Contact

So, re: my contact above... what's the rule here, @Rubio just gets as long as he wants to think of a possibility and has to pass on it in order for me to give my guess?

Rubio

@boboquack barnyard, barn stall, barn

Rand al'Thor

12:26 AM

@Deus is slow today :-P

Deusovi

@Alconja Yep

boboquack

no No NO!

Rubio

hmm

er. duh, i wow. hi

boboquack

That's not bi!

Alconja

Lol

He's regressing

Rubio

12:27 AM

Biograph?

Apparently

Deusovi

What are the standing clues?

boboquack

Pen

Alconja

Sticky mess underfoot

Deusovi

Contact on Boboquack

Volatility

Bite of the Earth?!

Rubio

12:28 AM

Bic?

or Biro

boboquack

-1+1

Rubio

forgot about biro hehe

Rand al'Thor

Isn't this one still unsolved too?

30 mins ago, by Volatility

Perhaps Earth is this disorder (7)

Or did I miss something?

Rubio

That may be recycled as Bite ... ?

Deusovi

Fancy restaurant

Rand al'Thor

12:30 AM

There's also this, but TGE disappeared:

1 hour ago, by TheGreatEscaper

Con infiltrates structure without you

Volatility

@Randal'Thor yeah that too, although it's not the best clue

Rand al'Thor

Contact, @Deusovi

(though I would have worded that clue differently :-P )

Volatility

contact for deus

Rubio

Bistro

Deusovi

Rubio?

Ah

Yep.

Rand al'Thor

12:31 AM

I would've said "speedy Russian restaurant".

Just to make it harder.

Deusovi

@Randal'Thor Contact on that one!

Rubio

Sorry folding laundry, I may be a little slow now and again

boboquack

I'm doing a science prac

Deusovi

@Volatility, contact on your "Perhaps Earth" clue

boboquack

Just did a test where gravity was defined as 10m/s, which is horrendous

Deusovi

12:32 AM

ewwww

Rubio

@Deusovi I'll take an ugly swag at "biomass" but I hate it

er sorry. @Volatility

Deusovi

On Vol's clue? Nope

Volatility

-1

Rubio

Ok I will, with fingers crossed, pass on that one.

Deusovi

Bipolar!

boboquack

12:33 AM

Not just the rounding, but the units too!

Volatility

+1!

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Ooh, nice.

Rubio

hah! i love it

now I have to remember my actual word again. lol

@Rubio defending: B I T

Alconja

So, what happens with existing unsolved clues here? Are they just invalidated by the new letter?

Volatility

my bite clue is out (it was bight)

Deusovi

12:35 AM

If they're invalidated, you say so and give up the answer (if you want)

Rubio

If they are, then they are.

If not, then not.

Deusovi

Otherwise, you can keep them in

Alconja

Sticky mess underfoot still stands

Rubio

Very zen. ;)

Rand al'Thor

Heh, B I went so long without a new letter that it slipped below the other pin on the star-board.

boboquack

12:35 AM

>>||<<

Contact!

Bitwise (operators)

Dammit!

+1

brb

12:37 AM

So is this where we do some quick table talk and then delete the evidence before he gets back?

Rubio

ok back

@Alconja lol

Alconja

*whistles*

Deusovi

I may have found a slight flaw in your plan.

Rubio

only one?

Rand al'Thor

Pieces, maybe in horses and floating

Rubio

12:38 AM

Bits

Contact

@Rubio Not quite.

...uncontact

Bits and bobs

@Rubio +1

12:39 AM

and nice :)

Rand al'Thor

Really? I thought it was quite ugly and horrible after I posted it.

Rubio

@Alconja bitumen?

Alconja

@Rubio +1

Rubio

heh

I thought that a long shot

Alconja

It's a fairly common word in Aus

Didn't realise until after I clued that it was regional

boboquack

12:41 AM

Ya!

Rubio

bits and bobs is fairly British too. I think

boboquack

Though my classmates used to play Asphalt 8

Rand al'Thor

More of what's not Bob

Rubio

y'all are expanding my vocabularial mental bounds here

Alconja

Regionalisms is probably a good attack vector actually

Rubio

12:42 AM

umm. Bitter??

@Rubio +1

rectal pull that was

?

(I pulled that answer out of my butt.)

Rand al'Thor

:-D

Volatility

12:43 AM

1011*0*011011001

Rubio

oh why

don't make me think

Volatility

erm, that 0 is supposed to be italicised

Deusovi

Contact!

boboquack

Contact to 'partial' by @Vol

(cheeky)

Rand al'Thor

Hmm, here's an idea: how about we star all the outstanding clues, and unstar them as they're solved?

Volatility

12:45 AM

@bobo yeah?

Rand al'Thor

There are probably enough mods/ROs in here for that to work.

Rubio

@vol Bit, or bit part

Volatility

-1

Rand al'Thor

(I got the idea from one of Vol's old clues being randomly starred for some reason.)

Rubio

bit slice

Volatility

12:47 AM

-1

Rubio

(This is going to BUG me)

Deusovi

You can give up at any time.

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio Are you calling @Vol a bugger?

Rubio

oh.

lol

BITTEN

and you all are lovely wonderful people.

Volatility

+1 damn

Deusovi

12:48 AM

(|B|)

Rand al'Thor

@Volatility Nice!

Alconja

1011.98

Rubio

sorry i need a couple min

boboquack

#2

.bmp

Volatility

contact bobo

Deusovi

12:51 AM

Contact

Rand al'Thor

... contact (too easy)

Alconja

And in the unlikely event, that they're all wrong... contact. :)

Yeah, way too easy

@boboquack bitmap

+1

12:53 AM

@Alconja as a wild guess, bitcoin value

@Rubio +1

@Deusovi er Bitcoin?

...Yeah

lol.

@Deusovi ?

12:54 AM

I didn't see the update, I was still trying to work out B|| in my head

Alconja

So do we win by creating a clue for the actual defending word, or just come up with enough unsolved clues that the word is eventually spelled out?

Yes

Either one.

:)

The latter would eventually lead to the former :)

Rand al'Thor

12:55 AM

^

Rubio

Technically, guessing my word is what makes you win

Alconja

But you can give a "fair" alternative word in defence yeah?

Rubio

?

I have a single word, if you hit it unambiguously then you win

(and it would be churlish to quibble about, say, a trailing "S", in my opinion, but I'm not sure what the rule is)

Alconja

But if we give a clue that clues that single solution word, and you come up with another word which also could be derived from the same clue, you'd "survive"?

Rubio

No - your guess, embodied in your clue, is your guess.

If it's right, it's right.

Rand al'Thor

12:57 AM

She barks incessantly about her neighbours and colleagues

Alconja

ok

Deusovi

Contact

Alconja

contact