The Sphinx's Lair

Sp3000

04:00

:P +1

Rubio

cheap electronics [7]

stacksfiller

A word I can see right now, not on the screen

Sp3000

Probably wrong, but going to say Contact for Rubio

... oh wait nvm I take that back

Contact for stack

stacksfiller

Ooh

Deusovi

Nope, not rewind.

stacksfiller

04:03

Nope

Deusovi

Hm, I don't know. Sp, go for it

Sp3000

RETURN?

stacksfiller

Yeah!

Deusovi

Oh duh!

Sp3000

My keyboard only has "Enter" though :P

Rubio

04:05

lol :)

Deusovi

I was looking at my keyboard but mine uses "enter", not "return"

stacksfiller

Yeah mine actually has "enter" too

Sp3000

Well isn't that amusing :P

Deusovi

Anyway, third letter is S.

stacksfiller

But I figured there were Australia people here, so the clue might work

Rubio

04:05

what'd you think mine was @Sp3000 - it's busted now

ends Jan 2?

Sp3000

o/ Australian here

I was going to say RESISTORS but it didn't fit the letter count

stacksfiller

Oh, what

Sp3000

fyi "Dancer, say" was REINDEER

Rubio

ah. it was REFURBS. pretty bad.

Deusovi

@Sp3000 Ah, clever.

stacksfiller

04:06

Well I don't really know which keyboards have RETURN on them then, but whatever works

Sp3000

And "PET -> ??? (9)" was a bad one for RECYCLING

stacksfiller

I still don't get it?

Deusovi

Neither do I.

Sp3000

It was a very removed word association involving PET bottles (probably one of the few times I see PET in uppercase)

Deusovi

PET bottles?

Sp3000

04:08

Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_bottle_recycling

Ankoganit

Uhh can anyone tell me what's going on here??

Sp3000

% result

Deusovi

@Ankoganit It's a game called Contact.

No, it's not remainder

stacksfiller

A place where people wait?

It's R E S Deusovi

Sp3000

Remainder doesn't have third letter S :P

Rubio

04:09

contact stack

Deusovi

It's not result either

wait

...I'm tired

Sp3000

Also nope

Deusovi

I'm the "defender". I have a word and I've given them the first three letters now. They have to 'attack' by giving me clues to words.

Ankoganit

ohh

sounds cool

Deusovi

If I figure out the clue, I'll either say "no, it's not ___" or "yes, it's ___".

But if I don't figure it out, the other attackers have the option to say "Contact". If I give up and the contacter guesses it right, I have to give them another letter.

Ankoganit

04:10

I guess I'll watch for a while to get the hang of it

Deusovi

So their goal is to give me clues that I don't figure out, but other attackers do.

@stacksfiller No, it's not rest stop

stacksfiller

Nope

Deusovi

@Sp3000 No, it's not residue

stacksfiller

Nope?

Sp3000

Yeah that's the one :P

stacksfiller

04:11

Oh wait that's not mine

Haha, I was wondering how you got residue

Sp3000

I still have no idea for stack's tbh

Dunno how Rubio got it so fast :P

Rubio

nobody had any idea for mine?

Deusovi

Stacks, it's not a restaurant

(Good clue though!)

Rubio

yah i liked that one

Sp3000

Oh, contact for Rubio

stacksfiller

04:12

Restaurant is right

Sp3000

Ah wait, nice

Deusovi

Not sure for Rubio's. Sp?

Sp3000

RESOLUTION?

Rubio

+1

stacksfiller

Oh haha

Funny

Deusovi

04:13

Ha.

Rubio

:)

Deusovi

Okay, that was funny.

Fourth letter is I. So now you have RESI

Rubio

Futile

stacksfiller

Contact

Deusovi

No, it's not resistance.

Sp3000

04:13

Contact, but I think Deus will get it

Rubio

yeah

stacksfiller

sin(sin(x))

Deusovi

No, it's not resign.

stacksfiller

Yup

Sp3000

Gum

Deusovi

04:14

It's still not residue. (Probably wrong, but whatever.)

Sp3000

Yeah not residue

Rubio

hmm

sort of evil

stacksfiller

Contact?

Rubio

no idea on sp's

Deusovi

Go for it, Stacks

stacksfiller

04:17

RESIDENT

Rubio

+1

Deusovi

Ah, nice one.

stacksfiller

At first was thinking Re-sin

Sp3000

Re-sin is mine :P

Rubio

oh. that works for sp's

lol

stacksfiller

04:18

Oooh

Deusovi

Fifth letter is S. It should be pretty easy by now.

Rubio

defy

Deusovi

No, it's not resist.

Rubio

had to ask

stacksfiller

defyor

Deusovi

04:18

Yep! It's resistor.

Sp3000

Nice :P

Rubio

man. I skirted all around that one huh.

Deusovi

Yeah, I wasn't sure whether I should stop the game when Sp mentioned "resistors"

Sp3000

It technically wasn't a guess, so continuing was probably fine?

Deusovi

Right, that's what I was thinking

Rubio

04:20

Lol. I feel a little bad for whoever hasn't been in here todaynight and comes back to 1500 unread messages in TSL

Ankoganit

"Your last message is waaay too far back; please use the transcript instead."

Rubio

@Ankoganit You broke TSL. ;)

Ankoganit

hehe

Rubio

@stacksfiller you dreaming up a doozy of a word?

stacksfiller

Oh, I didn't realize I was starting

Rubio

04:33

Yup. You got the last one :)

stacksfiller

Ok one sec

Volatility

Ooh, new chat game?

Rubio

Yah. Contact, with some house rules for chatroom play

quora.com/How-do-you-play-the-word-game-Contact

stacksfiller

Okay, it starts with a C

Sp3000

Welsh valley

Rubio

04:35

contact

stacksfiller

That was fast

No idea

Deusovi

Contact

stacksfiller

You can go

Rubio

cwm

Sp3000

Yup

Volatility

04:36

gotta love them Welsh

stacksfiller

Oh, makes sense why wordplayers know about it then

Second letter's O

C O

Deusovi

This

Rubio

Penny

Sp3000

Contact for both

stacksfiller

Contact

For Deusovi

Coin

For Rubio

Deusovi

04:37

Thris

Rubio

-1

stacksfiller

Contract

Copper?

Deusovi

yep :P

Rubio

+1

Sp3000

Hah thris

Rubio

04:37

that's good deus :)

Deusovi

It was easy, but too funny to pass up

Volatility

btw @Sp3000, I posted an answer to your new page puzzle

Rubio

b00b00

Sp3000

@Volatility Perfect answer :)

Rubio

no? really? heh

i thought that was going to be super easy hehe

Deusovi

04:41

Contact, Rubio

stacksfiller

I don't know

Go for it

Deusovi

color?

stacksfiller

Ohh

Yeah

Probably that

@Rubio

Rubio

+1

stacksfiller

Okay, the third letter is N

C O N

Rubio

04:42

couldn't type for a sec heh

Deusovi

Only

Sp3000

Hmm I have a thought but not sure

stacksfiller

Conditional?

Or Contingent maybe?

Deusovi

Nope

Ankoganit

contact

(i can join, right?)

stacksfiller

04:44

Con?

Deusovi

(Sure!)

Nope

Ankoganit

(great)

stacksfiller

Haha, that would have been a funny clue for Con though

Okay, go for it

Ankoganit

Connect?

Deusovi

Bingo!

stacksfiller

04:45

Connect?

Sp3000

Ah nice, my guess was CONSOLE

Rubio

I don't get it hehe

stacksfiller

Same

Ankoganit

Only connect the game

Deusovi

Only Connect, a British gameshow

Sp3000

04:45

Only Connect is a game show I think

Deusovi

featured several times on this website

Rubio

oh lol. No wonder.

stacksfiller

Oh, ok

I'm not getting any!

The fourth letter is T

Rubio

remote

stacksfiller

Control

Ankoganit

04:46

contact

Rubio

+1

Ankoganit

ah ninjad

Sp3000

Antarctica

Ankoganit

contact

stacksfiller

Continent

Sp3000

04:47

Yeah that :P

Deusovi

Breakfast

Sp3000

Contact

Ankoganit

contact

stacksfiller

Continental

Deusovi

yep

Rubio

04:47

it's in a web site

Volatility

Pill?

Sp3000

CV -> ?? -> ??

Rubio

oh my. hehe

Deusovi

Contact, SP

(nice clue!)

stacksfiller

Contact for Rubio

No idea for SP

You can go ahead on that one

Deusovi

04:48

Continue

Sp3000

:D

stacksfiller

Can you explain?

Deusovi

CV = résumé

Rubio

mine is not contact

Deusovi

resume = continue

Ankoganit

04:49

ohhh

nice

stacksfiller

Oh

Volatility

ha

stacksfiller

OK, fifth letter is A

C O N T A

Sp3000

hi fives Deus

Deusovi

hi fives back

Rubio

04:49

lens

Ankoganit

contact

Volatility

lol Rubio

stacksfiller

Contact again

Deusovi

ha

Rubio

the last time wasn't contact :)

stacksfiller

04:50

What was it, if it was invalidated?

Rubio

content.

Volatility

As?

stacksfiller

Ah

Sid

Err.. What's going on?

stacksfiller

Contarsenic

Deusovi

04:51

Boxing?

@Sid A game called Contact

stacksfiller

Containing

Sp3000

Contact for Deus

nvm

Rubio

Hold

stacksfiller

Contain?

Ankoganit

contact

Volatility

04:51

@stacksfiller no

Rubio

+1

Deusovi

Yeah, Stacks

Sid

Um, Rules?

Rubio

quora.com/How-do-you-play-the-word-game-Contact

Deusovi

42 mins ago, by Deusovi

I'm the "defender". I have a word and I've given them the first three letters now. They have to 'attack' by giving me clues to words.

Rubio

04:52

with some house rules for chatroom play

Deusovi

(see the message under that too)

Volatility

Laughing

Deusovi

(but now stacks is the defender)

stacksfiller

That's it

Volatility, you've got my word

Volatility

Contagious?

stacksfiller

04:53

Yeah

Deusovi

Nice!

Sp3000

Nice :)

Rubio

Very nice

Sid

So, these are crossword clues?

Deusovi

No

Well, sometimes

they're just things that make you think of a word

They have to be specific enough so that the other attackers get it, but vague enough so the defender doesn't

Volatility

04:54

Ok, mine starts with M

Rubio

M is for

Ankoganit

Ofc MINE starts with M

:P

Volatility

@Ankoganit ha

Deusovi

Contact

Ankoganit

@Rubio contact

Volatility

04:54

@Rubio Mary

Rubio

-1

Sp3000

How on earth are you guys getting this XD

Volatility

wait, so do I have to say when contact can occur?

Deusovi

Yeah, you have to give up before we can contact

Volatility

oh I see

Sp3000

04:56

(Hmm I think I might have it but will refrain since I'm probably wrong)

Rubio

chatroom house rule - when you give up, "contact'ers go, so yeah

Volatility

Magenta?

Rubio

-1

Volatility

yeah, you can go

Deusovi

Martin

Rubio

04:57

this is a crap clue, I apologize, but it leapt to mind. :)

-1

Deusovi

what?

D:

Volatility

lol

Sp3000

I was going to guess MISFORM, but I didn't Contact

Ankoganit

wait what

Rubio

"too broad" clearly.

biblio.com/m-is-for-murder-by-grafton-sue/work/1536078

Ankoganit

04:57

dunno then

Rubio

sorry, that's what jumped to mind for me

Volatility

oh

Deusovi

32

A: What is MOehm trying to tell us?

If you you get which means Giving the real name

Sp3000

All stations to

Rubio

oh. man. that would have been good. lol

Volatility

04:58

Middle?

Sp3000

Nope

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