently folks thought it was more solid a connection than I did :)

ffao

I think it was a toss-up between wave and nut at that point

unless you noticed that two of my earlier clues clued the word wave

I was really lucky that my team opted for shot over lab, too

guessing an opponent word really turns the game in their favor

Rubio

yeah, I had my fingers crossed on that one :)

I would have probably gone LAB over SHOT there, myself

incesterror21

Yes, I was just thinking the same

Wen1now

9:58 AM

Okay I'm back

n_palum

12:09 PM

\o

o/

~o~

>.> <.< >.> \o/

(that's one of Captain Ahab's sailors drowning beneath the waves after being a nut and going after the whale)

dcfyj

lol

More like looking around and then raising your arms :P

n_palum

12:18 PM

Haha

incesterror21

12:30 PM

Hello <|:^)

GaMen

So who's in?

o?

Oh, it's this game. Haven't tried it yet, seemed fun

incesterror21

You get a hint and a number, for example, water 3

And have to link it to 3 words on a grid

Gareth McCaughan

12:40 PM

you play in a team, so you get to confuse one another and make mistakes you wouldn't make playing on your own

er, sorry, I mean you play in a team, so you get to cooperate on figuring out how to interpret the hint

incesterror21

He means, don't team up with him

Sp3000

Reading through the transcript to get a rules refresher, I think I get the idea

incesterror21

You can choose to be on the team that goes second

dcfyj

Sorry, I was reading the first game they played :P

incesterror21

Whalenuts

dcfyj

12:41 PM

(Never played but I know how to play from the discussion I had with Deus yesterday)

n_palum

It's pretty straightforward

incesterror21

Who is master?

dcfyj

I can

n_palum

Looks like about 5 of us atm, a 6th would be ideal

incesterror21

I can step back

I have to leave in about 30 mins anyway

n_palum

12:43 PM

More is better

dcfyj

Uneven teams aren't the end of the world anyhow

@n_palum well of course :P

incesterror21

Go have fun kids, don't take sweets from strangers

dcfyj

lol, pretty sure I'm older than you

incesterror21

Your avatar says 9, my username 21

n_palum

@GarethMcCaughan and @Sp3000 You want to try a round?

Sp3000

12:44 PM

Sure

Gareth McCaughan

sure

dcfyj

Yes, because that's exactly how age is determined >.<

Gareth McCaughan

(@n_palum do you mean do we want to play or do we want to be spymasters?)

incesterror21

@dcfyj The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.

n_palum

Just to poke and see if @Rubio @ffao and @Deusovi are around somewhere

Asking if you want to play, but you can also be spymasters if you want

dcfyj

12:45 PM

I don't think they're on yet

Gareth McCaughan

mild preference for not being spymaster here

dcfyj

mild preference for being spymaster here

:P

incesterror21

Preference for getting this thing started

Sp3000

Ditto Gareth

dcfyj

I'll be blue master. Who's up for red?

incesterror21

12:49 PM

I could do it if no one else wants to

n_palum

If neither of you want it, I can do red

Go for it terror

dcfyj

That's mine :P

Now we just need to agree on a seed and teams

Gareth McCaughan

I was red last time so will be blue this time. Because obviously it makes all the difference.

incesterror21

@n_palum I suggest you do it bcs I might have to leave

Gareth McCaughan

incidentally @n_palum I'm pretty sure it parses as incest/error rather than inces/terror. Unfortunately.

Sp3000

12:51 PM

I pick not being on Gareth's team, because I totally have a choice :P

n_palum

dc you wanna pull a random number or should I

dcfyj

go for it

incesterror21

12!

Gareth McCaughan

@incesterror which team are you going to be on?

incesterror21

@GarethMcCaughan Put me in which ever team you want

I think we have 3 2 newbies so they should probably be on different teams

n_palum

12:53 PM

@dcfyj 6318607

Gareth McCaughan

ok, you go in Team Red so it's not all newbies

(they're clever people, they'll be fine)

Team Blue: dcfyj*, Gareth McCaughan

dcfyj

ok

Gareth McCaughan

Team Red: n_palum*, Sp3000, incesterror21, Rubio

Sp3000

waves to Mith

Gareth McCaughan

@Mithrandir want to play?

Mithrandir

12:54 PM

erm, no, I'll just watch this round

incesterror21

Team Blue: dcfyj*, Gareth McCaughan, Mithrandir

No choice, your name is already on the board

Gareth McCaughan

@Mithrandir looks like it's too late. (But you don't have to participate actively if you don't want to.)

dcfyj

(on the phone at the moment)

n_palum

Oh my

that'll be tricky

dcfyj

?

doesn't look too bad for me :P

incesterror21

12:57 PM

Who's first?

Yes

dcfyj

red is

n_palum

Oh yeah we have the 9

Setting up puush so I can send the screen shots

incesterror21

There's a coloured line on the left side

dcfyj

@incesterror21 no cheating, now :P

incesterror21

You must think bad of me. Clever

n_palum

12:59 PM

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