Contact

Rand al'Thor

23:00

@TheGreatEscaper Yes, but we have to wait for Rubio to give up first.

Volatility

Rubio (or whoever the defender is) can guess what your clue refers to, but if he/she gives us, anybody else can go

Rubio

@TheGreatEscaper Bin

(and then you can +1 or -1 or your personal equivalent to indicate if I'm right with my guess at your clue)

Rand al'Thor

Supporter with different vowel arguing

TheGreatEscaper

Con infiltrates structure without you

Rand al'Thor

Was @the "bin" right?

TheGreatEscaper

23:05

Yup

Wait does bad stuff happen if the defender gets it

Or does just nothing happen

Rubio

Nothing happens

Rand al'Thor

The only "bad stuff" is if the defender doesn't get it and someone else does.

Rubio

The only things that change game state is: Someone(s) say "contact", I give up on the clue, and the contacter(s) get it right

Rand al'Thor

Bad for the defender, that is: they have to give away another letter.

Rubio

Or, if someone's guess resolves to my word, at which point they win.

Rand al'Thor

23:07

Oh btw, my first one was invalidated. Any ideas, or shall I give it away?

25 mins ago, by Rand al'Thor

Are you dissing it or hitting it?

TheGreatEscaper

Hang on, do all our clues need to start with BI now

Rubio

yes

Rand al'Thor

@TheGreatEscaper Yes.

TheGreatEscaper

Mine still works, I'm just trying to clarify

Ok cool

Rand al'Thor

Which is what I mean by saying my first one was invalidated: it begins with B but not BI.

Rubio

23:09

@rand I'm just going to blindly guess BITCH(ING) with no defense for it

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio Nope.

Rubio

ok then. :)

Your earlier one I got nothin'

Rand al'Thor

It doesn't start with BI, remember :-)

Rubio

No, I meant your current one

Rand al'Thor

Oh, sorry.

Well, that's not BITCH(ING) either.

I'll tell you the earlier one: it's BASHING.

Rubio

23:11

Wow. Nice.

TheGreatEscaper

@Rand CONTACT

Rubio

That needs to find its way into a cryptic. :)

Rand al'Thor

:-D

Volatility

partial

boboquack

Has ⁻¹

Rand al'Thor

23:12

@Vol Contact (maybe?)

TheGreatEscaper

@Vol CONTACT

Rand al'Thor

@bobo, you're back!

TheGreatEscaper

Woohoo

boboquack

Hi!

Rand al'Thor

Lo!

Any ideas, @Rubio, or should the contacting commence?

Rubio

23:14

@Volatility Bit

Volatility

-1

Rubio

ok passing on @rand's

boboquack

Oh, mine's a duplicate

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio Go for it, @The.

boboquack

#2 2 loops

Volatility

23:16

@boboquack there's nothing saying you can't clue a word that's already been clued

boboquack

Alright.

Rubio

Yeah - there's two goals in the game - 1 is to post clues you think your fellow players can get that I can't, to get more letters; and 2 is to actually guess my word

boboquack

Both stand then

Rubio

duplicate words as guesses don't give any headway toward objective 2, but can toward 1

anyway - @bobo #1 bin, or bijection. :)

boboquack

+1

Rand al'Thor

23:19

@Rubio Aww, that's cheating :-P

Rubio

:)

Turnabout's fair play hehe

Rand al'Thor

Also, @bob, an injection has an inverse too, at least on its image.

boboquack

@Randal'Thor Then it's not a true inversion on the codomain

Rubio

In the interest of fair play, I honestly am way past the point where bijection, surjection, injection, inversion, or any of that ilk have any meaning to me anymore

Rand al'Thor

@boboquack Only if you take that set to be part of the definition of the function. All you really need for a function is a domain and a definition of the map.

boboquack

23:22

Anyway... @The, you said you had rand's ...

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio You'll hate this riddle then :-)

Rubio

Oh dear God.

I recognized some of the words in the answer.

mainly the ones under 6 letters long hehe

Rand al'Thor

That was my first glimpse of the brilliance of McMagister.

Coming along to provide perfect solutions to riddles that had been unsolved for weeks became something of an MO of his.

Rubio

Math and I parted company, mostly amicably, after my first class with matrices.

ok TGE is AWOL so

I'll formally pass on Volatility's, someone contact it

Rand al'Thor

Matrices can be ugly.

But so much else in maths is beautiful!

@Rubio My guess was "bisected". @Vol?

Volatility

23:26

-1

Rand al'Thor

Darn.

What then?

Volatility

biased

Rubio

oh. see, I should have known that.

now I'm mad at me :)

Rand al'Thor

Ohhhh, that kind of partial!

Volatility

heh, well at least nobody else knew that either ;)

Rubio

23:28

@boboquack: bicycle

should have had that ages ago, if that's it

and nice clue too

Volatility

when left and right co-operate

Rubio

errmmmm bicameral?

bipartisan

Volatility

+1 bipartisan

Rand al'Thor

Heh, I was thinking of ambidextrous.

Rubio

is bicameral a reasonable answer for the Brits? i don't know. it sounded right

Rand al'Thor

23:32

I'd never heard that word.

Volatility

neither

Rubio

oh. nvm then

I thought it was a parliament thing.

Volatility

humour

Rubio

bile

Volatility

+1

Rubio

23:34

nice play on spelling hehe

(Yes, I know that's how that is spelled)

Volatility

heh?

Rand al'Thor

Between Sir and his ruler

Rubio

wildly guessing, Bid

Rand al'Thor

-1

Rubio

bill? billet?

Volatility

23:40

tissue examination

Rubio

Biopsy

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio -2

Rubio

well. poo.

Volatility

+1

Rubio

(I have a vaguely unsettling image now of someone sneezing into a Kleenex and then studying it closely)

Volatility

23:41

:D

Rubio

oh duh

@rand Bishop

and nice one

I had the right words, wrong context.

Volatility

ah, nice

boboquack

+1

Choose your ways

Rubio

Bisect, maybe

boboquack

-1

Rand al'Thor

23:50

@Rubio +1

boboquack

@rand with the parentheses, remember what lisp is)))))))

Rand al'Thor

@boboquack You mean from earlier?

boboquack

Yes

Rand al'Thor

Or are you talking about one of our BI words?

boboquack

No

Rubio

23:52

Bifurcate?

Rand al'Thor

What's still outstanding?

50 mins ago, by Rand al'Thor

Supporter with different vowel arguing

50 mins ago, by TheGreatEscaper

Con infiltrates structure without you

Rubio

two loops is solved

(bicycle)

The other two still are valid?

Tissue is Biopsy

Rand al'Thor

Oh duh. I though Vol's "+1" was a joke response to your "well poo".

Volatility

heh

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio That was my thought too.

Rubio

23:55

That's the word that was on the tip of my t...yping fingers when I tried bisect first.

Finally dredged it up

boboquack

@Randal'Thor Choose your ways

Rubio

@bobo not bifurcate?

boboquack

No

-1

Rubio

Bidirectional

boboquack

-1

Rand al'Thor

23:58

Bird ends a demand

Volatility

Perhaps Earth is this disorder (7)

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